Politics

Waiting for a new leader

21.09.2010

“The establishment of diplomatic relations with Turkey and the opening of the Armenian-Turkish border will be useful not only for Turkey and Armenia but also Azerbaijan, Georgia and the whole region,” the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan mentioned during his interview to Ukrainian “Profile” magazine. He also added that the improvement of relations was one of …

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Don’t disdain your brother

21.09.2010

The famous saying that politics is prostitution has gained practical features in Armenia. Although even prior to this our politicians were not outstanding with morality but what happened yesterday comes to prove that the human being is an unpredictable essence. The NA MP from the Prosperous Armenia Vardan Bostanjyan released an official statement that he …

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“They will be punished in a very strict way”

21.09.2010

– Mr. Ohanyan, have you identified the persons showed in the videos posted on Youtube.com yet? – What do you think? Could we possibly have identified them so quickly? We don’t see the faces and passed the videos to professionals, special experts, who are working on that. We will try to find them. Let me …

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Why would we care? Let the authorities of the NKR be accountable

21.09.2010

During the September 6-10 visit of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to Armenia it was announced that they would be returning to the region, specifically to the NKR to conduct monitoring of the humanitarian situation, which is due in late September or beginning of October. Together with the co-chairs representatives of various international organizations will …

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“The allegations that a state cannot fight against terrorism effectively are wrong”

21.09.2010

A new wave of terrorism has originated in North Caucasus and there is no day without terrorism resulting in the death of not only high rank officials but ordinary citizens as well. What is happening there? How to fight against the terrorism? The correspondent of the 168 Hours has discussed these issues with Semyon Baghdasarov, …

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Autumn sun

18.09.2010

These days the political powers of Armenia are in a preparation and waiting situation. Definitely both the government and opposition are waiting for the “hot autumn” in politics as during the past years, which possibly will slowly turn into a cold winter like it happened before too. In this semi-vacuum situation the society is again …

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Aren’t they informed about each other?

18.09.2010

It turns out that the heads of the ANC member political parties are usually unaware of what the ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan decides. In this case it is the rally to be held on September 17. As the coordinator of the Armenian National Congress Levon Zurabyan stated in advance the speech of the first president …

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Change in people’s psychology

18.09.2010

It is an established fact that the opposition failed to change the power or find the true way to it during the past two years. The representatives of the ANC understand that it is not good to speak of change of the government all the time and fail to do anything as people are expecting …

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Solutions will be found

15.09.2010

”When in the beginning of 2008 the Azeri delegation was actively bringing up this resolution in the UN, in Armenia election were being violated, people were being killed, and the main duty of the foreign affairs ministry was the promotion of the PR of the non-legitimate authorities,” said former foreign minister Alexander Arzumanyan during yesterday’s …

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There can be no dextrorotary election without force majeure

15.09.2010

Says the former minister of foreign affairs, ANC representative Alexander ArzumanyanYesterday it become known that Azerbaijan has requested to withdraw its resolution from the agenda of the UN General Assembly and asked to move it to the next GA session. Let us remember that according to the resolution they are urging that the Armenian troops …

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