Politics

The only one with destiny or…?

15.09.2010

At first sight it seems that it’s too soon to speak about the national elections because closest elections to come, the parliamentary elections, are over 1.5 years ahead. The regular parliamentary elections will be held in spring 2012 of course if a force majeure situation is not created. Nevertheless, the ones, who wish to appear …

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Irony of fate

15.09.2010

Even though one and half years have remained till the next parliamentary elections, the pro-government parties are not only getting prepared for the elections, but are discussing the pre-election lists as well. The political sector is mostly discussing the pre-election lists of the RPA. Certainly the biggest question is that who is going to lead …

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Neither us nor you

15.09.2010

“What Medvedev did in South Caucasus is not something new but routine work,” said Aleksey Malashenko, expert of the Russian Carnegie Centre. “He visited Armenia and everything was perfect; he signed a military agreement and he explained that it does not concern Karabakh. Later he visited Azerbaijan and explained that Armenia has specific relations with …

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You should pay or luxury

15.09.2010

By adverting to the changes of the code on customs, according to which it is banned to conduct temporary importation of cars to Armenia the deputy chair of the State Revenue Committee Armen Alaverdyan told our reporter, “The whole point is that the ones, who wish to buy expensive cars, should pay much money in …

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Political action

15.09.2010

“I think the international community is very well informed about the liberated lands. Their visits are not for the purpose of investigating because their agents know everything very well and they perfectly know the situation here. This is a mere political action,” said the commander of the Shushi special forces Zhirayr Sefilyan concerning the special …

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Aleksey Malashenko, “rest is done; we have to think about reloading”

15.09.2010

In the word the speed of the development of political processes has reached incredible rates. Where are we all heading and what can we achieve? This is what the reporter of 168-Zham discussed with the senior specialist of Carnegie Center Moscow, professor Aleksey Malashenko?– In the recent times they more frequently speak about the new …

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Succumb by the UN

11.09.2010

Today the UN General Assembly will launch the discussion of the resolution on “Occupied territories and humanitarian rights,” submitted by Azerbaijan. It will most probably be adopted. At any rate, even the Armenian authorities if not officially then at least at semi-official and expert-level confess that there is nothing the Armenian government can do to …

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The point of “meaningless” visits

11.09.2010

Regardless of what extent the political-analytical thinking of Armenia tried to degrade the visit of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Baku on that very day it became clear that Medvedev didn’t visit Baku with no good reason. The agreement on the state border is a reason enough to consider the visit meaningful. But the …

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The times of wise people and saviors have passed

11.09.2010

– The ANC believe that the prolongation of the Russian armed forces in the territory of Armenia means that “Russia does not think Armenia is a long-term reliable partner, thus they are trying to fill the gap of lack of trust with legal guarantees.” Dmitry Medvedev said in Baku that the execution of the mentioned …

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Following principles or egoism?

09.09.2010

“In the beginning Levon Ter-Petrosyan raised the ideology of destructing the cleptocracy, gave hope to hundreds thousands people, made them stand up with that slogan, recovered his own image in the society due to that slogan, but later he caught the adequate moment, returned to his old ideas by announcing that change of the power …

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