Politics

The dramatic events on the Azerbaijani-Karabakhi border last week deflected the attention of the public from a scandalous event, which implemented an organization representing the US in Istanbul. We mean the Woodrow Wilson foundation, which granted an award for the “civil service of Woodrow Wilson” to the foreign affairs minister of Ahmed Davutoghlu. This is …

The incident in the end of last week in Karabakh’s Martakert region, which took the lives of four people, in fact continued the next day too. According to the information of the defense ministry, there were shootings at the border in many parts of the border of Karabakh and Azerbaijan. Officially the parties are accusing …

On June 19, at midnight an Azerbaijani reconnaissance detachment intruded into Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan near the village of Chalu, an NKR Defense Army operational report says. The trespasser Azerbaijanis could intrude the north-eastern section of the NKR-Azerbaijani contact line, killing 4 Armenian soldiers and wounding 4 others. The armed reconnaissance detachment encountered Armenian soldiers on …

It is impossible to determine anything without the full participation of the NKR especially if it’s anticipated with the mandate brought up by the OSCE Minsk Group mandate. The foreign affairs minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandyan spoke about this during his interview with the Nezavisimaya Gazeta. “The people of the NKR should decide with their …

Said a pundit of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies Manvel Sargsyan during his interview to the news.am. – How do you estimate the internal political situation in Armenia? What direction have the developments of the past year gone to and what outcome do we have? – For the past two years the …

“I have no number to give you, but what I am hearing from different analysts is that the shadow economy in Armenia could be an equivalent of as much as 35 or 40 percent of GDP,” Aristomene Varoudakis, head of World Bank Yerevan Office told a news conference. “And of course, it is a very …

“Let some time pass and then I will perhaps give my assessment. I am still trying to understand a little more what has happened. I will follow the processes, talk to people; I will participate in the political activity within my party and my political force,” yesterday said the already former chairman of the ANM …

– Mr. Zurabyan, what is the reason of the environment dominating in the ANM? – Don’t try to find the reason of the formed environment with me. I think that it should be sought in some other places because there will always be interested people, forms and sides, which will attempt to hurdle certain things. …

– On May 7, 2009, the Eastern partnership project was launched. What do you think about the success of this project during this time? Is it possible to do more than it was done till now? – Due to the Eastern Partnership project the relations between Armenia and the EU were shifted to a new …

Even though two years have remained till the upcoming parliamentary elections, the authorities are intensively getting ready for the elections, and it is not excluded that they are doing it to be ready for extraordinary developments. Even more, the authorities are getting ready for the elections not only by coordinating their tools and institutions but …