Politics

Perhaps after a hot summer season the political forces of Armenia will get to the hot period of evident pre-election campaign during the fall season. In spring of 2012 parliamentary elections will be held and in order to provide desirable results the parties should deploy their resources and work hard closer to the upcoming race. …

Yesterday in the Armenian political life the most popular topic was the resignation of the ANM board deputy-chair Khachatur Kokobelyan. Almost all the news agencies publicized that Kokobelyan has submitted resignation, which wasn’t even discussed. The ANM has taken the resignation under consideration. According to the information circulating, Kokobelyan’s resignation was due to his recent …

Strange things are happening in the Fencing Federation of Armenia. Instead of supporting and encouraging the sportsmen they are taking away their outfits provided by international federations. Usually various international federations provide for the sportsmen of teams of various countries outfits named for each sportsman. For example, during the world championship of young fencers taken …

The international community should eventually understand that Nagorno Karabakh should be a subject but not an object. This was told to the Radio Liberty by the vice-speaker of the House of Lords of the Great Britain Caroline Cox. According to her, it is very wrong that Azerbaijan is hindering the negotiations around the topic of …

Either today or during the next week the parliament will vote for the amendment to the “law on TV and radio”, according to which all TV channels should be digitalized. There have been a lot of critics and concerns expressed about the bill during this period because as a result of digitalization the number of …

Yesterday after noon it was expected that the National Assembly would discuss the law on TV and Radio submitted by the government. For this purpose the deputy-minister of economy Mushegh Tumasyan, members of the state committee on coordination of the digitization process of TV channels, authors of the bill Avetis Berberyan and Karen Andreasyan were …

“Today Armenia conducts an independent and blind policy. No one knows who Armenia consults with and takes advice from. In the meantime the political course of Turkey and Azerbaijan is pretty clear. Their diplomatic potential cannot be underestimated. These two countries are working mutually agreed on behalf of their states. But we are alone and …

The government has submitted to the parliament a package of bills, the adoption of which will enable the government and businessmen supported by them build monopolies in at least 2 more sectors. By this bill the government is suggesting to limit the number of pawn shops and currency exchange points. The annual tax levied from …

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates handed Obama’s letter to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev during his Sunday visit to Azerbaijan. Since 2001, tens of thousands of military aircraft and supply trucks have crossed the country carrying U.S. and NATO forces and equipment to Afghanistan. The Pentagon wants to avoid problems that could slow Obama’s 30,000-troop …

– Mr. Ter-Tadevosyan, currently Armenia is considered an occupant state by a number of international organizations and those urge us remove our troops from the liberated territories. What is your opinion about these urges and claims? – I think that in the internal and external aspects the issue of the NKR is considered unilateral. We …