Politics

The EU president Mevlut Chavushoglu visited Yerevan. He met with president Serzh Sargsyan and representatives of the Armenian National Congress. The next day Chavushoglu was planning to meet with representatives of the parliamentary factions (besides the ARF). Meantime both the coalition factions and the Heritage faction highlighted the importance of talking to Chavushoglu about his …

– According to the annual UNDP report since 1991 up to 1.3 million people have migrated from Armenia. The people, who presented the report in our country, claim that starting from 2008 the migration rates accelerated. Do you agree with the viewpoint that this is connected not only with the hard social-economic conditions of people …

Today the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev is paying a two-day visit to Turkey. Judging from the statements of the president before the visit and the framework of the to-be discussed issues a quite tangible “rapprochement” will be registered in the Turkish-Russian relations with the possible consequences for Armenia stemming from that. It is evident …

In fact Russia failed to organize a meeting with participation of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan on May 8. Aliyev simply refused to take part in the non-official CIS summit and meet with president Serzh Sargsyan. Furthermore, the Azeri foreign minister Elmar Mamediarov refused to take part in the meeting of Minsk Group co-chairmen …

“We were the initiators of the Armenian-Turkish process but today we don’t have control over the initiative and should do everything to get rid of the status of a hostage,” announced member of the ARF Supreme Body, NA Deputy Armen Rustamyan as he touched upon Turkish-Armenian relations during the pan-Armenian forum of the Armenian National …

Today RA President Serzh Sargsyan will leave for Moscow to be on a working visit at the invitation of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to take part in the ceremonies dedicated to the 65th anniversary of World War II and also participate in the non-official meetings of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the heads of …

On May 9 the Armenians celebrate not only the 65th anniversary of the WW victory but the 18th anniversary of liberation of Shushi. This is definitely the most important victory in the new history of Armenia. As in the past years, this year the day of the liberation of Shushi is celebrated formally only. The …

In a recent interview given to the World Politics Review senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment Thomas De Vaal said that the main reason of freezing the Armenia-Turkey relations is the issue of Karabakh. “Turkey was insisting on linking the improvement process with the issue of Karabakh, even though it was not written in the …

On May 1 the head of the zoo of Yerevan announced the opening of the zoo and said that the cages and free-run cages of animals had been reconstructed. The difference of a cage and free-run cage is that lions, tigers are kept in a cage, but camels or goats are kept in free-run cages. …

The RA defense deputy minister Vahan Shirkhanyan commented on the presidency of Kocharyan during yesterday’s interview and said, “I am suggesting to take out the name of Robert Kocharyan from the list of the Armenian presidents as Kyrgyzstan did. He has caused unrecoverable damage to this country. We should forget him. We should delete his …