Politics

A former leading member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), the former consul of Armenia in Saint Petersburg Ruben Hakobyan has joined the Heritage party. Hakobyan declined to comment on his decision to join Heritage. And the Heritage in its turn didn’t think too much to accept Hakobyan’s desire of membership to the party because …

The official and state propaganda on the issue of the Genocide does not recognize any limits. Any person (notwithstanding the nation, religion, sexual orientation and type of activity) who speaks of the issue of the Armenian genocide becomes the hero of our national media. Yesterday some of them were proudly telling about American Armenian porn …

“Medvedev will visit Armenia in the near future. The priority issue will be the issue of the Azeri lands. We consider this issue as ours and continue keeping it in our agenda. Hence Turkey and Azerbaijan will coordinate their steps. No developments can harm the friendship of Turkey and Azerbaijan. Everyone knows this,” said the …

Yesterday the chairman of the National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan said that the Armenian-Turkish protocols have been removed from the four-day session agenda but still remain in the big agenda of the parliament. Let us recall that last week when returned from Moscow the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan made a speech addressed to the RA …

It was clear from the beginning that a prolonged presentation of the desirable as real is not sustainable, and that the government would have to finally acknowledge reality. I am astonished by two things, however. First, the government is openly acknowledging that for one whole year they watched as Turkey placed preconditions before them, Turkey …

One year ago the football diplomacy was launched officially, and the official end was announced yesterday. Today Armenia is commemorating the 95th year of the genocide in the same manner as during the past years. The only difference is that the youth of the ARF party burnt not only the flag of Turkey, but the …

Yesterday the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan summoned a joint coalition and later National Security Council meetings, during which, according to the official statement, he briefed them on the results of his latest visits to Washington and Moscow that reportedly focused on the stalled Turkish-Armenian normalization process. According to the same statement the members of …

In the near future the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit Armenia. During the April 20 Sargsyan-Medvedev meeting the two presidents have agreed on continuing dialog at all levels including in the framework of the upcoming visit of the Russian President to Armenia.

“The goal of the Madrid Principles is just one, through which the peacekeepers will enter the region. Indeed, it was clear that there would be forces, which would provide the influence of the US in the region,” told our reporter the former defense minister of Armenia Vagharshak Harutyunyan when alluding to the process of resolution …

“As long as the elections don’t look like normal elections, as long as the political struggle is made senseless, as long as we have impunity in the country, the government relies on falsifications and violence we cannot exclude the repletion of the Kyrgyz scenario in Armenia,” said the chair of the Armenian People’s Party Stepan …