President tows a tough line before Astana meeting The recent military exercises conducted by the Artsakh Defense Forces, the largest and closest to the frontlines since the ceasefire, primarily served as a very important military review. The geography, ...
A politics based on individuals not ideology Putting forth the nomination of Samvel Balasanyan for the empty post of RA National Assembly Deputy President, was just as normal for the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) as its recent move to remove Arevik Petrosyan ...
The resignation of National Assembly Deputy President Arevik Petrosyan, elected on the PAP slate, wasn’t all that unexpected. The Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) was demanding one thing from Petrosyan that the Deputy President of the inherent bureaucratic ...
Two days before Russian President Dimitry Medvedev was scheduled to travel to Azerbaijan, there was a major skirmish on the Karabakh frontline in the vicinity of the Verin Chailou village. Azerbaijani forces attempted to advance on Armenian positions, but ...
The ARF held its 15th Supreme Assembly in Aghavnadzor from June 4-6 and elected a nine member new Supreme Body from the original eleven members. Not selected was Hrayr Karapetyan, President of the Defense, Internal Affairs and National Security Permanent Committee ...
On 20 May, at a plenary session of the European Parliament, Resolution 2216 on "the Need for an EU Strategy for the South Caucasus", authored by Bulgarian MEP Evgeni Kirilov, was submitted for voting and adopted. It contains very clear points regarding the ...
It is quite apparent that after the return of President Serzh Sargsyan from his worldwide trip to the Diaspora that the Armenian people will find itself in a very dangerous set of circumstances. His entire tour was met with a vociferous and unprecedented ...
The developments taking place within the Heritage Party of Armenia go to show that the political field is slowly reverting to the stagnation that characterized it before.
The joint statement of the foreign affairs ministries of the Republic of Armenian the Republic of Turkey and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs issued on April 22 sent shock waves through the Armenian domestic political scene and the public sector. Why ...
On April 9, 2008, Serzh Sargsyan was thrust onto the stage of total responsibility. Until then, he was subsumed in the shadows cast by Robert Kocharyan. Come the presidential elections of 2008, the current president used this factor to wash his hands of assuming ...
The April 1st trial session was a momentous turning point in the “March 1st Seven” case for three reasons. First, the defendants were released of all the charges related to Article 300. Then, the case was “individualized” because due to a decision ...
Most likely the Heritage Party will not share its seats on the various electoral committees with the HAK (Armenian National Committee) during the upcoming May 31 Yerevan municipal council elections. The party led by Raffi Hovhannisyan has decided to adopt ...
“In conditions rife with the looming critical developments regarding the Karabakh conflict settlement process and especially the threat posed by the deepening economic crisis and the social reverberations it will create, it would be sheer madness to ...
Just how constructive and on target was the protest action by the “Miasin” youth group that featured photos of alleged bribe-taking teachers? What were the real objectives of the action and what will the consequences be, both for the organizers and for ...
“I do not rule out the possibility that in the future the ruling clique will find itself in such a sorry state of affairs that it will be forced to totally resign. I also do not rule out that they propose a national consensus to us or, more correctly, to ...
The main aim of the March 1st public rally was to gauge the level of trust that the Armenian National Congress (HAK) enjoyed within the society. The number of those who attended once and for all verified the hegemony held by the Congress over the political ...
Last week the RoA government passed a decision to hold elections for the post of Yerevan mayor on May 31. According to Article 109 of the Law “Regarding Self-Governance in the City of Yerevan”, the date for elections of the municipal council of Yerevan ...
The answer to the question what was the problem that the recent 4th Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Congress sought to resolve remains unanswered. In reality, rather than providing answers to existing questions, the Congress raised at least two new issues that ...
Two weeks ago RoA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan again made a call to the radical opposition for cooperation. “We wish to cooperate with the opposition and have proposed a serious cooperation method; the implementation of joint monitoring of the anti-corruption ...
National Assembly President Hovik Abrahamyan, in response to a statement sent several days ago by Deputies Hakob Hakobyan, Myasnik Malkhasyan and Sasoun Mikayelyan, jailed as "March 1st" defendants, merely sent his representatives to see them. Thus, in essence, ...
The statement given by Samvel Nikoyan, President of the National Assembly’s Temporary Committee examining the March 1st events, to a foreign reporter in which it was disclosed that there was at least one sniped within the ranks of the police and the subsequent publication of the news by Levon Zurabyan who coordinates the Armenian National Congress (HAK), has absolutely created a new reality in the ongoing March 1st case.
According to the logic of the First President, President Sargsyan, in an attempt to resolve his legitimacy problem on the world stage, is assuming such a set of obligations directed at the Karabakh conflict settlement and the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, that are totally weakening the positions of the Armenian side and are increasing the possibility of heading down the road leading to major concessions.
(Or, How to Come Out of the Fracas Unscathed…) At the rally held on October 17th organized by the Armenian National Congress (ANC), opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan (LTP) in essence took an unusual step that we had touched upon in our previous article; ...
The imminent resolution of the Karabakh conflict is equivalent to a military threat given the dangers that it contains, and, therefore, I think it makes the fulfillment of that appeal imperative
The position voiced by Robert Kocharyan in his last briefing, that he as yet has no desire to return and that he would be the first to make such a desire publicly known, really doesn’t say anything at all. The problem is that Kocharyan didn’t speak ...
The Show was Necessary to Increase the Pressure It is evident that everything was done to resolve the matter of Tigran Torosyan’s departure in a public manner. The displayed continuity and stubbornness in the matter reached such proportions that it ...
This evident manifestation of a double standard, this peculiar " curtsy" of Armenian diplomacy, in essence wasn\'t given any weight by Georgia as well. Tbilisi didn\'t react at any level to this juggling act by its southern neighbor. This fact proved ...
Both the regime and the opposition view the implementation of those demands or even the possibility of their implementation as an unreserved capitulation on the part of the authorities. For this very reason the former are doing every thing it can to drag out ...
And since, given the situation of mutual intolerance, Armenian political forces aren’t able to create such a formula on their own, the PACE resolution remains the only acceptable version at the moment to create it. From this viewpoint, the level of seriousness ...