“Against rights and will of Armenian people, Robert Kocharyan and his team displayed freed territories of Artsakh and Eastern Armenian borders for sale, and are on the dangerous edge of putting their words in actions”, - “Defense of freed territories” public initiative group alarms.{BR} The statement says the fact that presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in Paris on February 10...

Today NA for the first time held elections of lawyer-scientist member of Justice Council.{BR} The candidates were: associate professor of political and law sciences history sector Grigor Badiryan and 1995-2004 member of Justice Council Robert Avagyan. 92 deputies took part in secret vote. Grigor Baghdasaryan got 79 for, and 9 against. 69 deputies voted for Robert Avagyan, and 20 voted against. Both...

At 13:30 today secretary of Justice bloc Viktor Dallakyan met with RA NA Chairman Arthur Baghdasaryan. Viktor Dallakyan presented 28 signatures to candidature of CRU leader Hrant Khachatryan.{BR} Hrant Khachatryan told journalists that if elected Human rights defender he’ll abdicate from deputy mandate and set about human rights defense. Natinal Unity, individual deputies from Labour party, including...

At the morning sitting Justice fraction nominated CRU leader Hrant Khachatryan for RA Ombudsman.{BR} Today NA sitting began with questions of opposition. Justice bloc secretary Victor Dallakyan suggested postponing and voting on Ombudsman’s election question until the next four-day sitting and offered to hold negotiations. NA Chairman Arthur Baghdasaryan liked this last offer and in his turn suggested...

February 10 presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in Rambouillet suburb, Paris. Mediators in every way convince that the meeting will be a breakthrough.{BR} As karabakh-online informs, nobody believes in that, all the more in Artsakh. In the interview to Karabakh.online coordinator of «Helsinki initiative-92» public organization Karen Ohanjanyan noted that according to international...

“The negotiations about the price of the Russian gas are continuing; we have overcome two phases, and the third is left”, the Prime Minister said in a briefing with the journalists and added that he has nothing to say about the price, and the negotiations about the Irani gas pipeline and the signed agreement cannot affect the efficiency of the negotiations with the Russian side. {BR} Speaking...

Answering the questions of the journalists, the NA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan noted that Larissa Alaverdyan’s candidacy is excluded, but there can be other candidates for the post of the Ombudsman. {BR} According to the Prime Minister, he is for Armen Haroutyunyan not because he is the President’s representative but because “I have known him for a long time and he is a good...

The session of the political coalition took place in the NA which discussed the issue of putting forward the candidacy for the post of the Ombudsman. {BR} Taking into account the fact that the overwhelming majority of the participants of the poll voted for Armen Haroutyunyan, the coalition decided to put forward his candidacy again.

Today the majority of the Parliamentary deputies were shocked when it turned out that Armen Haroutyunyan, the candidate put forward by the majority, had not been elected Ombudsman by closed poll. {BR} By the way, not only the majority, but also Armen Haroutyunyan himself was in an unenviable situation. It is noteworthy that a number of deputies congratulated him before even the results of the elections...

“The NKR President Arkadi Ghoukasyan is my friend but he is not well informed when it comes to the Karabakh conflict. Today any driver in Yerevan is more informed that the President of Karabakh”, politician Igor Mouradyan announced during the presentation of the book titled “The Liberated Lands of Armenia and the Artsakh Problem”. {BR} According to him, at the beginning of...

Last week the Azeri Mass Media, in particular the electronic newspaper «RealniyAzerbaijan» spread information about the announcement of the World Tax Organization Secretary General Michael Dane. According to them, Dane said in a press conference in Baku that “Part of the Azeri territories has been conquered by another country and Azerbaijan can prevent the development of drug business in...

Actor Sos Sargsyan also made speech during the presentation of the book titled “The Liberated Lands of Armenia and the Artsakh Problem”. He said, {BR} «There's one thing I don't understand: what do the Presidents negotiate about? Doesn't our President ask them why they destroy our monuments and what announcements they make about destroying Armenia? We have nothing to negotiate about....

“If one day we become so stupid as to give lands in return for a one-page document, we will deprive the civilized world of a whole culture”, the head of the Yerevan office of the Organization investigating Armenian architecture Samvel Karapetyan. {BR} During the presentation of the book titled “The Liberated Lands of Armenia and the Artsakh Problem” he represented the Armenian...

The “Mirror” club invited the head of the United Communist Party Yuri Manoukyan and the head of the Ramkavar-Azatakan Party Haroutyun Araqelyan to a political debate. {BR} During the one-hour meeting with the journalists the only disagreement of the opponents was about the raise of the prices of the Russian gas. Communist Manoukyan said that “the anti-Russian hysteria in Armenia...

Today in the National Assembly the elections of the Ombudsman took place with a closed poll. None of the two candidates (Armen Haroutyunyan and Ruben Torosyan) had the necessary number of votes. Armen Haroutyunyan was voted for by 69 deputies and against by 25, and Tigran Torosyan – correspondingly 25 and 69. The next elections of Ombudsman will take place in several days. In an interview to...

The RF President Vladimir Putin has created a working group to process a state plan to return their compatriots living abroad to their homeland. According to “Regnum”, the working group is presided over by the President’s advisor Viktor Ivanov. {BR} According to the Russian legislation, the “compatriots” are the people born in the Russian Empire, and USSR, the Russian...

Representative of Justice fraction Vardan Mkrtchyan stated today in NA that 27 signatures have been collected to challenge constitutionality of the decision against human right on property in Constitutional Court.{BR} By the way, «National Unity» and ARFD did nоt take part in this collection of signаtures.

RA NA Chairman Arthur Baghdasaryan addressed a letter today to PACE Chairman Rene van der Linden andCoE Secretary General Terry Devis, were expresses concern on the fact of barbaric distraction of Armenian medieval cemetery in Old Jugha.{BR} “Being much concerned about indifference of international community toward those vandalic actions I urge CoE structures to reconsider their position and call...

Elections of RA Human Rights Defender will be held tomorrow 12:15 – 14:00. The results will be published at 14:30.{BR} Due to the Constitutional amendments the Ombudsman will be elected on positive vote of 3/5 of the deputies - getting 79 votes for a term of 6 years. By the way the order hasn’t changed yet: NA still doesn’t have a right to elect the Ombudsman.

“Azerbaijan destroys Armenian cemetery and historical monuments in Jugha in official level”, - after repeating this statement and informing the world community about it with letters Armenian party decided to take decisive steps.{BR} The pan-Armenian committee on defence of Armenian monuments formed on January 14 which has about 40 members in Armenia and diaspore is going to send a document to...

I’m not going to take part in the crime called “parliamentary discussion”, leader of Constitutional Rights Union Hrant Khachatryan said today adding that what is going on is a «farce, reminding of democracy imitation».{BR} He repeated his question addressed to Armen Haroutyunyan yesterday: do you love people who you are going to defend? Actually, Mr. Haroutyunyan didn't answer that question. «This is an inquiry from a law text-book: to...

“There’s always dictatorship – of an individual or of a law. We must form dictatorship of law”, coalition candidate for the post of ombudsman Armen Haroutyunyan said answering deputies’ questions.{BR} He repeated once again that the Human rights Defender is not a Defender anymore once he/she passes from legal to political dimension. This was answer to deputy Aghasi Arshakyan's question: what is the difference between public prosecutor...

While National Assembly decides who will the next Ombudsman be, press department of RA Ministry of Defense gave to one of the candidates the above mentioned characterization.{BR} “On Rouben Torosoyan’s statement sounded on February 6 at parliamentary sitting saying that RA Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan hasn't served in the army but occupies a high post many journalists turn to me asking...

Administration Calls for $50 Million in Economic Aid to Armenia The Armenian Assembly today expressed disappointment with the Administration's request for asymmetrical military assistance to Azerbaijan and Armenia in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 budget request, arguing that the disparity would only serve to undermine stability in the South Caucasus.{BR} "In a repeat of events from two years ago,...