“What structure can be trusted the compiling of the list of voters?” 100 Armenian citizens were asked the question. 30% of those surveyed found difficulty in answering . 21% hold the opinion that the local self-government bodies should deal with the issue. 20% suppose that the lists will be more precise if compiled by the members of the passport and visa department as «they would be aware...

Head of the National Concord party Aram Harutyunyan affirms that «all the democratic countries are alike while undemocratic countries become unhappy due to different reasons». In Armenia the Election Code played a great role in this issue. In Harutyunyan’s opinion in the conduction of democratic elections the election committees are featured. «When the committee is bad, problems arouse and...

There are no election registers in Western Europe. «The local election committees just inform the pollers of the date, place and nature of the voting a certain period before the elections», Atom Mkhitaryan, representative of Kve (translated from Armenian as vote), the Armenian Center of the Election Systems. In his words, there is a single register, in which all the voters are included. In each state...

Masis Mayilyan, the Nagorno Karabakh deputy Minister of Foreign affairs, has received Mrs. Isabelle Barras, head of the Red Cross International Committee Easter Europe Activities. {BR} It was in 1993 that Nagorno Karabakh unilaterally jointed the Geneva convention and according to Mayilyan is carrying out his responsibilities. Isabelle Barras was glad to hear that saying that it will be ground to continue...

“The first signs of Ukrainian or Georgian revolutions were in Yerevan in 1996”, said Alexander Iskandaryan, head of the Caucasian Mass Media Institute during the round table organized today in the Institute referring to velvet revolutions. {BR} According to him, there was everything necessary for a revolution except two things: West and finances. And according to Mr., Iskandaryan, the...

On February 22 Levon Shahinyan, the ex-head of the RA Financial control administration, had been arrested. By the way, he was arrested 6 days after resigning by his own application. 3 days after the arrest the RA Ministry of Finance and Economics has decided to make an amendment.{BR} "The RA Ministry of Finance and Economics announces that Levon Shahinyan, arrested on February 22, has on February...

It turns out that the economy of Armenia is «unhappy» not so much because of the policy of the authorities but the authorities themselves. «Avoid as I do political qualifications, now I must name things as they are: people must be in their places. If Tigran Sargsyan has the luck to be an economist and is clever enough, the Minister of finance is not in his corresponding weight group; he does not...

The people working in the Free Market are gathered near the Yerevan municipality. They demand to be left in peace and to be allowed to earn their daily bread. «They cheat us. They tell us to come and tell us to stay here, but in a month they drive us out of there too», said Armen Hovhannisyan, who has been working in the Market for the last 17 years. The participants of the meeting say that when...

Today NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons came to meet journalists alone though he was scheduled to give a joint press conference with Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan. It turned out that the Minister has caught a cold and slightly ails. {BR} Robert Simmons said he is satisfied with the level of the cooperation between Armenia...

NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons does not see any possibility of posting NATO peacekeeping forces on the territories of security belt around Nagorno Karabakh today.{BR} When responding to A1+'s question Mr. Simmons stated that such outlook is possible if the conflicting parties come to an agreement. According to him, NATO will support...

Today “Defense of liberated territories” public initiative spread a statement regarding Armenian Defense Minister’s interview with Yerkir Online. {BR} “Recent interview given by Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan was resembled a speech of the person who is going to assume the power in the country. However it lacked demonstrative self-confidence and contained anxiety and cautiousness....

Realizing the challenges to security and stability in the South Caucasus and the Black Sea coast caused by the unsettled conflicts available in Eurasia the US and EU speak out for territorial integrity of Moldova, Georgia and Azerbaijan and contribute to the international efforts for peaceful political settlement of conflicts in Pridnestrovye, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno Karabakh. {BR} ...

After a long-term waiting 80 Russian military men have the possibility (an invitation) to pass on to the Akhalqalak Russian military station N 62 from the Gyoumry military station N 125. 71 more Russian military men will soon go to Georgia, invited by the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. {BR} According to A-Info, the Georgian Deputy minister of Foreign Affairs has announced that the number of...

The RA delegation with Andranik Manoukyan, Minister of Transport, at the head, will take part in the TRACECA 4th inter-governmental conference which will take place in Baku on April 21-22. «The Kharabak Liberation Organization» has called the Azerbaijan Government to hinder the arrival of Armenian in Baku. {BR} According to Akif Nagi, leader of the organization, if the Azerbaijani society was able...

USA is seriously concerned in the Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan and has allotted $7 million to hold them up to democratic standards. {BR} According to Rino Kharnish, US Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan, important conditions for free elections are the possibility of all the candidates to use the television equally, the possibility of the candidates to meet the elector...

The NKR Minister of Foreign Affairs Arman Melikyan considers that the PACE resolution on Karabakh issue maintains both positive and negative aspects. The positivity lies in the fact that like the NKR authorities the resolution records of the necessity of bilateral proposals. In Melikyan's words, PACE changed stresses in this issue. {BR} The Minister also said he is content with the visit of the OSCE...

The people of Karabakh are not going to remain passive in the settlement of the problem. They understand that the settlement process considerably depends on their activities, NKR Minister of Foreign Affairs Arman Melikyan stated today. In his opinion the key to the conflict resolution can be found via bilateral talks between Karabakh and Azerbaijan. {BR} According to the minister the people of Karabakh...

The Azerbaijani State Tax Committee and the Ministry of Transport announced about confiscation of about 200 carriages with mineral oil allegedly destined for Armenia via Georgia. {BR} Presently negotiations with the distribution companies are being held. The Georgian party expressed discontent with the Azeri customs officers and demanded the President's interference, since Georgian entrepreneurs are incurring great losses.

Recently the NKR parliament appealed to Azerbaijan to recognize its independence and in this context called the world community to welcome this step of Nagorno Karabakh. {BR} «I do not rule out that Armenia will recognize Karabakh's independence, however it not a priority», NKR Minister of Foreign Affairs Arman Melikyan stated during today's press conference in Yerevan. In the course of his first...

Head of Human Rights and Democracy party Ruben Torosyan stated today that corruption in Armenia is focused within the ruling coalition. He even invented a term «kleptocracy» for it. In Torosyan's opinion the coalition formed with the assistance of the President is an embodiment of corruption. {BR} The parties, which backed Kocharyan at the elections were favored with these ministries”, Torosyan...

The meeting of the Armenian Progressive Party decided today that they will do everything to make Turkey confess the Genocide in 1915 and to make everyone consider Kharabak as an integral part of Armenia. But they did not mention HOW they are going to carry out the plan. {BR} Tigran Urikhanyan, head of the APP, said, «Revolution is possible in Armenia», and then commented. «Revolution of wheat, revolution...

Today Hovik Abrahamyan, Minister of Local government and regulating of production sub-structures, did not comment on the recent buzz over his becoming a super-minister or a PM. Today in the hotel “Marriott-Armenia” he avoided the questions about it with mysterious remarks. {BR} Abrahamyan told about the newly forming super-ministry that its formation will not keep waiting long. As for...

''There are no problems with the text of the Constitution, however the Republic of Armenia has a problem with respecting the Constitution'', former vice speaker of the Armenian NA, Armat organization member Ara Sahakyan stated, who refused to comment on any amendments saying that any publication of dialogues, debates or even opinions of the constitutional amendments is an imitation of democracy and...

Dual citizenship of a legal institute which cab serve different political aims. In general it is used in former colonial states. By this reason Spain fixed a constitutional norm according to which the issue of dual citizenship can be settled by means of international agreements with Latin American states. In early 90-ies Russia also implemented similar policy. However the practice was not a success....