Archive for January, 2012
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The Armenian National Congress (ANC) members are absent for the Yerevan City Council meetings, but they keep the seats
The Armenian National Congress has decided to participate in the Republic of Armenia National Assembly election. However, the Congress members who won more than ten seats in the Yerevan City Council boycott the work of the council and don’t attend the sessions. Taking this into account, we asked Tigran Mukuchyan, [...]
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How will citizens outside Armenia vote?
An electronic voting will be organized for workers of diplomatic and consular missions, members of their families and citizens of the Republic of Armenia working abroad. This is provided for by the new Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia and the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of the Republic of [...]
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CEO of the Luys Foundation, “We are not responsible for the US News standards”
Hans-Jochen Schmidt, the Ambassador of the Federative Republic of Germany to Armenia, has expressed surprise during an interview with Aravot.am recently that the Luys Foundation has not provided any scholarship to the Armenian youth studying in any German college so far. “German colleges are of high level and would like [...]
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Let’s love ourselves in Putin
Eventually. Eventually the big dream of the Armenian people has come true. Eventually we have a small corner where every one of us can go and be absorbed in love toward Great Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. It doesn’t matter at all whether that love is mutual or not. The important thing [...]
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Fake agenda
Sometimes I am under the impression that politicians and mass media, without making an agreement in advance, make up an issue, in order that both they and the society do something. If you go outside and ask through what election system the parliamentary election in Armenia should be held, through 100% proportional representation or mixed, I am sure the majority of our citizens (frankly speaking) will be very surprised and say “get a life!” and then will get to more burning issues – for example, they will show the signs at the gas station that clearly show that the gas price has increased by 10-20 drams.
However, in the so-called “political circles” and mass media they don’t talk about gas; that subject is too “small,” but they can debate on “majoritarian-proportional representation” day and night. By the way, they not only discuss which election system is more appropriate, but also why the Prosperous Armenia Party is for holding hearings on that issue. It is hard to say how crucial those hearings will be for the future of Armenia – hundreds of hearings have been held that led to nothing. What is the point in making a fuss out of it?
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It doesn’t matter whose “ears” are seen behind the Prosperous Armenia Party and Oskanian
Today Vartan Oskanian, the former minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Armenia and the founder of the Civilitas Foundation, stated that rumors that he cooperated with the Prosperous Armenia Party were not groundless and although he hadn’t decided to be included in the PAP list yet, because “there [...]
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“Влюбляйтесь, женитесь, топитесь – море рядом” (fall in love, marry, drown yourselves – the sea is close), the ANC coordinator to the Free Democrats Party and the Heritage Party
Alexander Arzumanyan, a member of the Free Democrats Party, the former minister of foreign affairs of theRepublicofArmeniaand a former member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), stated that the Free Democrats and the Heritage Party discussed the prospects of cooperation. Aravot.am inquired from ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan whether the Congress [...]
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Oskanian’s Statement on Elections
I firmly believe that it is of utmost importance that Armenia hold free and fair parliamentary elections. Armenia needs serious and deep reforms and I’m convinced that all our citizens share this belief. Reforms and change can only happen when there is a new political configuration in the National Assembly. [...]
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According to Levon Zurabyan, who the prisoners of conscience and who the victims are
“The Armenian National Congress (ANC) worked by ‘the more prisoners of conscience, the better’ principle at the time, but time proved some prisoners of conscience were not that prisoners of conscience, at least the recent developments have proved that. Was it a wrong strategy for ANC to declare anyone a [...]
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The Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) and the Armenian National Congress (ANC) vs. “the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) yoke”
ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan, answering a journalist’s question about joining the proposal of the parliamentary opposition by PAP during a press conference today, said, “If there is a situation inside the coalition, when one of the coalition offices doesn’t wish to obey anti-people, antidemocratic plans for some reason, we don’t [...]
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The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) threat each other with “balloons”
Edward Sharmazanov, the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and RPA press secretary, talking about the position of PAP in regard to switching to 100% proportional representation, told 168 Zham, “This is a political trick and we see clear difference between words and deeds here.” Naira Zohrabyan, a National Assembly [...]
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Artak Zakaryan, “And why do you think that medical staff shouldn’t support the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA)”
Artak Zakaryan, an RPA MP, answering a question whether RPA put PAP under pressure at Pastark Club today, naturally, assured that there was no pressure either on PAP, or anyone else. In response to a question of Aravot.am “how will you explain then multiple publications in press that there is [...]
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The Minister of Nature Protection about taking Teghut issue to PACE
Today Aravot.am inquired from Aram Harutyunyan, the Minister of Nature Protection, what he thought of the declaration on Teghut circulating in PACE, which had been joined by 44 delegates. “In my opinion, such issues should be discussed in the legal field. As for Orhus Convention, we work on that convention, [...]
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Samvel Karapetyan, “The demolition of the Church of the Holy Seal was sponsored by the state”
The Church of the Holy Seal built in 1703-1720 is situated in one of the oldest districts of Georgia. The dome of the church could have collapsed every day, it remained open and was rebuilt 60 years later in 1780. In 1928 the church was closed and was used later [...]
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Turkish minister: I deny the Armenian genocide, come arrest me
Turkey’s EU affairs minister has challenged France’s genocide-denial bill in Switzerland, saying such efforts have no chance of survival. Turkish EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış told reporters in Zurich on Sunday that a bill which was recently been approved by the French Senate and which makes it a crime to [...]
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20 Steps Turkey Could Take to Worsen Relations with France After Genocide Vote
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier Turkey’s leaders have been threateningFrancefor months with various reprisals should the French government pass a law making it illegal to deny the Armenian Genocide. Ignoring Turkish threats and blackmail, the French Parliament adopted a bill on December 22, 2011, criminalizing denial of the [...]
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