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Prime Minister Says He Understands the Worries of U.S. Party
The department of information and public relations of the Armenian government reports that the board of the MCA Armenia met on March 9. The meeting was conducted by Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan. The vice president...
Armenian Opposition Divided Ahead Of Election
Emil Danielyan 3/08/07 Armenia’s leading opposition parties have failed to join forces for upcoming parliamentary elections, in what most local commentators view as good news for President Robert Kocharian and his...
Deported Javakheti Armenian Again Found Guilty
An Armenian appeals court upheld on Friday a suspended 18-month prison sentence that was handed to an Armenian nationalist activist from Georgia’s restive Javakheti region last December. Vahagn Chakhalian, a young...
Yerevan Press Club Presented The Findings Of 7 Tv Channel Monitoring In February
On March 7 at “Urbat” Club Yerevan Press Club presented the findings of seven Armenian TV channel monitoring to the journalistic community. The study is administered by YPC before the official promotion campaign for...
Armenian Women Set To Remain Underrepresented In Parliament
Armenian women look set to remain grossly underrepresented in their country’s parliament, despite a record-high number of female candidates in the upcoming elections. As many as 353 women are vying for the 131 seats in...
Hovannisian Says Not Responsible For Opposition Discord
Former Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian on Friday denied any responsibility for the failure by several Armenian opposition parties to form an electoral alliance, insisting that he never sought to become its top...
Armenian party seeks foreign aid to finance TV airtime ahead of poll
Yerevan, 7 March: The US embassy cannot finance the broadcast of a political programme proposed by the Union of National Democrats on one of the Armenian TV channels, the acting US ambassador to Armenia, Anthony Godfree...
Jailed Nationalist Denies Plotting Violent Regime Change
Zhirayr Sefilian, an Armenian nationalist activist controversially jailed on coup charges, insists that he never sought to topple Armenia’s government by force, parliament deputies sympathizing with him said on Tuesday...
Domestic violence “one of the most widespread violations of human dignity”, say PACE President and Human Rights Commissioner
Strasbourg, 07.03.2007 In an appeal to the 46 member states on the eve of International Women’s Day, Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly President René van der Linden and Human Rights Commissioner Thomas...
Armenian president signs dual citizenship bill into law
Armenia's president on Wednesday signed into law legislation allowing dual citizenship, a move that could vastly increase the sway that the country's vast diaspora holds over political life in the tiny ex-Soviet...