http://en.zhamanak.com/lrahos/ Political news on Armenia and Caucasian region, analytical articles, interviews and more. http://en.zhamanak.com/news/417/ Levon Zurabyan, representative of the Center of the Popular Movement, addressed the rally in front of Matenadaran on July 4 and said the... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/416/ I sensed on deepening mutual respect among the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, both of whom genuinely seem to want to work through the... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/415/ The CoE secretary general Terry Davis said in an interview with Radio Liberty that the most important is the investigation of the murders of... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/414/ After the post-electoral events the U.S. government voiced concern about deviation from democracy and stated that it may cause to suspend the 235... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/413/ The ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be discussed during the Russia-European Union summit to take place... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/412/ Strasbourg, 19.06.2008 An urgent debate on Armenia at the plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/411/ Recently the Passport and Visa Department of the Police has accepted Jirair Sefilyan’s third application for citizenship. Robert Kocharyan had... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/410/ The press secretary of the Court of Cassation reports that on June 13 the Court of General Jurisdiction of the region of Shirak passed verdict... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/409/ The case of Suren Surenyants, member of the political board of the Republic Party, was dismissed, and prosecution was suspended... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/408/ A few days ago the chief executive officer of... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/407/ Armenia-European Union cooperation new plurilateral format will be introduced in 2009, according to an Armenian parliamentarian... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/406/ An Armenian-French business forum will be held in Paris on June 17 and in Marseilles on June 19. http://en.zhamanak.com/news/405/ The issue referring to Italian government’s initiative on the establishment of Commission for Southern Caucasus Affairs in Rome was discussed at... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/404/ Georges Colombier (France, EPP/CD) and John Prescott (United Kingdom, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/403/ Lusine Sahakyan and Yervand Varosyan, the attorneys of Gagik Jhangiryan, responded to the June 11 press release of the Office of Prosecutor... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/402/ I lived in Armenia with a paper on residence until 2000, which the government issued on the request of the ministers of defense, said... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/401/ In response to a request from the MCA-Armenia Stakeholders’ Committee, a presentation and discussion of the 2008 MCC Indicator Scorecard... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/400/ Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian on June the 8th, has left for France, a spokesman said on Monday... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/399/ The smallest ex-Soviet republic is doubling the size of its peacekeeping contingent in Kosovo, Europe's newest state... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/398/ Yesterday Serge Sargsyan met with Ilham Aliyev at the Baltic Star Hotel of Saint Petersburg, the press office of the president reports... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/397/ Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev offered Armenia’s Serzh Sargsyan to pay with a formal visit to Moscow... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/396/ Iran used to be a mediator in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement but then our country was removed from the process, Iranian Deputy... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/395/ The main result of today’s Sargsyan-Aliyev meeting in Saint Petersburg is that the sides agreed to continue talks on the basis of Madrid... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/394/ Addressing the "Caspian Oil, Gas, Oil Refining and Oil Chemistry" international conference, US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/393/ The ex-foreign minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanyan has set up the Civilitas Foundation which will be dedicated in September in Yerevan... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/392/ The European Union urgently recommends the Armenian government to close the Metsamor nuclear power plant and is ready to allocate... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/391/ Voting against the Azerbaijani UN resolution was a very painful decision for the U.S. government, according to the OSCE Minsk Group U.S... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/390/ The director of the EU Directorate General of External Relations Hugh Mingarelli visiting Yerevan stated today that the EU advises the Armenian... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/389/ The U.S. Embassy in Armenia is proud to announce that it will hold its seventh annual American Jazz in Armenia... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/388/ On June 20 the Center of Popular Movement will hold a rally in which the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan will also take part... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/387/ Today the administrative court of Armenia decided to dismiss the suit of the police against Davit Shahnazaryan. The decision was made after the... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/386/ The cause of the home political crisis in Armenia is that the society is unable to shape a legitimate government, and this government is shaped... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/385/ After the events of March 1 the ex-president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan described the ombudsman Armen Harutiunyan as... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/384/ ...The meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents is of great importance... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/383/ Yesterday, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduced a bill urging the President and Secretary of State to call upon Turkey to... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/382/ “I know that books of history will mention my name after my death only for one issue. It is my idea, known as “Gobble Plan”, describing in the... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/381/ “Since long time the Karabakh conflict has no more been the Russia’s lever for Azerbaijan,” Russian political scientist Aleksey Malashenko... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/380/ Freedom House released the annual report on the freedom of the media in the world. The organization reports a decline in the scores of the countries of... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/379/ The meeting has discussed presidential elections in Georgia and Armenia and upcoming elections in Azerbaijan. EU stated that it was... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/378/ Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, who two years ago blocked the nomination of Richard Hoagland for U.S. ambassador to Armenia, said... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/377/ On April 23, the Gazprom Board of Director approved the decision to raise prices for natural gas for the CIS and Baltic states. http://en.zhamanak.com/news/376/ Demanding Resignation of Serzh Sarkisian Thousands of supporters of Levon Ter-Petrosyan marched towards genocide monument in Yerevan... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/375/ Price for the natural gas exported by Gazprom are rising much faster than forecast, the monopoly's management reported today to the board of... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/374/ Uranium Holding ARMZ, the mining unit of state nuclear corporation Rosatom, plans to set up a venture with the Armenian government to explore... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/373/ “Kosovo should not be seen as a precedence case at all and especially not for Nagorno-Karabakh,” Peter Schieder, honorary president of the... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/372/ RAND Corporation issued a report titled “Turkey as a U.S. Security Partner” prepared for the United States Air Force... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/371/ Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian met OSCE MG Co-Chair Bernard Fassier in Paris yesterday... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/370/ Although the OSCE observation mission’s report described the Armenian February 19 presidential election as “mostly in line with international... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/369/ Azerbaijani President said that “his country is not going to put up with the unfair attitude of the international community about the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.” http://en.zhamanak.com/news/368/ “We have once more discussed the meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian delegations at...” http://en.zhamanak.com/news/367/ Polish engineering and construction firm PBG PBGG.WA has signed a contract worth $252 million to rebuild and modernise plant of Armenian... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/366/ Terry Davis, the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe (CE), will analyze the issues regarding Armenia’s political prisoners. He made this report... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/365/ Azerbaijan must accept that its breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region is an independent republic that will never be returned to Azeri... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/364/ Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis supposes that parties to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict are close to an agreement... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/363/ "We will settle the problem sooner or later and official Yerevan understands well that they will have to take a constructive position for the..."... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/362/ “None of the Armenian delegation members could expect relief at PACE session after March 1 events”... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/361/ “I cannot disagree to the claims of double standard approach against Azerbaijan compared with Armenia. I also consider that...” http://en.zhamanak.com/news/360/ Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller to visit Armenia in May, the RA Prime Minister said. http://en.zhamanak.com/news/359/ Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian on Thursday urged about two dozen people currently on hunger strike in support of opposition claims to end their... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/358/ Armenia’s ex-President Robert Kocharian may be offered the post of Gazprom’s Vice President. As a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter came to know from a... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/357/ It’s impossible to foretell the result of the Armenian Genocide discussion in the Knesset, chairman of the Israel-Armenia group, Kadima’s Zeev Elkin told... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/356/ Russia announced intention to build a new nuclear power plant in Armenia, with Inter RAO UES as investor and engineer, said Andrey Rappoport... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/355/ The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has outlined the Armenian... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/354/ On April 9 when the minor center of Yerevan was closed to the citizens because of the ceremony of inauguration, a lot of citizens gathered at the... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/353/ Over 5000 Armenians of Little Armenia district, Hollywood, held a protest at 6:00 pm, 8 April. They remonstrated against Serzh Sarkissian’s... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/352/ It is incorrect to hold inauguration of President of Armenia on the fortieth day of mourning of the victims of tragic events in Yerevan, said... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/351/ Serzh Sarkisyan said Wednesday relations with Iran are 'very valuable and fundamental' for Yerevan... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/350/ Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on appointment Tigran Sargsyan Prime Minister of Armenia, the RA leader’s press office reported... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/349/ United Arab Emirates government-linked firm RAK Minerals and Metals Investments (RMMI) said on Wednesday it is buying an Armenian... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/348/ Armenia’s Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said he will not enter the new government... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/347/ On April 8 Jirair Sefilyan, Vardan Malkhasyan and Arman Babajanyan issued a statement. “Although we reject the extreme form of protest, the hunger... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/346/ The thesis on Russia’s leaving the South Caucasus premature, said head of the Interethnic Relations Department at the Institute of... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/345/ NATO’s expansion eastwards and possible recognition of unrecognized republics, specifically Nagorno Karabakh are not linked directly, said... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/344/ Armenia's Constitutional Court has approved an increase in the country's peacekeeping forces in Kosovo... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/343/ The Jewish community of Armenia has issued an address to the Knesset in regards of the discussions held there last week. http://en.zhamanak.com/news/342/ OSCE Minsk Group U.S. Co-chair, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza will represent the United States at the inauguration of... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/341/ Wife of the Russian president Lyudmila Putina has opened a Russian Book Center in Yerevan. She arrived in Armenia at the invitation of the... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/340/ Touching on the domestic situation, Robert Kocharyan yesterday said there will be no extra parliamentary election in Armenia... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/339/ Today Armenia meets sharp environmental problems which like in some other countries create social strain and hurt the development of the... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/338/ The due announcement was made by Robert Kocharyan, commenting on the announcement of Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/337/ The Minsk process has several constituent parts, said Dennis Sammut, Executive Director of LINKS... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/336/ Discussion of the Armenian Genocide Resolution, H.Res.106, approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee is still on the agenda... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/335/ OSCE Mink Group U.S. Co-chair, Ambassador Matthew Bryza thinks that the Karabakh talks will be continued... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/334/ Azerbaijan has become a leader among the CIS states by industrial growth rates through two months of 2008... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/333/ Deputy Defense Minister of Armenia Manvel Grigoryan has been dismissed. APA reports that president Robert Kocharian has today signed an... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/332/ Armenia’s first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s detained supporters issued a statement calling on the authorities to stop illegal actions and violence... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/331/ Serzh Sargsyan met yesterday with delegation of AGO group led by Ambassador Per Sjogren , the RA government’s press office reported. http://en.zhamanak.com/news/330/ “Negotiations between Azerbaijan and Armenia should be developed”, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in his address... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/329/ Voting against the Azerbaijani resolution “On the situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan,” the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair states broke... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/328/ On the instruction of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the speaker of Turkmenistan's Mejlis, Akja Nurberdiyeva, will... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/327/ Washington believes that Azerbaijan and Armenia should arrive at an agreement on the Basic Principles for a peaceful resolution of the... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/326/ “It is unacceptable for a CoE member state to have political prisoners,” reiterated the head of the Ago monitoring group Per Sjogren... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/325/ On March 28, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution On Prevention of Genocide introduced by Armenia, the RA MFA press office... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/324/ The AGO Group of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe will arrive in Armenia on a 4-day visit on March 29... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/323/ The White House has not named the next U.S. Ambassador to Armenia yet, U.S. charge d’affairs Joseph Pennington told a news conference... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/322/ Heads of State and Government from the 26 NATO nations, partners and other representatives from major international institutions will meet in... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/321/ Official Yerevan hopes that the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents will meet in Bucharest during the NATO summit April 2-4... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/320/ “I would not speculate on the news spread by the Armenian newspapers about Azerbaijani refusal from the OSCE Minsk Group mediation...”... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/319/ Chairman of Azerbaijan Society of America Tomris Azeri, Executive Director of U.S Azeris Network Adil Bagirov and President of the Azerbaijani-... http://en.zhamanak.com/news/318/ “Azerbaijan has sent a letter to OSCE Secretariat to study the procedure of changing the countries and persons of Minsk Group Co-Chairs”...