Russian-Israeli tourism blogger Alexander Lapshin, known for his highly publicized arrest and illegal extradition from Belarus to Azerbaijan, has published a photo of himself wearing a t-shirt depicting an on-duty Artsakh soldier.
Former minister of culture Hasmik Poghosyan has been appointed as advisor to the President of Armenia.
Armenia’s ruling coalition will officially nominate Armen Sarkissian’s candidacy as the 4th President of Armenia, secretary of the ARF parliamentary faction Aghvan Vardanyan told reporters after Sarkissian’s meeting with the coalition partners Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) and the ARF in the parliament.
The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has nominated the candidacy of MP Gevorg Kostanyan, a former Prosecutor General, to serve as chairman of the parliamentary committee on state-legal and human rights protection affairs, the parliament’s press service said.
Address by President Serzh Sargsyan on Artsakh Revival Day and Karabakh Movement 30th anniversary.
The absence of an adequate reaction from the international community on Azeri President Ilham Aliyev’s statements uttering territorial claims for Armenia has encouraged Azeri defense minister Zakir Hasanov to reiterate the threat of use of force, Armenian foreign ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan said.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan met today with Armen Sarkissian, who had been offered by the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) to become the ruling party’s candidate for the President of Armenia. During the previous meeting with Serzh Sargsyan, Armen Sarkissina had asked for some time to be able to hold meetings with different political forces, the leadership of Artsakh, business and science representatives and the public sector.
Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Ara Babloyan proposed Hrays Tovmasyan’s candidacy for the position of the member of the Constitutional Court.
In terms of being ready for negotiations, Kocharyan said: “It is enough to mention the Azerbaijani President’s latest speech, which definitely shows who is ready for what, who isn’t ready to move forward in the negotiations process”.
Armen Sarkissian, the potential candidate of the ruling party for the upcoming presidential election in Armenia, says the list of existing problems in the country is rather long, but at the same time he argues that the list of possible solutions is also long.
