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Sargsyan’s Remarks Echo Kocharian’s Paranoia: US Diplomat
Then prime minister Serzh Sargsyan "sharply criticized" both the US embassy in Yerevan and Deputy Assistant Secretary Matthew Bryza...Read More »
Sargsyan, Kocharian, Ter-Petrossian and the 2008 Presidential Election, According to US Diplomat in Armenia
"Mounting evidence… has called into question the government's claim that PM Serzh Sargsyan won a legitimate first-round majority on...Read More »
Court Ruled on Armenian Traffic Police Chief’s Precautionary Measure
The court today ruled in favor of pre-trial detention in the case of head of Armenia's national traffic police, Colonel Margar Ohanyan...Read More »
Security Service Leaders Assured Kocharian They Could Clean Out Liberty Square on Mar. 1 in Minutes: WikiLeaks
National security adviser to then president Robert Kocharian Garnik Isagulyan said that Kocharian had been swayed by the police and...Read More »
Yerevan Republic Square Fountains Get a Makeover Beginning Sept. 21
With the aim of carrying out work toward modernizing and featuring a new design, the fountains at Yerevan's Republic Square will be...Read More »
Kocharian Fixed Court Ruling Against Ter-Petrossian: Constitutional Court Justice to US Officials
US embassy officials were approached by Valery Poghossian, one of Armenia's nine Constitutional Court justices, on Mar. 6, 2008, for a secret...Read More »
Karabakh is Occupied. Madrid Principles Should be Called ‘Unprincipled Yerevan,’ Says Armenian MP
The ridiculous question "Why don't the people from Artsakh [the unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh] go back to Artsakh?" wouldn't be...Read More »
A Beaten Soldier, Abandoned Girl About to Give Birth: Armenia’s Independence According to Tigran Khzmalyan (updated)
Armenia's independence today is like a young man tortured, beaten and humiliated in the army or a 20-year-old girl abandoned in pain who...Read More »
Ter-Petrossian’s ‘Fiery Entrance’ Shook Up ‘Seemingly Apathetic Armenian Body Politic’: WikiLeaks
"His fierce public criticism of the authorities — the second time in two months — illustrates the seriousness with which he is approaching the...Read More »
Pro-Government Newspapers in Armenia Critical of US had Sargsyan’s Support: WikiLeaks
Two days before the May 12, 2007 parliamentary election in Armenia, US Charge d'Affaires Anthony Godfrey sent a confidential cable to...Read More »