During the regular meeting with the press, the Head of ARF-D Parliamentary Faction, Armen Rustamyan said that on April 9, there was only one inauguration, referring to Sargsyan being sworn-in as President and to which ARF-D didn’t attend. Rustamyan also said that the rally that took place the same day on Liberty Square evolved in…
“In a couple of days we will launch our open meetings round with the public” said ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia Vice Chairman, Arsen Hambartzumyan who is third in the party’s list of candidates for the May 5 Yerevan municipal elections, yerkirmedia.am reports. “These are not a single-person elections” Hambartzumyan added and stated that besides…
On April 2, Hrach Muradyan, mayor of the village of Proshyan, was found dead, killed by a shot to the head. Muradyan was a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF-D), a freedom fighter of the Artsakh movement, and was serving his third term as mayor of Proshyan, a village in the Kotayk province. Muradyan…
On March 26, ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia, Vice Chairman Aghvan Vardanyan gave a press conference at Post Scriptum press club. Vardanyan said that these are political elections by the law that provisions a race to be conducted between the political parties but by their nature as well, no matter how much the ruling regime…
YEREVAN (armenianweekly.com)—Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Supreme Council representative Armen Rustamyan laid out his party’s vision for the post-election popular movement in Armenia by stressing the importance of securing a victory at the Yerevan municipal elections on May 5, 2013, as a stepping stone towards achieving regime change. Speaking at a rally on Freedom Square on…
On March 3, former presidential candidate and Heritage party leader, Raffi Hovhannesyan accompanied by the Campaign manager and Head of the party’s parliamentary faction, Ruben Hakobyan held a meeting with ARF-D Bureau Chairman, Hrant Margaryan and Armenia’s Supreme Council Chairman, Armen Rustamyan. The interlocutors discussed about issues connected to the present political crisis as well…
ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia Chairman, Armen Rustamyan delivered the following speech on February 22, at Liberty Square to the thousands of Armenians that rallied to protest the vote rigging of the recent presidential election in Armenia. Dear people, I greet you on behalf of ARF-D. Your presence here is the beginning of a big…
Fellow citizens, Following the summing-up of Armenia’s Presidential election day at the polling stations, analyzing the received information and the preliminary results announced by the Central Electoral Commission, the ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia states hereby its assessments. On February 18, the citizens of Armenia proved that there are limits to their patience, that they…
Fellow citizens, You are well aware of the reasons ARF-D didn’t nominate a candidate for the presidential elections of the Republic of Armenia; our efforts to form a unified political agenda and to have a joint oppositional candidate didn’t deliver results. Under these circumstances, participating in a procedure with a predetermined ending would be senseless.…
ARF-D Armenia’s Supreme Council condemns the murder attempt against Presidential candidate, Paruyr Hayrikyan. That is an action directed against our statehood and sovereignty, it is an attempt to seed an ambience of terror and insecurity. Law enforcement and national security authorities have a duty of exposing both the perpetrators and the assignors. We must exit…
