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Arakelyan: Armenia’s Borderline Territories Should Not Be Merchantable

During the parliamentary discussions about Armenia’s land law amendments ARF-D Member of Parliament Ruzan Arakelyan referred to the granting of lands given to foreign diplomats based on the reciprocity principle and suggested that the new law should reinforce the non-granting of territories near the borderline. Arakelyan, reminded that all of Armenia’s neighbor countries have set…

Rustamyan, Minasyan: Armenia’s Leadership Has Estranged Herself From The People

On October 22, ARF-D held its rally in Artashat region where Supreme Council’s Chairman Armen Rustamyan addressing the crowd said that today Armenia’s leadership has estranged herself from the people who are left in their own fate. The people must be a part of the changes process and that it should feel the state’s pulse…

Titizian: Merely A Drop In The Name Of Socialist Armenia

The Director of the Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation, Maria Titizian in an interview with Yerkir daily’s Maria Karatorosyan announced that the Foundation will soon be publishing the first volume of the “Socialist reforms in Armenia” series which will include the strategy for the forthcoming 20 years in the sectors of employment, housing and public health. About…

ARF-D MP Minasyan sees serious debt danger

In an interview with 1in.am, ARF-D Member of Parliament, Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Financial, Credit and Budgetary Affairs of the Parliament, Artsvik Minasyan said that a second economic crisis is possible and will emerge not in the real estate sector, such as previously, but in the financial one and in particular in…

ARF-D also demands RoA President Serzh Sargsyan’s resignation

On September 29, during a press conference at the Slaq press club, ARF-D Bureau member Vahan Hovhannesyan said that ARF-D follows its own path to the forthcoming elections. Hovhannesyan pointed out, that when it comes to fraud it makes no difference whether the elections are regular or special. The party favors a total change of…

Social Democracy in Practice: Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation Promises Something New in Armenia

YEREVAN—The Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation (HMF), a social democratic think-tank founded in 2009, is a non-profit Armenian foundation committed to the development and advancement of public policy issues that espouse the basic values of social democracy through education, training, research, and regional and international cooperation. The aims of the foundation are to contribute to and actively…

Armenian Youth Federation Statement

The Armenian Youth Federation (Youth Organisation of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun), strongly condemns the acts of terror carried out in Norway, and especially the shootings at the summer camp of the Labour Youth (AUF, the youth organisation of the Norwegian Labour Party), which claimed the lives of tens of youth and youngsters. There is no way to…

ARF-D 31st World Congress Concludes

YEREVAN—The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnakstutyun 31st World Congress concluded Friday in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia. The ARF World Congress kicked off in Yerevan on Friday, June 24, with an inaugural opening ceremony held at the Government House with leaders, members and delegates attending. The meeting then moved to Tsaghkadzor and continued through Friday, July 1. After a thorough…

ARF World Congress Convenes

YEREVAN—Delegates, leaders and guests from around the world gathered at the Armenian Government House Large Assembly Hall for the kick off of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun’s 31st World Congress, which is the party’s highest policy-making assembly. During the opening session of the World Congress, which was attended by representatives of different political parties, ARF-D Bureau…

Karabakh ARF Urges Mediators to Not Endanger Peace

STEPANAKERT — The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun Artsakh Central Committee, on the eve of the June 24 meeting in Kazan between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan mediated by Russia to discuss the Karabakh-Azerbaijan conflict, issued the following announcement on Wednesday: The ARF Artsakh Central Committee: Commending the efforts of the OSCE Minsk group co-chairs in…