Vardanyan: ‘The ARF-D Has Been the Only One to Instill Systemic Changes in the Country’ (ARMENIAN WEEKLY) ARARAT PROVINCE, Armenia— On March 23, Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) candidates held a campaign rally in the Ararat province, ahead of the April 2 Parliamentary elections. “Very limited powers will be vested in the president [in 2018]. All…
On April 2, voters in Armenia will turn out for the first parliamentary elections under Armenia’s new Constitution, which was ratified last year. The April 2 election will be the first tangible step toward transitioning Armenia into a parliamentary form of government. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun, which has been an avid advocate for a parliamentary…
(news.am) The representatives of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun party on Monday met with Armenia’s Lori province voters. In Shirakamut village, the ARF-D representatives introduced the voters the party program and delivered a speech, as reported by Armenian News – NEWS.am correspondent. The party representatives stressed that they have stated about the previous shortcomings of the governance…
Setting Apart the Change Makers from the Pretenders by Haig Kayserian, Special for the Armenian Weekly (armenianweekly.com) We are less than one month out from the all-important National Assembly elections in Armenia, and with nine political parties and blocs confirmed as participants, the battle lines have been drawn. However as we take a closer look,…
‘A New Beginning, a Just Armenia’: ‘Unlike Many Others, [the ARF-D is] a Party with an Ideology, a Program, a System of Values, and Experience,’ Says Aghvan Vardanyan (ARMENIAN WEEKLY) YEREVAN—The Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) kicked off its 2017 Parliamentary election campaign by introducing its party platform at a public gathering at Yerevan’s…
The 25th Congress of the Socialist International was convened on March 2-4, 2017, in Cartagena, Colombia. The Congress which gathered more than 350 guests and delegates representing 86 political parties and organizations was hosted by the Liberal Party of Colombia (PLC), a member of the coalition government of the country. ARF-D was represented by a…
(asbarez.com) LITTLE ARMENIA—On the occasion of International Women’s Day, community members gathered to celebrate the diversity and strength of Armenian women–past and present–during a March 5 event Armenian Women: Resisting, Rising, and Reframing, organized by the Armenian Youth Federation’s United Human Rights Council and the Hollywood “Musa Ler” Chapter. Held at Hollywood Armenian Center, the…
(ARMENIAN WEEKLY) On April 2, Armenia will go to the polls to elect a new National Assembly (Parliament). These elections will be the first conducted since the adoption of a new Constitution, granting unprecedented powers to those who are elected, while votes will be cast under rights and oversights provided by what is a new…
(armenianweekly.com) YEREVAN— Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) Parliamentary Faction secretary Aghvan Vardanyan has sharply criticized Member of Armenia’s Parliament and Republican Party of Armenia’s (RPA) candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections Bazmaser Arakelyan, who has been accused of beating a resident of the village of Parbi. Arakelyan reportedly beat the man after finding out…
(ARMENIAN WEEKLY) TEHRAN, Iran—Representatives of Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) student and youth associations participated in a regional meeting entitled “The Armenian Youth and the Envisioned Future in Armenia and the Middle East,” on Feb. 15-17 in Tehran, Iran. The meeting was organized by the ARF-D “Hovnan Davtian” Student Association and the ARF-D Bureau Youth Office.…
