The Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation, with the support of USAID and Counterpart International hosted a round table event on September 20, 2012 in Yerevan. This was the first in a series of three round table discussions as part of the HMF’s program, “Transforming Street Action to Institutional Change: Environmental Policy Dialogue.” Around 30 environmental activists took…
YEREVAN (Irina Hovhannisyan / RFE-RL)–Armenia must not encourage a mass out-migration of ethnic Armenians from Syria and thereby eliminate a key Diaspora community in the Middle East, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Wednesday. “People willing to come here must be helped, but we must not initiate their relocation,” said Giro Manoyan, the foreign…
The Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung hosted a presentation and roundtable discussion on the publication of “Economics and Social Democracy” at Ani Plaza Hotel on June 11. This is the second volume of the series “Social Democracy Readers” prepared by the Academy for Social Democracy (Bonn, Germany). The first…
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun will not join a new governing coalition that could be formed as a result of this month’s parliamentary elections, Armen Rustamyan, chairman of the ARF-D Supreme COuncil of Armenia said on Tuesday. Rustamyan denied media claims that President Serzh Sargsyan has held post-election talks with Dashnaktsutyun representatives and offered them to…
Vahan Hovhannesyan, ARF-D Bureau Member and Leader of the ARF-D parliamentary Group in the Armenian Parliament Question: Mr. Hovhannesyan, the media in Armenia has been recently flooded with news of the arson of DIY and the bail-out of the suspects of that arson. The owner of the club has announced that the struggle against her…
In case of election fraud, the Joint Inter-Party Center For Public Oversight Of Elections which includes ARF-D, the Armenian National Congress (HAK) and Prosperous Armenia (BHK) could hold joint actions. “Joint actions, joint positions on issues are possible” said the Head of ARF-D’s proportional list, Vahan Hovhannesyan adding that “this doesn’t mean that a bloc…
On Monday, April 9, ARF-D held a presentation of its pre-electoral platform, at Erebuni Plaza Business Center. The opening remarks were given by ARF-D member Aghvan Vardanyan who expressed his belief that the party’s campaign will be victorious. “The pre-electoral campaign should be found on political platforms and objectives” he said. Bureau member Davit Lokyan,…
Members of the Armenian delegation who returned from Baku, Azerbaijan, and the 2nd plenary session of Euronest Parliamentary Assembly which was held in Baku on April 2-4, during a press briefing at the National Assembly, said the meeting was positive, despite the inflammatory rhetoric that grabbed headlines. The Head of the Armenian delegation and chairman…
Armenia’s second largest party in the governing opposition and three main opposition groups today pledged to work together in trying to prevent possible vote rigging in next month’s parliamentary elections. In an unprecedented joint declaration, the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) as well as the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK), the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and…
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation, being a national, democratic, socialist and revolutionary political party has always struggled for the political, economic and socio-cultural interests of both the individual Armenian and the entire Armenian people. The foreign and domestic challenges facing Armenia today demand serious and large-scale systemic changes. On that path, our priorities for 2012-2017 are…
