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…
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…
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…
The two major parliamentary opposition parties critical of the non-parliamentary Armenian National Congress (HAK) have suggested that there are ulterior motives behind its decision to embark on a dialogue with President Serzh Sargsyan’s government. While saying they welcome the emerging dialogue between the HAK and the authorities, they express doubts that it will eventually lead…
YEREVAN —The joint statement on the Mountainous-Karabakh conflict issued by presidents Obama, Sarkozy and Medvedev in Deauville, France last month is not in beneficial for Armenia, said Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun parliamentary faction chairman Vahan Hovhannesyan at a press briefing Monday. He added that it was impossible to make prediction on the outcome of scheduled talks…
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and his coalition cabinet, over its failed socio-economic policies and inability to curb inflation and emigration. During a meeting in the National Assembly on Wednesday, the Dashnaktsutyun’s parliamentary faction criticized the government. It also tried unsuccessfully to get the legislative body support a…
The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday voted 76-12 to adopt in the second reading a package of electoral reforms, with the “nay” votes coming from the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun party’s faction. The other opposition faction, Heritage, opted out of the vote. In all, 90 amendments have been introduced into the law regulating the conduct of elections, among them…
YEREVAN — On May 20-22, 2011 the Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation organized a three-day seminar in the Armenian resort town of Dilijan for young Armenian political leaders. Twenty members of the Armenian Youth Federation and the Nikol Aghbalyan Student’s Union participated in the training conducted by Bjӧrn Kulp…
Socialist International Vice President and Director of the Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation Maria Titizian took part in a National Conference on Women on May 18-19 organized by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and USAID, with support from the British Embassy and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The conference, “Supporting Women’s Political Participation in Armenia: A…
Informal Comments on Proposals of the Parliamentary Opposition of Armenia (Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Heritage Factions) Prepared by the Venice Commission Secretariat Based on comments by Ms Maria Teresa Mauro (Expert, Italy) Mr Kåre Vollan (Expert, Norway)* (*) On May 5 the National Assembly Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs initiated parliamentary hearings to…
