By Nanore Barsoumian The Armenian Weekly At 8 p.m. on July 13, television viewers in Turkey who tune in to watch Haberturk TV station’s “Teke Tek” (“One to One”) debate show will instead see a program prepared by the Turkish state’s television and radio monitoring agency, the RTUK. Teke Tek was recently penalized by the…
In 2014, Armenia will entirely switch to an accumulated pension system. Last week, the bill on “State Pensions”, which comprises of pension reforms, was discussed and passed with first reading at the special session of the National Assembly. According to the draft bill, in 2011 the voluntary option of the accumulated pension system would come…
MUSKOKA, Canada—On June 26, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, U.S. President Barack Obama, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy issued the following statement on Karabagh from the G8 Summit: We, the Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group’s Co-Chair countries, France, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America, reaffirm our commitment to support the leaders of…
The Armenian government pushed through parliament on Thursday its controversial legal amendments allowing the existence of foreign-language schools in the country. The National Assembly adopted them in the first reading by 71 votes to 13, with one abstention, amid continuing protests staged outside the parliament building by the most vocal opponents of the measure. A…
YEREVAN — The ARF-Dashnaktsutyun faction in the National Assembly has been voicing serious concern with the government’s decision to privatize pension funds in the country. The Armenian government adopted a decision to privatize the country’s pension plan back in November, 2008. While the stated intention of the government’s pension reform is to increase pension benefits…
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s refusal to take part in the International Economic Forum following the Sargsyan-Medvedev-Aliyev meeting in Saint Petersburg was a specific way to express discontent with the Mountainous-Karabakh peace process, Giro Manoyan, ARF-D International Secretary, told NEWS.am, commenting on the Azerbaijani reconnaissance detachment’s intrusion in Karabakh on June 18. According to him, Azerbaijan’s…
NEW YORK–The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF-Dashnaktsutyun) participated in the Socialist International (SI) Council meeting held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on June 21 and 22. In addition to ARF Bureau member Mario Nalbandian (Nalpatian) and SI vice-president Maria Titizian, the ARF delegation included four ARF Eastern U.S. representatives. Also in attendance were…
The Armenian police and a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun have traded barbs over the contentious use of force against opposition activists trying to gather in a popular square in Yerevan. Vahan Hovannesyan, a member of the ARF-D Bureau and leader of its parliamentary faction, last week publicly challenged the official justification for the…
I welcome all of you in Yerevan; to the motherland of all Armenians and the capital city of Armenia, Yerevan. For us it is a great honor and privilege to welcome all of you here. As members of the same large ideological family, we have much to do in our region and I am convinced…
The Armenian parliament on Thursday passed in the second and final reading a controversial bill which local press freedom groups say will fail to end a strong government influence on the country’s broadcast media. The final version of the amendments to an Armenian law on television and radio contains the most important of the provisions…
