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Head Of ARF-D Parliamentary Faction Announcement

Head of ARF-D Parliamentary Faction, Armen Rustamyan made the following announcement. As it was expected, the election process was badly conducted and the official results were predetermined. The main reason for this predetermination was the same as before: the abuse of the full extent of the state’s resources by the ruling power. Eye-poking expressions of…

ARF-D’s Joining-In Speech On Liberty Square

ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia Chairman, Armen Rustamyan delivered the following speech on February 22, at Liberty Square to the thousands of Armenians that rallied to protest the vote rigging of the recent presidential election in Armenia. Dear people, I greet you on behalf of ARF-D. Your presence here is the beginning of a big…

ARF-D Mountainous Karabakh And SILBA Chairman Hold Meeting

On February 21, ARF-D Mountainous Karabakh (Artsakh) Central Committee Secretary Lernik Hovhannisyan and Head of the MK ARF-D Parliamentary Faction, Armen Sargsyan held a meeting with Support Initiative for Liberty and Democracy (SILBA) Chairman and counsel to the Parliament of the Kingdom of Denmark, Jens-Kristian Lütken, at the premises of ARF-D in MK. SILBA has…

ARF-D Congratulates The People Of Mountainous Karabakh

Fellow compatriots, The Artsakh liberation movement marks its 25th anniversary today February the 20th. Thanks to Artsakh’s liberation movement a part of our homeland was freed, the independent statehood of our modern times was established. The Artsakh movement gave back to the people pride, determination to define its own fate, to fight and to win.…

ARF-D Stands By The People

Fellow citizens, Following the summing-up of Armenia’s Presidential election day at the polling stations, analyzing the received information and the preliminary results announced by the Central Electoral Commission, the ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia states hereby its assessments. On February 18, the citizens of Armenia proved that there are limits to their patience, that they…

Samtskhe-Javakhk Armenian NGOs Coordinating Council’s Announcement

Announcement Taking under consideration the week-old developments in the region of Samtskhe-Javakhk, those being the separate rallies organized by the activists of the ruling “Georgian Dream” coalition and by Akhalkalak region officials supporting the “United National Movement”, the Samtskhe-Javakhk Armenian NGOs Coordinating Council urges the sides to give priority to the solution of a series…

ARF-D Appeals To Voters

Fellow citizens, You are well aware of the reasons ARF-D didn’t nominate a candidate for the presidential elections of the Republic of Armenia; our efforts to form a unified political agenda and to have a joint oppositional candidate didn’t deliver results. Under these circumstances, participating in a procedure with a predetermined ending would be senseless.…

Publication and Presentation of “Monopolies in Armenia”

The Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation (HMF), with the financial support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) of Germany presented its study entitled, “Monopolies in Armenia” on February 11, 2013 at Ani Plaza Hotel in Yerevan. The HMF working group presented their findings regarding monopolies in the Republic of Armenia, which included the current situation of the markets in…

Hovhannesyan Holds Press Conference

Speaking to media representatives at “Urbat” Press club, today, ARF-D Bureau member Vahan Hovhannesyan commented on a number of issues having to do with recent domestic and international developments. ARF-D at the Socialist International Council At the Socialist International Council’s meeting that took place in Cascais, Portugal on February 4-5, Hovhannesyan was elected co-chair of…

“As Time Goes By, People Will More And More See The Clarity Of Our Position” Vardanyan Says

Asked about how ARF-D will orient its supporters, the Secretary of the Parliamentary Faction, Aghvan Vardanyan said that although the party doesn’t have its own candidate still it isn’t sitting with folded hands, yerkir.am reports. “On the contrary, today’s circumstances are very beneficial for us and we are working intensively having meetings with our members,…