The Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation organized a two-day seminar dedicated to Social Democracy (SD) in Yerevan on October 29-30, 2011. Dr. Christian Krell, one of the co-authors of “Foundations of Social Democracy” and Michael Reschke from the Freidrich-Eibert Stiftung led the seminar with the participation of members of parliament, economists, political scientists and sociologists. The topics…
On October 29 ARF-D Bureau, Parliamentary Faction and Supreme Council members held a meeting with the public in Armavir. Hovhannesyan presented the activities of the Parliamentary Faction. Despite difficulties as well as the small number of the Faction, ARF-D tries not to allow the vote of decisions and laws that have nothing to do with…
According to www.report.am, ARF-D Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs, Hrayr Karapetyan commenting on the increase of the budget by 101 billion he said that ARF-D believes that there are more resources to increase the budget but the burden of such a development must be…
Armenia’s National Assembly (Parliament) debated on the ratification of the protocol concerning the amendments of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). During the discussions ARF-D Member of Parliament, Armen Rustamyan underlined that this protocol increases security measures. He said that the main opposition to the protocol argues that in case Armenia is attacked only two…
During the parliamentary discussions about Armenia’s land law amendments ARF-D Member of Parliament Ruzan Arakelyan referred to the granting of lands given to foreign diplomats based on the reciprocity principle and suggested that the new law should reinforce the non-granting of territories near the borderline. Arakelyan, reminded that all of Armenia’s neighbor countries have set…
On October 22, ARF-D held its rally in Artashat region where Supreme Council’s Chairman Armen Rustamyan addressing the crowd said that today Armenia’s leadership has estranged herself from the people who are left in their own fate. The people must be a part of the changes process and that it should feel the state’s pulse…
The Director of the Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation, Maria Titizian in an interview with Yerkir daily’s Maria Karatorosyan announced that the Foundation will soon be publishing the first volume of the “Socialist reforms in Armenia” series which will include the strategy for the forthcoming 20 years in the sectors of employment, housing and public health. About…
Member of Parliament, Republic of Mountainous Karabakh (MKR) Member of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyan Parliamentary faction in MKR Deputy Chair of the MKR Parliamentary Standing Committee on Financial-Budgetary and Economic Governance. Kamo Martirosyan was born in 1960, in the village of Noragyugh, in the region of Askeran of Mountainous Karabakh. He received his post-secondary degree as a…
Member of Parliament, Republic of Mountainous Karabakh (MKR) Member of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyan Parliamentary faction in MKR Member of the MKR Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defense. Vitaly Balasanyan was born in 1959, in the village of Askeran, in Mountainous Karabakh. He graduated from Yerevan’s Technical Cooperative in 1990. 1977-1979: Served in the Soviet Army. 1979-1990: Worked…
Member of Parliament, Republic of Mountainous Karabakh (MKR) Member of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyan Parliamentary faction in MKR Member of the MKR Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Vahram Balayan was born in 1962 in the village of Kish in the region of Martuni of Mountainous Karabakh. He graduated from the history department of Stepanakert’s Pedagogical Institute…
