scandals in the Caucasus

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RPA promises to vote for Pashinyan

RPA promises to vote for Pashinyan

Vahram Baghdasaryan, head of the parliamentary faction of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, said against the background of today's global protests in the republic that the RPA agrees to vote for the candidate who will gain the majority …

Armenia’s Minister of Culture supports protests and resigns

Armenia’s Minister of Culture supports protests and resigns

According to the press secretary of the Ministry of Culture of Armenia, Ruzan Khachatryan, acting Minister of Culture Armen Amirian resigned today in support of a national rally against the Republican Party and the Karabakh clan authorities. …

Protests force Armenia to halt some rail services

Protests force Armenia to halt some rail services

Armenia’s national rail operator said on Wednesday it was suspending some rail services because anti-government protesters were blocking tracks, Reuters reports. The operator, South Caucasus Railways, said in a statement it was …

Alexander Rahr: there is a typical Orange Revolution in Armenia

Alexander Rahr: there is a typical Orange Revolution in Armenia

What is happening today in Armenia is a typical example of the Orange Revolution, although with its own national peculiarities, well-known German political scientist Alexander Rahr said in a conversation with a correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza, …

Nazarbayev and Sarkisyan discuss situation in Armenia

Nazarbayev and Sarkisyan discuss situation in Armenia

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev had a telephone conversation with Armenian President Armen Sarkisyan, the press service of the Kazakh president’s office reported. During the …

 Vahagn Khachatryan: RPA should hand power back to people

Vahagn Khachatryan: RPA should hand power back to people

The Armenian opposition united around the Nikol Pashinyan protest movement, as the goals of all opposition parties, including the largest "Prosperous Armenia", coincided in the desire to rid the republic of the …

Hrachya Rostomyan joins protests in Armenia

Hrachya Rostomyan joins protests in Armenia

Armenia's acting minister of sport and youth affairs Hrachya Rostomyan has resigned due to the decision of the Prosperous Party to join the protest against the ruling Republican Party of Armenia. In …

Soldiers join protests in Yerevan

Soldiers join protests in Yerevan

After a large-scale rally, which was held on the evening of April 22, today street protests started in Yerevan with renewed vigour. The students of the Yerevan State University joined the rally, the correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza reports. …

Washington calls on Yerevan and opposition to show restraint

Washington calls on Yerevan and opposition to show restraint

The US embassy in Armenia has called on the parties to the political crisis in Armenia to show restraint. "We urge the government to show restraint to allow for peaceful protest and we urge those exercising their freedom of …

 Almost all participants of anti-Sargsyan protests released

Almost all participants of anti-Sargsyan protests released

Almost 300 people, including three leaders of the opposition, have been detained in the Armenian capital Yerevan yesterday. "290 people were delivered to police stations since morning,” a police spokesman said, adding that …

Bagrat Asatryan: Armenia biased against Serge Sargsyan

Bagrat Asatryan: Armenia biased against Serge Sargsyan

Expressions of protest against the nomination of former President Serzh Sargsyan as candidate for Armenian prime minister have a completely objective basis - the citizens are tired of the ineffective leadership of the …

Chechnya refuses Instagram

Chechnya refuses Instagram

After the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was blocked in Instagram, the republic's parliament decided to waive this social network. The speaker of the legislative assembly Magomed Daudov was the first to delete his account. …

 Armenia take an umbrage at PABSEC

Armenia take an umbrage at PABSEC

The 50th Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) was held in Kiev on November, 28-30, 2017, was marked by several scandals. First, Ukraine did not invite Russian parliamentarians to the PABSEC, and …

Armenian authorities condemn themselves for Nzhdeh

Armenian authorities condemn themselves for Nzhdeh

The meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the CSTO countries in Minsk ended with a signing of a statement in support of the UN General Assembly resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism and neo-Nazism. All foreign ministers, …

Secretary of Georgian Patriarchate resigns

Secretary of Georgian Patriarchate resigns

The Secretary of the Patriarchate of Georgia, Mikheil Botkoveli, resigned, the local media inform. Recall that today Botkoveli said that the head of the personal guard of the Patriarch of Georgia Ilia II, Soso Okhanashvili, does not …