LEVON TER-PETROSIAN WOULD NEVER AGAIN GAIN SO MANY VOTES IF WE HAD PROPER POLITICAL SYSTEM
The phenomenon that a person who had left the political field for already ten years woke up one morning and managed to take the second place after having run in the presidential elections testifies to the fact that "our society is pregnant with opposition," Aleksander Iskandarian, political expert said at "Hayeli" press club. And our society will remain in this state of mind unless a proper political system is created in the country. The recent elections are peculiar first of all because of Levon Ter-Petrosian's appearance. His unexpected appearance imparted the home political situation with strong dynamics. The All Armenian Movement would hardly ever get so many votes, if they participated in the elections as a separate political force. "It's not his personality or the political force he represents that we deal with. In few months he managed to gather around himself the people who were deeply disappointed with the current authorities and achieve astonishing results by the end of the elections," Iskandarian said. By the way, before the elections, Iskandarian forecasted that the main competition in the elections will be unfolded between Serge Sargian and Levon Ter-Petrosian, while the rest of the candidates will play no essential part.
Stepan Safarian, member of "Heritage" party also dwelt on the electoral and post-electoral developments. He added that Armenia lacks not only a political system, but also an electoral one. He agreed with Iskandarian about the thought that the success of an occasional person in the elections is conditioned by the lack of the political system in Armenia. "I think that the current events in Yerevan are of certain risk, as the elections held by means of goast voting is a resource of risk itself," Safarian said. He said that the evaluations of the international observers are not definite and do not reflect the real situation. The political experts gave no reply to the question how long will people continue dancing and singing at the Freedom Square. Safarian said that a part of the people in the square are quite decisive and have no intention to quit their positions. In response to our comment that Levon Ter-Petrosian and his team stage the scenario of the 1988, but as compared with that year, today they have no other goal than to seize the power, and they are going to deceive the people they lead already tomorrow, Safarian agreed that in 1988 people were united by the idea of Armenia's and Artsakh's independence, but added that he believes that today the people will not be deceived. (But the people are already being deceived, aren't they?)
Suffering from the nostalgia of power, the All Armenian Movement struggles with the scenario of 1988, by means of installing tents in the square, organizing rallies, demonstrations, processions, sitting strikes. Probably, today someone ready to go on hunger strike will appear in the stage and put forward the demand to shut down the Metsamor NPP and "Nairit." They still haven't called for people to go on working strike, and will never do, as all of the factories and institutions were closed when the All Armenian Movement came to power.
May there be no war in Artsakh, as none of them will go to fight in the first lines of the battles. We, the students to went on a strike in 1988, will not forget how "the poet of the century" Vano Siradehian would shout in the Theatre Square that they would be the first to join the fighting detachments, if a war unfolded in Artsakh. But, instead...
- By Rouzan Poghosian, translated by K.A.
FINAL RESULTS ANNOUNCED
Translated by L.H.On February 24, RA Central Electoral Commission Chairman Garegin Azarian announced the final results of February 19 presidential elections. According to it, Serge Sargsian is elected RA president. According ..."JOURNALISTS WITHOUT BORDERS" ORGANIZATION CONDEMNS
Translated by L.H.Well-known international organization demands to punish the persons that committed violences upon the three journalists in February 19 presidential elections. "Journalists without borders" organization ...VAHAN HOVHANNESIAN RESIGNS
On February 22 the deputy speaker of RA National Assembly and presidential candidate Vahan Hovannesian said to resign. "I did not spear effort to keep competition within a constructive political debate ...STATEMENT OF VAZGEN MANOUKIAN
I am grateful to my voters and supporters whose number is more than the official data. It is the unbiased, principled part of the society, which shares our ideas and is the reliable cream, which may underlie ...OPPOSITION STATEMENT ON SUPPORT OF DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTER DOESN'T CORRESPOND TO TRUTH
RA Defense Ministry refuted Levon Ter-Petrosian's statement that the opposition gained support of Manvel Grigorian and Gagik Melkonian. Defense Minister's spokesman, col Seyran Shahsuvarian said that ...LEVON TER-PETROSIAN WOULD NEVER AGAIN GAIN SO MANY VOTES IF WE HAD PROPER POLITICAL SYSTEM
By Rouzan Poghosian, translated by K.A.The phenomenon that a person who had left the political field for already ten years woke up one morning and managed to take the second place after having run in the presidential elections testifies to ...
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By Nairi Muradian, translated by L.H.EDITORIAL: HOSTILITY AND CONDESCENSION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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By Kim Gabrielian, Stepanakert, translated by L.H.SECRET TALKS IN BERN
By S. Shahinian, president of Switzerland-Armenia Society, Translated by A.M.
US EMBASSY URGES
WHILE EVERYONE WAS BUSY WATCHING ELECTIONS IN AMERICA AND ARMENIA ...
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California CourierSTATEMENT OF RUSSIAN ARMENIANS' UNION ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN RA
A. A. Abrahamian, Head of the World Armenian Congress and the Russian Armenians' Union, UNESCO Ambassador of Good Will, Translated by A.M.AZERBAIJANI PROTEST NOTE AGAINST ELECTIONS THAT WERE NOT HELD...
By A. Haroutiunian, translated by A.M.HILLARY'S CURIOUS CAMPAIGN LOAN
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Translated by L.H.EXIT POLL RESULTS
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Translated by L.H.ARF ADMITTED ITS CANDIDATE'S DEFEAT
Translated by L.H.CONFERENCE IN LOS ANGELES DEDICATED TO MUSA LER AND KESAB
By R. P., translated by L.H.
- 1798 Tsar Paul the First's decree on the Armenians.
- 1802 Birth of Gabriel Patkanyan (historian, public figure) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He died in 1889 in St.Petersburg (Russia).
- 1828 Start of the repatriation of Armenians living in Iran to Eastern Armenia and the Transcaucasus.
- 1921 Atarbekian, the notorious Secret Police Chief who murdered countless Armenians during Stalin's purges, heads the anti-patriotic offensive in the Dilijan and Karakilisa (Vanadzor) regions.
- 1924 The Central Executive Committee of the USSR renames Alexandropol to Leninakan.
- 1988 Genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait (third largest city in Azerbaijan and its second largest industrial center). The perpetrators were not apprehended. No prosecutions of the guilty were initiated. Mikhail Gorbachev dismisses this Genocide just as an act of petty hooliganism.
- 1992 Artsakh forces control Khojalu, the regional military headquarters of the Azeri Turk forces.
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