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Mediamax.am
April 26, 2018
This was an innovation in Armenia's politics as neither the first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, nor the second President Robert Kocharyan – in spite of their own shortcomings regarding democracy and rule of law – had not dared to claim a third term. Probably Sargsyan and his associates in the rulingÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 25, 2018
The situation remained tense to the end, but he ultimately refrained from using brute force to quell the protests, unlike his immediate predecessor Robert Kocharian, who ordered troops to fire on protestors after the 2008 election, killing 10 people. Instead, Sargsyan followed former Georgian PresidentÃâà...
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
April 24, 2018
Karabakh President Bako Sahakyan held a meeting in Yerevan on Monday with second President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan. The current internal political situation in Armenia was touched upon during the meeting. Both sides noted the necessity of maintaining stability and legality in theÃâà...
Armenpress.am
April 24, 2018
YEREVAN, APRIL 23, ARMENPRESS. Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan held a meeting in Yerevan with second President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan on April 23. As ARMENPRESS was informed from the press service of Artsakh President's Office, the current internal politicalÃâà...
The New Indian Express
April 23, 2018
YEREVAN: Armenia is facing a deepening political crisis, after talks between Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian and protest leader Nikol Pashinyan failed and riot police clashed with demonstrators on Sunday. READ HERE | Armenian PM Serzh Sarkisian storms out of talks with opposition leader NikolÃâà...
Armenpress.am
April 18, 2018
YEREVAN, APRIL 18, ARMENPRESS. Former President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan ( in office 1998-2008) had a phone conversation on April 18 with Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan and congratulated him on being elected, Kocharyan's Office reported. Serzh Sargsyan was elected to serve as PrimeÃâà...
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
April 13, 2018
The Armenia-Vatican relations entered qualitatively new stage by the visit of Pope John Paul II's delegation to Armenia on September 25-27, 2001. The visit took place at the invitation of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II. The Vatican issued series ofÃâà...
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
April 9, 2018
YEREVAN. – Second President Robert Kocharyan on Monday sent a congratulatory letter to Armen Sarkissian on assuming the office of the President of Armenia, informed Kocharyan's office. Inauguration of the fourth President of Armenia, Armen Sarkissian, was held at Monday's special session of theÃâà...
Hetq Online
April 9, 2018
Ex-President Kocharyan Congratulates New Armenian President. 15:23, April 9, 2018. Robert Kocharyan, who served as Armenia's president from 1998-2008, today sent a congratulatory message to Armen Sargsyan who was sworn in today as the country's new president. Home pageÃâà...
Armenpress.am
April 9, 2018
YEREVAN, APRIL 9, ARMENPRESS. 2nd President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan congratulated President Armen Sarkissian on assuming the post. As ARMENPRESS was informed from the press service of the President's Office, the congratylatory message runs as follows,. “Honorable Mr. Sarkissian,.
Eurasia Daily
April 6, 2018
Besides, many government representatives will avoid responsibility for possible solutions by force, as they realize that it may be condemned by the world community, first, and may work against themselves, like in happened to Robert Kocharyan, second. Now the ruling elite are trying to scapegoat him forÃâà...
The Hill
March 30, 2018
Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian admitted that Lizin had sold the products, and that the United States had warned Yerevan of the product's dual use capability. Armenian president Robert Kocharian denied any government involvement in the company, despite the fact that the United States identified ArmenÃâà...
News.Az
March 26, 2018
It was headed by Robert Kocharyan, Arkady Ghukasyan, and, finally, Bako Sahakyan. All of them acted as "liberators", but this "liberation" turned million Azerbaijanis into refugees and internally displaced persons, expelled by force from occupied Nagorno-Karabakh and other Azerbaijani regions, as well asÃâà...
Mediamax.am
March 23, 2018
On March 25, Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev said that the official Baku considered the congratulation, which Turkish President Ahmed Sezer addressed to Robert Kocharyan on his re-election as President of Armenia, to be “a strange gesture”. Ahmed Sezer and Ilham Aliyev in 2003. Photo: REUTERS.
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
March 22, 2018
The authorities claimed that they planned to mount an armed uprising against then President Robert Kocharyan. Sefilian was cleared of the coup charge during his subsequent trial. Still, he spent 18 months in prison for allegedly illegal arms possession. Sefilian was again detained along with his fourÃâà...
MassisPost
March 20, 2018
The authorities claimed that they planned to mount an armed uprising against then President Robert Kocharian. Sefilian was cleared of the coup charge during his subsequent trial. Still, he spent 18 months in prison for allegedly illegal arms possession. Sefilian was again detained along with his fourÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 20, 2018
The authorities claimed that they planned to mount an armed uprising against then-President Robert Kocharian. Sefilian was cleared of the coup charge during his subsequent trial. Still, he spent 18 months in prison on charges of illegal arms possession. Sefilian was again detained along with his fourÃâà...
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
March 6, 2018
YEREVAN. – The head of Yelk bloc's parliamentary faction Nikol Pashinyan has sent a letter to the Armenian Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan demanding to question former President Robert Kocharyan over 1 March 2008 tragedy, Nikol Pashinyan said in a footage posted on Facebook. During theÃâà...
MassisPost
March 4, 2018
Armed groups, operating under the order of the former dictator Robert Kocharian killed ten innocent citizens. These armed men, first organized the robbery of city storefronts and then used it as a pretext to fire on casual passerbys. These events were used as a justification to introduce army units to the city,Ãâà...
Armenialiberty.org
March 2, 2018
His second ambassadorial stint was cut short in 1999 by then President Robert Kocharian. Sarkissian stayed in Britain and made a fortune there in the following decade, working as an advisor and middleman for Western corporations doing business in the former Soviet Union. He was appointed asÃâà...
JAMnews (blog)
March 2, 2018
At that time the former president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, whose term in office expired in 2008, stated immediately after the bloody events that it was a simple case that could be solved even by an ordinary 'neighborhood police officer'.' The Chief Prosecutor reported that an investigation into the killingÃâà...
Hetq Online
February 23, 2018
Pashinyan said that Robert Kocharian, the outgoing president at the time, shouldn't be seen as the main culprit, and that Serzh Sargsyan shares a greater burden of the blame for March 2008 events. “After all, Serzh Sargsyan was prime minister. Couldn't he have stopped what was happening. SerzhÃâà...
Hetq Online
February 23, 2018
A state of emergency was declared by Robert Kocharian, the outgoing president at the time. Kostanyan, who wasn't the prosecutor general in March 2008, refereed to Article 55, Point 13 of Armenia's Constitution giving the president the power to declare martial law and the use of the armed forces “in theÃâà...
Hetq Online
February 23, 2018
“There is ample evidence to call to account, and at the minimum to render a legal evaluation, of Robert Kocharian, then Defense Minister Mikayel Harutyunyan, Chief of the General Staff Seyran Ohanyan, Military Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan, Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, Police Chief HaykÃâà...
Mediamax.am
February 22, 2018
On February 20, the Central Electoral Committee (CEC) of Armenia adopted the decision to hold the second round of elections, where acting President Robert Kocharyan and the leader of People's Party of Armenia, Stepan Demirchyan would meet. Kocharyan and Demirchyan gained 49.8% and 27.7% ofÃâà...
Asbarez Armenian News
February 20, 2018
The second president of Armeniam Robert Kocharyan, Primate of the Artsakh Diocese, Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan, Artsakh Movement veterans, high-ranking state officials, representatives from Armenia and the Diaspora were present at the event. In a message to the Armenian people, Sahakian earlierÃâà...
News.Az
February 20, 2018
Within a few weeks, Robert Kocharyan, a former prime minister of Armenia and a former president of the so-called “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic” (“NKR”) became the next President of Armenia. Subsequently, Armenia has been governed for almost twenty years by two Presidents -Robert Kocharyan andÃâà...
PanARMENIAN.Net
December 31, 1999
PanARMENIAN.Net - Former Armenian president Robert Kocharyan will not attend the swearing-in ceremony of president-elect Armen Sarkissian, head of Kocharyan's office Viktor Soghomonyan has said, according to 2rd.am. Soghomonyan said the former leader will be abroad due to prior engagement.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
The Armenian Prosecutor-General's Office said on March 13 that it has no grounds for instructing an investigation body to interrogate former President Robert Kocharian in connection with postelection violence a decade ago. Last week, Nikol Pashinian, the leader of the Yelk alliance, an opposition factionÃâà...
