ArmInfo.Director of the Armenian Institute of International Affairs and Security, Stepan Safaryan, in an interview with ArmInfo, comments on the recent domestic political events in Armenia. He predicts the possible consequences of the draft law “On Making Amendments to the Law on the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly” adopted on October 2 for various political forces in the country. As well as possible internal political considerations on the eve of early elections to the National Assembly of the Republic.

ArmInfo. Armenian-German relations have great potential for development. The visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Armenia will give a new impetus to these relations. This was stated by the founder of the Armenian Institute of  International Relations and Security, political scientist Stepan  Safaryan at a press conference in Yerevan on August 23.

ArmInfo. The Armenian side was able to timely and correctly present information about the situation in Nakhchivan direction to the public. This was on July 3 at the discussions "Silent position warriors, hardening on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border: a creeping war or a repositioning of positions," spokesman of the Armenian Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan stated.

ArmInfo. A group of military, political express, bloggers and journalists accompanied by Minister of Defense of Armenia Artsrun Hovhannisyan and officers of Armenia's  Armed Forces visited Armenian military positions deployed in  direction of Nakhijevan on June 10. 

ArmInfo. The impact of US sanctions against Russia on Armenia is obvious. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Armenian Institute for International Affairs and Security Stepan Safaryan on February 1 in Yerevan on the discussions "US and EU sanctions against Russia and their Armenian tracks". Expert reminded that Russia is a strategic ally of Armenia, moreover, the Armenian economy is in serious dependence on the Russian Federation, and in the republic there are about 3000 enterprises with Russian capital. "I would like to remind you again of the reasons for these sanctions: the annexation of the Crimea, the hybrid war in the East of Ukraine, the situation in Syria, and the traces of Russian interference in the presidential elections in the United States ", Safaryan is convinced. At the same time, the political expert believes that the language contained in the US development strategy presented by President Donald Trump is directly related to the "Kremlin report" of the Ministry of Finance submitted to Congress for approval. He recalled that the "Kremlin report" included representatives of the banking sector, the energy and gas industry, as well as the military industry. Safaryan stated that the sanctions against the Russian banking sector, which has serious involvement in the Armenian economy, have already affected Armenia, and the Electric Yerevan in 2015 became a vivid example. He also suggested that the consequences of the sanctions will affect the defense sphere, since a number of contracts operate between Armenia and Russia, and Russian defense enterprises also appeared on this list. "I believe that Russian businessmen of Armenian origin who are on this list can use Armenia as a rescue circle," Safaryan concluded.

ArmInfo. "Russia and Armenia's interests do not match in many matters, despite the fact that we are a strategic partner of Moscow. One of the points of conflict of interest is the supply of Russian weapons to Azerbaijan. In this situation, our interests are being sacrificed, but we can change this situation.

ArmInfo. The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs for the Karabakh settlement leave their own duties, in particular, to curb the ambitions and aggressively militaristic  rhetoric of the Azerbaijani authorities. The founder of the Armenian  Institute for International Affairs and Security AIISA Stepan  Safaryan expressed such opinion.

Founder of the Armenian Institute of International Affairs and Security Stepan Safaryan in his  interview to  ArmInfo discusses the latest geopolitical trends around Armenia. He shares the most likely versions of the prospects for Armenia's relations with the European Union, the situation surrounding the Karabakh settlement. Comments on the latest trends in the domestic political arena of Armenia. 

ArmInfo.The political forces of Armenia either do not want to interfere in the course of the case on charges of ex-Defense Minister of Artsakh Samvel Babayan in the  illegal importation of the Igla missile, or consider it to be  exclusively political.

ArmInfo. Raffi Hovhannisyan, Heritage party leader and lawmaker  candidate of Ohanyan-Raffi-Oskanian bloc does not agree with Zaruhi  Postanjyan's statement that his party came off its principles.

ArmInfo. The biggest capital of  Armenia, are its citizens. This is stated in the presented on March 3  which is the first day of the agitation of the campaign of the  pre-election program of the party "Free Democrats".

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ArmInfo. The upcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia should be held on new terms as the role of the legislative body will be too big from now on, on February  22 in a press conference in Yerevan, said the head of the Armenian  Institute of International and Security Affairs (AIISA) and Deputy  candidate from "Free Democrats" Stepan Safaryan.  

ArmInfo. Representatives of the bloc parties "Freedom" and "Free Democrats" today, with flowers in a sign of victory presented its proportional list to the CEC.

ArmInfo. The extradition of blog writer Alexander Lapshin creates a new space for isolation of Artsakh by Azerbaijan, Stepan Safaryan, Head of the Armenian  Institute of International and Security Affairs, has told ArmInfo. 

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ArmInfo. The ceasefire violations and sabotage attacks are the only tool of influence on Artsakh, Armenia, OSCE Minsk Group and the international community  and that tool remains in Ilham Aliyev's hands, Stepan Safaryan,  Director of the Armenian Institute of International and Security  Affairs (AIISA), has told ArmInfo.      

ArmInfo. All the reasons OSCE Minsk Group being zero-address and CSTO being useless in respect to diversion incident in Tavush should be searched  for in Yerevan, the Director of Armenian Institute of International Relations and Security stated his opinion.

ArmInfo. Armenia's  turning into Russia's  satellite in CSTO is the result of  inferiority of  Yerevan's  policy, the Director of Armenian Institute of International Relations and Security stated his opinion.

ArmInfo. To me personally, it is pretty difficult to   imagine Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan  leading the proportional list of Armenian Republican Party at upcoming parliament elections, targeted to obtain lawmaker's mandate, Stephan Safaryan, the Director of Armenian Institute of International  Relations and Security stated his opinion.  "At that, his appearance in the first chart of Republican List will be the evidence of his readiness to remain the main politicalfigure of the country. It is  obvious he will do everything to make the Republican Party stay the leading political power of Armenia,' he mentioned.