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Armenia’s transition to parliamentarianism: Change or continuity? TURGUT KEREM TUNCEL

Armenia’s transition to parliamentarianism: Change or continuity?

Last week, the Armenian Parliament elected the former-President Serzh Sargsyan as the new prime minister. The parliament had been formed after the first parliamentary elections on April 2, 2017 following Armenia’s transition from semi-presidentialism to parliamentarianism by the December 2015 constitutional amendments.

April 18 2018
What’s next after Putin’s fourth electoral victory? TURGUT KEREM TUNCEL

What’s next after Putin’s fourth electoral victory?

A significant portion of the assessments made on the recent presidential election in Russian penned by Russia/Vladimir Putin-sceptics focus on the impurities of the election in a way that make it look like Putin’s election victory was illegitimate.

March 29 2018
Putin: The leader that fits Russian ambitions TURGUT KEREM TUNCEL

Putin: The leader that fits Russian ambitions

The 2018 Russian presidential elections on March 18 resulted in an overwhelming victory for Vladimir Putin, who won 76 percent of the votes. The opposition’s hope for low voter turnout to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the elections reached nowhere, as the voter turnout was declared to be at 64 percent. The fact that the presidential candidate who came second after Putin won 7.1 percent of the votes shows Putin is pretty much an uncontested politician. On the whole, the recent presidential election in Russia disclosed that in the present, Putin’s power and hegemony in Russia is unchallenged. 

March 22 2018