Business & Economy
Holiday, which is with the government
Ara GALOYAN | March 6, 2010
The most important event of the last week was indeed the increase of the gas price. It is an economic event that will have a negative impact on the whole economy of the country. It is also possible that a new chain of revision of prices may be formed. In the public opinion the Economic Regulatory Commission is only a formal and stapling structure that gives consent to everything. It mostly conducts advocacy. It has been the same picture for years. The society is informed of the increase of the bills of energy, water and gas via this commission. First they announce that the commission has received an appeal to increase the price and that they have started to examine it. The period for examination is allotted to temper and filter the public discontent and prepare the society to the new negative changes. After publicizing the rumor of increase in two or three months the commission holds a session and agrees to raise the price. In order to “caress” the society they announce that they fixed a lower...
Society
Politics without dignity
Lilit AVAGYAN | February 16, 2010
In its foreign policy Armenia has always prioritized relations with Russia. Recently among the priorities has become the normalization of relations with Turkey. It seems that Turkey doesn’t rush to benefit from this desire. Georgia is also following this process with interest. This neighboring country of Armenia has numerously showed that Armenia doesn’t lead the list of its top friend-countries. The best evidence of that is both the difficulties created on transit roads and the examples of assimilation of our churches as well as cases of humiliation of the rights of Georgian-Armenians. The candidate of science of history, the president of Prospectus political and regional research center Tamara Vardanyan doesn’t consider the political course of Armenia in relation to Georgia very literate. - In the process of the NKR conflict Georgia periodically acts on behalf of Azerbaijan (At any relevant occasion the Georgian President Sahakashvilli states that the conflict must be resolved in the framework...
Society
Without “Mozart effect”
Lilit AVAGYAN | January 26, 2010
Implacability, vengeance and evil are serious political tools in Armenia. And this bad example is best assimilated by the most assimilated group of the society – the children. To say that the government of the country is so because they didn’t get to own a bike in their childhood would sound very romantic. At any rate, childhood gives answers to many questions. Do you remember how a 9th grade student of #67 school after Charents Sos Melkonyan was recently stabbed. This 16-year old boy was killed by the stabs of a kitchen knife by another kid of his age as a response to the offence made by the victim. The interesting thing is that the murderer wasn’t sorry for what he’d done and was instead trying to justify his behavior. This is exactly what they do in the political elite. The director of Mkhitar Sebastatsi education complex Ashot Bleyan and the head of the department of medical psychology of Yerevan’s medical university after Heratsi Khachik Gasparyan agree that in our lives there...
Politics
Good night
Lilit AVAGYAN | January 21, 2010
But the night is good not only for all the NA MPs
Society
Failure
Lilit AVAGYAN | January 19, 2010
The elections in the 10th precinct of Yerevan came to show that the expectations claiming that 2010 would be a better year were not justified. However, after our conversation with painter Arevshat Avagyan and architect Levon Igityan it turned out that not everyone was disappointed about the process of elections. L.A. – Mr. Avagyan, did you follow the elections in the 10th precinct of Yerevan on January 10? A.A. – Generally I don’t understand the meaning of elections in Armenia well. Elections are not fair and transparent in Armenia. Everything is done to make people disappointed and get alienated from such processes. -Mr. Igityan, it is not original but I am asking the same question to you. L.I. – I was not interested in the elections. Generally I think this thing is falsification. We thought Hmayak Hovhannisyan is an intelligent person with good knowledge; however an intelligent person would struggle to contribute to the development of the country rather than giving up. It was...
Society
No Jihad expected
Lilit AVAGYAN | December 17, 2009
Interview with Arax Pashayan, candidate of Eastern sciences and history
Society
Pan-Armenian money
Ara GALOYAN | December 12, 2009
The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund publicized the results of the telethon of this year. It was already known that 15 million 750 thousand USD was donated. This is over two times less than last year. Unfortunately the donation of the telethon of 2008 in the amount of 35 million USD will remain unsurpassed for a quite long time because of various reasons. But I think the figure of the current year is important not because it was possible to accumulate 15 million 750 thousand USD on the days of the crisis. With the gathered amount the 12th telethon occupies the second place in the history of the fund. It was held in exclusive conditions. The presidential elections, the events of March 1 and the court trials fragmented the Armenian society. The progress of normalization of Turkey-Armenia relations doesn’t create a positive impression among everyone either. The foreign policy of Armenia both in the country and the Diaspora creates serious discontent and reluctance. Therefore, there were many predictions that the...
