Society
Feel the difference
Ara GALOYAN | August 21, 2010
The tragic events of July changed the attitude of the society to the army. Our army remains loyal to the soviet customs by drafting 18-year-old teenagers to the army. So for the majority of our society the soldiers are still children. Till July the attitude of the society to the army could be compared to the attitude of the parent to the child. That resembles exactly those parents, who don’t notice the right or wrong of their children. As a rule the media wouldn’t fully elucidate the reality in the army. Even the shortest article about the negative phenomena in the army would cause the discontent and critique of the so-called patriot politicians. Everybody would find his/her duty to remind that our army had won the war and that it’s the most prepared in our region. The ones who speak about the flaws in our army stretch a helping hand to the enemy. Regardless of how strange it may be all this reminds me the “Liar Todoros” performance of Karp Khachvankyan. “Dear kid, do you like...
Society
One million dollar for nothing
Lilit AVAGYAN | June 17, 2010
It is very interesting to watch the intelligentsia and artists receiving titles and prizes especially from the president with honor. They are thanking the head of the state for his attention to the work they have done. It is clear that drinking a glass of champagne with the head of the state in front of cameras gives them a green light for their future. The feeling people have when getting these prizes are not like the feeling that if you are accepting this prize, you are putting limits on your freedom. Otherwise Silva Kaputikyan would not return her prize to the former president Robert Kocharyan to get back the right of criticizing. In almost all post-soviet countries intelligentsia representatives like to be noticed by their governments. Such people are very strange and as a rule for people their actions and behavior are funny and interesting. These people are genius. Recently there was a conference on mathematics in Paris, and the hero of the day, Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman, who had to get...
Education
I am you and I am not there
Lilit AVAGYAN | May 20, 2010
By protecting the changes to the law on languages the minister of education of Armenia Armen Ashotyan is evidently sure that the danger of public complaint is not as serious as it seems. The Ombudsman of Armenia Armen Harutyunyan has also brought up arguments against the necessity of teaching mother language in the schools. He claimed that it's time that we look at us from the side and claimed that the teaching in the foreign language in schools is an additional opportunity to change the Armenian nation. This means that the bill will be advocated at any cost. But the question is “why should the Armenian nation be changed now and why wouldn't we look at us with the eyes of the English or Russian speakers?” The answer is simple. Although the society hasn't brought up a direct demand to make the main language Russian or any other but the majority that is the society is not going to majorly struggle against this bill. Today more than ever they have grounds to realize their “conspiracy” plans...
Society
Old man Freud was right
Lilit AVAGYAN | May 15, 2010
The primary reflexes are the fear, hunger, sexual desires and their non-sexual expression. The Euronews would show live how as a prime minister of Great Britain David Cameron and his wife went outside the Buckingham Palace. The commenter stated, “So no motorcade of motorcyclists will surround his car because from now on they should be guarded.” In one minute the commenter was surprised himself and asked, “And where are the cyclists?” The helicopter, which was filing the ceremony from above, showed how the car of the prime minister of one of the most powerful countries of the world was moving on the streets of London without an escort. It also showed how the prime minister’s care would slow down by yielding one or two passengers, who’d wish to cross the streets on the zebra lines. The bicyclists were overtaking his car without care by even not knowing who’s inside the car. It is hard to tell whether the governance of David Cameron would be as conservative as his party is....
Politics
Is it better to be kept in a cage or free-run cage?
Lilit AVAGYAN | May 11, 2010
On May 1 the head of the zoo of Yerevan announced the opening of the zoo and said that the cages and free-run cages of animals had been reconstructed. The difference of a cage and free-run cage is that lions, tigers are kept in a cage, but camels or goats are kept in free-run cages. As for the term ''free-run cage'', it does not make sense because if the animals are kept in a cage, even if they can run in a cage, still they are not free. During the past six years Zhirayr Sefilyan, former commander of a special army force of Shushi liberation and a hero who received the title ''War Cross'', has been refused to be given Armenian citizenship. Recently the mayor of Shushi Karen Avakimyan refused to give him honorary citizenship of Shushi. A group of intelligentsia representatives, non-governmental organizations and journalists sent a letter petitioning the mayor to give a citizenship to the hero, but this letter was refused. We will not discuss the moral point of the issue because there is no morality; we...
