Letters exchanged between world famous rock musician Serj Tankian and Armenian president Serj Sarkisian has been the main topic of publications in media during the past weeks. Everything started that morning, when Civilnet published Serj Tankian’s letter. In this letter the musician called on Sarkisian to become the first Armenian reformist president.
On February 26 we released an article titled “Let’s save Allen from his own family.” The article and the two videos were about little Allen, who lives with a disabled grandmother Anahit Harutyunyan and alcoholic mother Narine Harutyunyan.
The article of our newspaper released in our previous issue titled “Today is really an election day?” was about Anahit Harutyunyan’s family living at the address of 62 Dro St. in Kanaker-Zeitun community.
The Union of Politicians of Armenia organized a discussion on the topic of Armenia’s motivations to join Eurasia Union in case when Armenia can maintain very good relations with Russia without participation in that union too.
A publication in previous editions of 168 Hours wrote about Anahit Harutyunyan’s family, residing at Dro 62, Kanaker-Zeitun community of Yerevan. During our visit Anahit’s grandchild, two-year old Alen was in a very bad situation as he was hungry and changed the color of his face because of the cold temperature.
Maybe Raffi Hovhannisian is not able to make a revolution in Armenia, but the fact is that his demonstrations and movement changed the opposition. During yesterday’s demonstration the ARF, represented by its activist Armen Rustamyan, announced in the square that their political power unequivocally agreed with the fact of Raffi Hovhannisyan and his Heritage party being the only opposition force.
President of the Union of Employers of Armenia Gagik Makaryan thinks Serzh Sargsyan will not take any drastic actions aimed at development of the economy after being elected president for the second time. “I think the term of five years is not fully enough for bigger and serious changes.
On the occasion of the conduct of presidential elections of February 18 and the developments that followed it, 168-Zham asked a few questions to the US Ambassador to Armenia John Haffern.
Prior to the presidential elections of February 18 the number one opposition party of Armenia was the ANC and number one opposition leader was Levon Ter-Petrosyan. All the hopes of conducting revolution and changing the country were connected to him. After the presidential elections the situation drastically changes in the country and Raffi Hovhannisian takes on the role of the opposition and his Heritage party.
Michael Sharafyan, the son of artist Levon Sharafyan and pianist Ruzan Muradyan, is a fashion designer. He develops models for uniforms and clothes for opera, ballet and other types of staging. This Armenian young man currently lives and works in the US.
