Interview with Prof. Edward Sandoyan, director of Economy and Business School of the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, former finance minister
Growing emigration is becoming a threat for Armenia. If this trend continues this way, it may become a threat to Armenia’s national security. The issue of emigration is like an alien for the Armenian society – everybody knows about the growing trends, people feel the impact, but nobody knows real numbers.
We have used the simplest index in 1991. Of course there is a quantitative growth, especially in the first years of independence but when we are speaking about the indexes of the recent years it seems the economy is plummeting.
“Such announcements downgrade the opposition and create weak image for them,” says Armenian National Congress party representative Arman Grigoryan concerning Zarouhi Postanjyan’s question to president Sargsyan whether he has lost money in European casinos.
PM Tigran Sargsyan has found an answer to the question why he used to object to Armenia’s integration with Customs Union because of lack of common border with Russia, and now he is actively involved in promotion of integration policy with the Customs Union.
Armenia compromised for the sake of that goal and initiated rapprochement, the world leaders were standing behind them when this memorandum was being signed. This expectation did not come true either.
