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.
Serzh Sargsyan received 861,160 votes, which is 58.64% of the total votes. Raffi Hovhannisyan received 539,672 votes, which is 36.75%. The difference between the numbers of votes received by Serzh Sargsyan and Raffi Hovhannisyan is 276,438. However, if we take into account the votes that went to the other five candidates and also the ballots that were marked invalid on purpose with different words and pictures on them, the difference will be 203,000 votes.
Tashir company owner Samvel Karapetyan is in 62nd place with 1.9 billion dollars. Reso company general deputy director Nikolay Sarkisov is in 92nd place with 1.33 billion dollars, and he is followed by his brother Sergey Sarkisov with 1.33 billion dollars.
Mihran Kirakosyan lives in Glendale, California, since he was 6. Notwithstanding his young age, he has performed in famous and large stages in the world and danced with world famous stars. He not only dances in shows of outstanding stars (such as Madonna, Britney Spears, Pink, Ricky Martin and others) but has his own choreography staging and teaches in several dance studios.
Anna is in her wheelchair, behind which the life stops existing for her. Life stopped for her during three days, when she could not move and feel anything.
Armenian citizen Merab Suslov has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Ukraine, where he has been subjected to torture. Relatives of Merab Suslov and representatives of Yezidis’ community in Armenia held a demonstration near the Embassy of Ukraine in Yerevan. They wanted to give a letter to the Ambassador of Ukraine Ivan Koukhta.
The luggage of an Armenian expatriate from Damascus Alexander Pashayan had lots of chests with books. It was the post-war period, where there was widespread destitution and starvation. None of the boys of the village would ever imagine that the chests that they stole actually contained books. But it was too late. The chests couldn’t be retrieved. So they had to burn the books.
