Suren Zolyan, former Rector of Yerevan State Linguistic University after V.Brusov, Doctor in Political Science, considers that the Armenian Community in the U.S. isn’t participating in elections held in the USA, as it’s “disappointed.”
Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Tuesday in a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign that took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has called Republican nominee Donald Trump to concede the race, CNN reported Wednesday morning.
“We should reflect to the third component—role and importance of the Armenian Community in these elections. First and foremost, I should mention, that the Armenian Community assumed a rather passive role, that of a voter only. Armenian organizations only stated that they will support neither Hillary Clinton, nor Donald Trump.”
Yesterday media outlets posed a question to Vardan Harutyunyan, Chairman of State Revenue Committee (SRC), on volume of taxes paid by “Alex Grig” company for the first 9 months of 2016, to which the SRC Chairman promised to provide a speedy response.
“Day and night they’re playing Wagner, and that’s cool, but they forget about the genius of these composers, because when you play something every day there comes a point of repetition where it feels redundant artistically,” Tankian says.
In the framework of the working meetings which took place at President’s each week, the Minister of Defense reported on the details of the mentioned above program as well as on the problems of the military educational institutions, and avenues to address and modernize them which is done in accordance with another task of the President.
At the joint press conference of PMs of Armenia Karen Karapetyan and of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan, launched in Artsakh, as anticipated, the issue of gas tariff review was touched upon again. Reporters asked again: how “Gazprom-Armenia” operating with a loss, reduces the tariff and won’t we withdraw any property to this company in the future?
“Upon my subjective opinion there is no sense giving tablets to the children, i.e. I may imagine its use, e.g. to free the children from textbooks, finally, many have problems with the backbone. But when the tablet is becoming an end in itself, it’s another issue.”
“There are 4 sources. One of them is reduction of gas transit price from Russia to Armenia. That transit agreement terminates on January 1, 2017. At the moment negotiations with the Georgian side on reduction of transit tariffs are ongoing. All the money, saved on account of that reduction, will be directed towards solving that issue,” Nazaryan said.
