Today we are all following the activities taking place in Ukraine. We have known that Russia and Ukraine have had strong brotherly relations for centuries, which is no obstacle for Russia to deploy its troops in the territory of Ukraine and in Crimea particularly. And this process creates new separating lines and this is a very dangerous process. At some point this threat existed during the Russian-Georgian war when Armenia should have expressed its standpoint regarding the military actions based on the fact that is a member state of the Collective Security Pact.
The Armenian authorities are not speaking anything about the Ukrainian crisis, and the Armenian society does not know whether our government endorses the Ukrainian interim government that is supported by the entire civilized world,” said ANM party board member Ararat Zurabyan to 168 Zham.
The bill was initiated by parliamentarians Samvel Pharmanyan, Arman Sahakyan, Levon Martirosyan, Naira Karapetyan, Arthur Gevorgyan, Edmon Marukyan and Tachat Vardapetyan. This law will allow TV companies to advertise alcohol (more than 20%) and cigarette between 10:00p.m. and 06:00a.m.
“I am not surprised that Tsarukyan is concerned about the health of certain people. And he has been doing a great job for the past ten years because he really wants to have a healthy and strong power. I am pleasantly surprised by the concerns of Levon Zurabyan. So I’d like to rush to console him by saying that within the government our organs work well fully and partly…”
For decades Stepanakert was deprived from having its own mother cathedral of apostolic belief despite its key importance. For filling this gap, Armenia’s religion leader Garegin B blessed the construction of a cathedral to be built with sponsorship of Tashir charity organization.
Judging from the visit of Katherine Ashton to Iran we may point out a few important developments. The first one shows that the improvement of relations between the west and Iran started in Geneva. The success started when the EU goes to Iran to meet Iranians instead of meeting them in Switzerland. Ashton stated during her visit that there is progress in relations but it would be much more difficult to come to a final agreement with Iran.
Following the demonstration of the Armenian National Congress on March 1 and processes in Ukraine, in Armenia people did not pay due attention to US Ambassador John Heffern’s announcement in an interview with Armenpress, which contains several important messages.
It is true not only about the Armenian government that still continues to put the blame for their failures on the financial crisis. Even companies and individuals refer to the crisis when they want to refuse people in doing something they do not want. For example, people would be late in returning their debt, and explain it with the crisis that made it difficult for them to pay off.
“Public discussion on Ukraine is all about confrontation. But do we know where we are going? In my life, I have seen four wars begun with great enthusiasm and public support, all of which we did not know how to end and from three of which we withdrew unilaterally. The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins.
The government would claim the opposite and they’d assure that the complementary politics continues and that Armenia was wise in that regard. But the recent processes in the international arena come to prove the opposite. One of the best indexes was the recent session of the European People’s Party in Dublin, where the Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan made a speech. And in his speech he emphasized that even though Armenia is moving towards the CU it also wises to move in the direction of the EU.
