“Ukraine was not the defeat of Russia (not by any means); Ukraine was Putin’s personal defeat, the defeat of his virtual politics”,- said Mr Dubnov.

Wasn’t this the best forum to speak about the perks and benefits of the new reform and devastate the counter-arguments of all opponents on the matter? And so Sargsyan spoke. The text of the speech amounted to 7 pages (A4 format, Sylfaen, fonts 12 and no spaces). This would mean a lengthy speech, which would give an answer to all the questions. The Premier first spoke about the necessity of applying the new reform.

The main justification of the pension reform is that the government promises decent pensions to senior citizens. But is it really so? Let us try to understand how much an average pension will be due to the new pension system. For the calculation let us pick the recent figures.

When they speak about consolidation, I am asking how and what is the ideology that may consolidate us. Consolidation cannot be around a person. There has been consolidation in our society but around a party leader and for the sake of changing the power

The recent bill on compulsory pension fund creation launched political processes which highlight the fact that Armenia’s governance is poor and the government is anti-democratic. President Serzh Sargsyan openly announced that 80 per cent of the society is against this proposal, and that the government is minority.

This once again comes to prove that the state treasury needs money very badly. As you see the statement doesn’t bring up the sanctions that can be possibly applied. It means that this statement was made as vaguely as possibly in order not to contradict the decision of the constitutional court.

The parliamentary four non-government political parties failed to come to an agreement on bringing up a bill to start a process of impeachment. The official explanation is that these powers have decided to let the ANC develop their decision on creation of a commission to look into the events of March 1 as the anniversary is closer.

Raffi K. Hovannisian today received a visiting delegation of British legislators headed by John Whittingdale, leader of the British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The delegation included Baroness Gloria Hooper and Lord Richard Faulkner of the House of Lords and Harriett Baldwin and Stephen Pound of the House of Commo

It means the capital avoids our country and is moved to other countries and serves the boon of other nations,” mentioned Tsarukyan. Everything is right. Moreover, Tsarukyan has even presented everything in milder colors. He could have said that not only the foreign capital avoids investments but even the existing Armenian capital is diminishing. Gagik Tsarukayn himself invests a lot in different countries.

One year ago, on February 18, 2013, there was presidential election in Armenia, as a result of which the incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan won the election in the first vote. Formally the second candidate after the president that lost the election was Raffi Hovhannisyan, who in spite of many forecasts collected 540,000 votes (37 per cent). In fact one year ago the one who lost the election for Serzh Sargsyan was not Raffi Hovhannisyan but the Armenian society.