In January 2013 examination cycle at Gyumri Pedagogical University a post-graduate student of the faculty of foreign languages Hasmik Sukiasyan received examination marks without being present at the university and passing exams.
The Russian government came up with an interesting initiative that is directly connected with Armenians. Even though due attention was not paid to this issue, it is not excluded that we will have to come back to this issue in several months to understand what is behind it.
“Armenia’s membership with the Customs Union is positive for the development of Eurasia integration project. There have been tough discussions about Armenia’s membership with the Customs Union. There are questions that are unanswered so far as it is not clear how the Custom Union regime can be preserved in the condition of absence of physical border with Armenia. This is a very serious problem,” said Andrey Suzdaltsev:
While the society was discussing the revolution attempt by Shant Harutyunyan, another revolution took place that was unnoticed. This was not a forced revolution but civilized one, and it was not in the street but in people’s thinking. This was an inner revolution and was successful.
Who is Shan Harutyunyan? Is he a political prisoner or a hooligan that was arrested for violating the public order? Should he be treated as an activist who was arrested for his struggle against the government or someone that violated laws and order? P
“It is impossible to solve the border problem; we will have to live as we are doing now – separately. What can we do? We can’t bring the sea towards us. We did not have physical borders with Tajiks and Turkmens either, but we lived together,” said Nikolay Rizhkov, member of the Russian Federal Assembly, during his visit to Yerevan.
“The Customs Union is a new window of opportunities for the Armenian economy. I think the long-lasting negotiations and research have proven to be successful, and we have received an opportunity to apply for membership with the CU,” said PM Tigran Sargsyan in an interview given to the Ukrainion “Today” newspaper.
Instead of fighting for freedoms and rights in streets now the format of making democracy has been taken to the newly reconstructed building of the parliament, where the more the opposition criticizes the government, the more stronger the government becomes.
On November 1st Georgia Online published information writing that Georgia would return 470 tones of potato imported from Armenia.
On November 5, the leader of nationalist Tseghakron party Shant Harutyunyan and his supporters organized demonstration at the Opera House in Yerevan to lead a Guy Fawkes march to the president’s office.
