According to the official statistics, during the first nine months of this year the number of departures from Armenia was 1,118,693 people, and arrivals – 996,492. The difference of arrivals and departures is 122,191. This means in nine months 122,000 people emigrated from Armenia.
The opinion of Prosperous Armenia party in regard of Armenia’s state budget 2014 remains unchanged. As long as Tigran Sargsyan is the Prime Minister of Armenia they will be voting against the budget.
As we have already informed in January-September of this year, according to official results 122,191 citizens have left Armenia. By comparing this figure with the one from the previous year, we see that approximately migration of 150,000 citizens was recorded during the past three years. In the meantime, according to official results the official number of unemployed in Armenia reduced by 15,000 during the previous three years.
At present certain unnoticeable processes are taking place in the seemingly quite Armenian internal political life. And its main participants are not only non-government forces but also very often government party representatives from different wings.
This is the amazing tale of the Turkish government handing over to Istanbul’s Armenian Patriarchate in the 1920’s some of the church effects looted during the Genocide.
On October 25th people gathered at Zangak club to meet renowned Polish writer Yanush Leon Vishnevski, author of the books “Loneliness in a Net” and “The Lover.” The writer was invited to Armenia to take part in the Literature Arc 2013 forum.
“If we seriously study the contract and legal system that exists among our strategic partners and within CSTO, we will see that those are gradually developing,” during a conversation with 168-Zham mentioned the defense minister Seyran Ohanyan, when answering a question whether by joining the Customs Union Armenia won’t be receiving any additional safeties and that it is a sheer vindication on part of the government to join the Union.
Yesterday in the joint session of the standing committees of the NA the bill of the RA state budget was introduced. In the coming weeks the NA will be busy discussing the state budget and indeed in the end will approve the budget.
Herbert Maurer, writer and interpreter from Austria, paid a visit to Armenia. He was in a group with Austrian jazzmen Christoff Chezh, Peter Herbert and Fabian Rucker, whose visit to Armenia was supported by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.