I personally know Samvel Babayan, yet years ago I got acquainted with him, thus I can share with my personal impressions. In my opinion, Samvel Babayan in no way is a politician, even by 1 percent, he is an ordinary militarian, thus, he has no political perspectives.
For Armenia’s authorities, making statements on integration with Europe, in fact, current quality and regime of relations with Europe are ideal, when becoming a part of Europe is touched upon only on statement level, and at the same time, money is obtained from Europe to continue talking about it.
Was there any other variant to satisfy the society again within the framework of law? Yes. The only variant was in-depth survey i.e. going back by 10-15 years and implement detailed study of the dusty road of monopolies: how they generated, from where they acquired initial capital, who they bribed, who they terrified, with whom they came to a collusive agreement, where they cheated and etc. In short, checking all the suspicions “hanging in the air.”
“The ostrich policy by our field of transport is impermissible. We should initiate it for ourselves and the transporting enterprises should have incomes and pay taxes. Why should products come from China and Georgia or Turkey may earn money for that?”
Pavel Felgenhauer, Russian military analyst, told “168 Hours” both Vienna meeting, and to all probabilities, the forthcoming meeting as well will end with no results. According to him, political will is necessary for ceasefire and nothing else.
Russia, which completely manages almost all strategic and non-strategic objects and substructures in Armenia, thus, in near future, will get the right to manage Armenia’s “air” or air defense.
So, one day news was spread that Makinyants made a decision to move the Armenian church wealth from Holy Cross to Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III (presently State Historical Museum). This information became the reason for violent unrest and anger among the Armenians.
The war was a great opportunity for us to understand our friends and opponents, and draw serious conclusions from here if we don’t want to lose former victories. What interests do our current strategic partner Russia and other EEU partners pursue?
“The Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The Co-Chairs delivered to the Ministers for the consideration of the sides draft documents on expanding the existing office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and establishing an OSCE investigative mechanism.”
Throughout January-April 2016 entrance of VAT comprising AMD 116.7 billion to the state budget was recorded. It less by 7.7% from the indicator of the same period of the previous year.
