In my opinion, Armenia’s condition is bothering, there is no direct threat from the Islamic State, however, there is bigger threat, as, in the end, Turkey is a country neighboring to Armenia, and the latter is in problematic ties with Turkey. And if Turkey enters a rather unsafe era, it may contain big threats for Armenia.
Only Armenia is interested in termination of escalation, as for Azerbaijan, it’s a means of attaching the attention of international community and directing the issue on its preferred way. Frozen conflict is beneficiary for other parties, issue of settlement may be passed on to next generations, OSCE will imitate some development, however, in fact, nothing will change. I consider, especially when manat was collapsed together with oil prices, although they’ve gone up a bit now, however, in general, they are low, and Azerbaijan faces serious economic problems, and from domestic policy perspective foreign policy success is more crucial for Aliyev, i.e. positive dynamics in conflict settlement should be shown to Aliyev more than ever. And instead of bread, he should offer sights.
“I repeat once again that the claim by the opposition to publish election lists is only a pretext. If we repeatedly say what mechanism are offered by us, what’s the problem in this regard? We have 2014 decision by the Constitutional court on this. Do you know why they claim publication of voter lists? They consider, we may agree, and after elections they’ll say that authorities have taken an anti-Constitutional step. By that they intend to cast doubt upon stability of the Constitutional court,” V.Baghdasaryan said.
Representatives of the Armenian community in Belgium try to find out if there were Armenians in the zones of explosions, Peto Demirchian, a media relations officer for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s Hay Dat Committee of Europe informed “Armenpress”.
Developments following the Brussels airport blasts on March 22, are in the spotlight of the Armenian Embassy in Brussels. This was tweeted by the Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan. “The Armenian Embassy in Brussels is following the developments. We will inform about any news, “he wrote.
“We should wait to see which direction the party will take and which steps it’ll initiate, as not established yet, it already has two functions: strong and weak. The weak factor is that party will be headed by Vartan Oskanian, who doesn’t possess peculiarities of a charismatic leader, however, it’s a weak factor as well. Depending on the activity of that party, we’ll see which one of them will dominate, as both simultaneously are available,” he said.
“Not to sound strange, only the institute of fair and free elections may contribute to change of power in Armenia, which is beneficiary for the West. Once they tried, and saw there is no potential for color revolution in Armenia, i.e. it’s impossible to change a system through a street, in Armenia it’s possible only by means of fair elections,” he said.
Both in creative and everyday life Sergei Parajanov never stopped being different from others, an individual seeking for and finding unique solutions. People tell that, upon his initiative every feast was becoming an unforgettable event for the guests. Especially the birthday on January 9 of the film director was the one. Although Zaven Sargsyan, Master’s old friend, and currently director of S.Parajanov House-Museum, told 168.am that he usually spent his birthday on his son’s—Suren Parajanov’s birthday on November 9.
Being proud Armenian, Astghik has always found ways to represent her homeland in the United States and continued doing so while studying at Oxford University and partook in many international conferences. In her own words “I highly deem that the future of Armenia is in our hands and we can and should bring positive social change.”
The point is, not being an oil exporting country, Armenia is the one dependent from oil. We are deeply dependent form Russia’s economy through money transfers by working migrants. Truly enough, due to decrease in money transfers, the ratio of transfers/GDP has slightly gone down—15%, however, it’s a bothering indicator as well. Regarding dependency from transfers, among CIS member countries, Armenia, perhaps, is back from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
