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.
ECHR decided, that the Government of the Republic of Armenia should pay EUR 50 thousand compensation to the applicants. Zaruhi Postanjyan, “Heritage” Faction MP, who formerly was the advocate of the three young men, considers decision by the ECHR precedential and considers it may have some preventive character. At yesterday’s NA briefings Z.Postanjyan stated that the Republic of Armenia, unfortunately, is not a democratic country, jurisdiction doesn’t fully function, as a result of which lots of Armenia’s citizens are unfairly in prison, and real criminals and murderers are in freedom.
As a human, I’m against it, it’s a shameful policy, if it were defensive armament, that’s another point, but it’s attacking one. If they don’t purchase it from Russia, they may obtain it from other countries, however, Russian armament is contemporary, powerful, productive, thus, they purchase from Russia tanks, jets, all of them are attacking. Russia arms Armenia’s opponent with attacking armament, and this policy instigates Russia to aggression, we think so, maybe it’s not so, I don’t know.
“My opinion is the following—Assad is standing on a strong grounding, so strong that it can solve issues of the Islamic State through the other contingent in Syria, thus, under this condition, it’s senseless to continue Russia’s actions in Syria, that brings forward a range of issues. Although I don’t think Russia’s this step will weaken West-Russia tension,” Rahr said. The latter isn’t sure that the decision will boost Syrian political settlement, assured by Russian experts.
It resembles remote Caribbean crisis, when Nikita Khruschev convinced Fidel Castro to permit deploying nuclear missiles in Cuba. Then, under impression of the USA, Khruschev withdrew the missiles ignoring accord with Castro. Allegedly, negotiations on settlement of Syrian conflict have been launched in Geneva. Russia again left its ally—Assad, alone against the opposition. The third group of analysts considers reason for withdrawing Russian air force only economic sanctions. They claim that Russia doesn’t possess financial means to conduct wide-scale military actions.
“Regarding that issue the population should direct its discontent to Armenia’s authorities, and they need to clarify how the price increases after passing the border. This is a problem, and I’m also interested, how and under which factors the price changes so much. However, I consider, negotiations on gas will have positive implications for Armenia, as gas price will more decrease for Armenia, conditioned by prices for oil. Upon my calculations, this fall will comprise about 15-20% on account of fall in price for oil,” Simonov said. In his conviction, the issue was covered during Sargsyan-Putin meeting as well.
“The issue has been covered during the meeting of Armenia’s and Russia’s presidents, and at the moment, Ministries negotiate over gas price with Gazprom Armenia Company,” H.Abrahamyan said.
According to him, employees of the Ministry, the Plant and Yerevan TPP will be included in the group headed by L.Shahverdyan, Yolyan’s Deputy Minister. The working group, after studying Nairit Plant condition, in short terms should submit proposals of necessary initiatives on further exploitation of the Plant.
Vardan Ayvazyan, co-author of the law, RPA MP, replied that the questions refer change to “Customs law,” and it’s an issue of separate discussion, “By this part we don’t charge money for cars imported from EEU space.”
