“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.
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.
