Russian president Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to Armenia was the last step on the way to the collapse of the Armenian statehood that started on September 3rd, when the Armenian president announced about joining Customs Union.
Business Innovation Forum was launched in Dilijan yesterday. PM Tigran Sargsyan participated in the forum, where he made a speech on the IT sector in Armenia and prospects of development.
According to our source of information from the 102nd Russian military base of Armenia’s Gyumri, Colonel Andrey Ruzinsky is on leave.
The longer we page the history book of our country the more we realize that there are many blank and ripped pages in it. Time distances and the silence erases the old wounds. As a proof of this today we moved back in 1950s to recall a few noteworthy events from that era.
The Iranian Ambassador in particular said, “First parties should negotiate in order to understand which gas supplier gives better conditions. Maybe a country wants to sell 1000 cubic meter gas to another country at $400, but to a third country – at $100. It is all about agreement between the two countries.”
Although the government almost daily reiterates that it’s not going to stand back from its decision to implement the new pension reform, the protests and complaints just don’t stop. But these complaints and discontent have one interesting peculiarity.
-I do not think it is correct to compare Armenia with Ukraine because even during the Soviet times there were groups in the Ukrainian society that wanted separation from the Soviet Union and independence. It is about every country’s society to decide which path they want for their country.
Minister of energy resources Armen Movsisyan made a number of interesting statements in a briefing with journalists in the parliament. These statements give clues to the question where the 155 million debt comes from and why the 20% of Armenia’s share in ArmRusGazArd company was given to Russians, and what is going on around the issue of gas price.
Ukraine’s failure gives them a reason to brag themselves and justify their impotence. The justification is that Ukraine could not stand the Russian pressure with its 46 million population, while such a small and poor country as Armenia decided to stop the process three months before the summit in Vilnius.
The Eastern Partnership enabled us to give new impetus to the modernization efforts to our state and society upon the principles of democracy, human rights and rule of law. It stimulated the agenda of our wide-scale reforms.
