I think the materials included in the media were creating intrigues. Our approach should be more serious to such political matters and they shouldn’t create gossips and badmouthing. Ultimately, when it comes to the other nominated candidates I have always had positive opinions about all of them.
In the capital of Armenia we can often see people complaining about their social economic situation. War veterans are organizing protests in the Liberty square, people discontent with the pension reform are complaining in front of the parliament, people cheated by constructors are out on the streets too.
Six years ago, in November 2007, the members of OSCE Minsk Group proposed a recommendation of Karabakh conflict settlement to the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan. This version of settlement is called “the Madrid Principles.”
While the attention of the Armenian society was focused on the pension fund reform and the discussions of the next year budget, in Russia a statement was made, which gives us grounds to be very concerned in the long run. It is no secret that Armenia’s economy depends on Russia. After becoming member of the […]
On Tuesday when an MP of Heritage faction Zaruhi Postanjyan was presenting the bill on the NKR independence recognition Gagik Jhangiryan from ANC and Shushan Petrosyan from RPA simultaneously asked her whether she knows the opinion of the NKR government regarding the bill, whether they want Armenia to recognize their independence or not.
When Armenians urge the recognition of the Armenian genocide, they say that it is also for excluding such possibility in the world in the future. Maybe people do not really care what is happening in the other end of the world, even if we have huge Armenian community there.
The Russian government came up with an interesting initiative that is directly connected with Armenians. Even though due attention was not paid to this issue, it is not excluded that we will have to come back to this issue in several months to understand what is behind it.
Instead of fighting for freedoms and rights in streets now the format of making democracy has been taken to the newly reconstructed building of the parliament, where the more the opposition criticizes the government, the more stronger the government becomes.
On November 5, the leader of nationalist Tseghakron party Shant Harutyunyan and his supporters organized demonstration at the Opera House in Yerevan to lead a Guy Fawkes march to the president’s office.
According to the official statistics, during the first nine months of this year the number of departures from Armenia was 1,118,693 people, and arrivals – 996,492. The difference of arrivals and departures is 122,191. This means in nine months 122,000 people emigrated from Armenia.
