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.
At present certain unnoticeable processes are taking place in the seemingly quite Armenian internal political life. And its main participants are not only non-government forces but also very often government party representatives from different wings.
Yesterday in the joint session of the standing committees of the NA the bill of the RA state budget was introduced. In the coming weeks the NA will be busy discussing the state budget and indeed in the end will approve the budget.
Imagine a large room with 12 chairs, o-shape and in the middle of that room. Adult men and women sit on those chairs facing each other. One of the men overcomes complexes and comes up saying, “I am Volod, 42-year-old, former engineer. Now I am unemployed…”
As we informed a few days ago a few days ago the report of Policy Forum of Armenia was publicized titled Corruption in Armenia.
The conference hosted experts and high ranking officials. Prime-Minister Tigran Sargsyan was invited, too. Official statements mostly refer to the Prime-Minister’s speech and provide scarce information about the message of Daron Acemoglu, who is ethnic Armenian from current Turkey, works in the United Sates and is considered one of the ten best economists in the world.
I have always considered myself a happy man, even at the time when I entered my university in Moscow. I think happiness does not depend on anything; happiness is something that is inside a man, and if someone is happy, he/she is happy notwithstanding any external factors.
The budget draft 2014 is still as mystical as the economic policy of the Armenian government. This is like the decision to join the Customs Union. Neither parliamentary discussions nor experts’ opinions provide substantial information about the topic.
Former Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan has developed a bill to the parliament aimed at strengthening the national currency.
