Yesterday the members of the “Say no to gender perversion” initiative organized a protest in Yerevan. They marched to the government building and submitted a letter to the government. This initiative is against the newly elaborated bill on the equality of men and women, which caused so much noise.
On September 2nd, 1958, there was an explosion in the sky above Sasnashen village. Villagers went out to streets and saw an airplane falling and military aircrafts flying around it. They heard shootings as well. The airplane fell down in several hundred meters from the populated area. Villagers run to the area of the plane crash hoping to save someone.
Growing emigration is becoming a threat for Armenia. If this trend continues this way, it may become a threat to Armenia’s national security. The issue of emigration is like an alien for the Armenian society – everybody knows about the growing trends, people feel the impact, but nobody knows real numbers.
We have used the simplest index in 1991. Of course there is a quantitative growth, especially in the first years of independence but when we are speaking about the indexes of the recent years it seems the economy is plummeting.
Armenia compromised for the sake of that goal and initiated rapprochement, the world leaders were standing behind them when this memorandum was being signed. This expectation did not come true either.
In its previous issues 168-Zham has adverted to the Development Plan of Cattle-breeding 2007-2015, in the framework of which the cattle shipped from Europe has become a nightmare for farmers. We have presented the opinions of major farmers on the matter, who had participated in the project and lost many of the expensive animals.
We started our way in 1990, when we fell in crisis, were deprived of electricity and forced to war. If we take that situation as the starting point, we have done a lot so far. It is difficult to say whether we were able to use that time rationally or no because it could be better, or it could be worse. I wish it could be better. We still have many challenges; the war is not over for us yet.
Many state officials and primarily the Prime-Minister, are paying much attention to reports of renown international organizations and to their best to make sure Armenia is advanced in their rating lists.
Our interviewee is the chair of the Businessmen and Producer Union of Armenia Arsen Ghazaryan
Hrant Bagratyan, MP and former Prime-Minister, shared his thoughts with journalists about Armenian president Serh Sargsyan’s decision to join Customs Union. Hrant Bagratyan reminded that before the presidential election 2013 he was the only candidate that announced about the need to make a decision whether to join Customs Union or sign association agreement with Europe through a referendum.
