Prior to the presidential elections of February 18 the number one opposition party of Armenia was the ANC and number one opposition leader was Levon Ter-Petrosyan. All the hopes of conducting revolution and changing the country were connected to him. After the presidential elections the situation drastically changes in the country and Raffi Hovhannisian takes on the role of the opposition and his Heritage party.
The death attempt organized against Paruyr Hayrikyan a few days ago may radically change the political situation not only in Armenia but also around it. The question “who would benefit from this?” was asked many times and hundreds of different answers were given.
In case of terror against politicians usually governments are the first target for critics. I am sure that this incident was not in the interest of first of all president Sargsyan. But is the government Sargsyan only? Aren’t there any other groups that might be interested in changing the status-quo and generate instability? I am not informed of the structure of the powers within the government and I cannot make conclusions.
Interview with the director of Mkhitar Sebastatsi education complex Ashot Bleyan, who during Hrant Bagratyan’s tenure in 1994-1995 held the post of minister of education.
Foreign investments share in the actives of the Armenian banking system is 67%. This information was published in a report of the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) on economic freedoms in the banking systems of 180 countries.
Interview with Ruben Babayan, the creative director of Yerevan’s puppet theater after H. Tumanyan
It is not a good thing to count other people’s money. But people want to know who the richest people of their country are.
Political processes in Russia and Armenia are almost identical. External differences of parties and their names do not change the content.
The most discussed topic of the last two days in politics of Armenia is the hunger strike announced by presidential candidate Andrias Ghukasyan. A number of candidates have visited him, and some of them even do not exclude the possibility of joining him at some point.
Chairperson of the Armenian delegation to PACE Davit Harutyunyan shocked by the form and substance of the press release of the PACE pre-electoral delegation to Armenia wrote an official letter to Chairperson of the PACE ad hoc Committee for observation of Presidential elections in Armenia.
