According to the freshest results of the Armenian National Statistics Service the index of economic activeness of Armenia was 3.1% for January-November. But the start of the year was pretty good and in the beginning of the year the same index was 8%. The optimism of the government has decreased. This year the government planned 6,2% economic growth but the president assigned the government to reach 7%. But according to the current picture we only have 4.1%.
The National Assembly of Armenia approved the gas agreement with Russia by 72 votes for, 0 votes against and 0 abstained.
I strongly believe that nobody, including Russia, has or will ever stop us from fighting our own corruption problem; bringing order inside our own house is our problem, thus we should not put the blame on anybody or try to look for reasons why it does not happen. It is us that are guilty in all this. If we are not satisfied with the current social and economic situation, it is the fault of the society, political elite and our decision makers.
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.
I think we should speak about the results later but the overall situation has been quite clear since March by playing both with the EU and Russia. If we were to join the Custom Union why would we let Putin sell so much military hardware to Azerbaijan? If Serzh Sargsyan knew this was the right way he wouldn’t let this happen. Research shows that the President hasn’t known what he has been doing and on September 3 he realized that he had no way to refuse Russia.
The World Bank has published a report entitled “Republic of Armenia: Accumulation, Competition, and Connectivity.” The government of Armenia will not be happy about some definitions and interpretations in this report.
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.
During the recent session of the RA committee on regulating public services it was agreed to sell Vorotan’s HPS’s complex to the American Contour Global company. The latter will pay approximately 180 million USD. The American company will own the HPS’s of Spandaryan (built in 1989), Shamb (built in 1979), Tatev (built in 1970) as well as premises belonging to the complex.
The Turkish foreign minister Ahmed Davutoglu is visiting Armenia. The visit is planned on December 12th. People make assumptions about Davotoglu’s visit because after his meeting with the Azeri foreign minister on December 5th in Ukraine’s Kiev he had a long private conversation with the Azeri foreign minister Elmar Mamediarov.
