“Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan’s decision to join the Customs Union instead of signing a Free and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the European Union is a step back on the way to integration with Europe, and it is also a step back in Armenia’s modernization and development,” says Amanda Paul, expert of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels. The EPC is a research center that is involved in European integration issues.
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.
Probably the reason is the American government’s partial shutdown. As a result of this, a number of projects have been delayed or cancelled. In foreign policy they delayed actions according to priority sequence. I am not sure if this was the real reason.
When a man cries it means that a very bad thing happened. It is the women, who are masters at crying. They even know how to cry in order to ensure their forehead doesn’t get too wrinkled. The nature created the man in a way to ensure he doesn’t cry too often. That is the reason why a crying man means desperation, powerlessness, etc.
We asked former foreign minister of Armenia Alexander Arzumanyan to comment on Heritage opposition party representative Zarouhi Postanjyan’s question to president Sargsyan at a PACE session asking if it is true that the president has lost money in European casinos.
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.
“Such announcements downgrade the opposition and create weak image for them,” says Armenian National Congress party representative Arman Grigoryan concerning Zarouhi Postanjyan’s question to president Sargsyan whether he has lost money in European casinos.
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.
