The World Economic Forum 2014 will take place in Davos of Switzerland on January 22-25. This is one of the most outstanding economic global events in the world, which hosts presidents and top leaders of countries around the world. Armenia is not participating in the World Economic Forum in Davos this year. Instead of this event the Armenian government prefers to participate in other economic platforms.
A debate between the Armenian second president Robert Kocharyan and the incumbent Prime-Minister Tigran Sargsyan has become one of the most discussed topics in Armenia, even to the extent of becoming a debate between Kocharyan and the government. This debate will continue for a long time if it is not stopped by any unexpected circumstance. There are dozens of opinions about the conflict between the incumbent and previous presidents of Armenia, which generally are of two types.
Yet another fragrant violation of the ceasefire by the armed forces of Azerbaijan that led to the bloodshed should be strongly condemned and receive an adequate assessment of the international community.
It was expected that the office of former president Robert Kocharyan would disseminate a statement in answer to energy minister Armen Movsisyan’s and education minister Armen Ashotyan’s announcements.
It here – population census 2011 results are published, The State Statistical service (STS) published these data during the holidays, when people were busy with celebrations. This was a result of five-year hard work of the government. People had forgotten about the census when the findings were published. In was in 2009 when the government made a decision to organize population census.
The topic of “construction balloon” will stay an important topic of political discussions in Armenia for a long time. The debate between Robert Kocharyan and Tigran Sargsyan does not come to an end, but instead it is becoming even more active. To note, the debate started after the Prime-Minister discussed economic issues in his New Year address and said that during the previous government there was a “construction balloon” which had to blast and result in negative consequences for the economy of the country. In fact this message was addressed to the second president Robert Kocharyan, who reacted very aggressively, and even said words that could insult the PM.
The prime minister had better say nothing. If you have so many mortgages, why do you have so little construction? If we believe in figures, then the conclusion from the article is one: despite the stable growth of mortgage and improvement of its conditions, we have less and less construction.
There is a very nice proverb, which would be very beneficial for our society and we could use it to measure morality: “Do not judge people with what others say about them, but judge people with what they say about others.”
These are the main reasons for stable reduction of the volume of construction projects in Armenia. Everything is very simple and understandable (but not for people that have “exclusive talent”). This is not the fault of the previous government or aliens. It is a long time that the crisis has nothing to do with this either. It is impossible to avoid liability.
The Armenian parliament ratified the December 2 intergovernmental agreement between Armenia and Russia with 72 for and 0 against votes. The agreement anticipates not only the take-over of the 20% shares of Armenian ArmRusGazArd by Russia but also restricts the power of Armenian laws pertaining to the company for 30 years.
