“If we seriously study the contract and legal system that exists among our strategic partners and within CSTO, we will see that those are gradually developing,” during a conversation with 168-Zham mentioned the defense minister Seyran Ohanyan, when answering a question whether by joining the Customs Union Armenia won’t be receiving any additional safeties and that it is a sheer vindication on part of the government to join the Union.
Doctor Armen Mkrtchyan would never think that he would do his duty of saving lives on the account of his own life. Armen is an army doctor, who was dismissed from army as a result of catching 3rd grade hypertony sickness after 15 years of service in army border headquarters.
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.
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.
Similar to the soviet times when the officials would swear in front of the soviet flag, now as well the Armenian officials seemingly swear to speak only about the progress and development of the sectors they lead.
In the classic Diaspora, the community is closed connected and united with the church. The other structure is the ARF, which is not preferable in this case. Here the challenge is how to modernize the church and make it more participatory. Armenia has over 900 communities, out of which 400-500 are major ones. In western states we have about the same number of churches.
Our fatherland is not well known in the world. In terms of investments, however, the most attractive sectors are agriculture, mines and energy. But for that we need new capitals and newer technologies. And in our opinion it is just starting to develop in Armenia.
Investments, economic growth, prosperity… Do you know what’s the main condition for the occurrence of these three things – property right; more accurately, the right of the immunity of property right.
“What a shame!”, “they are depraving us,” “all this is to full the humanity, sooner or later Europe will impose all this on Armenia”… We may bump into such comments and remarks under articles and videos posted by Russian or European sources. Recently we more frequently see such posts characteristic to yellow press.