A collection of paintings by an artist who died in obscurity are expected to fetch up to $30 million at auction in New York, reports the Armenian Mirror Spectator. Arthur Pinajian devoted his life to art but never won acclaim for his work. He spent years toiling away on canvases and relying upon his sister for financial support.
It turns out that Angela Merkel, who has occupied the position of Chancellor of Germany since November 21, 2005, has visited Armenia at least twice during her college years. This is not mentioned in her official bio. But there are people, who have met Merkel in Yerevan in 1973-74 and even spent a whole day with her. In her bio she mentions that in 1973 she was enrolled in the physics department of Leipzig University.
According to our information last summer the brother of the Armenian Premier Ashot Sargsyan, who resigned from the post of deputy-director of Nairit, received 42 million USD for severance from the factory during a short period of time. And this happened in the case when everybody knows how difficult the financial situation of the factory is and how the personnel of the factory didn’t get paid for many months.
If Vladimir Gasparyan decides to follow the example of incumbent mayor Taron Margaryan and ex mayor Gagik Beglaryan and pursues doctor’s status in sciences, he will do better than anyone else in Human Relations topic. In his thesis the police chief can refer to his example and as an experiment assert that hundreds of replacements within a system do not change the quality of the system.
The “black days” of Nairit CJST will soon end. 168-Zham has information that the factory will shut down on March 1. The recent failures of Nairit come to prove this. On these days the management of the factory is in a quite tense and worried state. We have written that the factory was making its lay-off lists for employees.
I think that it is only up to the Armenian political elite to decide who will be Armenia’s president or prime minister. Moscow can be for or against something but I don’t think that this position can be decisive. It is a fact that Kocharyan was a predictable counterpart for Russia – first for Yeltsin and later for Putin. Many issues were decided due to personal contacts. However this does not mean that everyone is for Kocharyan’s appointment. Currently the situation in Armenia is very dangerous as any change in the status-quo situation may be fatal.
Electronic media spread information, according to which the employees of Russian companies in Armenia were internally assigned to take part in the protest rally against the new pension reform. It is hard to tell how many of the rally participants were from Russian companies but this fact is important not only in light of the protest against the pension reform but also in the political context.
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.
During her trip to Beijing, Synopsys Armenia PR Manager Gayane Markosyan interviewed the director of Microelectronics Institute of Chinese Academy of Science, doctor, professor Lan Chen. Professor Lan Chen also serves as a Org. Committee member of International Microelectronics Olympiad of Armenia.
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.
