Russia’s pressure, “frozen” conflict, mutual confidence and Norwegian experts’ concerns The Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) Secretary General, Bjørn Engesland, and Head of the Education Department on NHC Human Rights, Enver Djuliman, days ago, visited Armenia and Georgia, and met with regional partners. In the conversation with Aravot, the experts spoke about the regional projects and …
Monthly Archives: February 2014
To avoid what happened in the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline, notes Olexander Bozhko, former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Armenia – Mr. Bozhko, first, we would like to know your assessment about the tense situation in the Crimea. In your opinion, what Moscow has planned, and whether the same strategy as in Georgia is …
Hovhannes Igityan, an international expert, and Stepan Grigoryan, Director of the Institute on Globalization and Regional Cooperation, are discussing the topic in the “Face to Face” talk show of Aravot online. Aram Abrahamyan – In my subjective perception, our Maidan happened, however, not on March 1, 2008, but in 1988 until 1990, as a result, …
When it became known that Russia has toughened migration laws, people in Armenia who see “destruction” and “critical moment” in everything, said, that’s the end, now all migrant laborers will return home, the “transfers”, with which most of the population in Armenia was living, will stop, and the country will eventually be destroyed. When the …
At the four-day sitting of the National Assembly, as a special procedure, the draft resolution authored by the National Congress on establishment of ad-hoc committee to examine the events of March 1 is under discussion. The draft proceeds under heated discussions, the passions are inflamed to the point that mutual accusations and insults are heard. …
The sale of Nairit is profitable for the state since it has stick in its craw. How to swallow if you can’t swallow, then you need to solve it by another mechanism,” said economist Gagik Makaryan in ArmNews club, in response to the question of Aravot.am of how he will assess the sale of Nairit …
The government decree on building and distributing apartments to the families left homeless due to the 1988 earthquake and its further amendments have a lot of drawbacks and does not withstand the examination during enforcement. It is clear that there is not a perfect law, however, it should be improved and refined during its enforcement. …
The events in Ukraine are creating a new geopolitical situation. In this context, one of the most important topics for discussion is the issue of recognizing legitimacy of Ukraine’s new authorities. The analysts’ opinions match on the issue that Russia will not recognize the legitimacy of the new government of Ukraine. Another question is how …
“The RA opposition fails in the matters of organization, lack of strategic vision, and leadership-related issues,” so opines Richard Kirakosyan, Director of Center for Regional Studies, referring to the RA opposition’s activities. To the questions whether these problems might be corrected in the upcoming March 1 rally, Mr. Kirakosyan so responded, “I am disappointed, because …
Can you can imagine a bad violinist, who realizing his limited possibilities, nevertheless, justifies his horrible performances, indicating that there are worse violinists in the world than he. This last assertion by itself is indisputable. There will be always worse of bad, more stupid of stupid, more scoundrel of scoundrel. How sad is the life …
