Question: Mr. Kocharyan, Turkey, contrary to its practice, refrained from recalling its Ambassador from Brussels after Belgium’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide. How would you comment it? Shavarsh Kocharyan: The Turkish authorities have not recalled the Ambassador from Belgium, because they bowed to the reality of the irreversible nature of the process of the recognition …
Monthly Archives: July 2015

Despite Armenia’s economic situation was slightly better in February than it is now, the Fitch international rating agency predicts a 1.5% growth in GDP in our country for 2015, while the forecast in February was a 0.5% decline. In the conversation with Aravot.am, economist Mesrop Arakelyan reminded that the 1.5% growth is also predicted by …

Economist Artak Manukyan is skeptical to the international predictions about 1.5% economic growth in Armenia for 2015, as he does not see any essential prerequisite for the growth. The Fitch International rating agency foresees a growth of GDP by 1.5% in our country this year while the forecast in February was 0.5% decline. It should …

As we have informed, the “Shirak” football club had sued the Swedish football club “AIK” for declaring its players thieves of towels. The point is that prior to beginning of the match of the Europa League second qualifying round between the Gyumri “Shirak” football club and the Swedish “AIK” held in the Swedish capital Stockholm, …
Today, Russia being in a dire foreign political and economic situation has few allies. As the individual who perceives life as a “struggle” against the enemies around him and because of this world outlook, he almost does not have friends who love and respect him, so as the states, whose ideology is based on the …

Our interlocutor is the Ambassador of the President of Armenia on Special Missions (1992-1995), Head of Armenia’s National Security Service (1994-1995), senior analyst of the Regional Studies Center (RSC), David Shahnazaryan. – Mr. Shahnazaryan, in your interview to our newspaper in March, you expressed an opinion that not only Baku, but also Moscow will bear …

Oil sellers are doing restless motions The law of synchrony is known in the science. If several events occur simultaneously, then it is possible that there is some logical connection, a “plan” in them. If you, for example, sneeze when somewhere in the Siberia is falling, then there is no connection between these events. But …

U.S. Embassy Makes Additional Visa Appointments to Armenia Citizens Available on Saturday, August 15
In order to accommodate the high demand for travel to the United States by Armenians this summer, the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan will be open on Saturday, August 15 to provide additional visa interviews and processing for Armenian citizens. We urge Armenian business, tourist, and student visa applicants to visit https://armenia.usembassy.gov/visas.html to take advantage of …
We live in a physical world with our everyday concerns, problems, jealousy, greed, seizing something from each other, thinking that something good has not reached us, dividing people by heroes and evildoers, executioners and victims. To the point, we “love” to appear in the role of a victim, because in this case we easily attribute …

“Union of Informed Citizens” has already introduced the international grants Armenia received in the agriculture sector. In continuation of the series, we are presenting the international grants provided to the culture sector. The data provided by the Ministries of Culture and Finance of Armenia in response to our inquiry testify that organizations functioning under the …