Ara GALOYAN

It’s the second week since the national dram has been devaluating. The population is quite thrilled about that. Unlike official statements, they know that their incomes are coming from abroad. And the ones who, from here, work abroad don’t make very much. Therefore, the majority of the population is really sorry about the state policy …

The network of Armenia is once again in the center of attention of the government and society. Everything started with the strange announcement of the RA Commission on regulating public services. Speaking of the name of the national security service, this commission made all telephone companies register their subscribers, starting from July 1. In past, …

At the present, any evaluation of the activities of Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan is hurried. These days the perception based on emotions is not the only thing that complicates the issue. It is really hard to evaluate the work completed throughout the course of seven years. Those seven years are a bad period for the …

Soviet Armenian society was cynical towards social sciences. Times changed, but the cynicism remained and it seems as though only sociology suffers from that cynicism. There is no luck for sociology. In the beginning, the Communists considered sociology as a false science and called it the servant of imperialism. Thus, they prohibited it. Then they …

Water has always been a particular phenomenon for Armenia, starting with the Great Flood and ending with the vision of maintaining the country by water sales. It seemed as though Armenians had understood that you can’t keep a nation by selling water. However, we did make attempts. True, there were only two families getting profit …

Spring in Armenia is strange. It is not usual, but rather electoral once every four-five years. Armenia has been electing a parliament and president in the spring for approximately ten years now. I don’t know about spring, but the pre-electoral spring came too soon this year. We saw garbage on the streets instead of grass …

Externally the public life seems quite calm. It’s quiet just like before any election winds. Nothing essential is happening in the economic life of the country either. The AMD rate also remains the same. In countries like Armenia the national currency usually goes down before elections. The number one reason is the expectation of political …

In the century of informational technologies the thought of the great “combinator” should sound differently. It should sound approximately this way: “Internet is not luxury”. It’s hard to say what exactly it is. All I can say that Internet is an unrealistic space, where one can find unlimited interesting and strange information. For example the …

After the New Year, Armenians were surprised when they came face-to-face with the transportation realities. There are no state motor vehicle inspectors on the streets for over a month now. This shouldn’t have been a surprise because it had been talked about frequently during social (even political) discussions. After coming to power, Georgian President Sahakashvili …

The New Year’s holidays were more than homely this time. The blistering cold made many people to spend the night at homes. Neither the events organized by the City Council or other entertainment outside shows still didn’t make people leave home and go out to enjoy. The cold has also made people ignore the mutual …