Ara GALOYAN

Recently Yerevan periodically becomes a theme and topic of public rumors and conversations because of several reasons. First is what’s happening to our capital. After almost 40-year stability of architecture in Yerevan it has started it rapidly change. Secondly after the 40-year stability the structure of the city people is also being changed. All these …

No one has a doubt that the state budget draft 2007 will be ratified by the Parliament. It will be ratified without tangible changes. This fact may also be named mutual agreement between the Parliament and the Government. Another option is that perhaps the NA doesn’t’t have sufficient professional and intellectual capacity to analyze such …

The most important, outstanding economic issue in this period in Armenia is the state budget. The government has presented its draft budget for 2007 to the parliament within the terms provided by the law. As for the parliament, it has taken it under consideration and is going to approve. Before, the government used to make …

Within the last two or three months the media periodically discusses the issue of the Armenian “Zvartnots” airport. Two weeks ago the residents of Tairov and Parakar villages dared to close the road and complained about the construction taking place on the road. The road has been periodically transformed since the 90s. For a few …

The RA Constitutional Court (CC) hardly ever attracts the attention of the society. Perhaps the reason is that the decisions of the Court are very predictable. Just like what happened in 1996 and 2003 elections. However, after the verdict reached on October 4, it became clear that the Constitutional Court has converted from the formal …

There are too many contradictions in Armenia, especially in the field of economy. Sometimes it is impossible to understand anything only based on logical analysis. It doesn’t matter who is speaking about the economic development; whether the representatives of international organizations or not. The World Bank has used the word “Tiger” in its reports covering …

There were new developments in the economy of Armenia this week, which mainly seem like new discoveries. One of the discovered facts is gas theft. The society is concerned about that a lot. The society is always interested in such things and is following up on the current events just like watching soap operas. For …

These days the financial market has not been stabile again. The national currency that had been growing in the price stopped its growth and its price went down a little. The press covered information about some cloudy processes in the field of currency exchange market. Again, they started speaking the name of the Central Bank. …

The society is always passive concerning educational issues. Only specialists of the relevant fields are following the discussions in the parliament and ministry of education. For the purpose of improving our educational system the ministry of education has adopted a 12-year school system this year. Elementary schools have always been under reformation programs during these …

The most important development in the economic life of Armenia in this month definitely was the Armenia-Diaspora congress. Generally, all the things that are organized with participation of Diaspora Armenians have economic reasons in the basement. This monotone line has become boring both for us and the Diaspora Armenians. Compared to the previous congresses, this …