Ara GALOYAN

Good job, children!

31.05.2006

During the past couple of years, people have started to pay more attention to demography. The reason is probably the 2001 census. The results of this census were published in late 2003. The people didn’t really care about the results due to the fact that they were so late. Besides that, some experts were suspicious …

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Ordinary story

24.05.2006

Armenian press is full of articles about the collapse of Rule of Law and its former members that left the party. Even the national television news broadcast spoke with irony about these businessmen. As for journalists, they say that rats leave the ship first. It is probably not wrong to use such terms concerning some …

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Question without answer

19.05.2006

Our society is always indifferent to different kinds of public polls. Definitely the reason is the publication of the results on the threshold of elections. On the other hand, it is rare to see this kind of analysis among society . Maybe the reason is the fact that they cost much. Accordingly it is worth …

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Dead real estate market

01.05.2006

It’s kind of strange to see a dead real estate market in Yerevan, Armenia. Real estate agencies say that it has been more than six months that the number of their sale deals have gone down almost by fifty percent. Notary officers say the same. Those who are engaged in real estate business divide the …

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Just reputation and mercenary filth

09.04.2006

Recently, as the RA national security plan is under discussion, more and more we fell that Armenia is unprotected. Our legislation of regulating civic fields, as a rule, doesn’t have any effective protecting systems as a base. For instance, “The RA law on advertisements” has been in effect since 1996. Logically its job is to …

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“Villagers gather together and asphalt roads”

04.04.2006

Our dreams at least came true. On March 27 the U.S. government considered the Armenian authorities legal. Even more, they agreed to give money to our authorities. The head of the U.S. “Millennium challenges” corporation in Washington, John Danilovich signed a contract on giving 235 million dollars to Armenia. As for the U.S. secretary of …

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The Russian version of hot summer

19.03.2006

It happened. On the basis of the decision made by the public services regulatory commission, gas prices increased as of March 10. The society had already been prepared for that news. Russia had promised to increase the price for the gas provided to Georgia and Armenia long before. Then the Russian president promised us a …

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The person, who names things the way they are

12.03.2006

The breaking news of this week, which relates to the contemporary history of Armenia and the Republic of Armenia, was published in the “California Courier” newspaper. The newspaper writes that the “rumors about the official resignation of the US Ambassador to Armenia, John Evans, are true.” The reason of the Ambassador’s resignation is his speech …

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Non-political TV ratings

05.03.2006

The first article written on the reputation that each TV network has in Yerevan was pretty politicized. The society is not aware of this yet. Meanwhile a group of parliamentarians are discussing the recent speech made by the head of the national TV network. Probably the reason is that all fields are politicized more than …

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Look from inside or outside

28.02.2006

You can rarely read anything about the Armenian economical life in foreign press. The publication of the Russian version of “Forbes” journal was one of these rare publications. It should be analyzed. At least by doing that we can find out information about the reputation of our economy outside our country. Of course, if we …

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