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While the skinheads killed one more Armenian in Russia and left the scene of the crime screaming “Russia!”, Aram karapetyan was organizing rallies in Armenia with the same slogan “Russia!”. Besides that he argued not to take the Russian military forces out of Javakhk by saying that they were the main security guarantee of Armenians …

Recently, mass media was very surprised to learn of the new parliamentary record: the parliament approved 31 draft laws in 20 minutes. The parliament just needed 39 seconds to approve each of these bills. Pro-government Mass Media was happy about this record and we understand this; in fact, they officially approved that the parliament as …

After the recent political developments connected with the Rule of Law, the Armenian press has started describing these developments as a sinking ship and say that rats leave the ship first. Till now no one who has left the Rule of Law has agreed with the idea that they acted like rats. In fact escaping …

We have two celebrations on May 9: the WWII victory day and the Shushi victory day. This celebration is different in Russia. Of course, they state slogans about the victory of the Soviet brother nations (there are also at least one Armenian, Georgian or Uzbek actors in their films), but these are just slogans, just …

Again fascist groups (skinheads) killed an Armenian young man in Russia and again this murder made people express their concerns both in Russia and in Armenia. Anyhow, people both in Armenia and Russia (as well as in the Armenian Diaspora in Russia) prefer not to speak about the reasons of this murder. But I think …

Recently there was a very interesting TV debate with the NDU head, Vazgen Manukyan, and the head of the ARF parliamentary faction, Levon Mkrtchyan. During the TV debate Vazgen Manukyan was insisting that the Constitutional referendum was violated and there were ballot stuffings and fraud, as for Levon Mkrtchyan, he was not denying that fact …

Taking into account the recent developments, we may assume that political powers have already started their pre-election campaign. I do not mean the rally organized by Tigran Karapetyan. In fact this rally was a failure, but we should not be happy about that. This is not good for us. Because usually such politicians have lots …

There is no general information concerning the Russian gas price yet. In fact after January, when Russia announced about its intention to sell gas for $110, Armenia had to make a choice: either to act as an independent state, review Armenian-Russian economical cooperation, or to show ourselves as a poor country, which is the closest …

At least the agreement between the U.S. “Millennium Challenges” corporation and Armenian government was signed. On the basis of this contract Armenia will get 235 million dollars in the future. It is worth mentioning that before that the U.S. had reminded Armenia for several times that this was directly connected with the democratization level of …

It turns out that there is still time to do something about the Russian gas price increase. At least vice-speaker of the National Assembly Vahan Hovhannisyan has not lost all hope. During the Armenian-Russian parliamentary sessions, the Armenian MPs made some offensive remarks to their Russian colleagues and the Russians got the picture. Vahan Hovhannisyan …