Lilit AVAGYAN

Don’t kill

14.06.2012

On April 27 of the current year, on the Armenian-Azerbaijani frontline, in Movses and Aygepar villages of Tavoush marz, three dead bodies of Armenian soldiers were found. The official version of this case was quite unexpected back then as well, according to which an Azerbaijani diversion group infiltrated to the Armenian positions and killed the …

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Big break

31.05.2012

Indeed, the statement of the PAP was a big surprise. They stated that “the party doesn’t find it expedient to join the ruling coalition.” This was a real victory for the people, who gave their votes to the PAP. But our reality works in a way that doesn’t give any value to the votes and …

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They have nothing to lose besides their faces

22.05.2012

In Armenia nothing and especially government is not changed through elections. But elections change people and the political parties. It is evident that the voters do not show any highlighted interest to political parties. The votes given by the constituents are not used by these parties to protect the interests of their voters but used …

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Minerva was wisdom though

11.05.2012

So far no one else than ARF’s Hrant Margaryan has given the best definition to the quality of parliamentary elections. “The elections were not to reflect the wish of people, but to reflect how many votes have been bought,” said Margaryan to radio Liberty. The other members of the united headquarter – the ANC and …

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When “everybody is us”

07.05.2012

On May 5 all the parties will finally be silent. Will this silence help the constituents better orient who they’d like to vote for. Nonetheless, the most important thing, the answer of which we are trying to find out whether they should vote between bad and worse or boycott the elections. There is a slight …

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Pre-election metamorphoses

31.03.2012

During the pre-election period each party is able to degrade its reputation and image without any external mediation. In the case of the ruling coalition parties there was no need for efforts although the RPA has pretty good black jokes for Prosperous Armenia and vice versa. And both of these parties have jokes for the …

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Piece of meat

08.03.2012

It would be difficult to call RF elections a surprise, as it has long been destined in this way. The only surprise was the tears of the elected candidate Vladimir Putn at Manejhnaya square during his meeting with his supporters. Those tears were saying that he was pretty sure that the majority of Russians have …

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Who is this country left for?

05.03.2012

Literally two days ago the family of one of the most prominent economists of our country left for Germany – the economist, his wife and three children. It is clear that the tickets were one-way. The people, who were seeing them off, had told that together with them a group of violinists was leaving too …

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Two big differences

28.02.2012

On TV they often show reports how people become members of the ruling Republican party and Prosperous Armenia (they either don’t show the ones, who become Legal State members or perhaps there are no such left in Armenia anymore). Normally, the ceremony of becoming RPA members takes place in cultural centers of villages – in …

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Fat and rich parliamentarians: is this the shortcoming of the electoral law?

28.01.2012

The opposition political powers of Armenia believe that if the electoral system is transformed to fully proportional system of elections, there will be less electoral violation and falsification. Or, these 41 MPs that are the loyalists of the authorities and business representatives will not be in the parliament anymore. This means that the mechanism of …

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