Lilit AVAGYAN

For the good friend even…

17.04.2007

The most remarkable idea which RF first deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov expressed during his last visit to Armenia was that he and Armenia’s Prime Minister, Serge Sargsyan, are good old friends. In general, it’s an accepted gesture that diplomats use in international relations. They always say that they have very good relations with their …

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Addition to the Tenth Commandment:

13.04.2007

It seems as though the Bible with its Ten Commandments and the entire legislature is enough to regulate human relations. In other words, in order for a person, especially if he is a functionary or a deputy candidate, not to cheat, steal or commit electoral fraud, it is enough for him to get acquainted with …

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Eternally fresh theory of conspiracy

04.04.2007

At present, there will hardly be a venerable analyst who would agree to present the real situation regardless of any threats or interests. As history shows, people accept information about some tragedy as a brick falling on somebody’s head more easily when it’s connected with some dark force conspiracy. The factor of conspiracy becomes even …

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“I don’t trust people’s choice nowadays”

28.03.2007

“Our society with its wishes and opportunities reminds us of an old-age man, who dreams about his ideal – blond or by taste black beauty. But in the morning he wakes up next to a mad and noisy woman.” The author of this typical comparison, which is very close to Armenia’s reality, is the president …

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On the ground

13.03.2007

The newspaper, which had information about the parties and single-mandate candidates, who are going to participate in the May 12 elections, has started to be used as a book tag in our house. The information of that newspaper interested the members of my family as much as they were interested in the moves of the …

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“…Let Armenian feminists curse me”

01.03.2007

To this day (while it is the 21st century abroad) Armenians are of the opinion that the Armenian woman differs from the women of all other nations in that she has a large and exclusive amount of virtues. The fact that this is simply a nice legend, that women all around the world are similar …

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“Ararat, our beautiful Ararat”

20.02.2007

The way Mother Armenia treats its compatriots trying to immigrate to Armenia after the periodical “Armenia-Diaspora”, “One Nation, One Culture” and similar events reminds us of the story about the little boy who saw what he saw by peeking in the hole of his parents’ bedroom door and then complained to his friends that after …

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A position, which is considered more than just a position in Armenia

17.02.2007

Although nobody ever doubted that Alexan Harutyunyan would definitely be elected President of the PTRC Board for the next 6 years this completion would be incomparably more often publicized if here were other nominees. We were assuming that the opposition would nominate its candidate for this position but it didn’t happen. However, the opposition had …

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Silence that is not golden

07.02.2007

Although Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t mention anything new during his annual press conference on Thursday, however the word interchange “annual press conference” is already unusual for us Armenian journalists. Putin once again invited 1200 journalists to the Kremlin hall, including representatives of the world’s largest information agencies to direct their questions to the Russian …

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…We are not Hrant Dink, but we are Armenians

30.01.2007

“While Armenians are smart sheep, Turks are jackals. Turks stay being Turk. Turks can’t change”, such poor estimations have been spoken by some Intelligentsia and political party representatives since Hrant Dink was slain. The most active one was the ARF. However, the further developments that happened in Turkey after that incident were unexpectedly different. Just …

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