Lilit AVAGYAN

Usually in pre-election periods psychologists conduct surveys. They usually conduct surveys by phone by calling women and asking their opinion. By asking women they try to figure out the participation level of citizens in elections. Nevertheless, instead of asking such questions to women psychologists can just analyze the participation level in local government elections. For …

Three dictators died before the 2006th birthday of Jesus Christ-Pinochet, Turkmenbashi and Saddam Hussein. The world, however, paid more attention to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein who was executed in Baghdad. Of course, he could have been killed through the means accepted and respected during Medieval Times, for example, by tying him to the tail of …

Once again the clock will strike twelve and signal the New Year when the president of Armenia says the words “Happy New Year”. In contrast to his other wishings during the year, the president’s New Years’ address is different in that he says what he has to say as honestly as he can because there …

International well-known magazines periodically publicize the list of the richest people in the world. Those publications don’t mean much for average Armenian citizens. We maximum look for last names ending in “yan” and the government applies its flexibility to make the billions only millions. The emotions are totally different when the names of Armenia’s rich …

The oppositional and governmental powers are doing their best to attract the constituency by all means, however each of those powers are acting as they can. The opposition is passive currently, however they promise to go out to the streets after the Christmas celebrations and stay there until they can change anything. One of the …

It is a fact that for making unbiased and deep analysis of the internal and external political developments analyzers should know the “color of underwear that politicians prefer”, in other words, the minor details. Professional analyzers can use that information too to make conclusions aimed at this or that person. However, if you discuss the …

Our society is not ready to struggle against corruption and crime, even more, it is ready to serve criminals and corrupted persons that have money and can pay them well. Let’s remember what happened when two hunters that were sent to the forest by Henrik Kochinyan died under snow. There is no sense to speak …

Last year, Armenians commemorated the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. I remember how active our compatriots from the Diaspora were during the events dedicated to the Genocide. Well of course, 90 years had passed since the tragic event and the Genocide, as Armenians know, is a national value. However, if we look at it …

Perhaps Armen Shekoyan is an exception with his “Armenian Times” novel. His work is probably the only novel with the highest number of copies in Armenia-nearly 5,000 copies of each of the novel’s chapters are printed each week (it is worth mentioning that the author prints parts of his novel in the daily and readers …

When the royal prince and princesses tell Queen Ekaterina with fear that the people are starving, the queen is amazed and says, “Let them eat pastry”. When the President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan was cut the red tape for the opening of the second ropeway line in Tsakhkadzor, he told journalists that Armenia overcame yet …