Lilit AVAGYAN

The current misery of intellectuals

03.08.2006

The Armenian opposition is currently quiet while the Republicans try to represent themselves more and the “Prosperous Armenia” party tries to enlist all kinds of experts into the party, including dancers, artists, gynecologists, athletes, science candidates, doctorates and even one academician. The Armenian opposition is not taking any initiative; it’s not making any comments about …

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Threat from or to the Middle East?

26.07.2006

“This kind of massive evacuation from Lebanon goes to show that all countries are waiting for a war,” said head of the Russian Trade and Industry Committee Yevgeni Primakov. According to him, Tel Aviv is no longer fighting against terrorism. Israel’s fight against “Hizballah” (“Allah’s party” in Arabic) has turned into a war. As for …

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Hospital No.118

21.07.2006

My grandmother got really sick recently and the ambulance took her to the “Armenia” hospital (state hospital). At the reception, they asked for the fixed 80,000 AMD, which I paid, certain that the doctors will treat my grandmother well. But when they transferred her to the no. 118 room of the neurology department, I realized …

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Who’s holding the candle?

27.06.2006

After leader of the Armenian Aryan Union Armen Avetisyan commented on the list of homosexual Armenian government officials, many of them started to date girls in public in order for the people not to suspect them. “I’ve seen it with my own two eyes,” says PR specialist and head of the “PArt” agency Karen Kocharyan …

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“The information was given on purpose and ignorantly”

19.06.2006

Russia’s Ambassador to Armenia Armen Smbatyan took part in the decryption of the black boxes of the A-320 plane that crashed in the Black Sea and no matter how much he tried not to give any information to journalists, he finally said that the reason for the crash was the “human factor”. Two days later, …

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“They’re doing the right thing, damn it!”

13.06.2006

Recently, the Russian Gazetasng web page wrote an article about the recent murder of Armenian Arthur Sardaryan, 19 in Moscow committed by skinheads. Readers could also write their opinions about those murder cases. There were more than 100 notes on that page concerning this nationalistic movement, which didn’t really express any condolences, rather sentences like …

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Who are the bells ringing for?

07.06.2006

The Armenian Apostolic Church reacted rather operatively to the “Da Vinci Code” film and the performance of the Finnish “Lordi” rock group, which placed first at “EuroVision”. The church considered similar portrayals of art as anti-Christian. While watching the film commercials and hearing about the victory of the Finnish rock group, some non-divine events were …

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When the greedy has a son

31.05.2006

Last Monday, the “HayLur” (Armenian News) public television news broadcast was dedicated to singer Andre and his delegation’s return to Armenia from Greece. Although there was too much emotion in the report, however we can understand it in some way-after all, the young singer is Armenian, he came in 8th, he helped Armenia make it …

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“Democracy is a theatre and money is its requisite”

26.05.2006

Grants from foreign countries given to this or that country lead to the rise in corruption in the given country. In other words, people don’t work, get used to getting free money, get lazy, the psychology of dependency sets in and corruption takes its toll. The structures at the presidential dome fighting against corruption can …

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How much does opium cost for a nation?

22.05.2006

Today, it’s simply a matter of technique to make billions of people see a predictable approach through the spread of information. As for us Armenians, with a 3 million population, hearing what Russian ORT channel’s program host Katya has to say is enough to be convinced. Currently, as we are trying to understand the line …

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