Lilit AVAGYAN

Elder brother’s success

08.12.2011

The polling was well-organized in general, however the electoral process evidently deteriorated during the ballot counting procedure, which was followed by violations and fraud, including serious cases of ballot stuffing. What a familiar story. We know those things almost literally. We hear such things after all elections, such as parliamentary, presidential, local-self government. OSCE monitors …

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All we are equal against the law

08.12.2011

Women that want to make business in Armenia they do it. The reality in Armenia is like the women that do not want to do business they have to do it. Both the Constitution and electoral code write that the men and women have equal rights. Accordingly, it is planned to increase the presence of …

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Send money

01.12.2011

It has been several months that Armenia pan-Armenian fund is asking all Armenians around the world to donate money under the slogan “Give water – give life”. I tried to a give a google search to understand how serious the water problem is. I searched “there is no water in the village” and displayed dozens …

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Come home or, to be honest, go away

19.11.2011

In March of this year demonstrations started against the government in Syria. Experts are drawing some parallels and Lybia as in both cases the rebels were armed. Armenians are interested in the developments in Syria and neighboring countries not only from the prospective of receiving information and news. According to different sources, in Syria there …

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Is it better to be the first one among slaves or the second one in Rome?

10.11.2011

The national elections such as the parliamentary, presidential and local government elections are regulated by the law. There is also a central electoral commission, which is to regulate the processes of elections and take care of the technical issues, control the financial flows of political parties and individuals involved in elections, etc. Political parties and …

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Our place under the blue moon

05.11.2011

The news about the UK prime-minister David Cameron’s announcement that his country would refuse to provide aids to those countries that would ban the marriage of gay people was disseminated in Armenia as well. By the way, in the Great Britain gay people can marry and adopt children. In the nature homosexuals are minority and nobody …

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Our enemy is our greediness and jealousy

03.11.2011

The topic of emigration is still outstanding. People say a number of reasons for emigration such as poor life without any prospective, amateur and corrupt officials, shortcomings in the army, etc. In addition to the mentioned, the poor environmental protection policy and wrong exploitation of mines is resulting in a new type of migration, which …

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We should not go into details: half million more or less

13.10.2011

On the day of the 20th anniversary France gave a great present and now the monument Jules Bastien-Lepage by A. Rodien is in the center of Yerevan. One day before that a less desirable present was sent to Armenia by Charles Aznavour, whose words more look like another creation of Rodien the thought statue.  In …

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Civilitas foundation expert, journalist Tatul Hakobyan: “The parties have never been so far from the conflict settlement”

16.06.2011

– You have followed the entire process of the Karabakh conflict negotiations and you know about the processes connected thereto. Do you think that the announcement of OSCE MG co-chair countries’ presidents in Deauville may support the execution of the peace agreement on Karabakh conflict as the Ambassador of France to Armenia Henri Reynaud has …

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What’s written with a pen can’t be erased by a pluck

12.04.2011

There have been several cases that the oligarchs, the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan apply to the court with a demand to restore their humiliated honor and good reputation. And their reputation is humiliated not because of the internal tough situation in the country, low economy and politics, which is mainly the fault of …

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