Lilit AVAGYAN

The potential of the Armenian sportsmen in chess and wrestling (sports fans may also mention other sports), their victories in international competitions come to compensate the permanent failures of the economy and political course of Armenia. And the actuality is so disappointing that sports have become interesting even for the ones, who besides their job …

But it is anticipated that it will happen in the school textbooks. The school curriculum of literature is made in such a way that the knowledge of the students starts from Mashtos and ends with Hrant Matevosyan. So it is impossible to receive any information about the modern literature. Perhaps the reason is that, according …

– Davit, currently it is quite vague to understand who’s government and especially who’s the real opposition. There are several parties, which compete to become the true opposition in Armenia – ANC, Heritage, ARF and now even the People’s Party and National unity. – I think that the situation is quite simple. We have a …

The political powers that are serving for the authorities are announcing that what happened has been expected: the PACE envoy on Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg did not use the term “political prisoner”. Instead of that he said that the PACE will not impose sanctions in Armenia. The fact that Mr. Hammarberg failed to speak out …

It is the end of 2010. It is time to discuss whether we could use these 365 days for the good and what achievements we have. It seems that we did not have too many good achievements. Fortunately there were no armed conflicts in the region last year. It was the biggest achievement. Last year …

– In Armenia the same archaic method of granting academic degrees without actual academic investment continues. We have numerously mentioned that education is first of all politics. It is the weapon of rectifying the role of each person in the state. – Not having science is equal to not having weapon and armament on the …

Interview with Tigran Hakobyan, president of “The society against terrorism” NGO, who served as the press-secretary of prime-minister Vazgen Sargsyan in 1999 – The terror of October 27 took place 11 years ago. Do you think during these 11 years attempts have been made to find out why it happened to understand if it is …

On the threshold of winter, when ordinary citizens worry about the expected growth of prices of food and communal expenses, the analysis and predictions of politicians about the expected active changes in the political sector are totally strange. The parties and politicians are pretending that they believe that people are following their words attentively not …

Famous Turkish intelligentsia representatives – critic, translator, professor of Bilgi University, publicist of Taraf and Radical newspapers Murat Belge and professor of Sabanj University of Turkey, journalist of Taraf newspaper, Professor Halil Berktay were recently in Armenia. The historians were here with the invitation of the Democracy School and the Armenian branch of Helsinki Civil …

When people are speaking of Hillary Clinton’s visit to the region and hope that something may change in the issue of Karabakh conflict and Armenia-Turkey relations, they should not forget that it is a long time that there are more effective methods of solving regional issues rather than regional visits. Thus, Clinton’s visit to Azerbaijan …