Lilit AVAGYAN

– Mr. Grigoryan, it is indisputable what advantages the opening of the Armenian-Turkish border will bring. In your opinion, what is the price that Armenia is going to pay for that? – Let’s just speak about what price Turkey will pay. The price that Turkey pays at present is high even for a powerful country …

Each period of history has its own code of ethics. Let’s say during the rule of Louis XIV people knew that it’s not polite to kill a moth that would run over your body while having dinner at the table. Now this manner is ridiculous and outdated. However, this situation, which is constrained to the …

The fact that some political powers criticized the decision of Heritage party and its will to have an independent opinion stands for the fact that the political field of Armenia is very primitive. I don’t know whether it would be good if the Heritage and ANM participated in the mayoral elections with a joint list, …

Perhaps for the opposition the slogan “Levon President” was very pleasant. However what surprises the opposition comes up with? The Mayoral elections of Yerevan due May 31 constrain more realistic formulation of the opposition slogan by making it “Levon Mayor.” At any rate something happened, which may for a long time violate the protracted tranquility …

It is really impossible to look for and find a reason why the government should establish a Public council. The media has covered this issue and numerously reported that there is no logical explanation why to establish such council, thus people don’t like the idea of informing the president about their problems or moods through …

In the opinion of western analysts the global economic crisis especially in post-Soviet states may cause inter-political destabilization based on social grounds. But this won’t happen in Armenia. As the rally of the opposition on March 1 showed or more accurately the speech of Levon Ter-Petrosyan the activity of both the government and the opposition …

Any intellectual person would understand that the government of Armenia should not have suggested world famous Charles Aznavour to become Armenia’s Ambassador in Switzerland. Chalres Aznavour is 85, and Armenia should leave him quiet and not disturb with anything at least for the great honor that he has done to Armenia. However, some people think …

When days ago the media announced the news about the robbery of the house of the former head of the tax service Armen Avetisyan by noting that the criminals also duct taped the members of Avetisyan’s family and even the children of course we all got naturally angry by thinking how can someone rob someone’s …

After the conflict between Georgia and Russia, when Armenian politicians started discussing the issue, prime-minister Tigran Sargsyan spoke about the Georgian opposition with great respect and said that the interests of the state were more important for them than the inner political issues. He showed that he respects the oppositions of Azerbaijan and Georgia, their …

The fact that the phones of political prisoners, especially Alexander Arzumanyan, have been bugged by the national security services does not mean yet that their activities had been targeted at instability in the country to take the power through anti-constitutional means. In this case the danger is not in the possibility of taking the power …