Tigran PASKEVICHYAN

Not one citizen of Armenia knows the reason or the need for changing the Armenian national anthem. Nothing has really changed in Armenia besides the decline of the dollar, or as the Armenian authorities like to call it, the devaluation of the dollar and this doesn’t serve as a basis for changing one of the …

I had an opportunity to visit the distant regions of Armenia and Karabakh during the past two months. I got a bad impression in both Armenia and Karabakh-villages with lack of necessary substructures, unemployment, some subsidies and pensions paid from the state budget, which don’t really solve any issues. The donkey and the owner of …

I would like to apologize to all the people I know and don’t know with speech defects by starting with a joke: A man that stutters asks someone on the street where the stuttering school is located. “Hey man, you stutter well, why do you need to go to a special school?” says the other …

After 14 years, I still remember that day in May when I entered “Yerkir” daily edition to find out news about Karabakh. A couple of days before that, I kept hearing citizens of Yerevan talking about how Armenian armed forces would soon liberate Shushi. Some were even predicting a ceasefire with the famous phrase “Whoever …

Recently, many people are asking each other: “Will there or will there not be a war?” After getting the positive and/or negative responses, they start asking one another how that war will be, will Armenia survive or will it lose all it has achieved. It’s all natural until you go deep into the meaning of …

I got an e-mail from Azerbaijan last week. It was a letter to the people of Armenia signed by 101 Azeri intellectuals. At the end of the letter, the authors write that they would like the readers to consider it a call for peace, not look for secret intentions or make counter-arguments. I usually don’t …

The Chinar village of the Tavush Marz is one of the outskirts of Armenia. The house where we had stopped at was just a couple of hundred meters away from the Azeri front and, as the locals said, the Azeri were watching us. “Will they fire?” I asked. “They won’t fire, but it’s not good …

The arrest of editor of “Yerevan-Time” daily Arman Babajanyan wasn’t a tragedy, of course, but it was sad. It was sad because first, Armenian authorities just can’t tolerate dissidence and can arrest all journalists and editors at the right time and secondly, Armenian journalists, editors and political figures still don’t understand that they have to …

I don’t think there is any doubt that the Karabagh conflict won’t be resolved before the 2008 Armenian presidential elections. Armenians and Azerbaijani don’t doubt it, but perhaps the OSCE Minsk group co-chairmen do a little. However, nobody really pays attention to their doubts. They can doubt all they want and try to find new …

A couple of days ago, member of the Armenian National Movement Aram Manukyan said that the MPs that left the Rule of Law party are not going to live a good life because “their sons’ friends are going to point to them and say ‘your dad is a cheater’. Even if the honorable Aram Manukyan …