Pressing

“If the ocean has big fish it must also have smaller ones so that they live at the expense of each other. They cannot all be big because in that case they will eat each other and be destroyed,” yesterday this opinion was expressed at the Pressing Club by the director of Arminco, Andranik Alexanyan. …

The latest discussion of 2006 in “Pressing” club was dedicated to the topic of independent politicians and majoritarian system elections. This discussion was very interesting. For instance, Tigran Karapetyan and Arshak Sadoyan had a very interesting dialogue. During the discussion the facilitator of the discussion, Armen Baghdasaryan said, “I see a danger here and…” Tigran …

The last topic of the year 2006 of “Pressing” Club was dedicated to individual politicians and majoritarian system. As noticed by the facilitator of the discussion, deputy chief editor of 168-Zham newspaper, Armen Baghdasaryan there is a slight contradiction between populism and capacities of legislative activity. “For example Shavarsh Kocharyan is an author of numerous …

Last year the supporters of the Constitutional Referendum among other reasons were mentioning the opportunity of having an elected Mayor for Yerevan. Article 108 of the Constitution used to read, “Yerevan has a status of a marz” and clearly defined that the mayor is being appointed and resigned by the President of RA. In the …

The topic for the “Pressing” club debate was the enemy’s image in Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Editors of the political section of the “New Anatolia” Turkish paper Nursun Erel, as well as Azerbaijani journalists Alekper Aliev and Elmir Mirzoyev, were also participating in the debate. They had been invited by the “Caucasian Center for Peacemaking …

During a recent discussion organized at the “Pressing” club, one of the participants said that during a visit of the Armenian delegation to Moscow, Yuri Lujkov said with irony that even though Armenia is the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as a state religion, for several years now Armenians haven’t been able …

The next discussion of the “Pressing” club is dedicated to the same issue as the previous one, i.e. PR. This time the discussion was held with businessmen, businessmen deputies and journalists. Head of the union for information technologies enterprises, Karen Vardanyan was heading the discussion. Even though the topic of the two discussions was the …

In 1993 in Washington DC an African-American taxi driver asked YSU professor, political scientist, Tigran Hakobyan where he’s from. Having known that Hakobyan is from Armenia the driver exclaimed, “Oh, Armenia, democracy and earthquake”. This means that there are certain stereotypes, which are not stable. They are dynamic, achieved recently. “The first one was the …

The next topic of discussion of the “Pressing” Club functioning adjacent to the “168-Zham” newspaper, was PR in Armenia. Is PR conducted in Armenia? If, no, then what’s the obstacle? If, yes, then how? What’s the viewpoint of foreign countries about Armenia? Shall Armenia change its image strategy? And what tools does it have to …

The “Pressing” club adjacent to “168 Hours” newspaper organized a discussion on the topic of the proportion of the parliamentary majority and minority basis elections. In this framework the political parties have different viewpoints; some of them think that 100% minoritarian elections will be effective, while others think that Armenia should keep the majoritarian system …