Society

It may seem strange, but Armenians have always made the same mistakes and created problems in their relations with other countries and the international community. These mistakes and problems have led to losses. Armenians can’t negotiate well because they don’t have concrete issues, goals, resources to help reach those goals and financial background… Armenians don’t …

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 am condemning such things. You just can’t attack journalists and mass media and their property. This is one of the shady sides of Armenia’s developing democracy and we should all fight against this”, said Andranik Margaryan concerning the recent crime connected with “Fourth Authority” newspaper.

Recently 30 kindergarten children from Dilijan were taken to a hospital with symptoms of poisoning. The local prosecutor’s office has instituted legal proceedings and taken food from kindergartens for investigation.

Several days ago criminals tried to fire the office of the mentioned newspaper. They sprayed gas on the windows of the chief editor, Shogher Matevosyan, and burnt it. The fire didn’t reach the editorial office due to the fact that the windows had bars and they had two layers. During our conversation with Shogher Matevosyan, …

“This kind of massive evacuation from Lebanon goes to show that all countries are waiting for a war,” said head of the Russian Trade and Industry Committee Yevgeni Primakov. According to him, Tel Aviv is no longer fighting against terrorism. Israel’s fight against “Hizballah” (“Allah’s party” in Arabic) has turned into a war. As for …

Recently the RA president’s supervisory department informed that they had discovered cases of cheap land sales and non-fair conditions during auctions. We called the Yerevan municipality to find out about that, but the press secretary Anahit Esayan told us that they didn’t know anything about that and besides, she said that the information didn’t state …

During the next ten days, the RA ministry of labor and social security will start giving financial aid to 85 families of victims of the Armenian A320 plane crash. This will be directed by by regional and community agencies of social services. Each family will be given one million AMD. The government will give one …

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 …

According to the public prosecutor’s office of Armenia, on July 14, the RA police arrested A. Khandoyan, who was accused of robbing “Ardshininvestbank” while he was trying to cross the Armenian-Georgian border. The police checked up A. Khandoyan and confiscated 1 kilogram of jewelry, 13.260 USD and 5.000 Euro from him. The police found 10 …