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“Armenia-2020” organized a conference at Armenia Mariott Hotel on September 20, where the project organizers presented strategies for sustaining the economical transformation. According to the organizers, these strategies will provide productivity and competitive growth of our economy. It is worth to mention, that ”Armenia-2020” project, which was founded in 2001, is a union of individuals, …

Interview taken with member of the coordinating staff of the “Armenia 2020” project Ruben Vartanyan. Ruben Vartanyan plays a large part in the Russian stock market. In 1992, he has been the chief director of the “Troyka Dialog” (Trio Dialog) company and since 1996, he serves as the president of the company. In 1997, Ruben …

During the conference for the “Armenia 2020” project, project coordination member and executive director of the “Flagship Ventures” company Nubar Afeyan presented four different scenarios for development in Armenia. According to Afeyan, by using at least one of those scenarios, Armenia will be on the right track towards making progress. 168 Hours: “Generally, economic competition …

Rich Armenian men prefer to buy Nissan jeep cars, and the women like to buy French Peugeot cars. According to the vice director of “Armenia-Lada” joint-stock company Ashot Shahmuradyan, men usually choose Nissan jeep cars, which price is in the range of $50-80.000 USD. Bankers, businessmen and state officials are the ones who mainly buy …

We stopped by a woman standing on the road and she took a seat in our car. She was going to the village. (I don’t mention the names of places, because they are all the same everywhere). She said it had been several years, that she lived in Russia with her family. I asked why …

If there are penalties in civil countries for throwing garbage around, you can not only throw a lot of garbage in the streets here, but also, you can throw the dusty reconstruction remainances not far from the porches. In European countries these penalties not only provide cleanness, but also make it easier for them to …

In a basement cell with a barred and screened window, where heavy air smothers breathing, 19-year old prisoner Razmik Sargsyan is in his 28th day of hunger strike to protest the sentence for a crime he now says he had no part in. In April of last year, following five days of interrogation, during which …

For lots of people 1-st of September is the brightiest holiday. A holiday both for the first-class pupils, who are going to school in white collars and with red faces, and for their teachers and their parents… Simply the financial and the other problems in the previous day someway don’t let to feel the real …

As September 1 is coming and as still I have fresh summer holiday memories, and as I know from early childhood, that the best way to leave the summer thoughts and get into the mood of Septmeber is to write a free subject composition, I decided to write about the beauty of our country this …

It is September 1 today, the knowledge day. And this means, that thousandas of armenians, after their summer holidays, will go to school again. A question comes out: why do they go to school: for studying, for making contacts, for showing their new dresses and mobile phones bought in summer to the public, for “teasing” …