World

Gas prices to be increased

13.06.2006

As of June 1, prices for natural gas in Ukraine will be increased by 85% with the decision of the Ukrainian energetic commission for price regulation.

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Murder in Kiev

13.06.2006

One of the activists of the “For Ukraine, Belarus and Russia” movement, citizen of Russia Youri Khadartsev was killed in Solomenski district of Kiev. The body of this Russian citizen, 44 was found in a Porsche. The police have arrested a person accused of that crime, but the reasons are not clear yet.

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“Let’s wait for Putin while listening to the notes of “Sleeping Beauty”

12.06.2006

The 59th World Press Association congress and the 13th Editors’ world forum took place on June 4-7 in Moscow and “168 Hours” was the only Armenian newspaper representing Armenia. As expected, the events caused a lot of scandal and were in the center of the world’s attention. Russia wasn’t waiting for something like that to …

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Incident at the Kremlin

08.06.2006

The 59th World Press Association congress and the 13th world editors’ forum will take place on June 3-7. Chief Editor of “168 Hours”, Satik Seiranyan, was the only one from Armenia invited to take part in the events. There were over 1.500 editors from over 200 countries. The opening was organized at the Kremlin by …

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Fliers against Putin

08.06.2006

The fliers read, “Putin pretends to be a civil European when he meets the leaders of Eastern European countries, but rules in Russia as a cruel dictator. He refers to Russian citizens as slaves. He allows himself to violate elections, order to kill children and others in Nord-Ost and Beslan, close newspaper editions. He jails …

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Parade of autonomous states with outlooks

08.06.2006

Although Vladimir Putin announced that Abkhazia and Southern Osya would not be accepted in the territory of Russia during the meeting with leading world mass media representatives in Moscow, the authorities of those territories still hope to join Russia. The president of Southern Osya, Edward Kokotya said that they were going to apply to the …

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UFOs in the Georgian sky

03.06.2006

Last week, Georgia was “attacked” by UFOs two to three times. Many state officials talked about that a couple of times and it’s not clear as to how many times the UFOs have invaded Georgia. Was it two or three times? However, each time the UFOs have entered from the Java region of Southern Osetia, …

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GUAM is moving towards NATO

31.05.2006

Azeri famous politician Vofa Guluzade told journalists that the U.S. has supported the foundation of Azeri organization of democracy and economical development under the cover of GUAM. According to the “Regnum” news agency, “This organization will work to strengthen independence in some countries”, said Guluzade. “Meanwhile the economy and democracy development organization wants to integrate …

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Be ready for Independence Day celebration

30.05.2006

Georgia celebrates its Independence Day on May 26. On that day Georgia will organize its biggest military parade. This parade will be organized with the participation of 18.000 soldiers, 6 planes, 36 helicopters and tanks. The tanks that will be shown are only medium tanks. At first they decided to show heavy tanks as well, …

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Our neighbor Georgia

24.05.2006

Today, Georgia is the most important cosmopolitan factor in the Southern Caucasus region, especially in this period of rising conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan. But Georgia is one of the post-Soviet countries of the region with the most issues. The poor inter-ethnic relations inside Georgia, of which everyone used to talk about back in the …

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