PSRC admits the ArmRusGazArd aggressive
Hrayr MANUKYAN | March 2, 2010
As it was expected, the Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) has approved the price suggested by the ArmRusGazArd company with minor changes. The ArmRusGazArd company suggested to increase the price from 96 dram to 136 dram for the users consuming up to 10,000 cubic meters a month, and the PSRC approved the rate at 132 dram per cubic meter. In addition, for the users consuming more than 10,000 cubic meters of gas the company suggested to increase the price from 215 dollars to 256 dollars per 1,000 cubic meters, and the PSRC approved the price at 243.13 dollars. The reason why the PSRC approved lower rate was connected with the calculations of the ArmRusGazArd company. For example, the plan submitted by the company writes that it has 5200 employees, but the PSRC finds that this company can work with 4500 employees as well. The company writes that the median wage was defined at 130 thousand dram, but the commission finds that they can pay 100 thousand dram. Of course it does not mean that the company will... [full story]
Look from outside
March 9, 2010
“All nations have their mythologies. For example, the US creates its mythology according to the example of Ancient Rome and gets very nervous when it sees that other nations want to build their own mythologies. Small nations have only one way to work it out; they should strengthen their national mythology. And it should be done in parallel with the American one. Globalization erases national differences and I think the new concept of the planet should be the unity of small nations. All small nations have the same problems as they are isolated from the world,” said Serbian film producer Emir Kusturica, who also says the Armenian audience is closer to him than the American one. Kusturica also said that the Serbian people are very like the heroes of the stories of Chekhov; they like to sit and drink tea, talk, dream, imagine, but don’t like working. “We are waiting for a European emissary to tell us what to do in order to move,” he said. Kusturica says the Armenian and Serbian people...
Politics without dignity
Lilit AVAGYAN | February 16, 2010
In its foreign policy Armenia has always prioritized relations with Russia. Recently among the priorities has become the normalization of relations with Turkey. It seems that Turkey doesn’t rush to benefit from this desire. Georgia is also following this process with interest. This neighboring country of Armenia has numerously showed that Armenia doesn’t lead the list of its top friend-countries. The best evidence of that is both the difficulties created on transit roads and the examples of assimilation of our churches as well as cases of humiliation of the rights of Georgian-Armenians. The candidate of science of history, the president of Prospectus political and regional research center Tamara Vardanyan doesn’t consider the political course of Armenia in relation to Georgia very literate. - In the process of the NKR conflict Georgia periodically acts on behalf of Azerbaijan (At any relevant occasion the Georgian President Sahakashvilli states that the conflict must be resolved in the framework...
Without “Mozart effect”
Lilit AVAGYAN | January 26, 2010
Implacability, vengeance and evil are serious political tools in Armenia. And this bad example is best assimilated by the most assimilated group of the society – the children. To say that the government of the country is so because they didn’t get to own a bike in their childhood would sound very romantic. At any rate, childhood gives answers to many questions. Do you remember how a 9th grade student of #67 school after Charents Sos Melkonyan was recently stabbed. This 16-year old boy was killed by the stabs of a kitchen knife by another kid of his age as a response to the offence made by the victim. The interesting thing is that the murderer wasn’t sorry for what he’d done and was instead trying to justify his behavior. This is exactly what they do in the political elite. The director of Mkhitar Sebastatsi education complex Ashot Bleyan and the head of the department of medical psychology of Yerevan’s medical university after Heratsi Khachik Gasparyan agree that in our lives there...
Failure
Lilit AVAGYAN | January 19, 2010
The elections in the 10th precinct of Yerevan came to show that the expectations claiming that 2010 would be a better year were not justified. However, after our conversation with painter Arevshat Avagyan and architect Levon Igityan it turned out that not everyone was disappointed about the process of elections. L.A. – Mr. Avagyan, did you follow the elections in the 10th precinct of Yerevan on January 10? A.A. – Generally I don’t understand the meaning of elections in Armenia well. Elections are not fair and transparent in Armenia. Everything is done to make people disappointed and get alienated from such processes. -Mr. Igityan, it is not original but I am asking the same question to you. L.I. – I was not interested in the elections. Generally I think this thing is falsification. We thought Hmayak Hovhannisyan is an intelligent person with good knowledge; however an intelligent person would struggle to contribute to the development of the country rather than giving up. It was...
No Jihad expected
Lilit AVAGYAN | December 17, 2009
- The president of Azerbaijan is periodically making military statements. In parallel with that, islamic movements are activating as well. Do such military statements and activation of the role of Islam in heir society have a serious role? - I think no. Or maybe not yet. Generally islam has a potential of uniting societies. In 2006 their sheikh announced that he could declare a jihad for the purpose of returning the lands, but the reaction of the society was not adequate. - Since the collapse of the USSR some processes started in the post-Soviet area to reassess the religions; it happened in Azerbaijan as well. - Azerbaijan is a shihad country and about 70% of the society are shias, and 30% are national minorities, mostly sunnis. Since independence the islamic renaissance in Azerbaijan was mostly activated in the context of ethnicity, and islam was reassessed as an important but not the first factor of the Azeri identity. Most of the Azeri people consider themselves muslims, even though most of them don’t...
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The consumer of “Arar” is made to buy “Byuregh”
February 25, 2010
According to information received from various sources, in the natural water market of Armenia the Jermuk Group company is literally trying to shut down all the small companies that compete in the market. For example, recently in the market of natural water the hydrogenated water of the company Arar has become noticeable. This has essentially decreased the sale of Byuregh water of the Jermuk Group. We mean the water tanks over five liters. The Byuregh label that has been produced since 2001 is produced in plastic and glass bottles and recently it has been produced in big gallons. Unlike Byuregh Arar company appeared in the market later; approximately a year ago and has certain reputation in the market. Arar company doesn’t circulate any commercials and doesn’t hold PR actions. However, in the opinion of the experts of this sector it has occupied an essential role in the market with its qualitative characters. As of Byuregh, then everybody knows that Jermuk Group spends enormous amount of money on...
Divorced
December 17, 2009
Sushan Petrosyan, an Armenian famous singer, has got divorced again. His former husband Aram Harutyunyan, a junior police officer of the RA Police department of fighting organized crime will not have to be in the focus of attention of show business any more. In fact Shushan Petrosyan opened a way for this person and now he has appeared in the singer’s black list. This young man became famous before the events of March 1, i.e. he was the one who beat up military prosecutor Gagik Jhangiryan and his disabled brother, as well as photo journalist Gagik Shamshayn. According to our information, currently they are in the process of sharing the property acquired during their common life....
Robbed apartments as well
August 1, 2009
It turns out that the group of the Georgians, who robbed branch #4 of the VTB Bank located on Baghramyan 22, during the last 1-2 years have robbed the apartments of various statesmen. According to our information the number of these statesmen reaches 8. And so this group has robbed the apartments of the chief of the Armenian State Service Andranik Mirzoyan, Zori Balayan, Yuri Baglaryan’s apartment, who is the brother of the current mayor of Yerevan, Hector Sardaryan, investigator of the prosecutor-general’s office and other statesmen. After the arrests they have found out items stolen from the mentioned apartments....
Poor diplomats
March 21, 2009
Recently unknown people robbed the car of Tatyana P., an official of the Armenian Embassy in Moscow. The diplomat applied to the police and told them that robbers had broken the window of her Lexus RX-470 car parked on Marshal Kutakov street and stolen her bag. She said in the bag there had been 15k dollar and 140k rubles. It was her own money....
Child birth problems
February 5, 2009
Yesterday Laylee Moshiri, representative of UNESCO in Armenia, published very bad information concerning Armenia. The latter presented the report of UNICEF on children’s situation in the world, according to which 22 newborn children out of 1000 die before they can become one year old. Furthermore, 80% of such children die during the first 28 days of their life. “Most of such dead cases would be possible to prevent if the children could get the necessary treatment services in time,” said the UNESCO representative. ...
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