While recent debate on a government sponsored bill to significantly raise the salaries of government employees (president, prime minister, ministers, MPs, police chief, top civil servants, etc) raged hot and heavy in the halls of parliament, a government sponsored bill on employment was discussed to a half empty parliament chamber.
To immediately resign from office and to hand over the position to another individual or team capable of drafting an overall plan of action, both in terms of foreign affairs and domestic governance, that will stabilize the overall processes now ruining the country.
Yesterday, the Regional Research Center organized an online interview with Anar Mamedli, Chairman of Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center, a Baku-based nonpartisan, NGO promoting meaningful elections and the development of democratic institutions.
Kapuyt really lies off the beaten track.
If things continue like this, I do not hold out much hope. I have hope within me, but I have no intention of fighting dirty like they do; of putting my gun in my pocket, go out and kill, and then sit and eat pasta. Such ideas remain fantasy. The most dangerous thing is a hungry man without hope.
On the sidelines of the Bishops Synod taking place in Etchmiadzin, Hetq asked Archbisop Nareg Alemezian, Director of the Ecumenical Relations Department for the Great House of Cilicia, whether he thought that church authority was being undermined due to the affluent lifestyle of certain top clergymen.
Hetq speaks with Archbishop Varujan Hergelian about the challenges facing Armenia and the role of the Church in resolving them.
Inspectorate Head Levon Petrosyan told Hetq that they were investigating the incident, taking water samples of the outflow, and would be publishing their results in a few days.
I never liked the word activist. There are people who really love their country and take its concerns to heart when they see things that are wrong.
Residents of the Meghri Tashtun village have launched a petition drive to halt the construction of a mine by a Russian-Armenian company called AT Metals Ltd.
When the woman entering the Meghri store owned by Mrs. Alvard noticed my tape recorder, she immediately exclaimed, "While Meghri has become the most cut-off town in Armenia, it is also the most important. Who understands this?"
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