“Aravot” publishes two conflicting reports on its front page and inside. First the paper quotes senior Orinats Yerkir party representative Heghine Bisharian as denying the previous day’s information about Samvel Farmanian’s departure from the party. “Currently, he is on vacation, after which he will go abroad for training,” she tells the paper. And then, “Aravot” presents inside the letter of Samvel Farmanian, Tigran Mkrtchian and Marsel Abrahamian, which they conclude with the following: “Now we consider it unadvisable for us to continue our activities in the party and announce that we terminate our membership in Orinats Yerkir.”
“Hayastani Hanrapetutyun” cites the survey of the Eurasian Monitor international research agency: “A majority of respondents in Armenia consider the social conditions of their families as more or less fair, but they are not of the same opinion about their state’s condition. Half of Armenians are satisfied with their lives, and the rest are dissatisfied. For comparison, in Kazakhstan, a country rich in natural resources, 73 percent are happy with their lives, in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan – 65 percent, and in Ukraine only 35 percent.” In this regard, the paper comments: “Armenians are optimistic as always as nearly half of them – 47 percent – are sure that our life will improve in the next year.”
“Haykakan Zhamanak” writes: “Armenia is perhaps the only country in the world whose ‘tiger economy’ is growing by leaps and bounds, but it still keep losing its competitiveness. And strangely enough, the higher the percentage of our economic growth is, the faster the loss of competitiveness becomes.” The paper’s analyst suggests that this assertion is proved even by the country’s statistical service. “The thing is that according to the official statistical figures released for the first quarter of this year, Armenia posted a more than 11 percent economic growth, but in the trade with other countries our negative balance grew by nearly 70 percent.”
“Taregir” predicts that Armenia’s opposition leaders will mainly be competing against one another during the presidential elections. “As time goes on, it becomes more obvious that one of the reasons for the impudence of Armenia’s authorities is the weakness of our opposition. If we don’t take into account a few public rallies of the Impeachment bloc before [last month’s] parliamentary elections, we can say that there is no opposition at all.”
General Artur Aghabekian, who currently heads the defense committee in the National Assembly, tells “Hayots Ashkhar”: “The outcome of the war is not decided only by the military budget. When I commanded a military unit in 1993, I learned that Azerbaijan had purchased 50 new T-72A tanks. A few days later ten of those tanks were already at my unit’s disposal. Money and ammunition become significant when the army has strong will.”
(Armen Dulian)
“Hayastani Hanrapetutyun” cites the survey of the Eurasian Monitor international research agency: “A majority of respondents in Armenia consider the social conditions of their families as more or less fair, but they are not of the same opinion about their state’s condition. Half of Armenians are satisfied with their lives, and the rest are dissatisfied. For comparison, in Kazakhstan, a country rich in natural resources, 73 percent are happy with their lives, in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan – 65 percent, and in Ukraine only 35 percent.” In this regard, the paper comments: “Armenians are optimistic as always as nearly half of them – 47 percent – are sure that our life will improve in the next year.”
“Haykakan Zhamanak” writes: “Armenia is perhaps the only country in the world whose ‘tiger economy’ is growing by leaps and bounds, but it still keep losing its competitiveness. And strangely enough, the higher the percentage of our economic growth is, the faster the loss of competitiveness becomes.” The paper’s analyst suggests that this assertion is proved even by the country’s statistical service. “The thing is that according to the official statistical figures released for the first quarter of this year, Armenia posted a more than 11 percent economic growth, but in the trade with other countries our negative balance grew by nearly 70 percent.”
“Taregir” predicts that Armenia’s opposition leaders will mainly be competing against one another during the presidential elections. “As time goes on, it becomes more obvious that one of the reasons for the impudence of Armenia’s authorities is the weakness of our opposition. If we don’t take into account a few public rallies of the Impeachment bloc before [last month’s] parliamentary elections, we can say that there is no opposition at all.”
General Artur Aghabekian, who currently heads the defense committee in the National Assembly, tells “Hayots Ashkhar”: “The outcome of the war is not decided only by the military budget. When I commanded a military unit in 1993, I learned that Azerbaijan had purchased 50 new T-72A tanks. A few days later ten of those tanks were already at my unit’s disposal. Money and ammunition become significant when the army has strong will.”
(Armen Dulian)