Section: Aravot (Armenia)
EU to invest €1 billion in regions along its external borders
The European Commission has adopted a series of cross-border cooperation programmes totalling €1 billion, supporting social and economic development in the regions on both sides of the EU’s external borders. The European Commission has adopted a series of cross-border cooperation programmes totalling €1 billion, supporting social and...
Anemic recovery in emerging markets to weigh heavily on global growth in 2016
Global economy to accelerate modestly to 2.9% WASHINGTON, Jan 6, 2016— Weak growth among major emerging markets will weigh on global growth in 2016, but economic activity should still pick up modestly to a 2.9 percent pace, from 2.4 percent growth in 2015, as advanced economies gain speed, according to the World Bank’s January 2016 Global...
Calls like “give us time to work” makes no sense
Recently, the Minister of Education and Science, Armen Ashotyan, called on the mass media not to criticize him for two years to be able to carry out the necessary reforms and demand the results only two years later. I hope that the Minister just joked, but we cannot say that it is not a mentality typical to the authorities, “give me a “carte...
“Information bomb is thrown into the Armenian society.” political analyst about Andrey Ruzinsky’s involvement in Avetisyan family murder
Today, Ukrainian websites disseminated a remarkable information about the former commander of No. 102 military base in Gyumri, Andrey Ruzinsky, that the latter has a direct involvement in the “execution of an Armenian family by a soldier of his detachment” in Gyumri. This information, according to the Ukrainian websites, was disclosed by the...
Important is the individual
Perhaps, it may be considered “non-patriotic” and “anti-national”, however, I do not perceive people in the light of their ethnic origin. “Do you know that this-and-this is Armenian?” For example, the Brits, Germans, Basques and even Chinese are “Armenians”. But these people do not know that they are Armenians. What do we gain by reading about...
Visible and invisible part
“Politics is not a hysteria. Is the politics mathematics?” One of the publicist living in Ukraine, Vitali Portnikov, has come to such a conclusion, commenting on Saakashvili-Avakov conflict. The governor of Odessa region, Ukraine, and the minister of interior affairs of the same country have argued on the following: How are you going to privatize...
“Turkey cannot give these guarantees to Azerbaijan”
Political analyst Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan told in an interview with “Aravot” that he does not give great importance to the statements by Turkey, with which the brotherly state assures that will it will be always next to Azerbaijan and calls on Armenia to return “the territories of Azerbaijan.” “Turkey’s such approach is not new. Such...
Big and small “pieces” in the Russian-Turkish trade
No need to take Russia’s “baits” too seriously Russia’s “sworn enemies” are now in the dire situation. To be consistent, they should justify the downing of Russian “Su-24″ aircraft on November 24 by the Turkish Air Force, as well as the killing of the Russian pilot by pro-Turkish militant. No matter how much an Armenian politician or...
“We are facing new intimidations and new opportunities to act independently”
The escalation of relations between Russia and Turkey caused by the shooting down the Russian “Su-24″ warplane by the Turkish armed forces does not promise any good to Armenia. In an interview with Aravot regarding the worsening of Russian-Turkish relations and the situation of Armenia in this context, the leading analyst of the Center for...
Aram Karapetyan. “The author for downing the Russian aircraft is not Turkey”
“New Times” party leader Aram Karapetyan believes that downing of the Russian aircraft in Syria is not Turkey’s handiwork but the West’s. According to Mr. Karapetyan, it was clear that all of that was organized, it was also evidenced by the fact that preparatory meetings were held the day before the incident. Erdoğan was conveying...
