HOT SUMMER

Thousands of peoples took part in the annual parade of homosexuals, bisexuals and transvestites, which took place in San-Francisco 26 of June. According to the witnesses there weren't Armenian minorities.

THEY 'HAMPER' THE GOVERNMENT

Democracy retreats even in America. Yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeal refused the right of professional secret of two American journalists. The journalists of New York Times and Times will be imprisoned for 18 months for not publishing their sources of information. The liberal sphere of the country is disappointed from this decree. We must remind that the correspondent of New York Times Judith Miller and the journalist of Time magazine Metu Cooper were pleaded guilty in February of this year for preventing the governmental investigation and each of them was condemned to 18 months of imprisonment delaying the punishment. The judges hoped that both journalists would be so judicious that would reveal their source of information in the U.S. government. But the journalists decided to endow their own freedom in favor democracy.
Against this background the announcement of the director of "Right" juridical group Karapet Badalian that their company is at the center of the attention of the Armenian National Security for realizing the protection of its clients' rights in the European Court in Strasbourg pales. They have simply come, threatened that they would break everything if the officials of the company won't inform that the real director is the member of the ombudsman's personnel Seiran Atinian arrested for taking bribes.
It is real tragedy for the Americans when the first addition of the Constitution is infringed which was their democratic proud. Just they would have all reasons to complain if FBI officials broke the doors of an American juridical company and the Public prosecutor brought a case against that company. But these mustn't include anything extraordinary for us because we haven't seen anything else either in the Soviet period or after independence. It is strange for us when cases when the Constitution isn't ignored, freedom of speech isn't limited and the cases aren't brought in the courts. In short we adapt to the democratic infringements very quickly than the Americans. Just for that reason democratic infringements are exceptions for them but there are regularity for us.