1 September 2006

NEXT ELITE BUILDING

This luxurious villa, which is located in Bagrevand “elite” district on the way to Dzoraghbiur, belongs to one of highest officials. The house is already dwelling, and we tried to find out some details from the owners. A young person of 30 opened the door who looked like Ervand Zakharian, the mayor of Erevan. The young person said that the house belonged to him and asked us
to leave the territory.

LOSING COURAGE

Our newspaper is sometimes accused of «losing courage of people”. We don't have a mission to inspire or despair people, we simply inform people and note its reasons. Let me give some examples:

1. We wrote in our yesterday issue that the hot weather would stay some more days. There is no inspiring element in that news. We’d like to write that tomorrow the weather will be fine and cool, it would be better for us to write that neither hot summer nor cold winter will be in Armenia. But that optimism will oppose the reality, laws of nature, hydrometeorology’s forecast.
2. We have written for many times, normal elections won’t be held for the present generation. The reason of this affirmation is the following: there are several “gegham badalian” in every polling station, such a person who is supported by the ruling clique, rob, engages in different illegal activities, is ready to fire and kill once in 4-5 years, rig the elections in favor of the authority. The whole state, especially power system supports those persons. Decades must pass to change that situation as neither «political will of the ruling clique» nor «people's revolt» will solve the problem.
3. Today is September 1. Senior pupils will go to school several weeks then each of them will attend their private classes. It’s also a public regularity the reason of which is the lack of “stationary” school, which is replaced by “tutorial» one.

However strange it is, second and third problems are connected with each other. If there is any hope something will be changed during decades, it will be done by improvement of new generation, new citizens, and new culture. So don't lose courage.

Aram Abrahamian