Archive for February 2nd, 2012
-
-
The fragments of National Democratic Union (NDU) will not unite
“We will put off the issue of establishing closer relations with the NDU fragments till the end of the parliamentary election”, said Vahram Mkrtchyan, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Union of Armenia (LDUA) in response to the question of Aravot.am whether the process of reuniting forces that had parted [...]
-
The judge applies to the Bar of the Republic of Armenia regarding the issue of Tigran Arakelyan’s counselor
The court session regarding the case of Armenian National Congress (ANC) activists Tigran Arakelyan, Sargis Gevorgyan, Davit Kiramijyan and Artak Karapetyan continued at the trial court of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts today. The court session began with Judge Gagik Poghosyan’s decision to apply to the Bar of the Republic [...]
-
The Georgian Ambassador was sorry that his children did not know much about Armenia
Today the closing ceremony of the Armenian-Georgian Winter School for Students camp took place in Tsaghkadzor. On January 27, around 80 Armenian and Georgian students, as well as PhD candidates and young scholars, participated in the winter school opened in the Tsaghkadzor Youth Center of the Youth Foundation of Armenia. [...]
-
The Human Rights Defender explained what his two newly-appointed deputies would do
Human Rights Defender Karen Andreasyan, talking about commentaries in the press regarding his two newly-appointed deputies, according to which Article 22 of the Human Rights Defender Act that provided for having a deputy of the defender, was declared void as early as in 2006, during a conversation with journalists today, [...]
-
How many TV companies does the governor of Tavush have?
Armen Ghularyan, the governor of Tavush, talked about work done in different areas in the 2011 report. The annual report of the governor is posted on the website of the regional administration. The governor, representing the situation in the field of telecommunication, the TV channels of the republic broadcasted, talked [...]
-
-
Italian criminals cried in the Armenian court
Yesterday the trial regarding the case of Italians Vincenzo Torino and Antonio Caveini ended after a quick trial in the trial court of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative districts, presided by Judge Armen Khachatryan. These extraordinary Italians, arriving in Armenia, obtained a badge of the Armenia Marriott Hotel for stealing large [...]
-
Honey cakes lack
Bulat Okudzhava has a song about how the king goes to war, expecting to conquer a sack of honey cakes from the enemy. He takes with him 5 happy and 5 sad soldiers. The sad soldiers die and the happy ones return home, bringing desired trophies in the form of honey cakes. One shouldn’t be very sorry for the sad soldiers, the poet mocks, because honey cakes wouldn’t have been enough for everybody, anyway.
Elections are probably like wars for our politicians. And in this case, honey cakes are MP seats. There is just a sack of them, 131 seats. 41 of them are basically already distributed – those who “have looked well after” the population of their districts will become MPs through majoritarian representation. And those who had much money looked well after the population and inArmeniathose are people who are in the establishment’s pocket. Therefore, the establishment has won the game from the beginning. That is the point in the “majoritarian-proportional representation” debate – the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s name sounds louder than Ara Nranyan’s name, and big intellectual of our times Tigran Arzakantsyan’s name sounds louder than that of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA). Hence, the fate of 41 honey cakes is predetermined.
ARAVOT TODAYS NEWSPAPER
ADVERTISEMENT
