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ARMENIAN PRESS REVIEW
Aghasi Yenokian
http://www.armenialiberty.org/content/article/2227349.html
22.11.2010
"Hraparak" claims that Armenia's leaders mostly maintain contacts with
their counterparts in Russian and that "the world has been sort of
left out of our sight." "This would not be that dangerous if these
contacts were sometimes counterbalanced by mutual visits with the
West and dealings with Western capital and policy," editorializes the
paper. It says President Serzh Sarkisian "irreversibly breached that
balance" with his decision to boycott the NATO summit in Lisbon.
"Moreover, there is an impression that the decision was made two
days ago in Moscow and that its authors are the Putin-Medvedev duo,"
it says.
"Aravot" says that "sects" in Armenia can be not only religious but
political ones. "Government officials in Armenia are members of a money
sect," the paper says in an editorial. "One gets the impression that
they hanged pictures of the dollar on the walls in their homes and pray
in front those pictures every day ... As for the opposition circles,
ever since the early 1990s they have had the habit of spending hours
discussing who is the purest ideological fighter against the regime and
who is the regime's servant not espousing that sole right religion."
According to "Zhamanak," Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobian has stated
that her recent calls for Diaspora Armenians to serve in Armenia's
army were only a joke. "It was a mistake, a misunderstanding," a
spokesperson for Hakobian's ministry is quoted as saying. The paper
says the ministry has also issued a separate statement saying that
Hakobian simply joked.
Interviewed by "Hayots Ashkhar," pollster Gevorg Poghosian disputes
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian's claims that 75 percent of Armenians
support the existence of foreign-language schools in Armenia. "We
still don't know which pollsters had assured the prime minister that
75 percent of our country's population is in favor of foreign-language
schools," says Poghosian. "One should differentiate between PR and
opinion polling. Both polling and psychology are used for PR, but
the purpose of that is totally different. There are pollsters who
promote a particular individual or a party but present what they are
doing as scientific polling."
From: A. Papazian
Aghasi Yenokian
http://www.armenialiberty.org/content/article/2227349.html
22.11.2010
"Hraparak" claims that Armenia's leaders mostly maintain contacts with
their counterparts in Russian and that "the world has been sort of
left out of our sight." "This would not be that dangerous if these
contacts were sometimes counterbalanced by mutual visits with the
West and dealings with Western capital and policy," editorializes the
paper. It says President Serzh Sarkisian "irreversibly breached that
balance" with his decision to boycott the NATO summit in Lisbon.
"Moreover, there is an impression that the decision was made two
days ago in Moscow and that its authors are the Putin-Medvedev duo,"
it says.
"Aravot" says that "sects" in Armenia can be not only religious but
political ones. "Government officials in Armenia are members of a money
sect," the paper says in an editorial. "One gets the impression that
they hanged pictures of the dollar on the walls in their homes and pray
in front those pictures every day ... As for the opposition circles,
ever since the early 1990s they have had the habit of spending hours
discussing who is the purest ideological fighter against the regime and
who is the regime's servant not espousing that sole right religion."
According to "Zhamanak," Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobian has stated
that her recent calls for Diaspora Armenians to serve in Armenia's
army were only a joke. "It was a mistake, a misunderstanding," a
spokesperson for Hakobian's ministry is quoted as saying. The paper
says the ministry has also issued a separate statement saying that
Hakobian simply joked.
Interviewed by "Hayots Ashkhar," pollster Gevorg Poghosian disputes
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian's claims that 75 percent of Armenians
support the existence of foreign-language schools in Armenia. "We
still don't know which pollsters had assured the prime minister that
75 percent of our country's population is in favor of foreign-language
schools," says Poghosian. "One should differentiate between PR and
opinion polling. Both polling and psychology are used for PR, but
the purpose of that is totally different. There are pollsters who
promote a particular individual or a party but present what they are
doing as scientific polling."
From: A. Papazian