Archive for the ‘CIS’ Category

Issues in Democracy

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

While UK, at least for myself, appears as the fore-post of democracy in the world, Armenia in line with a number of other former Soviet States, has become one of the labs where the huge Russian experiment on developing a form of Contained Democracy - a democratic imitation is undertaken.

Who is he fooling?

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Today as I read the newspaper, Serzh Sarkisyan’s comments struck me as unbelievably short sighted and almost comical. I was reading a week old paper and in it Serzh said that he does not see Russia’s acquiring of Armenia’s utilities as dangerous. He continued to say that he does not see Russia using […]

To Kremlin on Your Knees!

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

The interview of Mr. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the scandalously infamous leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia, aired on October 8th, during the evening newscast of the Armenian Shant TV, was designed to scare. And it was definitely designed in Kremlin, like we have seen in so many cases in the past. The problem is - […]

Interview with Microsoft’s John White

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

Microsoft has opened its office in Armenia, with the well-known IT specialist Grigory Barsegyan appointed as director. The office will be officially presented, after a number of organizational and technical preparations. CIS HUB Director John White and CIS Business Development Manager Yuri Omelchenko paid a short visit to Armenia recently. Mr. White, who is responsible […]