Current Condition of Armenia

[Artashes]

Re: Current Condition of Armenia

Why, when you can see more than enough clowns and gibbering monkeys and great apes in the multi-functional circus building that is the Armenian parliament?

You give clowns & buffoons a rn for their money.
A week of reprieve from your a$shole act and now your back at it.

[Haykakan]

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RUSSIA TO ALLOCATE $12 MILLION TO ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE CENTER

12:27, 17 February, 2014

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 17, ARMENPRESS: The Russian side will allocate $12
million for the establishment of the Armenian-Russian Humanitarian
Response Center. The creation of the Center will enable to lend
a helping hand to the neighboring countries of Armenia. The Deputy
Director of the Rescue Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations
of the Republic of Armenia, Major-General Nikolay Grigoryan stated
about it at the press conference on February 17.

"The establishment of the Armenian-Russian Humanitarian Response
Center will be quite an important direction for us this year.

Different kinds of equipment, cars and a helicopter with the value
of about $12 million will be allocated by Russia. We are carrying
out reconstruction works in Balahovit. A huge work has already been
done and we will have the international humanitarian center of rescue
response, which will be able to respond not only to our emergencies,
but also to the emergencies of our neighbors, wherever it is", -
noted Nikolay Grigoryan, Armenpress reports.

http://armenpress.am/eng/news/750317/russia-to-allocate-$12-million-to-armenian-russian-humanitarian-response-center.html

[Chubs]

Re: Current Condition of Armenia

How about that Yerevan mall opening. There is going to be plenty of zara shops armenians can now stare into

[Mher]

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If Russia goes through with this, this can have ugly consequences for society in Armenia


Armenia: Russia Puts Squeeze on Migrant Workers

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/68078

[Haykakan]

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Reminds me of the strategy used by xxxlery stores. They double their prices then have a 50% off sale to make the sale look significant when it is not. This is designed to drive home the advantage of joining the union and to make it seem more desirable.

If Russia goes through with this, this can have ugly consequences for society in Armenia


Armenia: Russia Puts Squeeze on Migrant Workers
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/68078

[Mher]

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Reminds me of the strategy used by xxxlery stores. They double their prices then have a 50% off sale to make the sale look significant when it is not. This is designed to drive home the advantage of joining the union and to make it seem more desirable.

Armenia is already on the path to joining though, is this really necessary
considering it doesn't cost Russia anything to not go through with it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense

[Federate]

Re: Current Condition of Armenia

Reminds me of the strategy used by xxxlery stores. They double their prices then have a 50% off sale to make the sale look significant when it is not. This is designed to drive home the advantage of joining the union and to make it seem more desirable.

If Russia goes through with this, this can have ugly consequences for society in Armenia


Armenia: Russia Puts Squeeze on Migrant Workers
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/68078

Armenia is already on the path to joining though, is this really necessary
considering it doesn't cost Russia anything to not go through with it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense

Report: Russia to let Armenian migrants stay longer

Russia has reportedly agreed to make an adjustment for Armenian citizens allowing them to stay in Russian territory longer than citizens of other countries enjoying a visa-free regime.

According to Russia’s REX news agency, it was decided to amend Article 4 of the 2000 visa-free travel agreement for citizens of Armenia to be able to stay in Russia for 150 days within every 180 days.

Officials in Yerevan have not yet confirmed this information.

If confirmed, however, the decision is likely to come as a great relief for hundreds of thousands of Armenians staying and working in Russia after this country enforced a new law on January 1 under which citizens of countries with non-visa regimes are not allowed to stay for longer than 90 days within every 180 days.

The law caused a lot of discontent among those citizens of Armenia who earn their living by doing seasonal work in Russia. Secretary of the National Security Council of Armenia Artur Baghdasaryan wrote a letter to his Russian counterpart, expressing a hope that Russia would reconsider the regime for citizens of Armenia.

If applied, the new regime will mean that Armenian citizens working in Russia will be able to stay in Russian territory for five months, after which they will have to leave the country only for one month (instead of three) before returning and staying in the country on a legal basis.

http://armenianow.com/news/52250/armenia_russia_migrants_visa

[Mher]

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Figures Show Thousands Applied for Armenian Citizenship in 2013

YEREVAN (Armenpress)—More than 21,000 people applied for and acquired Armenian citizenship in 2013, the head of Armenia’s Police Department for Passports and Visas, Norayr Muradkhanian, reported. A significant proportion of those who applied were foreign citizens – most commonly French, Russian, American, and Georgian – who were of Armenian descent.

Any person of Armenian descent can acquire Armenian citizenship. Furthermore, anyone, regardless of heritage, can acquire Armenian citizenship with three years of permanent residence in Armenia and basic knowledge about the Armenian Constitution.

Muradkhanian says that so far, the numbers in 2014 look to be outdoing the previous year’s numbers by a wide margin.

Muradkhanian elaborated that 82,383 applications for ID cards and 20,279 for biometric passports have been registered in January-February of the current year. In addition, the police colonel emphasized: “The main part of the applicants’ passports are still valid, but despite this our compatriots want to get biometric passports.”

http://asbarez.com/120717/2013-saw-thousands-apply-for-armenian-citizenship/

[bell-the-cat]

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[B][SIZE=3]A significant proportion of those who applied were foreign citizens who were of Armenian descent.

The more you read that report, the stranger it seems.

We are told that "More than 21,000 people applied for and acquired Armenian citizenship in 2013"
We are also told that "A significant proportion of those who applied were foreign citizens who were of Armenian descent".

If "significant proportion" means a large amount but not the majority, who comprised the majority proportion?

Does the report mean that the majority of those 21,000 people who acquired Armenian citizenship were foreign citizens without Armenian ancestry, or that a far far greater number than 21,000 people applied for Armenian citizenship, with the vast majority of applicants being persons with no armenian ancestry, but that almost all of those who ended up being given citizenship were people with Armenian ancestry.

[lampron]

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How about that Yerevan mall opening. There is going to be plenty of zara shops armenians can now stare into

Armenian traders and businessmen will be hoping to trade with visitors from Iran, Russia, even Turkey