VERELQ presents the most notable publications of the Armenian press.

“168 hours” the newspaper writes. “I think that Trump’s staff does not pay attention to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at the highest level. This is happening because President Trump is trying to reduce the role of US leadership in the world, including through severe budget cuts at the State Department. In the end, most likely, the staff will accept that the negotiation of a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the Minsk Group provides a concrete plan on which the USA and Russia can work together for the sake of peace,” the former assistant to the US Secretary of State for the South Caucasus, former US ambassador to Azerbaijan, former American co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, director of the International Center for Defense Studies in Tallinn told “168 Hours”. Matthew Bryzareferring to the position of the White House on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.

According to him, reducing the position of the US co-chair in the Minsk Group is a reckless and even dangerous step, because it can create a vacuum, as a result of which the Minsk Group process can fail, the result of which will be a spiral increase in tension, the peak of which can be another war. “Furthermore, from the budgetary point of view, this step makes no sense, because the expenses of the US co-chairman’s post are covered by the OSCE, and not by the US government,” said Bryza. By the way, in his opinion, in Geneva, the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev, resumed real negotiations on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.

“People” the newspaper writes. “According to the news that reached us, Baghramyan 26 has been strengthened again, especially Serzh Sargsyan security control. All of this became more evident during Serzh Sargsyan’s visits to several state departments in recent days. For example, during the last visit of Minister of Defense Serzh Sargsyan, it was ordered to close the windows of the ministry, so that the room of the ministry could not be seen from the outside. Head of the RA State Security Service Hrachya HarutyunyanIn a conversation with “Zhoghovurd” daily, however, he noted. “These are just normal interceptions, which are carried out in order to ensure the safety of such high-ranking officials. You can see what kind of geopolitical processes are going on in the region, and we organize our events accordingly. There is nothing to worry about, we are doing our current work.”

“Realist” the newspaper writes. “PAP has already decided to join the coalition in 2018. In addition to the ministry of sports and youth affairs, they hope to take over the ministries of social bloc and culture. as well as the portfolio of their “pay” deputy prime minister, for which they are circulating Ishkhan Zakaryan, Mikael Melkumyanthe names And not only. There is a point of view that Ishkhan is personally lobbying Zakaryan, not unknown Khachatur Sukiasyan: According to our PAP sources, this is not so. “Khachik personally will not mind being the deputy prime minister. by the way, recently his “inner glow” is precisely on that occasion. And Hovik Argamic, we asked? “His time is over. Kocharyan didn’t want to either, but he had to adapt to the status of a young pensioner,” they said. By the way, according to the same sources, there is also a fourth candidate for deputy prime minister. it’s him personally Gagik Tsarukyan: “Don’t rule out his version either,” whispered our source with deep respect.

“Realist” the newspaper writes. “They say that it surprised many people Samvel Aleksanyan Samvel Karapetyan’s investment participation in “Alex Textiles” is explained not only by the latter’s desire to provide his son-in-law with foreign markets, but also by “Karapetyans vs. Tsarukyan” configurations. They also say that the Karapetyans want to reformulate the Armenian oligarchic field and “raise” Tsarukyan as a counterweight oligarch. “If Tsarukyan was the number one oligarch during Kocharyan’s time, now the tide will turn to Aleksanyan. Perhaps this can be explained by the fact that the total inspections of the SRC, “very close” to Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan, in Tsarukyan’s and Aleksanyan’s companies make Tsarukyan very nervous, but not Aleksanyan.

“Armenian Times” the newspaper writes. “We learn from the 2017 procurement plan of RA police that in the current year the department purchased 43 2017 Toyota Corolla cars from Toyota-Yerevan company. The police paid 350 million AMD for these 43 cars to the Toyota-Yerevan company. According to the contract, the cost of each of the 27 cars is 8 million 120 thousand drams, and the 16 is 8.5 million. According to the information in the contract, the country of the car manufacturer is Turkey. “Toyota-Yerevan” company, let’s remind, is connected Robert Kocharyan eldest son Sedrak Kocharyanwith the name. Police vehicles are insured by “Nairi Insurance” company, which again belongs to the Kocharyan family. The police transferred about 7.5 million drams to this company for insurance. We asked the police for a comment regarding the 43 cars to be acquired, but they offered to apply in writing for clarification. In the near future, we will present to our readers the purpose for which the police acquires these vehicles.”

“Publication” the newspaper writes. “In the near future, another sensational project will be presented to the National Assembly for consideration. We are talking about the draft of the RA Criminal Code, which has been in effect since 2003, which has undergone serious content changes, as it is considered outdated. In particular, the “Crimes against constitutional rights and freedoms” section of the Code includes discrimination, which, in fact, has been criminalized. Article 197 of the draft, which uses the term “sexual orientation” and specifies that discrimination – direct or indirect violation of human rights, freedoms and legal interests depending on sexual orientation in particular – is punishable by a fine of up to twenty times, or public works for a maximum of 80 hours, or restriction of freedom for a maximum period of 2 years.

Discrimination committed by using governmental or official powers or the influence caused by them is punishable by a fine in the amount of twenty to fifty times, or public works for a period of 80-150 hours, or deprivation of the right to hold a certain position or engage in a certain activity for a maximum period of 5 years, or restriction of freedom for a maximum period of 3 years, or short-term imprisonment for a maximum period of 2 months, or imprisonment for a maximum period for a period of 2 years. This article has already caused a lot of backlash among some people familiar with the project. Some qualify the provision “anti-national, anti-moral” and express fear that those with “non-traditional” sexual orientation may use the opportunity and blackmail others by referring to the mentioned article.

“time” the newspaper writes. “From October 30, the parliament started discussing the 2018 budget project presented by Karen Karapetyan’s government. That project is fundamentally no different from the budgets of the last almost decade, because it is, so to speak, within the framework of the philosophy of survival. Since 2009, practically all budgets of Armenia are within the framework of the philosophy of survival. The problem is that when the government changed in Armenia a year ago, the public did not expect a bright future from that change, so to speak, verbal assurances or just new faces of folklore, but figures who, instead of folklore, would give the public practical impulses of positive expectation. For now, these impulses remain in the genre of folklore, only the government figures who deal with them continue to be sympathetic, unlike the previous government.

The mechanism of formation of power is not public, that is, the will of society is a problem in it, not a decisive factor. It is a problem that the government overcomes and overcomes with force, administrative leverage, and financial means. Of course, until now the government has been formed in this way without decisive public participation, but currently there is a peculiarity: the process called the election has passed, but the government has not been formed. Moreover, now, in fact, there is no public even formally, there is no election, and the formation of the government must take place through post-election non-governmental fermentation. And that in turn brings another feature.

The point is that when there is a public formal problem, the system, in fact, at least in that part, has to consolidate around a problem and act in the direction of overcoming it. When now the actual problem is already within the system, there is no need to solve the issue of the public, even if it is a formal factor, a problem of consolidation of the power system arises. There is no consolidation, internal contradictions and contradictions are intensifying. They are intensifying, therefore the economy also becomes the victim of these events, so to speak, because no one wants to take tangible responsibility for the economic perspective if they do not have confidence in the government’s perspective. request.

Thus, Armenia is currently in a situation when Serzh Sargsyan is going to give up responsibility Karen Karapetyanconsidering the lack of economic breakthrough as a consequence of his inefficiency, and Karen Karapetyan, on the contrary, tries to show that Serzh Sargsyan’s political support is insufficient, and that is why the system is advancing its interests rather than Karapetyan’s politics. The truth, of course, in this case is somewhere in the middle, or not at all in the Sargsyan-Karapetyan range. Practically, the reason was the same in the Sargsyan-Abrahamian plane: the issue of power was not resolved, therefore there could be no economic policy. There is an economic war within the ruling system, which, of course, is going on secretly. not in the most literal sense of the word, but in its very logic. War for economic resources, because they will also predetermine the issue of power. The peculiarity of that war is that the biggest loss is not the participants, but the society and the state. Perhaps the participants don’t even have a loss, they just either increase what they have, or in the worst case, preserve what they have.”