It is already 15 years that Armenia has transferred to a new economic system. Development of the private sector has been among the numerous significant and drastic changes. The beginning of the process was marked with considerable state support: the government did what it could to support the establishment of the private sector. What was happening was actually a redistribution of roles and responsibilities...

What kind of elections do we want? Shall we have free, fair and transparent elections, or perhaps we should call those simply "legitimate" elections? As one should not kill another, should not avoid tax payment, or cross the street on red, one should not violate the legal requirements of the framework regulating elections. Therefore, one simply needs to talk about one thing: we need legitimate elections...

The dualism of means and goals haunts individuals, societies, nations and civilizations, and the choices humans make as individuals, members of societies, representatives of nations and carriers of civilizations provide some relatively long-term solutions to this dualism. Transitional democracies are particularly challenged with this ambiguity, since transition implies a choice of new goals and a search for means that would provide for these goals in the possibly best way...

To understand the logic of the state's economic policy one needs to cast a look at the long-term goals it has defined. This is a truism and in this regard, one can both understand and accept the policy being implemented in our country...

John Maynard Keynes claimed that when in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, there is no need to rebuke the lines for not keeping straight. One simply needs to throw over the axiom of parallels and to work out a non-Euclidean geometry...