Or, to believe the official departmental websites, or not
Government agencies in Armenia, as in many other countries with similar structures, have official websites. For example, from the RA President’s official website we may learn that Serzh Sargsyan started his career in 1975 at the Yerevan Electrical Devices Factory, as a metal turner. According to the virtual version of the RA National Assembly, Hovik Abrahamyan has three children and seven grandchildren. According to the RA Government’s website, Tigran Sargsyan is the 12th Prime Minister of Armenia in the last 23 years.
Official websites have many similarities and differences. One of similarities is the page “Armenia” or “about Armenia” where there is a compact and comprehensive information about Armenia. These are the sections that disclose sad reality: first, there is a migration, second, separate public departments work with data detached from reality.
Increased migration According to the RA President’s website, http.//www.president.am/hy/general-information/, Armenia’s population is 3.2 million people (according to de jure population indicator), 3.0 million people (according to de facto population indicator). The year is not listed. According to the RA Government’s website, http.//www.gov.am/am/demographics/, the population of Armenia is 3.041 million (as of January 1, 2013).
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According to the website of the RA National Assembly, http.//www.parliament.am/parliament.php?id=armenia&lang=arm, the population of Armenia is 3,21 million people (as of 2001). According to the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, http.//www.mfa.am/hy/armenia-overview/, the population of Armenia is 3.249 million (as of 2010).
If we compare the data of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government, it will turn out that since 2010 Armenia’s population has been decreased by 200 thousand people. There can be no other proof of official (OFFICIAL) immigration than this.
Reality or waste parallel to detached reality
If we compare the data of the RA National Assembly and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it will turn out that in the period of 2001-2010, the number of population in Armenia grew by barely 30 thousand, or three thousand in a year, or 8-9 children per day. While, according to the reference disseminated by the Ministry of Health of Armenia, only in 2009, 19951 children were born, or 54-55 children per day. Child birth in Armenia is free, the state pays the health facility, normal child birth is about 150 thousand drams, difficult delivery is more expensive. In Armenia, the lump-sum allowance for the first child is 50 000, for the second child born in the family – 430 000, and so on. In other words, the state, we – tax-payers, spend the least (if it is the first child) 200 thousand drams on
the birth of one child. In reality, the birth of 8-9 children is presented as birth of 54-55 children, or the birth of 46 children per day is only on the paper, in other words, the state, we – the tax-payers, waste about 9.2 million dram per day (200X46) for false births. There can be no better proof for corruption, waste and embezzlement than this. Now, should we believe in official departmental sites, or not?
Nelly GRIGORYAN
