I agree with the editorial in 100 percents, Heritage is the best party Armenia has ever had, and Baxshyan, Postanjyan, Alaverdyan are the best women in policy. I think the problem is our society is not ready to have such party. We usec to see sick people, like Sergik or Levon...

LTP did not "hide" behind house arrest, he was forced into house arrest, and your editor should have written maybe that government officials should have calmed the people and talked to them instead of beating them and pointing guns at them in broad daylight, what a biased news media Armenia Now has become, if you favor Heritage then at least you could tell us what was the "voice of reason" on that "ridiculous day" in comparison to Pashinyan's "rally for battle"...was it any good to tell people to go home and forget their election votes, their rights to protest after they took the beating and were chased in streets of Yerevan???

A.A. Your points are well taken. Thanks for reading. But, regarding a couple points. 1. Neither Raffi Hovannisian nor the Catholicos was running for president in the election that led to the March 1 disaster. 2. Regarding "insulting a colleague". Mr. Pashinyan stopped being a colleague of any objective journalist, when he chose to leave his newsroom and step to a public podium advocating for a radical movement. No doubt, he is a man of principle, for which he deserves respect. But do not mistake partisan advocacy for "journalism". It is our hope (and yes, these editorials do represent multiple opinions of the ArmeniaNow leadership) that our journal criticizes yet also encourages. Neither effort can be judged on a week-to-week basis, but we hope that a critical review of our positions will show that we have not taken a stand that leaves us liable to either political persuasion. Thank you for your reasoned and polite exception to our opinion.

As normally the editorials represent the views of the newspaper's editor (or its editorial board), I would suggest, that AN pays more attention on the quality of their "editorials" if you set value on your alleged reputation of independent (independent journalism from today's Armenia..) and high-quality newspaper. The "editor" has a right to hate Ter-Petrosyan and ANC and might wish having more "sort of centrist positioned" opposition (although that term in contemporary Armenian politics is hardly applicable and I doubt that "editor" really knows its real meaning). But being professional supposes criticism based on factual material and ideology. And not a level of idle talk using inappropriate language and adducing misinformation. If the "editor" expected LTP to force his way through house arrest, why he doesn't expect it from Raffi or catholicos or authorities to be on that "ridiculous day" with people, trying to calm the situation and find solutions?! From authorities there were just police and army officers and Raffi... we never know where is Raffi... What about calling people for battle - I can't recall anything like that. It was Ter-Petrosyan, who called people to go home after it was clear, that the ruling junta will stick at nothing to keep the power. And it was Nikol, who was persuading the most obstinate to stop the imposed battle. Apropos Nikol.. The "editor" might have different political views than Pashinyan, but I find it not ethical to insult a colleague. Nikol is a man of principle, he never hid his political affiliation and never changed them. And he is the one, who seats behind the bars because of them and not the "editor". What about sycophants, you can see hundreds of them every day in all Armenian TV-channels..

Koko, Could you please bring an example of when ArmeniaNow has "poked fun at people who try to compare present Turkish policy with past Turkish policy". And as the editor of these "cokcy (cocky?) liberal know it alls at ArmeniaNow" from the Woodstock generation: 1. What's Woodstock got to do with it? 2. Need I say that the "Woodstock generation" is now in its 70s? Thanks for reading.

You ask "Who, if any, is considering what Armenia should look like tomorrow, rather than focusing on this or that historical grievance?" Part of the answer to this is, look at Turkey's behavior since the Genocide, look at Turkey's attitude toward Armenia, its denial of genocide, its repression of its Kurds and remaining minorities, it bloody invasion of Cyprus and massacres of thousands of Greek civilians - and much much more - and you - Armenianow - will see that your complaint about Armenians' focus on "historical grievances" does not take into account Turkey's present and recent behavior. You think that if you put the genocide aside, Turkey will be benign because you see it as a transformed country. I wish to remind the cokcy liberal know-it-alls at ArmeniaNow that in 1908, the time of Young Turks revolution, Armenians danced in the streets with optimism. 7 years later they died in death marches. 1.5 million of them. You forget that. You WANT to forget that. You at Armenianow forget the lessons of the past. You poke fun at people who try to compare present Turkish policy with past Turkish policy. You fancy yourself young, optimistic, and wiser than your elders with your liberalism and dismissal of history. You're the Woodstock generation, you think, and you believe that if you are nice enough and "dialogue" with Turks that in and of itself will solve all our problems. In actuality, you are dangerous.