By Hakob Badalyan
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments16870.html
Listening to representatives of international organizations who describe the economic benefits Armenia will have after the opening of the Armenian and Turkish border you think that either those people are mildly speaking naïve or they take the Armenian citizens mildly speaking for naïve people. Many announced about the paradisiacal effect of the opening [...]

By Serouj Aprahamian and Allen Yekikian
The Turkey-Armenia Protocols ushered in an unprecedented wave of international outcry against the policies of the Armenian government.
Massive demonstrations took place in almost every major city of the Diaspora; 60,000 protestors took to the streets in Yerevan; leading Armenian academics and Genocide scholars forcefully spoke out against the Protocols; [...]

Hrant Bagratian, the former Prime Minister under Levon Ter-Petrosian who is most well known as being the architect of Armenia’s free-market reforms and its disastrous economic transition, was recently quoted as saying, “The opening of the Turkish border means an end to monopolies. This is a significant step.” He argues that the Armenia-Turkey protocols pose [...]

A respected international watchdog reported on Tuesday a further slight increase in government corruption in Armenia, ranking it among the 60 most corrupt countries of the world covered by its annual surveys.

by Marianna Grigoryan (Yerevan – Eurasianet.org)
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav100509.shtml
With less than a week to go before Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian signs protocols to normalize Yerevan’s relations with longtime foe Turkey, attention is focusing on what an open Turkish border will mean for Armenian businesses. Many entrepreneurs worry that the prognosis is unsettling.
Turkey has pledged that it will [...]

YEREVAN (PanArmenian.net)—The opening of the Armenia-Turkey border will devastate Armenia’s local economy and throw businesses into bankruptcy, warned an expert from the Mitk Analytical Center on Friday during a news conference in Yerevan.  
“We are seriously concerned that the opening of the border will considerably damage the Armenian economy,” said Edgar Helgelyan.
Adding to his research, [...]

YEREVAN (ArmRadio)—The Russian owned South Caucasus Railway Company is ready to resume railway transport between Armenia and Turkey,” a high level official from the company said Thursday, adding that the opening of the border will diminish Georgia’s role as a transport corridor in the region.
Speaking to reporters at a press briefing in Yerevan, Marat Khakov [...]