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It’s not common to see a massive emigration from Artashat city of the Ararat region of Armenia because the people there grow and sell their crops in the summer, collect wood and eat dried fruit during the winter. The “August-23” street of Artashat is littered and it has been two years since the public café …

“Don’t write a lot, that’s enough,” says the resident of Masis city of the Ararat Marz Henzel Darbinyan. Despite what he said, he and his neighbors started talking about the hardships they face in the village. They assured that the villagers of the Tavush, Lori, Syunik and other regions of Armenia live the same way. …

All the prisoners of Armenia would barely adapt to living in the “Dark Prison” of Charentsavan settlement. Living in this settlement is already like committing suicide. The building in the photo is the former “Dark Colony” building of Charentsavan in the Kotayk Marz. Although keeping people in prisons is a means of discipline, however the …

Prices for resting homes and cottages in Sevan have gone up almost twice and have attracted tourists to rent cheap houses in Georgia. People pay 20 dollars in order to rent a poor cottage in Sevan. However, there are good cottages too, for which people pay the equivalent to the price for a five star …

True, it’s hotter this year in Armenia than in the past couple of years, but that didn’t make citizens of Armenia stay longer on the coast of Sevan Lake. On the contrary, this year’s heat drove people to Kabuleti. No matter how illogical it sounds, the resting homes located on that Georgian coast are more …

This was the response from the residents of the Gagarinavan settlement of the Gegharkunik region upon my arrival. As soon as I set foot in Gagarinavan, the residents came out of their houses to greet me. The residents of Gagarinavan find it strange to see anyone from Yerevan and it doesn’t matter who goes there-they …

Recently, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mamedyarov made an announcement: “Baku is ready to grant the internationally recognized and highest autonomy status to Nagorno Karabagh, as a matter of fact, the same status that Tatarstan has in Russia.” The Azerbaijani foreign minister also announced that it’s a waste of time to find any …

Residents of the Aragatsotn region are certain that chief police officer Gor Alexanyan was fired in order to reduce chief prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan’s power in Aragotsotn. Rumor has it that Gor Alexanyan is Hovsepyan’s right-hand in the region. The interests of the Chief Prosecutor and the Dashnaks (federalists) often clash in Aragatsotn. Neither Hovsepyan nor …

During the parliamentary discussions, head of the Karabagh NA “Hayrenik” constant committee on budget and financial issues, Arayik Harutyunyan asked a question concerning TV broadcasting. Head of the regional management board of Karabagh, Armo Tsaturyan, said that they hadn’t spent much money on improving the broadcast of Karabaghian and Armenian programs in Karabagh. According to …

Recently, during an Armenia-Karabagh intergovernmental conference hosted in Stepanakert, parliamentarians of both countries discussed the plan of Karabagh’s Constitution. As vice-president of the Karabagh National Assembly Rudik Hyusnunts said after the conference, the constitution will be passed by the end of this year. In response to the journalists’ question as to whether or not Karabagh’s …