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The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund publicized the results of the telethon of this year. It was already known that 15 million 750 thousand USD was donated. This is over two times less than last year. Unfortunately the donation of the telethon of 2008 in the amount of 35 million USD will remain unsurpassed for a quite …

During the press conference held yesterday the executive director of Hayastan All-Armenian Fund Ara Vardanyan presented the results of the telethon “Our Shushi”. As it’s known, $15,875,043 was donated through the telethon. And part of it is a promise of further donation. Donations and pledges made during Telethon 2009 and fundraising events throughout the year …

It turns out that the Armenian women averagely spent more time on education than men. Thus, if the man daily spends 36 minutes on education then the women allot 43 minutes for that purpose. However, it turns out that the lack of education doesn’t become an obstacle for men to spend much more time on …

There is some similarity between the Eurovision and the Armenia pan-Armenian fund in terms of perception. The similarity is that in both cases we are making efforts to guess how much we will receive from different countries basing on the statistical information about the number of Armenians in those countries. In one case they give …

– On December 2 the foreign ministers of the OSCE c-chair countries made statement following the meeting of the Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers and said that “the growing frequency of the Armenian and Azeri presidents has significantly supported to the activation of dialogue between the parties.” In other words, this statement may be interpreted …

From November 25 to December 25 the RA Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in collaboration with a number of NGOs is holding one-month action titled “Equal Opportunities to the Disabled.” Its main goal is to explain to the society through advocacy that the disabled people have equal rights with everybody else and they must …

The view of shacks of Sari Tagh neighborhood, which are built very close to each other and are covered in grey dust, resemble the view of old and yellowish books placed on the bookshelf. When ones go through the neighborhood, which is semi-ruined and dirty, one gets amazed on the one hand with the ancient …

Several days ago in Yerevan a 9th grade student of secondary school #67 Sos Melkonyan was cruelly killed with a knife. According to the press release of the police an unknown person has broken into the apartment of the Melkonyans and stabbed a 13-year old boy with a kitchen knife. According to another statement of …

The president of the country step by step makes understand that the government should do its best to develop the Armenian sciences. The building adjacent to the Matenadaran, which is being built according to architect Artur Meschyan’s project, will be furnished with the most modern scientific facilities and will serve for this purpose of developing …

Yesterday the first suspected cases of AH1N1 have been officially detected in Armenia, health officials said on Monday, urging the population not to “panic.” The employees of the Healthcare Ministry and specifically Armenia’s Hygiene and Anti-Epidemic Inspectorate officially confirmed this fact. All the three cases were detected in Zvartnots Airport: two came from Moscow and …