Society

The more the Armenian government speaks of making Armenia a civilized spot for tourists, the more uncivilized the conditions of Lake Sevan become, which turns into a spot for feasts. The garbage that is spread along the whole beach and the plastic bags have become a common thing in Sevan. However, during the last several …

Yesterday at about 12:50 Armenian time a plane operating a Caspian Airlines commercial flight from Tehran to Yerevan crashed in northwest Iran, near the city of Qazvin. It crushed 16 minutes after the take-off. Unfortunately the crush of the TU-154 airplane killed all the 153 passengers and 15 crew on board. The list of the …

Yesterday the commercial director of the Yerevan Jur Company Gagik Margaryan said that starting from July 8, 2009 the Yerevan Jur Company will raise the price for one cubic meter of water by 8.2 AMD up to 181 AMD. Margaryan added that the price for 1,000 cubic meters of drinking water will be 153,850 AMD …

The chief of the Armenian police criminal investigation department Hovik Tamamyan met with journalists and commented on the recent violence against journalists. He says that he won’t mind if journalists are allowed to have pistols with them to protect themselves. In other words, he says that if the criminals who want to punish journalists or …

Recently the police day was celebrated and police officers and officials said in their interview that when they were choosing their profession they thought they would have a romantic job. It is a fact that throughout the time romanticism was replaced with realism, and eventually turned to uncompromising pragmatism. In other words, neither the celebration …

The routine of the leaders of states is perhaps one of the most interesting topics. It’s a topic which years after a cultural analysis. For the Soviet citizen the etalon of a leader was Lenin. The average people would expect salvation and solution of issues from him. At that time there was no need for …

Recently unknown people robbed the car of Tatyana P., an official of the Armenian Embassy in Moscow. The diplomat applied to the police and told them that robbers had broken the window of her Lexus RX-470 car parked on Marshal Kutakov street and stolen her bag. She said in the bag there had been 15k …

Unlike our neighbors we don’t have natural wealth. Instead we have powerful Diaspora. Our counterparts are our gold fund and reliable potential. Such phrases may be heard both in daily conversations and statements of statesmen. On the other hand, the importance of the Diaspora is often brought up by campaign machines of Turkey and Azerbaijan …

These are the words that the surveyor of the demographic indices of the past 5 years would utter. The demographic indices of Armenia have almost been the same for the past 5 years. The population of our country remains as 3 million 200 thousand. The number had been stuck like this since 1995. The number …

Yesterday Laylee Moshiri, representative of UNESCO in Armenia, published very bad information concerning Armenia. The latter presented the report of UNICEF on children’s situation in the world, according to which 22 newborn children out of 1000 die before they can become one year old. Furthermore, 80% of such children die during the first 28 days …