Society

Starting from March of the current year the prices of airplane tickets will be increased connected with the fact that air fare will hence be included in the ticket price. Yesterday Armavia company informed about this. Based on the amendments of the law on state fares starting from March 29, 2009 the tickets bought in …

168 Hours received a call from citizens of Erebuni community address 127/1, who said that there was an emergency situation in their community on January 26. The drinking water pipe exploded under the building and the drinking water mixed with the waste water. A young man aged 33 tried to save the situation and closed …

Liana is 14 and now she is lonely and the complex doesn’t allow her to communicate with other people. She is afraid of people now… Once she woke up and understood that her mother had left her. The little child is surprised and confused so much that when she speaks her hand and body are …

The candidacy of the executive director’s position of newly-established Luys educational foundation has been submitted to the president and prime minister for approval. The commission consists of CB board member Vache Gabriyelyan, Heritage party board member Anahit Bakhshyan and other people. It was very hard to find out the name of the candidate for the …

Dear readers, this is the last edition of our newspaper in 2008. This year we are going on holiday several days before and we hope that during this period nothing extraordinary will happen in our country, which has been full of such changes in the past year. Our next edition will be published on January …

On November 1 a charity dinner was organized in Yerevan, which was dedicated to Telethon 2008 of Armenia Foundation. During this event 30 million dollars was pledged. For the first time in 16 years of history of the Foundation the telethon was marked by the display of will and potential of about 120 Armenian businessmen …

The World Bank’s Board of Directors today approved a US$20 million credit for additional financing for the Armenia Municipal Water and Wastewater Project (MWWP). The additional financing will support the government’s efforts in scaling up activities implemented under the ongoing program of water system rehabilitation and improvements, including an extension of the ongoing management contract …

And so the Americans, more correctly the US State Department once again released its annual report about religious freedom. And once again it mentions that we Armenians are genetically intolerant to the freedom of religion and sects. No, I shouldn’t have said “sects,” I should have said religious minorities. The report kept mentioning that the Armenian …

Tomorrow is the 17th anniversary of independence of the third republic of Armenia. Unfortunately the society doesn’t accept the independence as an actual holiday and the ceremony of the day starts with eloquent and standard speeches and messages of various statesmen. But the most unfortunate thing is that our society still has people, who accept …

According to Radio Liberty yesterday President Serzh Sargsyan ordered law-enforcement bodies to promptly investigate an attack on the acting chief of RFE/RL’s Yerevan bureau that has drawn strong condemnation from Armenia media and press freedom groups. The journalist, Hrach Melkumyan, was beaten up by an unknown assailant in downtown Yerevan two days ago. Yesterday the …