Society

Yesterday a monument to Armenian benefactor Alexander Mantashyan was erected in the center of the capital, on the crossroad of Sayat-Nova and Abovyan streets. The opening ceremony hosted numerous officials, as well as Mantashyan’s son and grandson Alexander and Michael Mantashyans. This event is very symbolic especially on the days of pre-election campaign. The ruling …

Yesterday the first instance court of Kentron and Marash communities turned down the suit against the journalist of 168-Zham newspaper Marine Martirosyan filed by the son of the principal of the former school #2 of Echmiadzin Tigran Terteryan. The latter filed a suit demanding retraction of the information published in the newspaper, which according to …

Benefits fail to provide safety-net for all vulnerable families, UN officer says. By Sara Khojoyan – Caucasus CRS Issue 637, 5 Apr 12 Armenian families with four or more children are statistically the most likely to fall into the lowest-income category, leaving them struggling to get by on pay and benefits. With much of the …

Ann Faerden MD PhD; Oslo, NorwayI have been fortunate in having had the opportunity to visit Armenia and specially Armenian psychiatry for two weeks. I am a Norwegian psychiatrist who for the first time visited Armenia in April of this year when I attended the World psychiatric association meeting in Yerevan. During this first visit …

Yesterday evening we received email from activist Mariam Shukhudyan where she wrote about what was happening in Mashtots Park. “The police have just organized a fake fight with the help of civilians. Then over hundred policemen came, closed the tent, by the way there were people sleeping in the tent, they tore it apart, people …

Many of my friends are asking me who the author of “I know” TV campaign is. They mean the TV ads in which our compatriots ensure that “what’s hard has been eased” and then they show in detail what exactly has been eased. For example, they don’t need psychic test documents for the issuance of …

Ibrahim Unal studies photography at Istanbul’s College of Culture. I met him for the first time in Istanbul, when a group of journalists from Armenia had been invited to a gathering by our Turkish colleagues. Istanbul Armenians were also present. Ibrahim Unal introduced himself as a “heal-Armenian”, noting his Armenian roots. He spoke about his …

Rafik looks closer to 80 than his real age, 55, because the nine years he spent in virtual slavery in Russia ruined his health. By the time he returned to his home in the Armenian capital Yerevan four years ago, his wife had given him up for dead. Rafik’s case is only one of many …

During the Soviet times the intelligentsia used to have a unique policy. The members of this group of the society used to believe in that cordially too. The most well-organized group of the intelligentsia was the representatives of the Academy of Science and Yerevan State University. These groups of the society used to think that …

– In 2012 June Armenia is going to participate in the ecological conference Rio-20. It is interesting to know what Armenia is going to present if during the past several years Armenia has encountered a serious ecological disaster. On the one hand we have the ghost of Teghut mine and on the other hand the …