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Yesterday the mayor of Yerevan, Yervand Zakharyan visited Arabkir community of Yerevan. The visit was connected with the presentation of newly imported snow cleaning machinery and a new “el-pass” documenting system installed in that community administration office. The municipality of Arabkir community has imported two new “Zil” model machines, two of which are small and …

My attempts to arrange a meeting with the head of the Aravus village administration before my trip to the village in the Syunik Marz proved in vain. He did not have a telephone at home. The only connection the village has with the outside world in the freezing winter are the schoolchildren, more than 50 …

According to the news department of the Police of Armenia, Hrant E. was transferred to a hospital after being shot in the chest on February 15. Legal proceedings showed that Nshan N (born in 1982) had stabbed Hrant E. during a debate in the “VV” night club located on Khanjyan Street. Nshan was arrested and …

The way Mother Armenia treats its compatriots trying to immigrate to Armenia after the periodical “Armenia-Diaspora”, “One Nation, One Culture” and similar events reminds us of the story about the little boy who saw what he saw by peeking in the hole of his parents’ bedroom door and then complained to his friends that after …

In the century of informational technologies the thought of the great “combinator” should sound differently. It should sound approximately this way: “Internet is not luxury”. It’s hard to say what exactly it is. All I can say that Internet is an unrealistic space, where one can find unlimited interesting and strange information. For example the …

During a time when everyone in Armenia is getting ready for the upcoming parliamentary elections and with the current inter-political situation, it is hard, even impossible to decide who to vote for and for what. It seems as though everyone is talking about everything but not saying anything because you not only need a language …

Taxi drivers have been working “disgusted” for a long time. They’re disgusted because all passengers talk about are the National Assembly elections; everyone calls on trusting their candidates and suggest favoring this or that political party. “The elections are a pain and there is no tranquilizer,” joked one of the taxi drivers. We continue the …

Yesterday in her interview to the Radio Liberty the top representative of Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF), a Paris-based media watchdog, Elsa Vidal criticized the Armenian media for defining extremely high prices for political ads. “It’s old and useless method. It just underlines that the authorities are afraid,” charged Vidal. This kind of price policy means …

According to “Javakhk-info”, Georgian Finance Ministry officials arrested Armenian customs officials Simon Albertyan and Artur Khotsakyan on Monday morning at the Zhdanovakan customs point located on the Armenian-Georgian border. According to the same source, Albertyan and Khotsakyan were arrested for poor conduct .

On Thursday RA defense minister Serj Sargsyan met with parents of soldiers in Lori region and answered to their questions. To a question whether the working places in the army structure would be cut off or not the minister said, “No. certainly our army is big compared to the population of our country and its …