Society

New ideas are in demand and then start to play a major role during New Years. During the holidays, we Armenians find the money that we have worked for, saved or received thanks to our relatives living abroad. No Armenian is ready to celebrate the New Year without money. Although each person spends differently, however …

On December 24 fire was burnt in # 2-11 sections of “Nairit” factory, which contained 300 tones of chemical materials each. The mentioned chemical materials are used in paint production. Our correspondent was informed by director of “Nairit” factory Karen Israyelyan that the materials that were burnt were remained from the Soviet times. Specialists say …

If some day you find out that one of your relatives living abroad decided to surprise you and send you a souvenir don’t rush to feel glad about that. If you ever find out what your relatives go through in order to send you an envelope you will ask them not to ever send you …

Yesterday by the verdict of the Court of Cassation three young people – Razmik Sargsyan, Musa Serobyan and Arayik Zalyan, who were arrested in April 2004, were set free from the penitentiary of Noubarashen. Let’s remember that they were accused of the murder of the soldiers murdered in the same military regiment, where they served. …

I, the journalist of the “168-Hours” newspaper, Lusine Stepanyan, am very happy that today as a journalist and an RA citizen; I first time in my life believed the justice in Armenia. Today I won’t write by whose order and why the three innocent soldiers, Razmik Sargsyan, Arayik Zalyan and Musa Serobyan were accused of …

According to the “Press Emblem Campaign” organization, 94 journalists were killed this year and this is a world record for 2006. Last year, 68 journalists were murdered. The 48 journalists out of the 94 were killed in Iraq.

This man is Samvel Movsisyan. He will soon turn fifty years old, but will never get to have his own home where he was supposed to live a normal life with his wife and three sons. Samvel is a refugee. After leaving his two-story home and garden in 1992 and not being able to take …

The web page of “ArmRusGazard” company (ARG) writes that there was an accident in the Georgian part of the gas pipeline on December 17, which stopped gas supply to Armenia. Yesterday they re-started supplying gas from their gas depots (with 50 cm capacity). The ARG officially informs that the accident will not have any negative …

Soon the foreign term VIP will make its way in the Armenian explanatory dictionaries and obviously the meaning will be different. VIP is the abbreviation for “very important person”. But Armenian philologists will be forced to think hard, consult with influential parties to find the explanation of this word and understand who or what is …

Based on the statistics of 2005, the number of women in Armenia exceeds that of men by 100,000. These are the statistics of the Armenian National Statistics Service published in the “Armenia’s Men and Women” statistical manual. There are 1,665,000 women and 1,554,000 men. The statistics refer to all aspects of life and I will …