Society

A big fire broke out in the heart of the city of Gyumri on the night of December 9. The fire started from the most active spots of the city-one of the back-end pavilions of the center market where furniture was sold. Then the fire made its way to the nearby produce stores. Overall, 13 …

The recent times the government is busy with discussing the issue of building a monument in the place of Lenin’s monument in the Republic Square of Yerevan. For this purpose many projects have been presented to the governmental commission, most of which are eastern-style projects and would look better in Turkmenistan or somewhere in the …

According to “Interfax”, the public prosecutor’s office of Moscow has discovered the murder case of citizen of Armenia Narek Kocharyan, aged 15, as of November 11 in Ivanteevk. The Russian police have arrested 4 young men (two of them are teenagers).

The “Youth Palace” of Yerevan, which is more famous with the “gnawed corn maze” name, has recently been modernized and the architects succeed in maintaining the same principles and outlines of the building. According to the president of the “Our city” NGO, Anahit Tarkhanyan, the authors of the new project are the same of the …

The government has decided to build a monument in the place of Lenin’s monument in the Republic square. A number of models of new monuments have already been forwarded to the commission, which is going to discuss them and chose the best model. Most of those models are mixture of the soviet and Middle Eastern …

The reconstruction projects of the Komitas and Tigran Mets streets of Yerevan must be implemented by the “Linsie” fund. However, to this day, the fund hasn’t provided the funding and claims that the documents aren’t ready. “The Armenian side started working on its own by poring into the soil,” says deputy assessor of the fund …

Although there are legends about the intellect of the Armenian people, however that doesn’t bother the Republic to stay without a national anthem at least temporarily or, as some presses write, have a transitional anthem. I have talked about the writing a new anthem a couple of times and I don’t want to repeat what …

The fate of the 30 newspapers printed at the “Tigran Mets” printing-house is undecided. The ferry bringing the paper imported from Ukraine is still at the Ilyicheyevisk harbor. Director of the “Tigran Mets” printing-house Vrezh Markosyan has announced that the papers printed at “Tigran Mets” will stop being printed on December 8 and will restart …

Muraz Mirzakhanyan and Iranian Armenian Nora Simjiyan have seven children. The youngest will soon turn two and the thirteen years old. They live in Building #1 of a student dormintory in Yerevan’s Nor Nork district. This family of nine lives in a room with 1sixteen square meters of space. The broken windows have been replaced …

Two citizens of Armenia have been arrested in Orenburg region of Russia. Russian police have confiscated 84.000 ruble counterfeited money. The mentioned citizens of Armenia were arrested when buying animals in Novonikolsk village of Russia. After they had left the village the farmer that had sold animals to them noticed that different money papers had …