Society

The Komitas and Tigran Mets streets of Yerevan went through destruction a couple of months ago. They were destructed but not remodeled. At the time, it was announced that the streets were going to be remodeled by the “Linsi” fund. However, there is a delay in receiving the money from the fund and the situation …

She invites me in. The smell is horrible. There is someone laying on the bed motionless and looks like he is on the verge of dying. I get the impression that that person is dead. I ask: “Who is this man? Is he dead?” Alina says: “That’s my dad, he’s no dead, but…” But he …

Some streets of Yerevan are going to be reconstructed with funding provided by the “Lins” fund. Some of the important roads have been trenched for a while but there is no work being done. That’s why there are heavy traffics on the streets of Yerevan for the past couple of months. The road construction has …

After the “Investigative Journalists’” office prohibited smoking, I finally understood why the word “ensemble” has turned into “grouping” in Armenian (hamuyt). It seems that the smoking prohibition and the Armenian translation of “ensemble” have nothing to do with one another: Really, what’s the point? But when you’re forced to go up to the roof of …

“Anyone who doesn’t have a car dreams of buying one. Those who have cars dream of selling them.” If my memory serves me right, these were the words from the Armenian movie “Big Win”, where the main character wins a “Zaporozhets” car by playing in a sport lottery and the main character was played by …

As of October 1, 2006 the population of RA is 3.220.800. This information was given by the National Statistics Service of RA. 2 million 62,800 people or 64% of the population live in urban areas. The population of Yerevan is 1 million 104,500 (34,3% of the population). The Lori region has the largest number of …

“Journalists without borders” international organization has organized a program against free speech restriction. The mentioned program targets the following countries: Cuba, China, Columbia, Iran, Tunis, Russia and USA. The mentioned action entitled to a “24-hour online demo against Internet censorship” and started on November 7. The web page of the mentioned organization (www.rsf.org) has a …

On November 8, the Chief Prosecutor’s office workers summarized the murders and assassination attempts in the first half of 2005 and 2006 and the studies of crimes with the use of weapons. The prosecutors’ studies show that men mostly commit murder and murder attempts, mainly with sharp-cutting objects; there are a lot of cases when …

Recently, it was said that the “Freedom House” international law defense organization had called on the “Millennium Challenges” corporation to not provide to aid to Armenia based on the fact that Armenia hasn’t defended the political rights and civil freedoms of society. During a joint-press conference with attorneys Hayk Alumyan, Zaruhi Postanjyan and Robert Grigoryan, …

Past 65 year-old Hamo Babayan is an epidemiologist. He also serves a deputy director of the Hadrut Hospital on a voluntary basis. He was appointed chief physician in 1984, the year the hospital was built, and he occupied that position until 1994. During the war he managed the military medical service as well. “I’m from …