Society

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The Central and Nork-Marash court continued the trail of chief editor of “Time-Yerevan” Arman Babajanyan on September 7 at 15:00 During the court process A. Babajanyan will be given an opportunity to say his last word.

In the morning of September 6, editor of “Iravunk” weekly Hovhannes Galajyan was attacked while heading out the door of his house located on Komitas street in Yerevan. As he was leaving his house at 10 a.m. he was attacked by two shaved-heads, thrown to the ground and was beaten. But as soon as some …

“168 Hours” asked the RA president’s press secretary, Viktor Soghomonyan what the president thought about the recent murders in Armenia. “If you compare the information of the past eight months, you will see that Armenia has the lowest statistics among the rest of the CIS countries. Nevertheless, the number of crimes has grown. It is …

Armenian society is giving negative remarks about the recent news regarding American rich man John Huntsman founding a modern oncology center in Armenia. There was a lot of interest towards the benefactor and his religious organization. John Huntsman began his charitable contributions for Armenia back in 1988. Based on press articles, after the earthquake of …

People over the age of 70 and had kept money in “Armsavingsbank” since June 10, 2003 will be given the same reimbursements very soon. Within the period of April 12 – May 12 over 62.000 citizens of Armenia have applied to the social security bodies to receive reimbursement. There have been many inaccuracies in the …

The Yerevan Nork-Marash and Central community court will continue the court proceedings connected with the case of editor of Yerevan-Time newspaper, Arman Babajanyan. The latter is accused of falsifying documents for the purpose of escaping RA army service. The case will be preceded by court Mnatsakan Martirosyan, who is famous for the cases of “Kuku” …

Not one citizen of Armenia knows the reason or the need for changing the Armenian national anthem. Nothing has really changed in Armenia besides the decline of the dollar, or as the Armenian authorities like to call it, the devaluation of the dollar and this doesn’t serve as a basis for changing one of the …

I had an opportunity to visit the distant regions of Armenia and Karabakh during the past two months. I got a bad impression in both Armenia and Karabakh-villages with lack of necessary substructures, unemployment, some subsidies and pensions paid from the state budget, which don’t really solve any issues. The donkey and the owner of …

I had heard about Yerevan and the surrounding areas before coming to Armenia. For example, I had seen pictures of Mount Ararat, churches, Sevan Lake. But it’s one thing to see pictures, and another thing to see it all in person. I must confess that a year ago, I didn’t even know where Armenia was …