Society

Journalists are worried over the fact that there is ongoing pressure and threats as the parliamentary elections get closer. The people pressuring and threatening are the ones afraid of criticism and having some of their actions revealed. Two unusual cases took place last week alone-head of the “Investigative Journalists” NGO Edik Baghdasaryan received a threat, …

Internet websites, local and foreign mass media urgently reported this news on July 13. However, at noon the same day, people working at Armenian airline companies in Armenia had no clue as to what was going on. I called “187”-the airport service center-to find out what’s going to happen to the flights going to Beirut. …

My grandmother got really sick recently and the ambulance took her to the “Armenia” hospital (state hospital). At the reception, they asked for the fixed 80,000 AMD, which I paid, certain that the doctors will treat my grandmother well. But when they transferred her to the no. 118 room of the neurology department, I realized …

The RA military and criminal investigation secondary court rejected an interpellation asking to revise the court’s decision to arrest editor of “Time Yerevan” newspaper, Arman Babajanyan. The lawyer of the editor, Arman Babajanyan has applied to the first instance court of Central and Nork Marash communities to revise the court’s decision to arrest the editor. …

“The happiest people of the world live in the country of Vanuatu, while the most unhappy people are in Zimbabwe”, based on the report prepared by the analyzers of the British New Economic Foundation. The foundation has conducted a research in 172 countries of the world to find out which nations are the happiest nations. …

The Chinar village of the Tavush Marz is one of the outskirts of Armenia. The house where we had stopped at was just a couple of hundred meters away from the Azeri front and, as the locals said, the Azeri were watching us. “Will they fire?” I asked. “They won’t fire, but it’s not good …

Of course, it was a symbolic ceremony, as the Armenian Apostolic Church does not condone gay marriages. They exchanged rings in the church and staged a small wedding party at a restaurant with Misha’s mother and their friends. They came from Paris especially to exchange vows in Echmiadzin. Both grew up in environments – one …

On July 6, Russian “Moskovski Comsomolets” newspaper wrote about the May 3 Armenian plane accident in Sochi. The reporter wrote that it was very easy to say that the pilots were to blame and recommended searching for guilty people who are alive. The reporter assumed that the reason for the accident were the technical difficulties. …

Head of Georgia’s Automobile Federation Shalva Obgaidze has announced that cars stolen in Georgia are transferred to and sold in Armenia and Azerbaijan. He has also accused one of the very well-known judges of Armenia. “A very well-known judge in Armenia is “legalizing” the sale of those automobiles without even knowing how they made it …

The modeling was carried out in “Airbus SAS” company with French, Armenian and Russian experts. The specialists recovered the performance parameters of the plane before the accident and modeled it. According to the RA CACB, the specialist got very important information after modeling and they are going to compare that information with the information they …