Society

The maestro is still doing bad

27.06.2006

On June 23, doctors told us that maestro Ohan Duryan is still in bad condition. Doctors say that although he is better now and can breathe on his own, he is not doing too well.

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Bride Theft Rampant in Southern Georgia

26.06.2006

Maia was kidnapped by her future husband three times. She managed to escape twice, but the third time she just gave up and accepted her fate. Now, she says, “Gia is a remarkable husband. I’m happy to live with such a man.” This is despite the fact that Gia and his friends forcibly abducted her, …

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Still working

22.06.2006

On June 19, the staff at A1+ TV company moved out of its building on Grigor Lusavorich street due to the case of the judicial acts mandatory fulfillment department of the RA Justice ministry. The government has given a territory to A1+ on Buzand street as promised. Besides contract problems and the fact that the …

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Fire in Nork Forest

22.06.2006

On Sunday at 9:50 p.m. a fire broke out in the Nork forest. According to head of ArmForest, Martun Matevosyan, the fire broke out from the bottom part of the forest where there are houses and was put out at 11:20 p.m. Today ArmForest representatives visited the forest and saw some workers working near those …

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“The plane didn’t explode in air”

22.06.2006

Head of the technical commission of the International Aviation Committee told “ITARR TASS” news agency that the commissions had finished decoding the black boxes of the Armenian A320 plane. One of the black boxes that contained information about the technical performance of the plane had information about the last eight flights of the plane between …

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In search of well-informed people

22.06.2006

A day after the A-320 plane crash in Sochi, Artak Antonyan- director of the “Grand” insurance company insuring the plane-announced that each of the relatives of the victims would receive up to 20,000 dollar compensation. The company started registering the relatives’ documents 20 days after the crash. Another twenty days has passed, but the documents …

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50 million for murdering Armenians?

22.06.2006

“I wanted to take the metro in Moscow alone, just like they do in other countries. I had never gone alone so I thought, ‘I might as well do it tonight’. My colleagues advised me not to, saying that it’s “dangerous”,” said UN special speaker for racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia Dudu Dien from Senegal. …

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Behind thick walls

20.06.2006

Monk “Every parliamentarian and government official talks about the laws and how effective they are”, says prisoner of Goris prison Arthur Ajvazyan, 28, who was sentenced to 14 years in jail for murder, “I haven’t done anything illegal, I just protected the law and I was sentenced”. While being in prison, he has studied the …

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“The information was given on purpose and ignorantly”

19.06.2006

Russia’s Ambassador to Armenia Armen Smbatyan took part in the decryption of the black boxes of the A-320 plane that crashed in the Black Sea and no matter how much he tried not to give any information to journalists, he finally said that the reason for the crash was the “human factor”. Two days later, …

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They remained in awe

19.06.2006

During the deputies’ meeting with governmental officials, MP Emma Khudabashyan made a sensational announcement. She said that a group of citizens of Vardenis have applied to her and said that the head of the local mental hospital sold bodies of dead people. “The relatives of a dead man told me that they had buried their …

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