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This week specialists were finally able to take the black boxes of the Armenian plane crashed in Black Sea out of the water. “The boxes are seriously damaged”, said the Russian specialists right after taking the boxes out of the water, which made some people think that this “is a way of hiding the truth …

Today a Russian journalist visited the “168 Hours” editorial office. Correspondent of “Novaya Gazeta” newspaper of Rostov city of Russia, Anna Lebedeva has been in Armenia for about a week now and she is going to leave for Tbilisi soon. Anna Lebedeva has already visited Stepanakert, Akhalkalak and Baku within the framework of her official …

According to some preliminary calculations, this year the number of first grade students will increase by 30% because the students will be divided into two groups: those whose birthday is between the period of September and December, and those whose birthday is before this period (i.e. those who are at the age of 6,5). At …

If the Azerbaijani were to come out half victorious, then they would praise their great leader Heydar Aliyev, whose portraits, statues and busts decorate the cities and villages of Azerbaijan, which suffered severe losses after the war. If the Azerbaijani had even half of a Diaspora, they would have brought back the seven regions a …

The new rector of the Yerevan State University of Armenia Aram Simonyan has already appointed new people. Former president of the university graduates’ union Arsen Karamyan has been appointed as the pro-rector of the student, graduate and public relations department. Karamyan was born in 1974 and graduated from the history department of the Yerevan State …

This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of Armenia’s independence. Two years later, Armenians will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Karabagh movement. The anniversary celebrations and festivals will coincide with the presidential elections. One of the Karabagh movement torch-bearers will hand over the torch to the next leader. The handing over and acceptation will be …

Almost former chairman of the National Assembly Arthur Baghdasaryan, who has declared himself oppositional, is doing business in the education sector along with his other businesses. Baghdasaryan owns the European Territorial Academy and the French University. These two institutions were founded after 2000 and are pretty well-known among the other universities of Armenia with their …

On May 22, one of the black boxes of the Armenian A-320 aircraft, which crashed in the Black Sea not far from Sochi, was taken out of water. According to “Ria Novosti” news agency, “One of the black boxes of the A-320 plane has been taken out of water. Currently, work is being done to …

Since the estrangement of Armenian Diasporans is becoming more and more inevitable during the times of globalization, it is better to “have the Diaspora become more involved in strengthening the Homeland, thus postpone its estrangement.” This is just one of the opinions expressed in the book entitled “Towards Ararat: National Repatriation Project-the key for Armenia’s …

“168 Hours” was informed from the economy ministry of Armenia that 81 million AMD has been transferred to the bank account opened for transferring money for the families of the deceased people during the plane crash in Sochi. The governmental special delegation that was founded after this catastrophe, headed by the regional management minister Hovik …