Society

Armenians were not afraid of the bird flu during the Easter holidays and that’s why egg sales went up by 30-50%.

Recently, the citizens of Artabujnk and Shatin village communities of Vayots Dzor region have appealed to the government to pay attention to what kind of business Republican MP Hermine Naghdalayan is doing in their region. According to them Hermine Naghdalyan is going to build a hydro station around the villages, as a result of which …

Last night a group of unknown criminals killed Armenian businessman Ohanyan, who owed a restaurant in Moscow. The criminals killed him on the round square of Moscow on its 42th kilometers distance. The press secretary of the public prosecutor’s office of Moscow, Sergey Marchenko, told the PBK Russian news agency that a group of unknown …

Some of the members of the Armenian writers’ union said that there was a mistake in our recent publication entitled “Ananyan sells the property of writers’ union”. The article was about an apartment on Israelyan street, which was used as a workshop for writers. Before this apartment used to belong to writer Hamo Sahyan, but …

The mayor of Yerevan Yervand Zakharyan gave a report of the work done by the municipality and community municipalities during the first trimester of this year. In his report, he stated that instead of the expected 14920.42 million dram they had spent 14986.22 million dram to implement work programs (100.44%). When speaking about transportation issues …

The season for tourism has begun in Armenia. According to the governmental decision as of 2003, tourism is considered to be the main field of Armenian economy. Just like in the other fields of economy, there is progress in the tourism too. According to the National Statistics Service (NSS) the number of tourists visiting Armenia …

Deputy chief police of Armenia and general/major Hovhannes Varyan probably knew beforehand that president Robert Kocharyan was going to rank him general/lieutenant for “his service for the homeland”. He had come prepared, in uniform and most importantly with white gloves, which he kept taking off and showing. April 14 marked the 5th anniversary of the …

Tamar Goregyan won the first beauty contest in Iraq last week, but she was forced to give up her “Miss Iraq” title due to some threats made by Muslim groups. “You are not the queen of beauty, but rather the queen of disbelievers,” said the extremists. The second “Miss Iraq” Silva Sahakyan was also forced …

According to the “ITAR-TASS”, the lowest salary rate of Armenia was increased by only 15% last year, which is the lowest mark in CIS countries. Last year, the lowest salary in Azerbaijan was increased by 50%, in Russia – 33% and twice in Moldova. The lowest salary in Armenia covers 13.000 dram.

In 2005, 137 organizations imported goods to Armenia from 37 countries with a customs worth covering 14,92 billion dram. This is less by 3,5 billion dram than in 2004. According to the head of the governmental department on charity programs, Simon Ter-Simonyan, the capacity of charity programs has been cut down as a result of …