Society

Distrust

05.03.2006

The residents of Buzand Street don’t trust the city council of Yerevan and demand negotiations with the organizations making investments because they think that the third party is lying to them and the investors. The former director of the third party, current Deputy Mayor, Karin Davtyan, denies such demands from the residents. “We work with …

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Are they playing with us again?

05.03.2006

The letter-appeals sent to international courts and organizations are not stopping the vandalism. Azerbaijan continues to spread its anti-Armenian propaganda and Armenian-Azerbaijani ties keep getting worse. During the social events dedicated to the Sumgait massacres, people have called out that they have to respond to Azerbaijan by following the principle of Azerbaijani. What caused an …

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Non-political TV ratings

05.03.2006

The first article written on the reputation that each TV network has in Yerevan was pretty politicized. The society is not aware of this yet. Meanwhile a group of parliamentarians are discussing the recent speech made by the head of the national TV network. Probably the reason is that all fields are politicized more than …

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How much does it cost to build a house?

05.03.2006

First of all the land owner or leaser applies to the municipality and presents the ownership certificate or leasing contract, as well as the outline of the building. Based on this information the municipality gives an architectural assignment. Based on this assignment and the outlines the draft of the house is prepared and then is …

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Defenseless against trafficking?

05.03.2006

The committee members include head of the Fight against Corruption department of the prosecutor’s office Mihran Minasyan, head of the control/supervising department Gagik Avetisyan, elder adviser to the general prosecutor Hovhannes Stepanyan, vice-director of the National Assembly House of Supervisors Gegham Gasparyan and vice-director of the Supervising department of the Prime Minister Ashot Setrakyan. The …

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Still tasty

04.03.2006

According to our sources, at around 5:00 p.m. yesterday, the garbage truck serving the Nubarashen quarter-municipality had thrown many Ukrainian “Slavutich” beers into the truck. Sources say that the expiration date of the beers read December 29, 2005 and that 3,000 bottles had been thrown into the garbage truck. What’s interesting is that the beers …

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New department to investigate trafficking

04.03.2006

According to our well-informed sources recently a new department was founded on the base of the RA general prosecutor’s order, which is to investigate the information about trafficking talked about in the peace. Some public prosecutor’s office and customs service officials are suspected to be involved in trafficking. In case of finding any violations the …

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HTB correspondent killed

04.03.2006

On Sunday, correspondent of the HTB Ilya Zimin was killed in Moscow. The body of the journalist was found in his apartment. According to doctors, he was hit hard on his head. Police officers think that this murder is not connected with his profession, on the contrary, it has to do with his private life. …

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Petrosyan was beaten

04.03.2006

Humorist Yevgeni Petrosyan was attacked in Zhavoronok, Russia on Sunday. Petrosyan was planning to sled down the hill on his sled. A group of teenagers noticed a rich man and decided to rob him. However, when they recognized the star of the Russian First Channel they decided to beat him. They stole Petrosyan’s wallet and …

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Where was Mayrapetyan when Kyalyan was “doctor of science”?

04.03.2006

“If I say yes you will say no…”, this is how the newly elected rector of the State Medical University of Yerevan Gohar Kyalyan answered to the journalists’ question on whether the results of the elections were not decided beforehand. She said that for her election she’s going to thank neither her husband, director of …

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