Society

Living without electricity for eight years

14.02.2006

He doesn’t know because ever since he was born, he has been living in a house made out of metal provided by the owner of the “Zatik” orphanage. The house is located on Tbilisian highway. Galust has been raised in the dark, metal home. Due to the hardships that Galust and his two year old …

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Citizens must know what they are paying for

11.02.2006

There are 500-550 tons of garbage filled in the garbage cans in Yerevan daily. Fifteen sanitary companies move those garbage cans and seven of them are private companies. The municipality no longer provides financing and the quarter-municipalities only pay money for cleaning the streets. Businessmen and residents pay money for removing the trash on their …

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Armenia: a disappearing nation

11.02.2006

Statistics prove that every 100 girls that are born can get married to 105-106 boys. There has been an increase in the number of males being born after ceasefire and the years that followed. This is also known as the “war effect” and nobody knows the reasons for this yet. According to owner of the …

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No deaths fortunately

09.02.2006

According to witnesses, fortunately there were four people in the pavilion at the time (two sellers and two passer-bys) who managed to escape the pavilion. If they had not been able to escape, then they would have died due to the fact that the roof and columns of the pavilion are from metal. At first …

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Houses collapsed

07.02.2006

Yesterday two houses collapsed in the city of Gyumri. The houses collapsed due to the hard snow. The houses were not in good condition. They had informed the municipality about this before, but the officials told them to put some pillars there to keep it from ruining.

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Theft and murder

07.02.2006

According to our sources, yesterday at 7:30 p.m. two criminals attacked the collector of the “HayIncassatsia”, Alexan Davtyan (born in 1957), when he was leaving the Unibank Arabkir branch. Definitely Alexan Davtyan could not resist because the criminals shot him and killed him while robbing him. Then they stole Davtyan’s car (VAZ 21-06 model car, …

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Vahe Grigoryan against the Republic of Armenia

07.02.2006

A round table discussion entitled “How Armenian authorities treat lawyers” was organized at the “Yerevan” hotel yesterday. The participants were condemning the authorities, demanding them to stop pressuring lawyers and they demanded releasing lawyer Vahe Grigoryan from jail immediately. Let’s recall that Vahe Grigoryan was the lawyer for the residents who were being kicked out …

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Archives stolen

07.02.2006

According to well-informed sources both the RA Police and the National Security Service are occupied with investigating the robbery case that was done several days ago from Zori Balayan’s apartment. The investigation is headed by the head of the Operative Service of the NSS Lieutenant-Major Chalyan. An unknown person or people have stolen top important …

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Do they launder money?

07.02.2006

On Monday the Khachatryans made a strike near the city administration office to make them pay attention to the activities of the “Diakonia” philanthropic foundation. Vahagn and Angin Khachatryans have ten children and they are also going to go out on a hunger strike. We promised to help them and advised them to take their …

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Armed attacks have increased

04.02.2006

Yesterday at 10:00 am there was an armed attack in the apartment (Hr. Kochar street) of the head of Yerevan municipality juridical department Artyom Sargsyan. The criminals tied up the children and Mr. Sargsyan’s wife and stole a little safe from their apartment. Recently, armed attacks have increased in Armenia. On January 21, five citizens …

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