Society

Asking for permission

04.02.2006

Yesterday the court of Malatsia-Sebastia community rejected Mayor of Noyemberyan’s appeal against “168 Hours”. The purpose of the mayor wasn’t to make the newspaper print information denying the information printed in the previous edition, but to find out who that brave citizen is that wrote an open letter to the prime-minister and the president’s advisor …

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Cell phone texts in Armenian

04.02.2006

Programmers have already worked out Armenian texts for cell phones. Although the text is only for Samsung model phones, however, programmers are working on new texts now. (The texts of cell phones that appeared in our market about nine years ago were only in Russian and English). Sergey Avagyan and Henrik Sargsyan have taken this …

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Who continues to destruct the Holocaust monument in Yerevan?

04.02.2006

Very few citizens of Yerevan know that there is a monument in Yerevan in memory of the victims of the worse crime committed against humanity. The majority of people passing by the “Paplavok” cafe’s round park don’t even notice the small monument. Some people who actually see the monument are amazed that David’s star is …

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No promises for peace

31.01.2006

“Get ready for war if you want peace”. These words of wisdom, which axiomatically mean maintaining stability through equalization, don’t seem to prove anything. Not because the weak don’t attack the stronger side, but rather because peace is not the antonym of war. If we turn these words around, the reader will probably understand what …

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From the fore post to the office

31.01.2006

The Russian “Kultura” television network showed a live concert which took place at the Moscow Kremlin hall last Sunday night. The “Kultura” channel rebroadcasts its shows in Armenia, but that didn’t stop Armenian Public Television from broadcasting the concert live. Just like back in the days of the Soviet Union, the local television network had …

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They’re even kicking us out of the church yard

31.01.2006

Four families live in the Nerkin Charbakh kindergarten. The villagers know those families and say that they are homeless people. They show the kindergarten and say “Go see whether or not one can live like animals. It turns out that he can. Man is more clever than an animal.” The kindergarten is located near the …

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Cutting off Ojalan’s electricity

31.01.2006

Twenty five women representing the “Kurdistan” committee of Armenia are going to go out on a five-day hunger strike. “It has already been seven years since the Kurds’ leader Abdullah Ojalan has been in the Imrali prison in Turkey and he is in bad conditions. It has been more than one month that the leader …

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Three dead hens

31.01.2006

In the last edition of “168 Hours”, we informed that on January 22 the labor workers had found dead hens in the sacks of a cargo train, stationed at the railway station. The employees of the RA National Security Department and Epidemics and Hygienic Bureau arrived at the scene. Yesterday our sources informed that the …

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We have business in the court

31.01.2006

The mayor of Noyemberyan Seryozha Amiraghyan has sued “168 Zham”. Let’s recall that on November 27, “168 Zham” has published the open letter (entitled “Building is given to Avaganis”) of the residents of Noyemberyan, which was sent to Prime-Minister A. Margaryan and RA President’s Advisor on Corruption Issues Bagrat Yesayan. The residents of Noyemberyan wrote …

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Airplane landed in Baku

27.01.2006

On January 23 the airplane of the “Siberia” airlines flying from Moscow to Yerevan (flight # 906 ) had to land in the airport of Baku due to bad weather. Before landing the company asked to make sure that the 53 passengers were going to be secure. There was no problem in the airport of …

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