Society

Twelve year old Suren was home alone when we pushed the unlocked door open and asked to see the parents. There was pop music heard from the stereo in the room, but that didn’t go along with the dirty walls and terrible situation of the house. “Mom went to get water from the well, Dad …

Five month-old Michael lays in the old, metal cradle. His clothes and blanket are as old as the pass afire that he sucks on so much, making it seem like that is the only thing that he eats. The problem of getting food is also a problem facing Michael’s four brothers and six sisters, but …

Yesterday during a press conference the chairman of the Progressive Party of Armenia Tigran Ulikhanyan announced that the bird flu has already made its way to Armenia. According to him in Hovtashat village of Ararat Marz the representatives of the party found seven dead turkeys and one more dead turkey was found in Hayanist village …

According to the “Hayastan” joint stock company, during the same year, there have been 70,000 cubic meters of logging. As for the illegal logging, there have been 16,000 cubic meters. Some of the wood has been imported and we can say that the number of used wood in Armenia in 2003 was about 100,000 cubic …

On Saturday the public prosecutor’s office of Shirak region called “168 Hours” journalist Armine Avetyan and questioned her. After our 69th publication the police department head of the Marz wrote a letter to the public prosecutor’s office, where he said that Armine Avetyan had played around with his reputation in the article entitled “The adventures …

The city mayor of Noyemberyan, Seryoja Amiraghyan has applied to the court to institute proceedings against “168 Hours”. On November 27 we published an article named “Presenting a building to the city council”, which contained the open letter of the citizens of Noyemberyan to the RA vice president A. Margaryan and the RA president adviser …

The board has monitored social activities in 26 territorial social agencies. The board has monitored only the 10.866 cases of social aid programs out of the existing 82.960 and they found shortcomings in 355 cases. As a result of their monitoring activities they found out that 9.620.000 dram had not been paid to the relevant …

They had more than 25.000 dram, but they had also two small children and old parents. On the way to the market they were giving the money to each other, calculating and deciding what to buy. First of all they decided to keep 10.000 dram as savings for unexpected expenses. Then they decided to buy …

The RA police board registered 370 cases of suicide or suicide attempt in 2005, most of which alas was had tragic outcome. In January the police registered 26 cases of suicide, in February – 23, in March – 35, in April – 47, in May – 26, in June 37, in July – 39, in …

When the New Year comes, we think about getting all the necessary accessories for the holidays; in other words, the stuff that we can use to decorate the table and amaze our family, friends and other acquaintances that go from house to house. During my whole life, starting from 1965 when I was born, I …