Society

The court hearing which took place on December 1 at the Criminal and Military Cases appeal court of Armenia had serious consequences. Let’s recall that the case being heard was the 15 year imprisonment of three army soldiers accused for murder: Razmik Sargsyan, Musa Serobyan and Arayik Zalyan. The boys have gone out on a …

Recently the Hayastan All-Armenian fund organized a telethon and collected 7,5 million dollars. Yesterday head of the fund Naira Melkumyan made an announcement regarding this. Last year they collected 11,5 dollars. Although the sum that the fund collected this year is less than the sum they collected last year, Naira Melkumyan says that the marathon …

Last year, while translating a text that someone had asked me to translate; I encountered the word ”evolutsya” (evolution) and decided to translate it since the client had assigned me to translate the text because he trusted me. I had no need to open a dictionary. I already knew what was going to be written …

“I must tell everyone what people tell me, but I don’t have to believe everything at all” Herodot, old Greek historician I think people believe everything and anything in early childhood. For example children never suspect that their parents will buy toys for them when they promise to buy toys if they eat their meal. …

Yesterday the English-Armenian dictitonary of EU terms  was presented at the EU information office in Armenia. They have published 2000 dictionaries and distributed them to journalists, students and officers of international organizations.

Yesterday the Criminal and Military Cases appeal court started legal proceedings in the first instance court of the Syunik Marz. The case was against three soldiers serving in the army (Rzmik Sargsyan, Arayik Zalyan and Musa Serobyan) who were condemned to 15 years in jail for murder. Let’s recall that on December 24, 2003, Movses …

On the referendum day I returned home from the empty and quiet streets of Yerevan and turned the TV set on. During the “Haylur” evening broadcast Artak Alexanyan asked his colleague from Gyumri whether there was snow in Gyumri and whether it didn’t influence on the referendum procedures and voters’ turnout. His colleague answered that …

There have been a lot of people poisoned from gas heating recently due to the beginning of cold weather. On November 25, at 9:45 a.m. Hasmik (born 1927) and Matsak Marikyan (born 1920) from the Gyulagarak village in the city of Stepanakert in Lori Marz were poisoned from an open gas tube and were transferred …

The board of inter-state supervision recognized the rights of the 416 residents of the Kond district as the rights of old residents of Kond. This means that only 416 of the 1000 residents of Kond will have their property certificates recognized. According to Chief Adviser of the Yerevan municipality Grigor Melkumyan, the soviet city council …

In our previous edition, we published an article entitled “Death in white robes”, which was about the death of 28 year old Susanna Badalyan who died after giving birth to her second child on April 14, 2005. The murder took place in the urological department of the Erebuni hospital. The reason for the death was …