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While different countries of the world are evacuating their citizens from Egypt the Armenian government only limits itself by posting warnings to the Armenian citizens, who are currently in Egypt. Yesterday, the spokesman of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Tigran Balayan said that the Armenian Embassy in Egypt made a statement, by which it advises the …

The inhabitants of Ashtarak town and the nearby villages assure that due to the annually growing unemployment and poverty the residents flee from the marz. According to their data, only from Ujan during 2010 40 families have migrated and settled down in France. “We don’t even mention how people run to Russia when there is …

The price of flour has grown by 35-50 for one kilo. Now the price of one kilo of flour is 280-300 instead of the previous 210-250 drams. The importers of grain allege that the prices in the world market have grown, thus they have to increase the prices too. They say that the price of …

“In Armenia the number of suicides and attempts of suicide has increased,” during yesterday’s press conference mentioned the Head of the Census and Demography Department of the National Statistics Service Karine Kuyumjyan. Kuyumjyan said that major part of suicides and attempted suicides is committed in Armenia by unemployed and people, who depend on social welfares. “57.3% …

In the 70-80s of the previous century the Armenian language was officially being degraded. The language of the government and the prestige was the Russian language. The teachers of Russian schools were threatening to schoolchildren by saying, “If you continue to act this way we will fire and send you to an Armenian school.” But …

The Public Channel will be run by private management but will continue being the property of the state. Starting from January 21 the Ararat channel will not be broadcast, instead of that the programs prepared by Shoghakat studio will be published by the H2 channel. This revision of the channels has been done without a …

The estimations and opinions about the achievements of Armenia in 2010 would be better if Armenia’s goal as a state was clear and the political, cultural and economic goals were clear as well. It is not about the declarative announcements or strategies but the real thinking, perception of the world and attitude, which is more …

The earth is in the phase of the Christmas holidays. In our childhood these days were used to wait for Santa Claus (or Winter Grandfather). Later we understood that they don’t exist. But I think that this miracle, the feeling of waiting stays for the entire life. If it is, let’s speak about aliens and …

On December 18 Armenian “thief-in-law” Armen Harutyunyan (Armen Kanevskoy) passed away in Astrakhan. According to Interfax, he passed away in hospital because some of his important organs stopped working properly. Kanevskoy, aged 40, is famous in the criminal world with his close relations with the godfather of the Russian criminal world “Ded Hasan”. Even more, …

Yesterday the Executive Director of Hayastan All-Armenian Fund Ara Vardanyan summed up preliminary results of the 13th Telethon. The names of those who donated more than $100, 000 were issued. The rest information on donors will be issued in January 2011. There are only a few names from Armenia’s major businessmen on the list of …