Society

The junkyard of the 50 year old, 20 hectare territory of Nubarashen has spread and reached 52 hectares. The territory belongs to the municipality. However, yesterday at noon, the garbage trucks did not throw a large quantity of trash in the 52 hectare territory, but rather, in the cemetery of Nubarashen which is located 700-800 …

Poghos Khachatryan, famous Armenologist and author of the article about “Grigor Narekatsi” published in the “Christian Armenia” encyclopedia in 2002, writes that during the Middle Age, the Armenian people considered the “Book of Tragedies” (also known as “Narek”) written by Narekatsi as “medicine for life”. People have strived for the best, to be freed from …

The Shirak regional prosecutor’s office has refused to bring up an action against one of our reporters Arman Galoyan based on the preliminary data. Let’s recall that Gagik Manukyan, who is the campaign manager for mayor candidate for Gyumri Vardan Ghukasyan, had applied to the prosecutor’s office asking them to bring an action against our …

By spending 46.661 million. dram instead of the planned 44.093 m. dram, the municipality could realize the following works in Yerevan: reconstruction of Northern Avenue, construction of houses and external communication facilities in Diakonia district, full reconstruction of Kievyan bridge, reconstruction of Davitashen bridge and the little bridge of the cable car building (these two …

On Saturday at around 1: 30 p.m. the building located on 74 Aram street collapsed due to mistakes made in construction. One of the workers named Hamlet Adamyan (born in 1977 and resident of Charentsavan) was left under the ruins. The ambulance got to the site and pulled Hamlet out of the ruins. He had …

Georgian specialists who have joined Russian and Abkhazian specialists in evaluating the status of the Psou-Inguri section of the Georgian railroad have declared that the plan for reconstructing the Abkhazian part is ready. According to calculations, approximately $150 million will be needed for reconstruction. A special group of Russian, Georgian and Armenian representatives will be …

The authorities don’t inform us about when there will be heating in the schools of Yerevan. As we were informed by the Education department of the municipality, they had organized a meeting with the directors of schools in the communities and asked them to test the heaters and electric systems of the schools to make …

Recently the number of suicide attempts has increased. The most interesting thing is that most of them leave notes saying that they do this due to bad social conditions. In Armavir city Kh.Tigran (born in 1966) attempted to kill himself by jumping out of his apartment window located on the third floor. He got injured …

Three people have died from the car accident which took place on the Gyumri-Yerevan highway. Resident of the Ghanbjanyan village of the Shiraz region Samvel Melikyan crashed his “VAZ 21-06” car with the “Kamaz 55-11” car belonging to resident of Talin Yura Grigoryan. Three passengers of the “VAZ 21-06” vehicle, including Anahit, Armenuhi and Artur …

The president of Armenia’s Union of Deaf People gets elected for a two-year term. This year marks the end of the union president Zhora Varagyan’s term. According to the UDP charter, the six union branches (two in Yerevan, and one in Gyumri, Vanadzor, Martuni and Agarak) must hold conferences, elect a deputy team, hold a …