Society

According to the UN’s calendar, October the 1st is known internationally as elders’ day. There are two pensions in Yerevan. At the present, there are 450 elders living in those pensions and a surprise is in store for them on October the 1st. The administrative staff of the #1 pension of Nork and Haghtanak village …

On that street, there is a student hostel. It belongs to the Avag college in Sevan and the Ministry of Education and Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. For years, many families have lived with the students in the same building. Some of them are refugees from Baku, and the rest are students from needy …

The law regarding those groups has been passed by the Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia way back in 1991. There have been some changes and fill-ins made by the National Assembly in 1997 and in 2001. However, there are many flaws and contrasts in the law, basically, it is not being applied. According …

When I was a freshman at the university, well-known professor at the Yerevan State University and one of the greatest intellectuals of our time Mr. Levon Nersisyan was reading lectures to us on ancient literature. In order to make the lecture clearer, he often drew parallels between historical and contemporary events. One time, I don’t …

Let’s not forget to mention, that before getting appointed to this position, V. Barseghyan was the Vice-Minister of Youth Issues at the Ministry of Culture and he was generally controlling the “new young vultures”. Today, he has moved from “vultures” to “surveilling” cars. During the past two months, “HyeLur” (Armenian News) has been ending its …

“Vartenis is one of the districts of Armenia that is in a very hard position,” said Minister of Labor and Social Security Aghvan Vartanyan last week during a visit to the Gegharkunik region. “We have to take this into consideration when making projects to help the society.” Years ago the district has been a center …

Levon Khachatryan is a member of the National Assembly’s “Popular Deputy” club. You can always see him with a costume and a tie. He often complains that there is nothing to do at the National Assembly, and the villagers waiting to see what the deputies will do so that the “rain will not come”. “These …

The city of Yerevan will soon turn from a half-desert to a desert. This is warning by ecologists and they are organizing petitions for Armenians living in Armenia to demand that the government of the Republic of Armenia, the present and former mayors of Yerevan, the chief architect, The Ministry of Ecology, the Ministry of …

For over 100 years, the world practices bidding farewell to the deceased as a modern, ecologically clean and secure method. The first crematories were built in 1875 in Italy by the combined efforts of German and Italian engineers. During the beginning of the 20th century of urbanization in European countries, the presence of more than …

After Minister of Labor and Social Issues of the Republic of Armenia Aghvan Vartanyan departed from Vartenis, mayor of Vardenis Valodya Khloyan approached me. He looked at me as if I was a journalist for the ministry and asked me: “So, you only do tapings of officials: You don’t care how the average person lives.” …