The Yerevan Municipality reports a loss of some one billion drams (US$2.591 million) in unpaid rent from the scores of illegally installed payment terminals that dot the city’s streets.
Sekhposyan participated in the second annual conference of the Armenian Cultural and Scientific Society (ASOF) in Dilijan at the end of June.
Opposition Hayastan (Armenia) party MP Artzvik Minasyan, in an interview with Hetq, said he and his colleagues may resign from parliament in a bid to topple the Pashinyan government.
He used to work at the Masis shoe factory in the late 1980s before the plant closed after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Armenian government lists 175 soldiers and twenty civilians as still missing.
The Norwegian travelers think they’ll stay in Armenia for another month and in the spring, when the roads thaw and the weather gets nice, they’ll return home to Norway, crisscrossing all twelve countries again.
"As soon as the door opened, the boys came forward and prevented them from filming. There were not many of us, and the Russian peacekeepers in that car also pushed them out before they could film," says Vahagn. One of the girls in the car fainted.
Gabrielyan, a native of the Artsakh town of Askeran, says he misses his students and hopes to reunite with them soon.
Lilit and Armen Karapetyan are buried side by side in the family cemetery.
At a parliamentary Q&A session today, PM Nikol Pashinyan said his government wants to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan by year’s end and is working towards this.
Friends and relatives of those killed during the 2020 Artsakh war gathered today at Yerevan’s Yerablur Military Pantheon to mark the second anniversary of the war and to pay their respects to the fallen.
A few dozen protesters, including relatives of Armenian soldiers killed during the 2020 Artsakh war, gathered in front of the National Assembly building in Yerevan today, demanding the resignation of the government.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, during a Q&A session at the National Assembly regarding last night’s Azerbaijani attacks along the border, said that while Armenia has sufficient financial means to acquire the arms and ammunition it needs to defend itsel
Pashinyan announced the news during a speech at the National Assembly, adding that the number is not final.
Sargsyan sat down with Hetq to share what he witnessed on the ground prior to the November 9 ceasefire.
Yelizavet Ohanjanyan was also marching. Her son volunteered to fight and was killed on October 20, 2020 in Artsakh.
The platoons managed to get out of the blockade on the night of November 8. Fighting in the woods, they retreated, and on November 9, at 04:00 in the morning, they reached Stepanakert.
“My dream is for my children to be well, for this house to be fixed up a bit. But I’m just not able to, either physically or financially. But I’ll never give up hope.”
Seven hundred people have visited the museum since it opened. The museum also wants to hold workshops and other events, including international winemaking conferences.
In early November 2020, when Azerbaijani armed forces attacked the Artsakh town of Shushi, 73-year-old Vladimir Parsiants was one of the few residents, mostly seniors, still there.
Residents of Yerevan’s Babajanyan Street, in the Malatia-Sebastia Administrative District, have launched a signature petition to oppose the construction of a huge residential complex in the area.
A few days ago, he saw a video on the internet showing Azerbaijanis ransacking their home in Artsakh.
Friends and relatives of soldiers killed in the 2020 Artsakh war paid their respects today at Yerevan’s Yerablur Military Pantheon.
“With Honor” bloc MPs today walked out of the parliamentary chamber when Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan took the podium to present his government’s five-year program.
This building below, at 80 Firdus Street, was included in the list of monuments only after activists fought for its landmark status.
The dust swirling in the air above Yerevan often exceeds the maximum allowable concentration (MAC).
Acting Armenian Economy Minister Vahan Kerobyan, in an interview with Hetq, claimed that living standards have improved in the country under the Pashinyan government, arguing that incomes have increased by 35%.
Ex-Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan today said he rejected an invitation to debate Nikol Pashinyan out of a sense of pity for the current prime minister.
Bright Armenia, representing the third largest parliamentary faction, proposes to change the constitution, expanding the powers of the president and the parliament.
While the Armenian National Congress today did not formally announce whether it will field candidates in the June snap parliamentary election in Armenia, party leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan said the ANC must be represented in the new legislature “so tha
Yerevan, May 9: Yerablur Military Pantheon
Students and teachers made the trip to watch a performance of Alvan Tzaghik (The Scarlet Flower).
According to the latest update of the lists, we are talking about 400 people, but this only refers to the work we have done. This data should not be considered final.
Samvel was buried in Gyumri’s Shirak Pantheon.
The demonstrators requested meetings with the ambassadors to discuss their plight and the atrocities committed by Azerbaijani armed forces during last year’s war.
Armen Baghdasaryan was posthumously awarded the Combat Service Medal.
"He would tell me not to worry. That he’ll go and return. That we’ll build a house. not be upset,” says Tehmineh.
We met Sirush Khachatryan in front of the Government Building in Yerevan on January 29. Displaced Kashatagh residents were protesting, calling on the government to resolve their housing issue.
Twenty-five 25 after emigrating, the family returned to Armenia and started their own small business.
Captain Taron Nikoghosyan died on October 9 in the village of Ishkhanadzor in the Kashatagh region of Artsakh. His body has not yet been found. He was 28 years old.
Hakobyans family hails from Tumi, a village in Artsakh’s Hadrut District now under Azerbaijani military control.
Valentin Burnusuzyan was born in Javakhk, in the village of Aragva, Akhalkalaki region. His parents died young, so he grew up in his uncle's family.
The marchers gathered a Yerevan’s Garegin Njdeh Square and proceed to the Yerablur Military Pantheon
Satenik places her husband’s medals and honorary awards on the writing desk. Mark and Maria aged four, quickly run to the table and pick them up.
The 29-year-old was killed in the recent Karabakh war, but the family still doesn’t know where his body is. They want to properly bury the body.
67-year-old Yevgenia Aghasyan takes a deep breath and utters the words "victory ... victory ... peace"
The 14-year-old used the 100,000 drams he was saving to buy a computer to launch an online retail business. Since his father is at the front, Boris sees himself as “the man of the house” who must take care of the family until they return home.
About one hundred people gathered in front of the US Embassy in Yerevan today and demanded that the United States recognize Artsakh's independence.
Women and children from Artsakh, now taking refuge in Armenia, gathered in front of the United Nations Office in Yerevan today to demand that the international community pressure Baku and Ankara to stop the war.