"Today, even those defeated political forces who refrain from stating that fraud occured at the ballot box, agree with the above observation.
The windows of the doorless room lack glass, there are no toilet or sink, no water, the floor is concrete. Seven-year-old Diana and four-year-old Eric are barefoot – they don't have shoes. They wear the only clothes they have - that is why no one sees ...
Ten residents of Yerevan's Byuzand Street whose houses were pulled down for “state needs” and who refused to sell their property to the government and give up their registration are now deprived of the right to vote.
A number of NGOs and psychologists who deal with issues related to graduates from children's homes stress that many initiatives aimed at helping children raised in such homes often fail to produce the desired results only because after receiving a certain amount of material assistance, these children are not prepared to live and build their future on their own.
For people residing at 127/2 Gurgen Mahari Street (the former vocational culinary school in Vardashen) extreme poverty is all the future offers. According to Harutyun Sargsyan, a department head at the Erebuni district administration, there are many people like this in their community.
Children's home graduate Artur Barseghyan was scheduled to received a one-room apartment under the State Aid to Children's Home Graduates program in 2004.
The February 12 issue of Hetq included the article Apartments for Graduates from Children's Homes Are Unfit to Live In, after which a meeting was organized at the initiative of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, where they attempted to explain to Hetq why some apartments end up in dilapidated condition within just a few months and who is to blame for this situation.
At a press conference on February 16, Armenian Copper Program (ACP) executive director Gagik Arzumanyan said that the area of the Teghut forest to be cleared would come to 357.16 hectares, with a timber yield of 57.7 thousand cubic meters, in case the copper and molybdenum reserves in the Lori provincial region were to be mined. These calculations cover the damage to be done by 25 years of mining, coming to a monetary sum of 2 billion drams.
Since 2003 the Government of Armenia has been providing the graduates of children's homes with apartments, but many of these young people have been given apartments that are unfit to live in.
These three young children and their mother live in a room on the eighth floor of the drivers' dormitory located at 127/2 Nor Aresh Street in Yerevan.
“Europe is open to our fashion. When I say ‘our' I mean that which we have created. Nobody is saying that we should all wear the traditional Armenian costume, but even a small detail in the Armenian style – a sewing design, color or cut – would interest Europe,” said Mikayel Danielyan, fashion designer and head instructor at the Atex fashion center.
In 2005, the French charity Brothers of Hope donated 10,000 euros as part of French-Armenian benefactress Taguhi Alexanyan's initiative to start installing irrigation pipelines in the village of Ujan in the Aragatsotn Marz.
“You may be right and I may be wrong but with an effort, together we may be closer to the truth,” wrote philosopher Karl Popper (1902-1994). This thought reflects the importance of debate.
As a result of the devaluation of the dollar (or valuation of the dram) expenses for companies working in the IT sphere have increased by 20-25%.
Though it may not be among the service offered by most Armenian tour agencies, there is a type of tourism that caters to those who are ready to come to Armenia and climb hills and mountains to see species of birds that don't exist anywhere else in the world. Bird tourism, which originated in Great Britain, is growing in Armenia.
According to information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, because of the war in Lebanon, 774 citizens of that country arrived to take refuge in Armenia over the summer months. Most of them are ethnic Armenians. Some of them have already returned home; the others remain in uncertainty.
Visitors to the exhibit of photographs entitled A Year of Hetq in Pictures that opened last week at the Narekatsi Art Institute may have felt they were seeing realistic pictures of homeless, forsaken and betrayed people in Armenia for the first time.
Armenian travel agencies have joined Armenian and foreign tourists in complaining about how expensive holidaying here has grown over the past few years.
In 2005, Anush Tserunyan received the Armenian President's Award in the category of Best Baccalaureate in Information Technology.
For ten years now the words "justice" and "democracy" have been reformulated and reedited over and over again in dozens of projects intended to make the vivid dream of e-governance in Armenia a reality. But nothing much has changed as a result.
To Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe, East Timor, Cook Island and Burkina Faso
"DiRecTor was here" or Muradik, or Alert - this are the notes that are usually left by Azerbaijani hackers after they break in yet again to Armenian websites (See photos).
As interest on the part of both the public and private sector in the field of information and communication technology (ICT) has increased, ICT companies have had the opportunity to participate in a growing number of exhibitions.
The Ministry of Science and Education has allocated US $4,890,000 for the installation of information and communication technology (ICT) in schools. But because that amount is part of a loan from the World Bank, the ministry decided to provide schools with this technology on the condition that the schools in question pay back 41% the cost of the equipment within two years. This process was begun in 2004 and is set to continue until 2008.
Vahe Musoyan of Yerevan won two gold medals at this year's Informatics Olympiad held in Poland on August 18-25. In 2004, at 15, Vahe was the youngest participant at the Pan-Armenian Programming Contest.
"It is hard for me to walk up high sidewalk curbs. Every time I walk alone I try to find a convenient place to overcome this difficulty.