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Dear Readers,
As promised, the recently launched “Hetq” weekly newspaper is now available at your local Yerevan newsstand and we are distributing it to the other regions of the country and in Karabakh as well. If you don’t see it – tell your local vendor to get it. »»»»»

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Feature Stories

• Inga MartinyanAmbassador Hans-Jochen Schmidt: “Armenia is a beautiful country that shouldn’t be spoilt by industrial pollution”
  In this installment in our series focusing on foreign ambassadors serving in Armenia, we talked with Hans-Jochen Schmidt...
• Grisha BalasanyanMP Hrant Grigoryan: “I never give interviews”
  Hetq is starting a series highlighting various members of the RoA National Assembly.
• Ararat DavtyanPocketbook Politics: Regime Targets Business Interests of Sukiasyan Family
  Khachatur Sukiasyan supported the candidacy of Levon Ter-Petrosyan in the 2008 presidential elections and has paid the price.
• Hrant KatarikyanTakayuki Yoshimura: “Armenian society slowly opening up, just like Japan”
  Rumour has it that you can bump into more than a few interesting and unusual characters at an opposition rally here in Yerevan.
• Hrant KatarikyanDestination Vancouver: Armenian Squad Departs for 2010 Paralympics
  By a stroke of pure luck and dogged determination, a five member Armenian delegation leaves Yerevan today headed for Vancouver...
• Edik BaghdasaryanCommentary: Let Them Burn Cow Dung!
  Humanity has existed from time immemorial and during the past 20,000-30,000 years gas was never burnt.
• Sara PetrosyanAccess Denied? Many Claim European Court Reforms Actually Restrictive
  On February 18-19, in the Swiss city of Interlaken, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers...
• Grisha BalasanyanVardenis Diary: Residents No Longer Expect Solutions from Elected Officials
  Trying to reach the village of Vardenis, Aragatzotn Marz, especially during the winter, is an arduous and nearly impossible journey.
• Hrant KatarikyanCommentary: Bridging the Diaspora - Armenia Gap
  There’s a conference taking place in Washington D.C. these days on the state of Diaspora-Armenia relations...
• Susanna ShahnazaryanRural Credit: Agricultural Loans Pose Risks for Villagers
  Before I could even get my foot in the door of the Babayan house, three year-old Davit yelled out, “Kamo was here.
• Arman GharibyanDilijan Deforestation: Are Officials Turning a Blind Eye to Illegal Cutting of Trees?
  On February 20, a group of young people travelled to Dilijan for a hike in the woods.
• Edik BaghdasaryanWhy Doesn't the Government Pull the Plug on
  Two months ago, it became apparent that the buildings constructed by Glendale Hills with government money intended to house...
• Grisha BalasanyanLiving Rough in Sasunik: Grandmother Washes Soda Bottles to Survive
  For the past two years Laura Tadevosyan has been raising her three young grandchildren next to a smoldering garbage...
• Kristine AghalaryanVardenis Diary: Structurally Unsound School Not Slated for Renovation
  Even in the dead of winter, pupils at the Vardenis village school in Aragatzotn have a place to play football.
• Arman GharibyanPublic Domain for Private Gain? “Teghut, CJSC” Gets Land Cheap
  Vardan Vardanyan, a resident of the village of Shnogh, Lori Marz, has applied to the European Court of Human Rights.
• Anahit DanielyanLanguage Barrier: Job Prospects Poor in NKR for Russian-Speaking Armenians
  Tamara Amirdjanova, an Armenian refugee from Azerbaijan, had the following to say regarding...
• Artist Mary Moon: Yerevan’s Urban Upheaval Portrayed on Canvas
  Everyone knows, especially politicians and government officials, that artists are capable of changing everything.
• Notes on the culture of Armenianness in Diaspora: The inward and outward turns of ethnic exclusionary politics, and the case of Neda Agha-Soltan
  My cultural experience of Armenianness tells me that in the course of modern Armenian Diaspora history...
• Anahit ShirinyanArmenia’s Plan-B: Tilting towards Tehran
  Yerevan’s official “shift” to Tehran clearly signified that Armenia has decided to put Plan-B into action.
• Grisha BalasanyanSour Grapes: No Buyers for Verin Artashat’s 430 Vineyard Crop
  Everyone in the village of Verin Artashat, in Armavir Marz, is unhappy about their lot in life.

interview

• “If you're bored with life, there is something wrong”
• HAK's Zurabyan - "In this war, we must all be soldiers"
• Analyst Richard Giragosian: “Armenia looks at the diaspora with misunderstanding and sometimes scepticism”
• “The NKR Can Never Accept the Madrid Principles as a Basis for Negotiations”
• Samvel Karapetyan – “We mourn the collapse of Saint Gevorg of Mughni Church in Tbilisi. But what about the fate of St. Nishan’s, just 100 meters away?
• Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals: The Battle to Protect Armenian Consumers Starts in the Local Drugstore
• Ara Papyan: “Serzh Sargsyan will not only create new political opponents but numerous personal enemies”

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