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Yerevan’s Worsening Air Quality: Dangerous Levels of Dust, Carbon Monoxide and Sulfur Dioxide Recorded

15:50 | 08.19.2017

Prior to 2013, air quality readings were taken at specified hours during the day. Today, readings are taken on a 24-hour basis.

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Armenia to Cut State Funding of Sciences

00:02 | 08.19.2017

In 2018-2020, base funding will be cut 4.98% compared to this year.

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Armenia’s Khosrov Forest: Cause of Wildfires Yet Unclear; Differing Estimates of Hectares Destroyed

21:35 | 08.18.2017

The Russian IL-62 tanker plane made seventeen passes over the reserve. It’s now up to units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations to conduct mopping-up ...

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Armenia’s Verin Khotanan Village: Getting Older and Emptier

13:15 | 08.16.2017

Verin Khotanan is a village in Armenia’s southern Syunik Province. More than half the population is older than 70.

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The Khosrov Wildfire: Are the Media in Armenia Asking the Right Questions?

11:02 | 08.16.2017

The media in Armenia should be asking what caused the fire now raging in the Khosrov Forest State Reserve. For me, that’s the real story to be investigated ...

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Environmentalists Say Armenia’s Government Wasn’t Ready for Wildfires

18:10 | 08.15.2017

Levon says the main problem is the unpreparedness of Armenia’s government. It’s not about having or not having a firefighter plane, but rather about ...

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Armenia: Khosrov Wildfire Continues to Burn

21:44 | 08.15.2017

The wildfire in Armenia’s Khosrov Forest State Reserve, now burning for three days, has already destroyed 400 hectares according to a preliminary estimate ...

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Artsakh – Southern Frontline

13:12 | 08.14.2017

Artsakh – Southern Frontline

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Armenia’s “Ari Tun” (Come Home) Program: Who’s Ari? What Home?

16:00 | 08.13.2017

Putting aside the fake patriotic and nationalist platitudes, I sincerely declare that for me the Republic of Armenia is not a home, and will never be ...

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Armenian Actor Samvel Tadevosyan: "Theater is the present for me"

12:33 | 08.05.2017

We lack ambition that would drive us to create, lead us upwards.

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