Of the 930 diabetes patients now registered at the Goris Medical Center in Armenia, 96 receive insulin injections and the rest take other medicines in tablet form.
Julietta and her husband Edison reside in the Syunik Province village of Vaghatour.
In yesterday’s mayoral election in the southern Armenian town of Goris, Vachagan Adounts came out on top with 4,732 votes (50.7%), beating out his only rival Hrayr Tsolyan who garnered 2,956 votes (38.4%)
Only slightly more than half of the residents of the village of Nrnadzor in Syunik Province voted in Sunday's municipal elections, and though, according to preliminary results, the significant majority voted for the sole mayoral candidate, Mkrtich Mkrtchyan, villagers believe becoming mayor is not as important as owning land and salvaging crops after the winter frost. Nrnadzor, after all, is a small village, and it is confronted with more...
If he wins, 52 year-old Ohanyan (photo), the current mayor, will enter his fourth term as the head of this administrative unit of 139 that also incorporates the neighboring village of Tsghoun.
The Goris Municipal Council on Jul. 14, 2012, adopted a decision proposed by the mayor to release several residents — mainly Goris Municipal Council members — from paying taxes on their motor vehicles.
The session lasted for only a few minutes since the defendant said she wished to be represented by a lawyer. Given Mkrtchyan’s very limited resources, the court will apply to the Public Defense Office for a pro-bono lawyer.
When he talks about community activism, he specifically refers to residents and government pointing out the main issues facing the village and coming up with solutions.
This is the opinion of Ashot Aslanyan, a farmer from Meghri. He also adds that he is talking about those pesticides, which are effective and are not of an unknown origin. He says that it is more than three decades that he is engaged in fruit growing, and notes that year over year the effect of pesticides necessary for use is decreasing, and often even after one or two usages the result is not satisfactory.
The festive opening of this swinging bridge took place today. It was built at the initiative and sponsorship of a Khndzoresk businessman` Zhora Aleksanyan, who dedicated the structure in memory of his parents, Haik and Tamara Aleksanyan.
About one year ago, the Armenian press widely covered the story about a 13 year-old Goris girl who had been sexually assaulted, allegedly by her father.
If you are wary of believing in miracles, I’d suggest you go visit Karo Karapetyan’s olive orchard in Meghri.
Last spring, the manager of a Goris hotel told the story about a Beirut-Armenian tourist getting fined by a local traffic cop for jaywalking.
Resident Liparit Martirosyan jokes and says, “They don’t even draft anyone from here. Do they know where the village is to draft young men?”
After hearing the grisly story, our local resident realized that the human offal was from the town morgue and was brought to the dump by garbage trucks.
Take the Tatev aerial tramway. Tourists, who had arrived at the site from overseas, complained to me about having to wait for hours under a scorching sun for a chance to ride the cable car.
Plans Underway in Syunik for Community Credit Consultants
One of the staff at the Goris Central Hospital (GCH), wishing to remain anonymous, recounted how he was forced to dispose of the corpse of a young child at the town garbage dump. The body was stuffed into a large plastic bag. The relatives of the dead child ...
In Syunik Marz, the calculation of land and property taxes is conducted by the “Union” NGO’s of the communities in Kapan, Goris, Sisian and Meghri. The communities themselves founded these organizations. For services rendered the unions receive 5-10% ...
The residents of Goris pay 200 drams for job references to Goris Tnt. (CJSC), an enterprise that used to be the town’s center for utility services. Seyran Gevorgyan, head of the company, said that some of the Goris residents do not pay the fee. He said that ...
On March 13, Gor would have turned 12 years-old. His friends and relatives, however, will celebrate the birthday without him – days before they found Gor in the basement, he had hung himself.
A Mother of Ten Is Looking for Answers Fourteen years old Iskouhi didn’t go to school. “She has only one dress. I washed it and it is still wet,” said Elya, the girl’s mother. Iskouhi is a seventh grade pupil at the Goris secondary school #2. She ...
It was been just over one month that the news media in Armenia have focused on an outbreak of brucellosis in the livestock of the Tzghuk village in Syunik Marz. (For the uninitiated, Brucellosis is a disease of cattle caused by the infection with the bacterium ...
My attempts to arrange a meeting with the head of the Aravus village administration before my trip to the village in the Syunik Marz proved in vain.
Two charity soup kitchens in Goris provide more than 250 meals a day to a large percentage of the city's poor and socially vulnerable residents. More than half of those who line up for their one meal a day are families that were forced to flee their homes in Azerbaijan; others are simply impoverished families or elderly people living alone.