Reporters Without Borders has called on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to stop blocking an Armenian-based news website, Hetq.am that has been censored since 8 July, apparently because it posted a report on Armenian women being trafficked into the Emirates.
For seventeen years now 78-year-old pensioner Lena Vardanyan has been living with her disabled daughter in a trailer in Gyumri's Barekamutiun Park.
The district of Prometheus on the outskirts of Stepanavan was built in 1988 to house the construction workers who had arrived from various Soviet republics to help the city rebuild after the earthquake.
A few months ago, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated in a speech that Turkey hosts around 40,000 Armenian citizens. What are so many Armenians doing in different locations within Turkey? They are mainly in trade, working in the service industry, or, painful as it is to admit it, involved in the sex business.
Everyone knows Mushegh the shoe-repairman in the Avtokayan trailer park in Gyumri. Mushegh Kirakosyan and his family have lived here for thirteen years now.
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