At 1:10 a.m. on October 1, 2005 a Belaz excavator rolled down the gorge at the Sotk mine. Gagik Shahnazaryan, the driver, and Vilik Aghadjanyan, a mine workman, were killed in the accident.
This neighborhood in central Yerevan, hidden away from adjoining Abovyan Street as it enters Republic Square, is undergoing demolition, its residents to be scattered to destinations unknown.
Yesterday, on 22 January 2006, journalists from Hetq Online and Yerkir Media TV, as well as the head of the "Gandzasar" Theological Center and "Vem" radio station, Father Mesrop Aramyan, took six people to a shelter for the homeless.
It was early in December when Onnik told me that he was going to dedicate his New Year to photographing the homeless and spend time with them.
It was possible that another bomzh died in the basement and the emergency services$ had came to take him, the tenants of Artsakh Street #8 probably thought when they saw an ambulance approaching their apartment building on the request of journalists.
Armine (not her real name) from Hrazdan spent a year in Dubai as a sex slave in the control of the notorious pimp Anahit Malkhasyan, or Dbr Ano, who was wanted by Interpol. On October 3, 2005, Malkhasyan was killed in a car accident in Dubai under suspicious circumstances. The Office of the Prosecutor General of Armenia closed the criminal case against her.
"Alrosa failed to agree on the acquisition of Ararat Gold Recovery Company (AGRC) with Sterlite Industries Limited," Arminfo reported on January 11, 2006. According to the news agency, Alrosa, a Russian diamond mining company, expressed an interest in acquiring the Armenian Gold Recovery Company. They failed to agree on the deal, however.
Last December, the local council of Alaverdi approved the budget performance for nine months of 2005, a three-year-program for the socio-economic development of Alaverdi for 2006-2008, and the 2006 budget. But the discussion of these vital issues was kept from the citizens of Alaverdi.
Valentina lives in the town of Tashir in the Lori Marz. Her oldest daughter, ten year-old Ruzanna, has been living in the Vanadzor Children's Home for a year now.
On the wall opposite me a Canadian flag is hanging. The CD player is giving out Polish Patriotic songs and a Komitas CD is waiting for its turn on the table.
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