In 1997 Yerevan resident Ruben Hayrapetyan accepted compensation from his brother Armen Hayrapetyan for his half of the apartment (Apartment 22, 14 Lepsius Street) that they had inherited from their father and relinquished his portion of the inheritance.
A number of NGOs and psychologists who deal with issues related to graduates from children's homes stress that many initiatives aimed at helping children raised in such homes often fail to produce the desired results only because after receiving a certain amount of material assistance, these children are not prepared to live and build their future on their own.
For the residents of the village of Kaghtsrashen in the Ararat Marz, contaminated water and the accompanying kidney disease have become commonplace.
“The volumes of foreign investments in the fields of mineral resource industry and metallurgy in Armenia in 2006 amounted to $110 million, which is comparable to the last year's showing,” stated a press release by Arminfo on April 6, 2007.
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