Manvel Bagratyan has held the position of Financial and Administrative Director of Sipan-1 since 2004. Since August 2006, he has also been the manager of the Armenian branch of Iberian Resources.
The isolation facing the Armenian village of Jiliza, which straddles the border with Georgia, lately became even more pronounced when Armenian and Georgian border guards began prohibiting residents from their respective countries to make the crossing over to the other side. There are seven Armenian villages on the Georgian side and residents of these villages have familial links with Jiliza.
The atmosphere resulting from the intolerant remarks uttered by Amin Gemayel, Lebanon's former president, on August 5 th regarding Armenians was somewhat mitigated when he stated on August 12 th that he respected the Armenian community and when he likened his controversy with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) as merely a “passing cloud”.
What is a “single candidate representing both the authorities and the opposition”? One must examine the Armenian political field closely to understand this correctly. It is not difficult to notice that there is a lack of balance there. It is similar to the landscape at Northern Avenue – one on side there are huge buildings rising majestically high, while the other side has ruins that have yet to be cleared up, but where there once was...
“...Upon publishing the article (They're Getting Rid of the Indians and Bringing In the Russians) further investigation revealed that the Madneuli Stock Company purchased all the shares of the Golden Ore, LLC in December 2006. This transaction was duly noted on April 23, 2007 in the Federal Registry's Regional Branch and was correspondingly recorded in the participants' Reeystr (a government-related department also attached to the Ministry...
The village of Jiliza in the Lori Marz is one of the northernmost villages in Armenia. Unlike other villages, Jiliza is completely cut off from any other Armenian villages and towns. The closest is the town of Alaverdi, fifteen kilometers away as the crow flies, and twenty-eight kilometers away by the road.
The neighborhood of Madan is located some five kilometers from the center of Alaverdi. In the early 1990's it was exclusively populated by some 800 Greeks. Today, only twenty-four remain, mostly elderly folk. Greeks began to appear in Armenia starting in the second half of the 17 th century.
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