The Court of First Instance of the Shengavit District sentenced Gayane Melkonyan and Susanna Nikoghosyan to five and two years imprisonment respectively on January 31 of this year. In 2004 and 2005, they had gathered a group of Armenian girls whom they tricked and sent to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Turkey to work as prostitutes. Melkonyan and Nikoghosyan, however, had started their work much earlier.
On October 14, the valley of Garni was relatively calm. The noise made by the drills used to destroy the Symphony of Stone had temporarily ceased, perhaps because it was a Sunday and it was unnecessary to reveal one's barbaric side to the tourists marveling at the beauty of the cliff.
Eight-year-old Gevorg and ten-year-old Erik are brothers. The care of their mother and grandmother would probably be enough for them if they weren't both ill. Gevorg has a heart disease that according to doctors is the result of going hungry for extended periods. The child survived at the expense of his health. He was too strong to die, but his heart was damaged.
“At 7:15 on August 6th, the Arabkir police station in Yerevan received an anonymous emergency call stating that Marcos Grigorian (born 1924) had been physically beaten at the house located at 57 Zarubyan Street. The investigative unit dispatched to the location discovered that at 4:20 on the same day two masked individuals had gained entry into the house by breaking through the metal railings of the door and afterwards proceeded to beat...
In Part I of this article, we recalled some basic economic theory related to the exchange rates and reviewed some of the downsides of real exchange rate appreciation. Also, following question 1, we concluded that the net effect of exchange rate appreciation on the economy today and growth prospects in the future are likely to be negative, and largely so, for an economy like Armenia's.
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