“Some of the guys from my college class gave me a guitar for my birthday and things just took off.” This is how Narek, a 4th year student at Yerevan’s Medical University, describes how the story all began. “ Some of my guitar-playing friends gave me some pointers and I was soon playing on my own.”
With supplemental financial assistance from the government 43 projects in 36 communities in the Kotayk Marze are being implemented.
In recent years, there have been a growing number of archeological projects in our country, thanks to growing cooperation between Armenian archaeologists and archaeological groups from several other countries.
With the aim of solving immediate problems confronting the Marzes (Administrative Regions), the Government of the Republic of Armenia (ROA) has approved a decision to allocate a total of 1 billion and 770 thousand Armenian Drams from the 2007 forecasted Reserve Fund of the ROA State Budget for project expenditures in the Lori Marze.
I appreciate the opportunity to clarify some points raised in the recent discussion in this forum and also respond to the question posed by Mr. Gabrielyan in his follow-up remarks.
For the Soviet empire the “historical victory” it registered in World War II (or the Great Patriotic War in the accepted parlance of the Soviet Union), became a powerful tool by which to breathe new life and impetus into the fading ideals of socialism.
"The secret is not the clay or the stone, but the artistic approach to working…," explained artist and designer Armen Atanyan, showing Mané Tiles' handmade mosaics and tiling, designed by his creative group.
The Abovyan Criminal Detention Center is the only prison in Armenia for women and minors. There are currently 126 women here, ages ranging from 19 to 77 years old. 36 of them are detainees. The remaining 90 are convicts, serving their sentences in this prison.