The Ninotsminda Prison - the first-ever jail to be built in Samtskhe-Javakheti, a region dominated by ethnic Armenian population - occupies 10 hectares of land, a standard project, on the shores of Lake Sagamo. It is designed for 3,000 inmates and due to open at the end of next year.
An exerpt from the book “Assyrian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey and Adjacent Territories” by Anahit Khosroeva, doctor of historical studies
In the 1980s, the government made the decision to relocate all the residents on the left bank of the Hrazdan River below the village of Kaghsi and resettle them in the village's Upper District.
Vazgen Manukyan, a Candidate for the Presidency of the RA, Responds to Questions Posed by Readers: We have only translated Mr. Vazgen Manukyan's answers to questions submitted in English. The entire interview can be read in Armenian version of Hetq.
Agents from the Russian Ministry of the Interior’s Crime and Terrorism Department have arrested one of the men suspected of the attempted murder of Tigran Arzakantsyan, Armenian Member of Parliament and owner of the Great Valley Company.
About two kilometres from the tiny village of Sagamo, there is a deep foundation pit, a cabin for builders, and a huge fuel tank. It is already a month that a new prison - the first to be built in Samtskhe-Javakheti - has been under construction here.
Artsrun Abrahamyan, the head of the community administration in Dvin, is one of the few district leaders in the Artashat administrative region of the Ararat Marz (province) who has a university degree.
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