This year, for the first time, honey produced in Armenia was considered one of the best at the annual Apimondia (Melbourne, Australia) exposition.
It is the end of the year, and villages are putting together their 2008 budget proposals. In this regard, the situation is unclear in the office of the Getahovit village head in the Tavush Marz- Should the next budget include the income from 85 hectares of land which, although officially controversial, were actually seized from the community?
When I reached Yenokavan, I said that I would like to speak to the elders of the village about their local history and current situation. Immediately, a group of young people gathered around me, who then started to take me from house to house in a very official manner.
On December 15, the daily Haykakan Zhamanak printed an article entitled “Vazgen Manukyan's Mein Kampf". The article (written by Garegin Asoyan) stated that on September 27, 1996, during a warranted search of Vazgen Manukyan's National Democratic Union (NDU) party office, a manuscript was confiscated which had been written by Manukyan, but in the third person.
Armen Hosepian -Dear Mr. Hovannesyan, How do you expect to have an aggressive campaign against Serge Sargsyan who supports and is supported by most corrupt figures in Armenia's government, while in the meantime Serge Sargsyan is your in-law through marriage of your kids?
During the years of the Soviet Union, the village of Lernagog in Ararat used to bustle like a city. It had been founded to provide a home for the workers of the local industrial enterprises and the few large pig farms nearby.