After Armenia gained its independence scores of machine-building pants were closed- down and their parts and lathes were sold as scrap to Iran.
We lived like a worm. We heard what was on TV but could do nothing. We apposed, cried, told that all these were lie but could not speak loudly. We need to break the wall, it was necessary.
In addition to this sum he had assets of 7.9 million drams and $216,000 at the beginning of 2006 and 8.1 million drams and $190,000 at the end of 2006.
These wages total a little over 8 million drams. The Municipality of Djil has been paying off these obligations for years.
Jirayr believes that special citizenship allowances, coupled with the warm hospitality with which the people of Karabakh welcome those from abroad, will motivate more young Diaspora-Armenians to resettle here.
Due to existing unemployment the city of Tumanyan, with some 1,900 residents, is in dire social straits. During the Soviet era 1,200 people worked in Tumanyan’s fire-resistant brick processing factory. Mostly women worked in the knitted clothing plant that employed some 200.
Hovsep’s grandfather would play the tar at various social functions in the village and taught his eldest grandson how to play music on an old duduk as accompaniment. The boy soon showed a keen interest in the instrument and his father decided to buy him a duduk and a zurna.
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