A World’s Fair-type event called Expo 2017, planned for the Kazakhstan capital of Astana, has been hit by scandal as a top executive at the firm organizing it was placed under house arrest.
Twice a week, buses and minivans depart from Yerevan’s Davit of Sassoun train station for Russia. The manager of the company selling tickets, a man who introduced himself as Bedo, was frank when answering our questions.
Michalina Ostrowska teaches Polish at Yerevan’s Valery Bryusov State Linguistics University. She‘s been living and working in Armenia for two years.
Twice a week, buses and minivans depart from Yerevan’s Davit of Sassoun train station for Russia. The manager of the company selling tickets, a man who introduced himself as Bedo, was frank when answering our questions. “I’m a do-gooder. I help people flee Armenia. Sometimes, when a passenger doesn’t have enough for the ticket, I tell them not to worry. Just so long as they get a seat on the bus and leave Armenia.”
Kimprom factory workers have been gathering outside the Lori Provincial Administration in Vanadzor on and off for over a year to demand back wages.
Many have large families and are experienced farmers who were engaged in agriculture in pre-war Syria where they had working farms. The refugees are trying to employ themselves in agribusiness and have already begun sowing wheat, barley and chickpeas.
Residents of Petrozavodsk Street in the town of Etchmiadzin contacted Hetq, complaining that after renovations to the municipal water conduits, water supply to their homes has become hit and miss.
The Ministry says that the Azerbaijan failed to “manifest appropriate political will to guarantee the safety of the Armenian team of school pupils.”
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