The child, whose name means “sun” in Armenian, is battling neuroblastoma – a rare type of cancer mostly affecting children under the age of 5.
By now, the public is aware that Raffi Doudaklian - a prominent Armenian writer, activist, and humanitarian - was severely beaten last week while on a humanitarian assignment in Lebanon.
“They told us that it cost 120 euro to analyze each sample at the Moscow facility. They told us we’d have to pay if a second test was needed. If the first sample turned out dirty, a second sample was sent. Many were tested twice, to ensure they were clean.”
It was the World Bank that financed the modernization of Hrazdan Medical Center, comprised of a hospital, polyclinic and maternity ward. All four buildings were renovated and outfitted with $800,000 worth of equipment and furnishings.
TeliaSonera and Turkcell sold their stakes in an Azerbaijani mobile operator presumed to have been dubiously privatized by President Ilham Aliyev’s family which may have earned as much as US$ 1 billion from the corrupt deal.
I stayed well into a night at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem together with a friend. It was the Armenians’ turn to clean the tomb of Jesus. We watched the small groups clean the top of this tomb with care, refill the oil of lamps that burn over it.
The testing was carried out jointly with the State Food Security Service (SFSS).