In a cafe, Oksana laughed and “confessed” that her Armenian wasn’t sufficient even to order something to eat.
As promised, Raffi Hovannisian took his “victory celebration” on the road today and his first stop was the town of Ashtarak about a 45 minute drive from Yerevan.
Addressing the throngs of supporters today in Yerevan’s Freedom Square, Raffi Hovannisian said that a yesterday’s meeting at the Presidential Place Serzh Sargsyan refused to recognize the “victory of the people”.
Pashinyan argued that while Sargsyan has maintained his grip on power, he hasn’t secured the legitimacy that he so longs for and that he hasn't been able to turn the bloody page of March 1, 2008
Putting the finishing touches on today’s Freedom Square rally, Raffi Hovannisian declared that “This was only the start of the struggle”.
Heritage Party Vice President Armen Martirosyan told the throng at Freedom Square that “Our victory belongs to Armenia and not to any one person. United, we will bring that victory to fruition.”
On February 9, the EuFoA (European Friends of Armenia) issued the results of an election survey it had conducted between January 31 and February 5, entitled "Poll: Armenia on the Eve of Presidential Elections"
Raffi is an Armenian from Baltimore, the United States. He came to Armenia one a one year Fulbright science scholarship. His research project – The role of voluntary work in Armenia.
Haig Boyadjian left Los Angeles and moved to Armenia one and a half years ago. The young man says he has no regrets.
I met Sona, Rosalia and Narot playing in the school yard. They are all from Aleppo. They had become friends in Yerevan since they attended different schools back home. The children said they didn't have many local Armenian friends.
Around 150 Syrian-Armenian students now continuing their higher education in Armenia will be receiving stipends this week from a group called the Armenia Youth Foundation.
The company “Tierras de Armenia” was founded by Argentinean-Armenian Eduardo Eurnekian.
For the past four years, Ashot and Marieta and their six children have been living in a cramped one room in a dormitory in Hrazdan. Marieta is expecting another child in a few weeks. She doesn’t know how they will continue to cope.
15 year-old Ishkhan got angry when his mother showed us his worn-out shoes. The boy will graduate next year but told us that he only goes to class once or twice a month. He’d rather work and make some extra money.
She and her friends have come to the village from the town of Vardenis to graze cows up in the hills. Everyday they milk the cows and make cheese and butter. But they complain that they can’t sell the produce at normal prices. They say that they have to travel all the way to Yerevan to get a decent price.
Rozita Alikhanova is a fourth year student at the Tbilisi College of the Arts and Humanities. She’s one of the three students who have been selected to spend the current academic year studying in the United States.
“We have 10 rooms that safely house and feed neglected mothers with their newborns and pregnant women”. These are the words that appear on the website of the “Lighthouse” Armenian Charitable Foundation.
“Armenian Pastoral”, a 1973 mural by famed Armenian artist Minas Avetisyan that was destroyed in the 1988 earthquake is being painstakingly restored under an agreement signed by the cultural ministries of Italy and Armenia.
A visitor merely has to take a look at their successful pomegranate orchard to see that the Danielyan’s are bucking the trend of the oft repeated mantra that living in a rural community is tough.
Mkhitar Aloumyan was dismissed in October 2011 as a police officer for the special unit of the Hrazdan hydro-electric station of the General Department for State Security of the RA Police, after he started causing a ruckus about not receiving wages for overtime service and demanded the 4.5 million drams that he was supposed to have receive.
Armenia – an ancient land now being discovered by growing number of tourists for its mountains, monasteries and...Mounds of trash randomly scattered about.
A parcel of land owned by AgroHolding Armenia, a diary producer, lies next to the Fridtjof Nansen Hospital in the town of Spitak. Company Director Arshavir Martikyan says that the cows feeding on grass harvested form the land have been dropping like flies.
In what appeared to be an argument for the HAK’s poor showing in the election, Mesropyan made references to the national epic Daredevils of Sasoun.
Kristineh Mkoyan, named the best judge in Armenia, is one of a rare breed of judges in Armenia. She doesn’t accept bribes from litigants.
What started as breast cancer has now spread throughout her body. In order to have any chance of surviving, Elen must get a dose of every twenty days. Each dose costs $3,000.
"Our country is falling apart. One war and it will all be over,” Bagratyan warned.
The latest development in the alleged sexual molestation of a 14 year-old girl in the village of Hartashen is that the mayor, implicated in the case, will soon be arrested.
The 14 year-old school girl at the center of the sex molestation scandal in the village of Hartashen has finally started talking about the alleged incident to a police investigator and a psychologist.
Gagik, uncle of the alleged rape victim, says that Ghukasyan hasn’t been arrested and that he and his family are making the rounds of the homes of students and threatening them to “remain silent”.
Over 500 California Armenians have signed a petition demanding that a bronze head of the goddess Anahit now in the possession of the British Museum be sent to Armenia.
During his studies at Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory Vardan writes a musical piece breaking one of music composition golden rules. The professor doesn’t approve it; he thinks it is rather a mistake than innovation.
The operation took place at the Hrazdan Medical Center. Operating physician Hayk Afyan, seems to have disappeared and is not answering telephone calls from the Melena’s distraught parents.
While Yerevan Chief Architect Narek Sargsyan went on record denying media reports that the owners of stores recently dismantled along the sidewalks of Abovyan Street had been offered new commercial space on Aram Street, the city's municipality recently confirmed the news.
Ruben Hovhannisyan thinks it would be great if Artsakh vets could periodically visit different army bases today and tell new recruits about their war experiences.
Four rooms of a seven room apartment in Tbilisi where Armenia’s “national poet” Hovhannes Tumanyan once resided is to be sold by the family given the property by the Georgian government in the 1990s.
Student activism is very important. If there is no spirit of rebellion in the youth, society is sick.