“My Step” marchers reached the Liberty Square, which was the final point of their two-week-long march. In Yerevan, they were joined by "Reject Serzh" initiative members.
They wanted to confront Simonyan and charge him with turning the university into a tool used by Serzh Sargsyan and the ruling Republican Party of Armenia to “enslave students entering into adulthood”.
Members of the Reject Serzh movement got in a tent today in the middle of Yerevan’s Mashtots Avenue and cops immediately pulled them out, escorting them to the sidewalk.
Hundreds took to the streets of Yerevan today to voice their opposition to Serzh Sargsyan’s nomination and election as Armenia’s next prime minister.
Although me and my friend Tsovinar planned to hitchhike to the north - Lori Province, in the end we found ourselves heading to the south - Vayots Dzor and Syunik Provinces.
The marchers held aloft photos of the ten individuals who died that day and called for the guilty to be punished.
Crowds of people filed through Yerevan’s Liberty Square today to witness a variety of visuals chronicling the birth of the Karabakh Movement thirty years ago.
The protesters set off from Aznavour Square opposite Kino Moskva in the march organized by the Yelk Alliance
Hetq visited 70 households in multi-apartment buildings located in eleven of Yerevan’s twelve administrative districts, to find out the ratio of utility bills to monthly winter income.
Hundreds of university students demonstrated outside Armenia’s parliament today, while inside, MPs debated a bill on military service that would severely restrict the granting of draft deferments.
Hundreds of university students took to the streets in Yerevan today to protest a government bill that would effectively do away with most draft deferments. Leaving from Yerevan State University, the students then marched to the State Medical University and the State Engineering University, calling on their counterparts to join them.
In Part 2, I will write about the trip back to Armenia and the people I met along the way.
The wine also accumulates emotions inputted during the whole process - starting from the harvest, ending with bottling.
The grape harvest is in full swing in Kaghtsrashen, a village in Armenia’s Ararat Province.
During the exhibition, at Yerevan’s Mashtots Park, participants will also be able to take an issue of the “Tsets” (Moth) satirical paper.
Protesters held placards reading "Gold to you, cyanide to us?" Cops, caught off guard, rushed to scene to stop the “illegal orb”.
The performance is based on Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa di Requiem designed and staged by Paolo Micciche', and features 3-D installations displaying Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Ardvi residents have opposed plans to open the mine, a mere two kilometers from their village, from the start.
Artist Artur Sharoyan consulted with many individuals and organizations before organizing this live installation in Yerevan targeting a very sensitive issue in Armenia – the number of soldiers who have died, either during combat or in circumstances that remain suspect, ever since the 1994 Karabakh ceasefire went into effect.
September 1, the first day of school in Armenia.
Hi, this is Hetq photographer Narek Aleksanyan, here to tell you, via photos, about my recent two- week, 4,000-kilometer hitchhiking adventure.
The first post-Soviet constitution was adopted by a nation-wide referendum on this day in 1995.
The parliament will debate the proposal today which has been introduced in the form of a bill to amend the existing law on Sevan’s eco-system.
Unexpected adventures on the way and our conversations with drivers kind enough to give us a ride, took our minds off the heat. I was joined on this road trip by Danil and Ani.
Before leaving, Greta reminds me that she will become a hairdresser. I say I'll definitely go to her to get my hair cut.
Collaborating with the Faculty of Biology of Yerevan State University, the institute deals with the plant world, plant evolution studies, the research of fossil plants, forestry studies, and other related issues.
"I remember what I've seen. These things help me relive the past," Karen Panyan says.
These kids are strong, are survivors, despite their circumstances.
A 20-gram tube of Betadine, a cream she rubs on her swollen and pus-infected feet, costs 2,100 AMD. She can’t afford to use the cream on a regular basis.
Here’s a few photos depicting the May 14 election for the Yerevan municipal council.
The next mayor of Armenia’s capital will be appointed by the new municipal council.
He’s seen here campaigning in the Armenian capital’s Arabkir district, under the slogan “For the sake of Yerevan”.
Zaruhie Postanjyan traded high heels for sneakers to kick off her campaign to become the next mayor of Yerevan.
My recent meanderings through the streets of Yerevan to snap some good photos turned into an excursion to Tiflis, and back, via hitchhiking.
Photos taken at St. Sargis Church
Photos taken at polling stations in Yerevan’s Shengavit, Malatia-Sebastia and Kentron districts.
Hundreds of people again took to the streets of Yerevan to commemorate the death of Artur Sargsyan (the bringer of bread) on March 16 and to demand accountability from the government.Hundreds again took to the streets of Yerevan to commemorate the death of Artur Sargsyan (the bringer of bread) on March 16 and to demand accountability from the government.
Marchers demanded that Sargsyan (nicknamed the ‘bringer of bread’), be buried at the Yerablour Pantheon.
The village is on the border with Azerbaijan, and the couple is in sight of Azerbaijani snipers when carrying out their work as water givers. Working as shepherds is riskier still as they must.
Passing through the town of Sevan, the weather abruptly changed for the best. I arrived at Nerkin Karmiraghbyur, a border village in Tavoush, as the sun began to set.
A non-Armenian military general’s feast day now serves as the Armenian substitute for St. Valentine’s Day. The two saints, however, seem to have nothing in common.
I’ve travelled 240 kilometers. The 12th century cave monastery at Vardzia, Georgia, is a mere 16 kilometers away.
Before hitting the road for a few days of winter travel, you understand that wherever you go it will be colder than you are now. You prepare yourself. But, lo and behold, just when the city disappears behind a mountain or two, the sun magically appears and you don’t even feel like wearing sunglasses. You just want to soak up its warming rays.
A photo exhibition organized by 4 Plus Documentary Photography Center, with support from Lusadaran Armenian Photography Foundation, opened in Yerevan on December 21.
“Locomotive is the first literary journal of its kind in Armenia and the region. Primarily non-Armenian writers are represented in its pages. These writers will be connected to Armenia and their works will be presented for international recognition from Armenia,” said Arto Vaun, Director of CCW / Founding Editor of Locomotive.
Halloween in Yerevan
295 runners completed the course this year
Yerevan Half Marathon. Kids Run
A 5K Fun Run took place today in the Armenian town of Talin
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