On June 6, 2005, the Jambarak branch of the Civil Status Acts Registry Agency (CSARA) duly registered the birth of Karineh Meliki Khachatryan. In May of 2008, Lusineh Mkhitaryan, who has headed the same CSARA branch office for eight years, handed Karineh Khachatryan a copy of her birth certificate. The only difference was that there was a different last name on the copy. It read Karineh Makaryan. Karineh, in essence, had been given another...
They add that he uses their votes to assure his victory come election time and whenever else there is a need for support. A group of angry women stated, “They have control over the village lands and are now electing a mayor for us locals as well.” ...
“When will the kindergarten open?” is the question Yester Khachatryan, a female resident of the village of Voghji in the Shirak Marz, directs to the kindergarten’s founders with more than a hint of reproach in her tone. Yester’s grandchildren used to attend the village kindergarten.
On October 14, the valley of Garni was relatively calm. The noise made by the drills used to destroy the Symphony of Stone had temporarily ceased, perhaps because it was a Sunday and it was unnecessary to reveal one's barbaric side to the tourists marveling at the beauty of the cliff.
On September 30, the council of the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia heard a report by Misha Piliposyan, the office manager of the Public Defender's (PD) office on the work done over the past six months and declared it dissatisfactory. Before hearing the report, the member of the council studied the proceedings of selected public defenders and came to the conclusion that there were, in essence, no proceedings worth noting.
On July 11, 2007, the Council of Justice of the Republic of Armenia examined the petition of the Minister of Justice Gevorg Danielyan that calls for a disciplinary review of Judges Y. Darbinyan, A. Hovhannisyan and A. Poghosyan of the Criminal Courts of Appeals and Judge Lernik Atanyan of the Syunik Provincial Court of First Instance. The above-mentioned judges had reviewed the case of army conscript Misha Harutunyan who was convicted of the...
Judge Pargev Ohanyan of the Kentron and Nork Marash Court of First Instance decided to imprison defendant Andranik Sargsyan simply because his lawyer failed to turn up for the court sessions.
On June 28, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg issued its first verdict against the Republic of Armenia, which included a fine of 4,000 Euros.
On May 12, 2007, Armenians living abroad were denied participation in elections of national importance for the first time.
Nazeli Vardanyan, a member of the Chamber of Advocates of Armenia, represented the interests of army officer Gurgen Margaryan's legal heir during the famous much-followed trial in Budapest.
In 1997 Yerevan resident Ruben Hayrapetyan accepted compensation from his brother Armen Hayrapetyan for his half of the apartment (Apartment 22, 14 Lepsius Street) that they had inherited from their father and relinquished his portion of the inheritance.
The Bjni Mineral Water Plant, owned by businessman and parliament member Khachatur Sukiasyan, has produced Noy spring water since 1999, and in 2000 the Intellectual Property Agency (IPA) of Armenia registered its trademark for producing mineral water in accordance with Class 32 of the International Classification of Goods and Services (ICGS) .
Interview with cultural theorist Hrach Bayadyan
According to Arkady Sargsyan, chairman of the of the Agarak Copper-Molybdenum Plant JSC trade union, matters related to social and living conditions, the protection of labor, and so on at the plant are in good order.
Garni is in turmoil once again - the village hasn't been supplied with irrigation water yet, though the temperature this summer is higher than the average, and drought is a greater threat.
"I've wanted to solve the waste disposal problem for many years. Tourism is developing in Tsapatagh, the village is at the center of attention, and we would like it to be attractive and clean," said Taguhi Boyakhchyan, mayor of the village of Tsapatagh in the Gegharkunik Marz.
The Village of Torfavan in the Gegharkunik Marz experiences several natural disasters each year. The disasters are not serious, but they're enough to cause Torfavan's mud-brick houses to crumble.
The only special school in the Gegharkunik province intended for the mentally disabled and deaf children is located in the town of Gavar.
Prison structures constructed during Soviet times in Armenia need to conform to the status of correctional facilities as outlined by the current Penal Code, in force since 2004.
An interview with Yevgeny Kojemyakin, head of the Armenian Union of Miners', Metallurgists' and Jewelers' labor organizations.
Vardges Margaryan is serving the seventh year of a ten-year sentence at the Kosh Correctional Institution of the Ministry of Justice. As of September 2005 he had served two-thirds of his term and was thus eligible for parole.
Eighty-one-year-old Arshaluys Stepanyan was placed in Yerevan' Retirement Home No. 1 a month ago.
The new UN Resident Coordinator in Armenia, Consuelo Vidal, who started working here in November 2005, has frozen some UN programs and sent the majority of the staff on a two-month vacation.
According to official data, the poverty level in Armenia in 2005 was 39%. "During the first years of implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), an unprecedented reduction in the number of very poor people has occurred, " states the first half-year PRSP report for 2004-2005.
At 1:10 a.m. on October 1, 2005 a Belaz excavator rolled down the gorge at the Sotk mine. Gagik Shahnazaryan, the driver, and Vilik Aghadjanyan, a mine workman, were killed in the accident.
Last December the Chamber for Civil and Economic Cases of the Court of Cassation of Armenia considered the suit brought by of Armen Sahakyan, a mechanical engineer with many years of experience at the Sotk mine and chairman of the Lernagorts Union of Sotk Mineworkers against the management of the Ararat Gold Recovery Company (AGRC).
The exploitation of the Sotk gold mine began in 1976 and continued throughout the remaining years of the Soviet Union.
Armen Sahakyan, Chairman of the Lernagorts Union of the Sotk mine employees was fired from his job on June 3, for absenteeism without good cause on May 11 and 12 (see also Cruel and Unusual Treatment,
When refugee Aleftina Ter-Manuelyants went to see Petros Aghababyan, a lawyer for the Government Department of Migration and Refugees on May 31, regarding temporary housing for her daughter Irene, Aghababyan beat the woman and threw her out of his office.
Recently, Gevorg Gyozalyan, a member of the Association of Young Lawyers, was ordered out of the courtroom by Judge Astghik Kharatyan, Chairman of the Court of Appeals of Civil Cases, for playing with his mobile phone, which the judge called “a violation of court procedure.”
On June 3, 2005, Armen Sahakyan, Chairman of the Lernagorts Union of the Sotk mine employees, went to work as usual, but was denied access to the premises.
According to the data of the Armenian Mining Control Department, 41 people have been killed in mining accidents over the last ten years and many more have been injured or have lost their ability to work. The Sotk mine was reopened in 1998, and in the six years that the Ararat Gold Recovery Company has been in control, nine people have died in the mines in Sotk and Meghradzor, and many have been injured or rendered unable to work. Nevertheless,...
4,000 dogs were shot on the streets of in Yerevan in 2001. In 2004, this number had more than doubled- 8,100 dogs were killed, costing the Mayor's Office an average of 3,695 drams per dog, or 28 million drams in total.
"In 2003, the village poverty rate had not changed compared to 1996, remaining at 47.7%, which means that overall, half of the village population is poor.
Last month, the Armenian Government approved the draft Law on Social Assistance. According to our information, the government had refused to send the draft to the parliament for two years, citing financial problems.
"In 2004, 55 suits demanding confiscation of money were brought against the Republic of Armenia in the courts of Armenia, and the Ministry of Finance and Economy was involved in these cases as either respondent or as a third party," we were informed by the ministry.
The Court of First Instance of the Kentron and Nork-Marash Communities of Yerevan is more than 5,700,000 drams (about $11,500) in debt for electricity, and now the executive director of the Electricity Supply Network, CJSC, Yevgeny Gladunchik, has been instructed to cut off their power.
On October 11, 2004 the Court of First Instance of the Kotayk Marz (province) sentenced Gagik Stepanyan to six months in prison for physically assaulting photojournalist Mkhitar Khachatryan of the news agency PhotoLur and reporter Anna Israelyan of the newspaper Aravot.
The day he was appointed to the Chamber for Civil and Economic Cases of the Court of Cassation, Judge Suren Antonyan, formerly of the Court of Appeal for Civil Cases, and member of the Judiciary Council of Armenia, asked contesting parties to exit the courtroom and passed a verdict without examining the case.
Grisha Tadevosyan, the mayor of the village of Noragyugh in the Kotayk Marz (province) has sold refugee Lusaber Azaryan's apartment to the secretary of the village administration, Shoghik Azizyan. Azizyan, who was also a member of the auction commission, bought the apartment for 67,775 drams (about $135) and signed the auction protocol as both buyer and seller.
On October 25, 2003 , the water supplied to the Arabkir District of Yerevan was contaminated, and according to information published by the Ministry of Health, 387 people were treated that day at the Nork Infectious Hospital.
There have been various speculations in the press about the prime minister's dismissal of Aida Topuzyan, deputy minister of education and science.
We suggest that anyone who sees no corruption within the court system, and always decides, after due consideration, that if illegal things occur, they are due to a lack of knowledge on the part of the judge, take a look at one simple case that was examined again on March 3, 2004 by the Court of Appeal.
This dump is located in between the city of Abovyan and the village of Jraber. It's bad enough that the dump is so close to the city, to say nothing of the overall environmental situation in the region, but these days, nothing goes to waste, and this garbage dump supports 40 families. Here's what one man who lives off the dump told us, without changes or comments.
On March 20, 1998 , Yerevan resident Henrik Mkhitaryan bought BMW-318 in Germany , for 1,400 Marks (about $840 at the time).
In June 2000,Yerevan resident Ara Petrosyan gave his 1849 tea service to Suren Galoyan for silver-plating and gilding. But not only did Galoyan fail to do the work, he ruined the antique tea service. Even so Petrosyan only managed to get his things back with great difficulty.
In Gyumri, shacks are being torn down on land intended for the new apartment buildings funded by the Lincy Foundation. These were the shacks that families left homeless by the 1988 earthquake managed to come by at any price, and now these families have been told to vacate them.
Women with recognition in the social and political life of Armenia have refused to participate in the majoritarian precincts of the May parliamentary elections, the only exception being Hranush Hakobyan, a member of every convocation of the National Assembly, who has thus far had sucess in majoritarian contests. In an attempt to increase the number of women members of parliament, a law was passed by which party lists for proportional elections...
These days, Mariam and Vardan Armenyan worry more about the horrifying conditions they live in than about the half-starved and half-naked state of their ten young children.