Smbat Hakobyan, who’s been growing wheat in the Shirak village of Anoushavan for the past twenty years, says there’s a much better alternative to enriching imported flour with folic acid and iron.
A demonstration has been planned for later this afternoon in Gyumri callinf for Aleksanyan to be released unconditionally and that all charges are dropped.
A requiem service for Seryozha Avetisyan, the six month old boy who died yesterday from wounds sustained in a vicious attack that took place last Monday, will be held later this evening at the St. Nshan Armenian Apostolic Church in Gyumri.
Two Gyumri nursing home residents are said to have died from smoke inhalation yesterday evening when a shawl fell on an electric heater in the room that the women shared.
Thousands from Gyumri and beyond gathered to pay their final respects to the six members of the Avetisyan family murdered in the early morning hours of January 12.
Wash is still hanging from the clothesline at the Avetisyan house in Gyumri.
One Demand Heard in Gyumri: Accused Killer Must Be Handed Over to Armenian Law Enforcement Hundreds of Gyumri residents assembled today near the Gyumri 8th Military Base and then set off in a motorcade towards the Russian Consulate.
Residents of Gyumri have assembled outside the Russian army base to voice their anger over the killings of six members of the Avetisyan family two days ago.
Yevgeny Konishev, Russia’s Consular General in Gyumri, today labelled yesterday’s deadly attack on the Avetisyan family as a gross crime that has no justification.
Hounan Poghosyan, First Deputy Head of Armenia’s Police, reports that the Russian suspected of killing six members of a Gyumri family early yesterday, told Russian military officials after being captured that he entered the Avetisyan home randomly and that he didn’t even know if anyone was inside.
Seryozha Avetisyan, the six month old child who miraculously survived a deadly attack yesterday in Gyumri that left six other family members dead, has been transferred to a Yerevan hospital for further medical treatment.
Natural landscapes and Armenian churches dominate the oil paintings hanging from the walls of the Gyumri living room of 82 year-old Aleksandr (Shoura) Zhamkochyan.
The Armenian government has allocated 500 million AMD (US$1.1 million) to launch a coronary stent program that will be offered in the Gyumri Medical Center, as well as one other regional medical center plus four in Yerevan.
A month ago shoppers could purchase one kilo of the shelled nuts for 10,000 dram (US$18.97) a kilo. Today, they’re selling from 12,000 ($22.76) – 15,000 dram ($28.45).
Heritage party leader Raffi Hovannisian will hold a public assembly in Gyumri on December 6 in Theatre Square. The event is scheduled for 5:00 pm.
The yard of Robert Grigoryan, a 75 year-old resident of Gyumri, resembles an open air museum devoted to retro cars and motorcycles.
The Armenian government, perhaps finally accepting the fact that it cannot make good on its promises to provide housing to homeless families of Gyumri, has decided on a new tack – to give them money with which to purchase housing on their own.
In Lousakerd, incumbent Samvel Balabekyan beat his rival Mourad Voskanyan by 254 to 85 votes.
Now that cardiologist Karen Mikayelyan has moved to Gyumri, Shirak residents with coronary ailments no longer have to travel to Yerevan or abroad to receive stent placements and angiograms.
An international art symposium dedicated to famous Armenian artist Minas Avetisyan has been taking place for 3 years in Armenia's northern province of Shirak.
As of July 21, a five member medical team from Los Angeles has performed 65 operations and provided 400 consultations at Armenia’s Gyumri Medical Center.
The Shirak Provincial Court today sentenced Vahe Ghoukasyan, nephew of former Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghoukasyan, to 17 years imprisonment for murder and illegal weapons possession.
If in previous years, biennial organizers would attract news outlets' attention beforehand, notifying them at the beginning and end of events; speaking about the presence or lack of financial means, about invited guests; well this year, there was the impression that what is being done is obligatory — done for the sake of doing.
35-year-old Haykanush Grigoryan, a mother of six, was let go from her job as a nurse at the outpatient clinic last year in the village of Hovuni in Shirak Province for taking her ill son to France.
Gagik Barseghyan, leader of the legendary Armenian rock group Bambir, received twin awards today from the Gyumri Municipality on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday and for 35 years of musical accomplishments.
The gates open with a loud creak and we enter the courtyard of a poor village house.
The incumbent ruling Republican Party mayor of Bavra lost his re-election bid in this northern Armenian town near the border with Georgia.
The fate of Gyumri’s Sev Ghul (Black Sentry) fortress, dating to the 1830s, is a topic of rampant local speculation.
The neighboring villages of Vardakar and Nor Kyank may be a stone’s throw away from each, but they have come to loggerheads over a school.
Haroutyun Sargsyan, the man charged with the April 2012 killing of the man who planned to marry the daughter of then Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan, was today found guilty and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
The 42 year-old native from the Shirak village of Basen says his love of carpets dates back to his childhood, filled with memories of homemade carpets.
Though at the start of his meeting with journalists today, Shirak Provincial Governor Felix Tsolakyan, said that he wants to wish journalists a happy new year and success in their endeavors, he was obliged to respond to a few questions.
Samvel Balasanyan, mayor of Armenia’s second largest city Gyumri, is looking forward to the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A Chinese language class was officially launched in a Gyumri senior school on October 7.
One is said to be Harutyun Khachatryan, better known in Gyumri as “Kamoyakan Godfather Harout”. The other, Artyom Karapetyan, goes by the moniker “Killer Sheko”.
For the second straight year, 21 year-old Artour Aleksanyan from Gyumri has won the European Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship in the 96 kilo division.
Hetq reporter Grisha Balasanyan won an investigative journalism award at this year’s Freedom of Speech ceremonies organized by the Asparez Journalists Club in Gyumri.
I found out that his name is Vahan, the “certified representative” of President Sargsyan overseeing the voting at the 34/27 polling station in Gymri’s Slabodga neighborhood. I caught him approaching voters and muttering something – it was the number “six”.
Haroutyun Haroutyunyan, charged with the June 15, 2012 stabbing to death of 77 year-old Roza Khachatryan in Gyumri, told the court today that he was crazy and wanted to go home.
The road to Lernakert’s dilapidated cultural center hasn’t been cleared of snow for the past two months.
29 year-old Kristineh Mikayelyan fell in love with a man she only knew over the telephone. Over the course of a year, the young woman handed over some 3 million AMD in cash and gold jewelry to a man she had never seen in person.
Once again, the trial of Gyumri resident Sousanna M., convicted of tracking in Trebizon, Turkey, had to be postponed on January 15. At the last minute, the accused decided she wanted to switch her defense attorney.
The trial of Harutyun Sargsyan, accused of the premeditated murder of Karen Yesayan, who was engaged to be married to the daughter of former Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghoukasyan finally commenced today, albeit with a forty minute delay, at a packed Gyumri court.
Hetq readers may remember the harrowing tale of Gohar, a Gyumri mother of five, and two of her boys who were essentially working as slave labourers in the Russian town of Lipovtsi, near Vladivostok.
Recently, internet-based relations and scandals, that cause quarrels within couples, parallel the love stories starting from just a random phone call. Such cases may result in divorce in case they're revealed. The number of cases, when the husband uses force, notwithstanding who's guilty,has increased. The quarrel turns into a fight, wife turns to Police and initiates a case. Lately some similar cases have even ended up a with a murder.
Doctor Bezhanova, however, has decided to finally retire in January. Her decision has created a panic at the center since she’s the only professional medical person on staff
According to Ashotsk Mayor Artour Aloyan, the most pressing problem facing this rural Shirak community close to the Georgian border is the number of homeless families.
There isn't much that actually separates the communities of Big and Little Mantash, two villages in Armenia’s northern Shirak Province. Over time, the two have become intertwined to the extent that you can walk from one into the other and not know it.
The rusting road sign with the disappearing letters announcing the approach to the village of Karmrakar is emblematic of conditions in this tiny rural community in Shirak Province. Karmrakar, 1,800 meters above sea level, only has 52 residents.