There are 600 children registered as suffering from restricted physical capability in Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city.
May 9 marks Victory and Peace Day in Armenia and Artsakh.
57 homes in the town of Martakert (Artsakh) were damaged due to Azerbaijani shelling in the recent round of fighting along the Line of Contact.
Intense fighting along the Line of Contact in Artsakh spurred Hovig and Vrej Asmaryan, two brothers who immigrated from Aleppo to Artsakh five years ago with their families, to sign up as volunteers in the fight.
Residents of the Nor Haykadjour community in Artsakh have been forced to drink water earmarked for irrigation for the past three years.
Entering through the small gate leading to a mish-mash of huts and hovels in a central neighborhood in the town of Stepanakert the capital of Artsakh, I was hard pressed to imagine where anyone actually lived.
Alongside the photo is a poem by eldest son Sergey dedicated to the memory of his father. Sergey’s grandma tells me that on the day Davit was killed, Sergey stayed awake all night to pen the ode to his father.
The brothers say that last year’s apricot and peach crop was spotty. They are having trouble selling this year’s.
In the mornings when 16-year-old Oksanna and her 15-year-old younger brother Alex hurry to school, they take their turns in front of the computer and sign on to Skype.
Vitali Balasanyan told Hetq that the party should have won enough votes for five seats in the legislature but that the people have spoken and that the party must move forward.
Artsakh’s Central Electoral Commission recently issued the following preliminary results regarding yesterday’s legislative election in Artsakh in which 68,915 voters went to the polls.
Karineh says that while she receives a child disability payment for Arman it’s not enough to pay for diapers.
Brandy produced in Artsakh and made from local grapes will soon be sold on Cuban store shelves afterwinning a slew of international medals.
Sargsyan explains that since ordinary water costs more in the shops than milk purchased from villagers, the latter have no interest in enlarging their animal herds.
20 year-old Norayr Kamalyan, a former Artsakh Army soldier has metal screws holding his lower jaw bone together.
Tadevosyan says that the company will continue to invest in Artsakh’s tobacco sector even though it’s not profitable.
The plant is semi-automated and employees 150 people mostly from Martouni and the surrounding villages of Gishi, Spitakashen and Khnoushinak. A company bus picks up employees in the morning and drops them off in the evening.
Beglaryan referred to the words of Artsakh presidential spokesman Davit Babayan who told reporters in early August that the government would do all possible to assist Yezidi refugees.
This year's drought, as well as the shortage and in some cases, complete lack of water in general is causing many residents of the village of Vazgenashen in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Martouni to work for others for a daily fee instead of cultivating their own land.
To mark the 23rd anniversary of Artsakh’s independence, the Alexander Spendarian Opera and Ballet Theater staged an open-air performance of Avet Terteryan’s Ring of Fire opera in the ancient citadel of Shoushi.
Russia is the largest market for the goods produced by the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh's Artsakh Fruit CJSC. Apart from the local, Artsakh market, since its founding in 2008, the company's goods have been exported to France, Hungary, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Dubai.
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The Berdzor Boarding School, now housing 24 children from the ages of 3-17, has been operating since 1995. School Director Samvel Kocharyan says that most of the children are from single parent families and that only a few are orphans.
After pouring the wine, Grigory gently swirls it in his glass, smells it, and only then drinks it. "It's good," he says with satisfaction.
A few years ago she would elicit puzzled stares from people on the streets of Shushi. First, she walked with a guitar strapped across her shoulder. Then again, she would hum a melody just loud enough for passerby to pick up.
‘For three years I had to go to the neighboring village for school. I had to cross 7 km there and back daily. And it was then that I made my mind to go in for sport. My physical training master advised me to run. I tried and I did it. And I had been running to school and back home since that day. Now, as a result of it, I have 13 diplomas of honor and a gold medal,’ tells Mariam, student, 19.
She said that there had been a problem with a Hungarian customer but that it was eventually ironed-out
It seems the surrounding hills have to be levelled in order to ensure safe landings and take offs.
With a 25 million AMD loan from the Artsakh government and his own money, Ararat Baghryan is currently raising 50 three month old ostriches in the Gishi village in the Martouni District.
The bio-fuel used by the burners comes from natural sources – wood, saw dust and other dried stalks of other plants. These materials are then processed without the use of additives into cylinder-shaped logs.
150 families have made the move to resettle in Kashatagh, "liberated" Artsakh, during the first six months of 2011.
Artsakh MP Arevik Petrosyan said the Khanoumyan issue is more a question of freedom of speech than any political persecution.
On the eve of the June 25 meeting in Kazan of the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia on the Karabakh issue, there are conflicting opinions coming out of Artsakh itself regarding this latest attempt to iron out some basic framework on which a settlement can be reached in the future.
Aramayis Badalyan is a 76 year-old resident of Maghavouz village, located near the northern Artsakh regional center of Martakert. The old man can hardly see nowadays but still remains active.
It turns out that the boy is the grandson of Vazgen, a famous tinsmith in Martuni, Artsakh. When my girlfriend first mentioned Vazgen’s name, I thought for a minute and asked, ‘Is that the tinsmith who doesn’t eat dolma?’ She smiled and nodded her head in agreement.
In the morning, my girlfriend and I departed for the village of Haterk, in the Martakert district of Artsakh. The project before us was to compile a TV segment on traditional regional cuisine.
Julia says she’ll never leave Artsakh By Knar Babayan A few years ago she would elicit puzzled stares from people on the streets of Shushi. First, she walked with a guitar strapped across her shoulder. Then again, she would hum a melody just loud enough ...
“I was eating pizza in Italy with my girlfriend Natalie. She told me about her visit to Armenia and Artsakh during the fall of last year. I had no idea she was of Armenian extraction since she was born and raised in France. She asked why I haven’t travelled to Armenia yet, and from there to Artsakh. I was stuck for an answer. Artsakh, or the name Karabakh, meant nothing to me,” Francesco recounts.
We met up with Narek in the village of Tzamdzor, some 45 kilometers southwest of the town of Hadrut, in Artsakh. He was about to go to the fields. There was some kind of problem with his son’s tractor.
Grigor Hakobyan was only 12 when his family fled Baku in 1988 to the safety of the Russian city of Pyatigorsk where they had relatives.
“I’m ashamed to wear a dress like the other girls because of my scars” The village of Gishi, located in the NKR district of Martuni, lies approximately 40-60 kilometers from the capital, Stepanakert. If one takes the road from Ningi, the distance ...
Yesterday evening, members of the "Miastsum" movement marched from the Mergelyan Institute in Yerevan to the "Tzitzernakaberd" Genocide Memorial and symbolically burned a copy of the Armenian-Turkish protocols. The crowd carried signs and banners ...
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