The Ani cluster encompasses 16 rural communities and the town of Maralik. 9,829 out of an electorate 17,214 voted yesterday.
In September this year, parents of four six-year-old children in Haykavan, a village in Armenia’s Shirak Province, refused to send their children to school.
Posters are one of the most influential and powerful visual means to express social issues. The dreamers, the oppressed, and those looking for change- they all present their struggle for peace, social justice and political reforms via posters.
Noting that Armenians only experience Komitas once a year, on the April 24 anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, Vahe Begoyan, the artistic director of the Saghmosergou Spiritual Music male choir, said that much more needs to be done to spread the word about prominent composer, musicologist and founder of contemporary Armenian classical music.
19 disadvantaged families in Haykavan, a village in Armenia’s northwestern Shirak Province, are participating in a project to grow raspberries to supplement their meager incomes.
Basen is a village in Armenia’s Shirak province. It’s been entitled a “Green Village” since 2013, with the introduction of renewable energy and new agricultural technologies there. The village’s kindergarten, with an enrollment of sixty, has served as an experimental unit.
The pit of Armenia’s most beloved fruit, the apricot, has become an emblem for painter Artyom Sargsyan from Gyumri. Its images are everywhere - from the entrance door to earrings, leather belts, necklaces and paintings. The avant-garde artist has been in search for his unique style for a long time.
The windows have been hermetically sealed, the driver's seat has been closed with a wall, to get a screen effect, and the old black leather of seats and backrests has been replaced with bright and red leather. Next to the entrance, they set up a counter, which will serve as a bar as well (they’ll be selling juice and popcorn to the audience).
Their pricing policy is a combination of quality and affordability. They try to take into account the socio-economic conditions of people.
Such outings can occur anytime; on a Monday morning or a Tuesday night. There are no fast rules. The young entrepreneur says that at times it’s as if all of Gyumri has decided to visit the pub together.
Artavan, a village in Armenia’s Vayots Dzor province, sits 1,880 meters above sea level. Despite the harsh climate, strangers get a warm reception, as is the tradition in all tiny mountainous villages in Armenia.
I must doubly pay attention as I make my way along a narrow path descending into the Arpa River gorge in Armenia’s Yeghegnadzor Province.
The village of Basen, in Armenia’s Shirak province, is leading the way in terms of coming up with innovative technical solutions to reuse biological waste.
Four months of training will afford at least 400 women of Artik and surrounding villages jobs at the factory. The first phase of training will see two groups of 20-25 take the one-and-a-half-month course.
Gyumri incumbent mayor Samvel Balasanyan was today reelected in a closed door vote of the new municipal council's inaugural session in which 16 members never attended..
A son of Vardan Grigoryan, a Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) candidate in the upcoming local elections in Gyumri, died today from a gunshot wound to the head after being rushed to a local hospital.
An Armenian court today found Russian soldier Valery Permyakov guilty of murdering six members of a Gyumri family on January 12 of last year and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Six employees, mostly journalists, at the GALA TV station in the Armenian town of Gyumri have formed a political party – The Likeminded Alliance of Liberals GALA.
Thousands travelled to Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city, to welcome Pope Francis and to hear him celebrate the Divine Liturgy in the city center.
The Gyumri Municipal Council yesterday approved the expenditure of 1 million AMD (US$2,093) for fireworks on June 24, the day Pope Francis will visit Armenia’s second largest city, even though the Roman Catholic church leader will only be staying until 4 p.m., several hours before sunset.
Gevorg Vardanyan, from Gyumri, will always be remembered for his wide and sincere smile.
Anoush Ohanyan, whose husband, 25-year-old Senior Lieutenant Hrach Galstyan was killed on April 3 during the fighting along the Artsakh Line of Contact, has given birth to their first child, a daughter.
Svetlana, 45, doesn’t work. The family gets by on the pensions received by the grandparents.
Residents of the Shirak Province village of Metz Mantash turned out today to pay their final respects to Arman Andreasyan, a 19-year-old soldier killed in the recent round of fighting along the Artsakh Line of Contact.
For the past five days, rural residents in Armenia’s provinces of Shirak and in the town of Gyumri have been collecting tires to be used to strengthen the frontline fortifications in Artsakh.
Viktor Youzikhovich, was a boxer with a bright future. He would have turned 19 on April 10.
I’m at the home of Gevorg Manoukyan, the Armenian soldier who shot down an Azerbaijani helicopter on April 2 over the Artsakh Line of Contact.
Meruzhan’s parents found out about his death on April 3, from the Talish military post. His body was returned to Gyumri yesterday evening.
From the partly open door, one initially sees an oddly-shaped hat beneath which appear large, murky eyes in a sea of black. Then from the smoke, as if not wanting to, appears the full body, waving the skirt of her soot-ridden dress. Her hands are clenched into fists in the pockets of her sleeveless jacket. She approaches reluctantly, taking small steps, ignoring the combination of mud and cow dung.
The Sargsyan family, living in a Gyumri neighborhood where most residents reside in huts, haven’t had electricity for over two weeks due to an unpaid 1,600 AMD ($3.23) utility bill.
The young woman is out of breath from walking fast. She apologizes for making us wait and immediately unlocks the door.
Tamar's joy is genuine. In her radiant eyes on her grimy face, I notice her desire for attention.
Only reporters were on hand today at a protest march organized by relatives of the Avetisyan family today in Gyumri days before the trail of Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, is set to recommence.
Today marks the one year anniversary of the murder of seven members of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri.
Narek Davtyan, 24, lives Shirak’s Horom village. He’s turned one of the rooms in the house into a temporary museum featuring scores of old copper items.
At a rally today in Gyumri, the New Armenia Public Salvation Front (NAPSF) urged citizens to vote ‘no’ in the December 6 referendum that will decide whether the country’s constitution is substantially changed or not.
Mayoral elections will be held in Geghanis, Garnarith, Shirak, Pezashen, Basen, Toufashen, and Vahramaberd.
The Armenian Caritas benevolent organization opened a new center for children with multiple disabilities in Gyumri on September 26.
Artak Gevorgyan was reelected the mayor of Maralik, a community in Armenia’s Shirak Province yesterday by a vote of 1,965 to 1,110.
Residents of Spandaryan, a town in Armenia’s Shirak Province, yesterday elected independent Avetik Mkhitaryan as their new mayor.
Residents of Basen, a rural community in Armenia’s Shirak Province, have been using solar power to heat their kindergarten and grow vegetables in a hothouse.
Citing a lack of water, Gyumri Mayor Samvel Balasanyan issued a directive on June 10 temporarily closing the Arevik Kindergarten attended by 90 children.
There are no records to be found regarding the grouping of statues known as the Duduk Players.
Karen Petrosyan, one Gyumri activist, announced that if force was used to disperse the demonstration in Yerevan they would resort to civil disobedience.
Rain hasn’t dampened the spirit of activists in Gyumri who continue to protest the electricity rate hike.
Multiple hospital wards and polyclinic services were somehow all made to fit into a trailer-like structure. Only the infection and proctologic departments were moved to a permanent building.
Sculptor Frid Soghoyan noted that the cross held aloft in the hands sculpted in touf stone symbolize the inextinguishable hope of the Armenian people.
Little Nareh died six months later, on March 14, 2015 at the Gyumri Mother and Child Hospital after being diagnosed with congenital hydrocephalus.
A spectator at today’s “100th Anniversary Without the Regime” rally was stabbed after he chased down a group of youths who were heckling speakers and throwing eggs.