The first to take the witness stand was the alleged victim’s mother. She described how they first met with the accused, Narineh Movsisyan, and how the woman promised child care work to her daughter in Turkey.
Prosperous Armenia Party MP Samvel Balasanyan won yesterday’s mayoral election in Gyumri with 65% of the vote. His nearest rival was ARF member Hovsep Simonyan who won 24.3%.
There are ten permanent members in the Gyumri club. The eldest is Mnatsakan at 49. The youngest, at 23, is Nikita. They all wear leather jackets with the words Hye Riders emblazoned on the back.
She was charged with abetting prostitution in 2010 and ordered to pay a 300,000 AMD fine. Her boss didn’t fire her. So she went back to her old trade of lining up women for men clients. Toma needed the money.
Well the Gevorgyan clan of Gyumri, 11 children in all, is a prime example of one Armenian family bucking the current trend towards a small nuclear unit. Artyom and his wife Lusineh have been struggling to obtain adequate housing for the kids ranging in age from 17 to 3 years-old.
The Yeghiazaryan brothers, 14 year-old Gevorg, 12 year-old Rudik, and 10 year-old Vardan, have been absent from school for 4-5 months over the last year.
Bishop Ajapahyan argued that participating in such an event would mean participating in the adulation of Azerbaijani films.
Some 100 people showed up in Gyumri yesterday morning to halt the showing of an Azerbaijani film festival due to take place at the Asparez Club.
Scores of people were on hand today in the central square of Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city, to protest an Azerbaijani film festival called “Stop” scheduled to start tomorrow.
“There are only two seasons around here, winter and spring,” says 61 year-old Rafik Karapetyan.
At the reins are master-driver Karo and his prized white horse, Koulka.The accompanying photos of this bygone era in Armenia’s second largest city belong to Khachik Khachatryan.
You can find me picking through the trash along the streets of Leninakan around evening time. That’s why my hands are in such a state.
The land squabble pitting Halidzor village residents against the Instate Management and Administration Company (IMAC) continues unabated.
“They threatened me, you know, saying they’d kill my eldest son if I complained. But what else can I do,” Gohar muttered. “They work my two children like slaves.”
The man never said hello to me. I was later told by Vahan that Gyumri’s Napoleon feels he has no need for such pleasantries.
Torgom Sahakyan, mayor of Keti village in Syunik Marz, says that the local municipal council really doesn’t do much.
Neither her husband nor his parents would let Shoghik back into the house for months. The young mother decided to go to court to restore her parental rights.
Karlen, the girl's father, went on to say that Haykanoush needed other girls in the class for friends and said it was wrong for the girl to have to spend the next 12 years in a class of only boys.
We were out in the street when Sousanna turned the corner, dragging a tree branch. The woman was wearing a pair yellow summer pants and cut-off shoes.
Mayor Margaryan doesn’t have the same upbeat attitude regarding tourism and believes that Svarants has nothing to gain from the Tatev cable car.
Many in today’s society continue to turn away from the disabled because they remind all of us of our human frailties and vulnerability.
Fourman Madoyan, the 69 year-old gynecologist who was sentenced on August 2 to 3 years and six months for the “wrongful death” of a woman last year, has applied to the Court of Appeals to get the verdict overruled.
"It's the responsibility of the government to take care of the church but they don't seem to be in any hurry," argues the Shirak Primate.
Why is it that it is possible to change conditions in Georgia but not here in Armenia? There must be the desire and will to improve things.
Can't you see what's going on? Everyone is opening a ticket agency. There's no work and no way to make a decent living. People save some money and buy a ticket to Russia. Why stay here?
The three defendants, in their closing remarks, stated that they were truly sorry for their actions and pleaded for the court to pardon them.
Svarants has been "blacklisted" by the banks for non-payment of laons, earning a bad credit risk rating.
Mikayel Abegha said that Tatev would be totally renovated by 2016, which will mark the 1110th anniversary of the Saints Paul and Peter Church was built between 895 and 906.
The only catch is that the area is now being targeted for extensive mining operations. The question now being debated in Armenia is whether the two sectors can effectively coexist?
The court case of a woman giving birth to a baby boy in the toilet and then allegedly beating the newborn to death got underway on June 6 in the Shirak Regional Court.
A group of Gyumri artists have come out to question the government's decision to hand over two murals by the noted artists Minas Avetisyan to the Armenia International Airlines Company on condition that they be restored and installed at the Erebuni Airport in Yerevan.
In the mid 1930s, many refugees from the Daron Province of western Armenia, mainly hailing from Moush, resettled in Kamo The dominant dialect still remians that of Moush.
Gyumri father says his parental rights were violated In September, 2009, the state took Seyran Haroutyunyan’s children away from him. The man could not afford proper living conditions for them. The children have been housed in two Gyumri boarding schools. I ...
Police officer swipes car key of local journalist After yesterday’s incidents in Gyumri, no one in their right mind would seek out the protection of the local police in a time of need. It seems the cops there act as they please and "to hell" with ...
It would be too costly to relocate residents living in old structure The Catholic Church built in the mid 1850s in the Slabotka neighborhood of Gyumri has long since lost its former significance. Its external facade and interior have also suffered over ...
The world’s longest cable car began operating in Armenia’s southern Syunik Marz. The cable car links the Tatev Monastery complex with the village of Halidzor. Officially named the “Wings of Tatev”, the cable car spans a distance of 5.7 kilometers and ...
Some Residents Warn of Environmental Degradation; Others See Boon to Tourism You would think that the constant complaints of local Syunik residents and tourists converging on the area regarding the poor state of the road leading to the Tatev Monastery ...
Local residents of the villages of Shinouhayr, Khot, Halidzor, Tatev and Svarants will be able to ride the new cable car in Tatev for free, according to Smbat Yeremyan, the Mayor of Shinouhayr. "After registering, residents can use the cable car once daily ...
People of Gyumri Boast “Whomever we send comes back a winner” When the noted Armenian weightlifter Yurik Vardanyan walked away with the Gold Medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, people clamored to find out “Why Yurik?” They went to Leninakan, Yurik’s ...
A cultural center in the Armenian town of Artik, housing many art works of the late Armenian artist Varaz Samuelian, officially opened today. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan was on hand with other dignitaries and hundreds of local residents to celebrate the ...
Elderly residents had just moved into new Gyumri home For the Melikyan family in Gyumri, the events of last night rekindled horrific memories of the 1988 earthquake. The ceiling of their apartment, in a newly constructed building, collapsed last night ...
In 2017, the 600-kilometer Meghri-Bavra highway will be fully in line with international standards. The Government of Armenia has decided to implement a multi-stage project called North-South Transport Corridor. The Asian Development Bank is providing ...
Arshak Smbadyan: “Government policies will be the death of village agriculture” Almost 50% of the 168 families who reside in the village of Bayandur, Shirak Marz, have taken out bank loans. These loans, mostly for agricultural purposes, have been provided ...
On March 23, the Gala TV station in Gyumri circulated news claiming that certain top government departments had been pressuring companies into pulling their ads from the station starting back in February. It appears that 26 companies pulled their ads during ...
“Government must protect interests of local manufacturers”, argues Deputy Director The plant in Gyumri that manufactures stone-cutting equipment has been on the edge of closing ever since it was privatized back in 2002. Formerly known as “Stromashina”, ...
To mark the anniversary of an emergency fund-raising drive in launched on March 19, 2008, in defence of the "Gala" TV station and freedom of speech, the station organized a celebration today at the Gyumri "Asbarez" Club today. The fundraiser collected a total ...
Over the Years Locals Have Taken Pride in Their Town At the beginning of the 20th century, Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city, was renamed Alexandropol from 1840-1924 in honor of Czar Nicholas I's wife. Back then, the main thoroughfare and center ...
Glendale Hills Fails to Deliver; New Apartments Need “Fixing” The Glendale Hills construction company had promised to hand over 1,056 newly erected apartments to the government by the end of December, 2009. Instead, not one apartment has yet to be transferred ...
Shirak Marz in northern Armenia is considered to be a “risk zone” in terms of investment and business endeavors.