Today, the trial of the "March 1st Seven" resumed at the Shengavit District Court. The session began with Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan reviewing the motion made by defendant Alexander Arzumanian for the judge to recuse himself. Yesterday, Mr. Arzumanyan complained ...
As we had early reported, the trial of the "March 1st Seven" got underway again at the Shengavit Court of First Instance. Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan declared a 30 minute recess and retired to chambers to review the motion submitted by defense attorney Hovik ...
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan last week officially hosted the Speaker of Georgia’s’ Parliament Davit Bakradze and the delegation led by him. During the meeting Prime Minister Sargsyan raised the issue of the Norashen Armenian Church in Tbilisi. Georgian ...
Studies conducted by the "Enterprise Incubator Foundation" reveal that some 150,000 to 200,000 individuals in Armenia, or 5-7% of the population, availed themselves of the internet in 2008. The number of individual subscribers numbered between 90,000 to 100,000, ...
A draft bill proposed by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation in the RoA National Assembly regarding a "national identity" holiday has drawn flack from religious circles. Today, at the "Hayeli Club" the issue was debated by ARF MP Alvard Petrosyan and ...
At a press conference held today at the "Tesaket Club", Liberal Party leader Hovhannes Hovhannisyan commented that modifying Articles 225 and 300 of the Armenian Criminal Code is ridiculous and noted, "On the one hand we are assuming the obligations to make ...
Today, at the "Hayeli Club", Artak Shakaryan, an employee at the Oriental Studies Institute, and Souren Manoukyan, Depity Director of the Genocide Institute, commented on the recent diplomatic flap that took place in Davos pitting Turkish Prime Minister Recep ...
True to form, Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan opened then immediately declared another adjourment in the on-going trial of the "March 1st Seven" at the Shengavit District Court today. Once again, the reason for the postponement was the refusal of the defendants ...
Yesterday at the Akhaltskha District Court, four individuals gave testimony at the trial of "United Javakhk" head Vahagn Chakhalyan and several of his family members. Two Akhalkalak judges also were in court to testify regarding the events of July, 2006 when ...
Below is an interview that Hetq conducted with Vahagn Chakhalyan, Director of the “United Javakhk” democratic alliance, who is now being held in a Georgian detention center You have pointed out that you have been subjected to political persecution and ...
In one of the paintings of Pirouza Gozeyan, a woman is looking out of one eye while the other is shut tight. “Perhaps I am looking at the world with only one eye, since I haven’t fully recognized it yet. It’s easy to deceive me and I’ve remained a ...
Once again demonstrators gathered outside the Government Building in Yerevan to protest against the use of cash registers at various market places and food stores in Yerevan. The first such public protest toook place on January 19th. First to arrive on the ...
Today, at the Shengavit Jurisdictional Court, the judge presiding at the trial of the "March 1st Seven" postponed proceedings for the fifth time so far. Once again, the defendants refused to rise as the judge entered the courtroom and the judge ordered a postponment ...
According to students residing in the Zeytoun dormitory, they are paying more than the normal daily price as defined. They say they have no choice given that they’d have to pay several times more if they rented rooms in Yerevan.
“We want to enter the Norashen Church to light candles, that’s our right, no?” says Mikayel Davtyan, an Armenian from Tiflis. “Every Sunday we go to the Norashen courtyard, it’s a meeting place for Armenians. Why can’t we go inside and light candles?”
Some 650 Armenian churches are registered in the territory of Georgia. Just in Tiflis alone there were 29 Armenian churches during the 19th century. Today only two remain. Today the property rights of six churches expropriated during the Soviet era remains unresolved – Saint Norashen (15th century) in Tbilisi, Saint Nshan (18th c.), Shamkhoretsots Holy Mother of God (or Karmir Avetaran, 18th c.), Yerevantsots Saint Minas (18th c.), Moughni...
Javakhk is in a blind alley on the information highway. Information enters and leaves this region with great difficulty. The Armenians of the region have no information about what is going on inside the country, in their region, or what is being said about them abroad. The average resident of Javakhk does not know the decisions about them that are being taken by the government, the rights and duties that they have, the privileges that they...
"A young person has no future in Javakh," said Valery Stelmashov, head of the department for culture, education, sport, memorial preservation and youth affairs in the Akhalkalak municipality. The primary thought among the youth of Javakhk is to leave as soon as possible. This thought is justified by all of them in almost the same way - there are no jobs, educational institutions, leisure spots, gyms, cultural centers, clubs - in a word,...
- When my father returns from Russia he’s going to bring me a bicycle...one of those big ones. - And my father will bring me a motorcycle when he comes back.
Following a lottery, 704 schools in Georgia have been left without candidates for school director Sixty-two of these schools are in the Akhalkalaki region.
On the morning of June 26 th all the residents of Akhalkalaki were asking each other the same question.
There are 70 libraries in the Akhalkalaki region but they haven't been open since January of this year.
The museum building is in dire need of repair, never having been renovated since it was first built. It started to crumble in 1997, first the roof, then the floor.
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