Farkha Hakobyan – “I’ll never go back to Turkey” Farkha Hakobyan was born in the village of Sinan, located in the Ottoman villayet of Diyarbekir, in 1908. She doesn’t remember how old she was when she lost her mother. She can’t even recall if ...
Mayors of Armenian border villages speak out on the protocols: Ruben Karapetyan, Mayor of the Araks village in Armavir Marz, expressed complete opposition to the signing. He said that while he favored an open border with Turkey, he was opposed to the preconditions ...
Walk down the two main streets in the town of Sevan and you’ll see fruits and vegetables being sold on the sidewalks alongside wandering cats and dogs. It would appear that no one from the mayor’s office, located close by, is either aware of this evident ...
I recently visited the Garni temple and witnessed an argument between a French tourist and a service employee at the entrance to the site. The French tourist was up in arms over the fact that he had been charged 1,000 AMD as an entrance fee; 10 times more ...
By looking at this photo, one would hardly imagine that this houses the community municipality and that local self government decisions in the name of the Republic of Armenia are adopted here. After I first spotted this iron-clad hut, located in the middle ...
Every three months, Aragatzotn Regional Governor Sargis Sahakyan arranges public receptions where citizens can come and present their views and grievances directly to the person in charge of their region. On September 10, Mr. Sahakyan visited the town of Abaran, ...
It appear that members of the Aragatzotn Regional Council, local community leaders and other government officials, actually read "Hetq" and are concerned about how the press views their actions, inaction and personal habits. On September 18, I visited ...
Armavir Marz is famous not only for the number of generals it has produced. For many top officials the region affords the opportunity to obtain hundreds of acres of choice land for agricultural endeavours. In this context we asked Armavir Regional Administrator ...
Misak Misakyan, mayor of the rural community of Aknashen in Armavir Marz, agrees with local residents that the quality of insecticides purchased from the market are substandard and not at all effective when it comes to battling insects that do harm to crops. "Our ...
Residents of Vardenis get their drinking water from a gravity fed system but the "Armenian Water and Sewage Company" has decided to force consumers to install water meters. This decision has not only got local residents up in arms but Vardenis Mayor Volodya ...
For the last two years, residents of the village of Bagaran in Armavir Marz have been warning visitors not to leave their houses after it gets dark. They warn outsiders that a masked man roams the village streets at night, sowing fear and dread in all he comes ...
When we traveled to the Banavan neighborhood of Vardenis to visit the family of Samvel Poghosyan, the kids were fighting over a bottle of “matzoun” bought at the store. Grabbing the bottle, each was trying to empty its contents on the plate in front of ...
The gas filling station belonging to “Artyom-M.M.M. Group Ltd” is located practically on the bridge where the Yerevan-Ashtarak and Yeghvard-Ashtarak roadways intersect. It belongs to Artyom Makaryan, who heads the Spitak branch of the Prosperous Armenia ...
When we approached the wooden hut, Margarita, a 4 year-old girl, rushed out to greet us. “Will you be building us a new house?” she asked with a wide smile on her face. When I answered in the negative, the smile was replaced with a scowl and she stopped ...
Based on information reported by Aida Papoyan, a resident of the town of Ashtarak, and teachers of the town’s #1 Special Dormitory, staff at the Aragatzotn Regional Authority’s Children’s Rights Division uncovered the fact that Hakob Harutyunyan, ...
The town of Talin in Aragatzotn Marz will soon be outfitted with a waste recycling plant as a gift from its sister-city of Bourg de Valence, France. The agreement was reached when the benefactors from France recently visited Talin. According to the first ...
We happened upon Artur Yeghiazaryan, Susanna Karapetyan and the 12 year-old daughter, Anna, quite by chance in the village of Shaumyan, Armavir Marz. Living in the same village and in similar conditions is Susannah’s sister. We traveled to Shaumyan to ...
One of the six issues taken up by the RoA Control Chamber on June 30 dealt with the cultural sector, more specifically with monitoring of state funds and property allocated to the Ministry of Culture during fiscal year 2007-2008. The Control Chamber audits ...
The opposition political alliance HAK has called for a public rally today in Yerevan and, true to form, public inter-city transport from outlying communities to the capital has been severely cut. There is no minivan or bus service from Etchmiadzin, Ashtarak, ...
Mariam, a second grade schoolgirl from Sasounik village, Aragatsotn, rushed into the house and began searching, opening and closing the lids of the pots and pans spread in one of their rooms that resembles a kitchen. The girl was hungry and she looked for ...
Senior classes will be added to the high school located in the village of Tziatzan, Armavir. The school has great expectations in this regard linked to the quality of education and the teaching staff. During a conversation with “Hetq”, the school principal ...
In the May 11, 2009 edition of Hetq, we took a look at the situation at the “National Technical Safety Center” under the jurisdiction of the RoA Ministry of Emergency Situations. Major-General Ashot Petrosyan, who heads the center, has employed many of ...
June 1 marks International Children’s Day. It is also celebrated in Armenia. This year, a ten-day period from June 1-10 will be set aside for a variety of events in defense of children’s rights. Not all children will be in a festive mood. There are children ...
In its April 13, 2009 edition, “Hetq” wrote about the five member family of Artsakh war veteran Levon Gabrielyan. The family resides in the village of Margara in Armavir Marz. (See: The Gabrielyans – A Family in Dire Straits on the Armenian-Turkish Border).
Artashes Barseghyan was elected the new mayor of the village of Apga (Future) in the Armavir Marz during the last round of local elections held in October, 20008. A new round of improvements, mainly positive, has been seen in the village, but they have ...
Unlike May 1, the last time the opposition held a rally in Yerevan, today is no state holiday. There were large numbers of people who had to get into the city. Students and workers were seen lining up at bus stops to catch a ride into Yerevan. There were no ...
The community of Sasounik in the Marz of Aragatzotn lies only a few kilometers from the capital of Armenia. Despite its proximity to Yerevan, many of the residents of this large village couldn’t even tell you how to get to the capital. Life is so difficult ...
If many people impatiently wait for summer to come, Haykoush Karapetyan’s family, who live in Shahoumyan village, look forward to summer with fear in their hearts.
On December 29, 2005, the National Technical Safety Center (NTSC), was formed on the basis of Decision 2334-N. According to the NTSC’s charter it was set up as an organization to carry out functions safeguarding the technical security sector. Supervision ...
In the summer of 2007 Martuni Cheese Factory, OJSC, and Pavel & Co. Ltd. came to an agreement to built and jointly run a gas station on land owned by the cheese factory. Tatoul Baghdasaryan, head of the cheese factory, managed to get all of the documents ...
As of April 1 of this year 1,038 individuals are reported to be unemployed in the district of Etchmiadzin according to the local unemployment office. 1,124 jobless cases were recorded for the same period in 2008. Individuals looking for work were reported ...
It’s already a few years now that Silva Gmbikyan’s daughter, who attends the ninth grade, lives far from the family. The girl is being cared for by her grandparents. The family of five lives in the village of Margara, in the Armavir Marz,
Anik Hovakimian lost her left leg at the age of two. She is not only a disabled, she also has other health related problems. “I have just come from RA National Center for Cancer Treatment. They don’t want to deal with me. They say I need to pay for my ...
“I have three future soldier-boys in my family. When my sons ask me what a motherland means, I’ll tell them that the motherland is the hungry life they are living, as well as the indifference and unwillingness of your country’s officials to render us ...
The Armavir Regional Authority has informed "Hetq" that a number of Russian business delegations will be visiting the district in the next two months. In particular, the director of the firm Best Holding, based in Sverdlov, Russian, will visit Armavir on April ...
“There are days when we have nothing to eat. If the neighbors give us something, I first give the food to the children and school kids to eat. This way they won’t faint during class. We’re adults and can somehow withstand the hunger pains,” says Chinar ...
It’s has been already over a year that 77-years-old Zabela Avanesian spends the greater part of her day sitting on a chair. She can move enduring difficulties and pain only when it’s very necessary. It isn’t the old age that doomed her to such a state. ...
A 15-year-old girl usually pays more attention to herself, to her clothes and looks. Syuzanna Martirosyan a 15-year-old from Ejmiadzin doesn’t have time to spend on herself. At her age she has to take care of her first degree disabled 69 years old blind ...
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