Many of Yerevan 's historical buildings have been included in the "Construction program for land area appropriated in the interests of the state," according to Government Decision 1151-N of January 8, 2002 .
8 Moskovyan Street, a building near the café known as Paplavok in the center of Yerevan, was built in 1957.
In 1989 the Babadjanov, a mother and daughter who, like the Martirosyans, had also been expelled from Baku, settled in a semi-basement apartment in the same building at 8 Moskovyan Street.
According to Gagik Yeganyan, the head of the Department of Migration and Refugees of the Government of Armenia, there are 311,000 refugees in Armenia.
"When we reached the village, we saw that waste water was flowing through the village streets; the stench was unbearable. It was an unsanitary situation, to say the least," recalled Derenik Mkhitaryan, the head of the Kotayk Marzpet's Office's Department of Agriculture and Ecology.
The shadow economy in Armenia amounts to 50-60%, a figure published by the Armenian government itself. Unfair competition is a long-standing, well-known fact in Armenian business. Meanwhile, different organizations keep looking at the causes of this problem, and searching for a solution.