On the Occasion of the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims.
Hope died over the course of several years and after several developments. I might say over a few decades. But we will restore it. It will return. I am sure.
In 2014, 180 million dram of Yerevan taxpayer money was allocated for putting on the capital’s anniversary celebratory events (Erebuni-Yerevan 2796) held from October 11-12.
By a vote of 74 to 11, Armenia’s National Assembly today passed a bill making changes and amendments to the existing Law on Referendums.
It’s early Sunday morning, not yet ten. Children are seen filing into the St Gevorg Armenian Apostolic Church in Tbilisi.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ERBD) has provided a €3.5 million fifteen year loan to the Republic of Armenia for the construction of the first EU compliant regional landfill and relevant infrastructure in the country.
Waiting at the village bus stop I remember the words of the village mayor – whoever assists Anzhela’s family will be blessed a thousand fold.
On May 9, Armenia won the Venice Biennale 2015 Golden Lion award for Best National Participation. The pavilion curator for Armenia was Adelina Cuberyan von Furstenberg, who curated around the theme of “Armenity.” The chosen name wasn’t a random one—it comes from the French term Arménité, which is used by French-Armenian youth to portray the survivors of the Armenian Genocide.
“I didn’t go for the money or to plunder. Nothing really happened to me. I went to defend my children,” he notes. When I asked what dreams he had at the time, he sighs and says, “All that should stay within us. We won and finished. But that should stay within us. We should have gone forward to shed blood. It was shed. We should have taken this too (pointing to Nakhijevan).”
One June 3, 2014, the Yerevan Municipality signed a deal with the Yerevan Cognac Factory to buy 28.8 million AMD (US$62,000) of the Armenian produced brandy.
Many government offices are clients of Ghukasyan’s catering and lunch services. They include the Yerevan Municipality, the Prosecutor General’s Office, the RA Police, the Holy See of Etchmiadzin, the Central Bank of Armenia, the Republican Party, as well as various international organizations and companies, and foreign embassies.
Armenia’s pavilion will be handed over to Armenian artists residing outside of Armenia, in a symbolic gesture to this year’s centennial of the 1915 Genocide. Adelina told Hetq that the post is a tremendous honor for her.
A one man abstract photo exhibition featuring the work of Aztag newspaper photographer Gabriel Panosyan opened today at the Yerevan History Museum
By a vote of 75 to 1, Armenia’s parliament today passed a bill modifying the Circulation Tax law now on the books that has been opposed by many small business owners and has led to a number of recent street protests in Yerevan.
The young artist told Hetq that he has two canvases dedicated to the victims of the1915 Armenian Genocide.
Santa the cat was rolled up in a ball behind the stove in Hasmik Grigoryan’s shop in Kapan.
Armen Parsadanyan, an environmental activist and president of the Kapan “Sustainable development” NGO, told Hetq today that he is ready to stage a one-man sit down strike to halt further mining in Syunik Province.
After all that, when you see how the torrents wash away everything and left muck… And that slime took bodily form; a nose and a mouth. And if that wasn’t enough, these characters decided to show themselves and spout forth babble. The tragedy of this society rests in those individuals who are squeezed in everywhere with their bad Armenian, bad education; in a word semi-literate.
To make some sense of it all, Hetq spoke to Hayk Martirosyan,who received his PhD in Political Science at the Sorbonne.
There used to be guards at the Kapan Knitting Factory checking workers on their way out to see if they had pocketed any items - thread, fabric – on the sly.
During today’s vote in the Armenian National Assembly on the matter of sending an Armenian contingent to southern Lebanon as a member of UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon), the entire system crashed and the vote was postponed.
She laughs but quickly shuts her mouth. Rita is toothless, even at the young age of 38.
There's no work in Sisian and life is hard, says Sisian resident Hovik Hovakimyan, whom Hetq staff came across by chance on the Yerevan-Sisian road while he was taking his sheep out to pasture.
In an interview with Hetq, Mameh Amiryan, president of the Minjar Yezidi National Coalition of Armenia, said that as far as he knows no Yezidi from Iraq has sought refuge in Armenia and that he hasn’t heard from the Armenian government as to whether it would assist those seeking to resettle in the country.
I would like to see contemporary sculptures featured in all the cities of Armenia, not just Yerevan.
The Aliyev clan retained power in Azerbaijan, while authority in Armenia changed through elections.
About 7 years after its nomination, the AXA SETTLEMENT FUND BOARD would like to report about its action towards the heirs of the Armenian insured victims of the genocide of 1915. The scope of this action had been defined in the Settlement Agreement concluded in November 2005 between AXA and the "CLASS COUNSEL" formed by the American lawyers, Mark GERAGOS, Brian KABATECK and Vartkes YEGHIAYAN (the Lawyers), then validated by the Court of...
Hergelian also writes for a number of international art magazines including Fine Art (New York), Luxe Immo (Monaco), and L.I. Art (Paris, NY, London, Moscow) under the pen-name Movses Dzirani. He owns the Noah’s Ark art gallery in Beirut and is a jury member exhibitions organized by Monaco Fine Arts.
Emil Bayrakhtaryan is one of the lucky residents of Gegharot village in Armenia’s Aragatzotn Province to have gotten a summer job as a digger at a local archeological site.
Boghossian stayed at the military unit till the end of the war; however, he returned to France three times during that time. He said he was forced to go as he had a residence permit in France and couldn't be out of the country for more than 3 months; otherwise, he'd lose his residency. But going to France was also an occasion to bring assistance from there: transceiver station antennas, batteries. Asked if he wasn't afraid of going to Artsakh...
Avanesyan writes that 15.314 million AMD (US$37,500) in lease fees were paid to the government for the above events, and that 3.5 million was paid as VAT and income tax.
After a corporate event was held on the site of the 7th century ruins of the Zvarnots Cathedral in Armenia on June 14, Hetq contacted Vahram Kajoyan, who serves as the Secretary General of the Armenian National Commission for UNESCO, for his reaction.
Marine Avanesyan, public relations officer with the ministry's Service for the Protection of the Historical Environment and Cultural Museum Reservations SNCO, confirmed this news to Hetq over the phone, adding that a director will be appointed within three months.
A large outdoor tent had also been set up on the lawn in addition to a huge set of letters publicizing the party’s sponsor, «Тройка диалог» (Troika Dialog).
I glance at his black ring with a white cross. Sasoun says he’s worn it for the past 37 years and that no jeweler has been able to say what material it’s made of.
Speaking about the company name, the director says that goats are naturally "golden".
Maran, a winery founded in 1991 but which dates back to the 1800s, produced the first wine in the Republic of Armenia after the country gained independence and recently received a bronze medal in the 2014 Decanter World Wine Awards for its Bagratuni dry red wine. Hetq paid a visit to Maran's premises and had a chance to speak with the founder and director Avag Harutyunyan.
The first Armenian documentarian, Zabel Yesayan's Among the Ruins (1911) was published in Turkish a month ago after being translated by Istanbul-Armenian Kayuş Çalıkman Gavrilof.
"My purpose is to be able to get to a level where the variety that's indigenous to Armenia will get the highest grade by international standards, and winemaking in Armenia will be able to secure its place on the map".
Serzh Sargsyan is a failed state official and the time has come for him to think about retiring. That is if he can enjoy his retirement seeing the state he has plunged the nation into.
A report recently released by two environmental activists in Armenia suggests that international mining companies are flocking to Armenia because the government is incredibly lax when it comes to levying environmental usage fees.
When asked by this reporter what steps were being taken to investigate reoccurring accidents at the Zangezour Copper-Molybdenum Plant in Kajaran, Minister of the Environment Aram Harutyunyan responded that the ministry follows up on all types of mishaps and prosecutes those responsible.
Environmental activists holding signs with inscriptions such as "Hands Off Armenia" and "You Mine, We Die" today disrupted an international conference under the rubric “Responsible Mining in Armenia: Opportunities and Challenges” held in the Armenia Marriott Hotel in Yerevan.
In his address regarding a call for the establishment of an ad-hoc public transportation committee, Armenian National Congress (HAK) MP Aram Manoukyan said that the ‘cost price’ of a commuter fare is 80 AMD and that the current 100 AMD fare needs to be substantiated.
When asked if the government would enter into dialog with pension opponents, Abrahamyan said that there were indeed oversights in the system that would be corrected through legislation
President of Armenia's National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan today struck down a MP's proposal to issue a statement on the situation of Armenians in Syria.
All of Mikael's paintings will be sold before the exhibit. Mikael says his exhibit might be accompanied by the works of his brother, composer Norayr, 18, who has managed to write the music for two films and last year presented some of his works to Italian singer Andrea Bocelli and Deep Purple lead singer Ian Gillan. Both of the singers expressed their admiration, and afterwards Norayr wrote a piece for Bocelli. He is now waiting for the Italian...
The 56 year-old makes oak barrels in which to age cognac, a beverage that has gained Armenia a special prominence far and wide.
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