In June 2000,Yerevan resident Ara Petrosyan gave his 1849 tea service to Suren Galoyan for silver-plating and gilding. But not only did Galoyan fail to do the work, he ruined the antique tea service. Even so Petrosyan only managed to get his things back with great difficulty.
In Gyumri, shacks are being torn down on land intended for the new apartment buildings funded by the Lincy Foundation. These were the shacks that families left homeless by the 1988 earthquake managed to come by at any price, and now these families have been told to vacate them.
Women with recognition in the social and political life of Armenia have refused to participate in the majoritarian precincts of the May parliamentary elections, the only exception being Hranush Hakobyan, a member of every convocation of the National Assembly, who has thus far had sucess in majoritarian contests. In an attempt to increase the number of women members of parliament, a law was passed by which party lists for proportional elections...
These days, Mariam and Vardan Armenyan worry more about the horrifying conditions they live in than about the half-starved and half-naked state of their ten young children.
"95% of NGOs are useless, their occupation is unknown. They are set up to make money. If financing stops, they fall apart, because they have nothing else keeping them together. Only a small number of NGOs understand what they’re doing.”
Pargev Ohanyan, a Court of First Instance Judge for the Kentron and Nork-Marash districts of Yerevan has surpassed himself in his civil suit verdict of October 3, 2002. House #29, 11th Aygestan Street was neither more nor less declared a property in abeyance, although the plaintiffs are the legal owners of the house and appealed to the court seeking to protect their property title.
Elmira Nasibian settled in the village of Geghakar in the Vardenis district in 1989. Today the unmarried woman represents a horror to the neighborhood. Fellow-villagers say that she is moving for the third time now.
The Armenian press is losing readers because of a lack of trust and a lack of interest. 27.1 % of the people who responded to a recent Institute of Sociology survey on the press don't trust newspapers at all, and 13.8% don't find the subjects covered interesting, and so they don’t read newspapers.
Journalists' hopes of at last gaining access to official information, regardless of the status of their media outlet, when state institutions set up Websites, have not been realized. As it turns out, for our state agencies, Websites, like press services, are just more window- dressing, where no information-seeker, let alone reporter, will find anything at all.
The institutions established in advanced countries have been doing research on the issue of the death penalty for decades, in order to comprehend what the impact of this extreme punishment on crime prevention is and whether this type of punishment is justified. And ultimately the conclusion is the same - for all nations the decision on this issue is made in an emotional dimension, and it does not prevent or reduce criminal offences.
"Nobody protects the environment - we have to take care of the Hrazdan River. The water is not clean. There are people whose only food is this fish. Starting in the town of Hrazdan, waste water is dumped into the river, and 300 meters downstream from the Davidashen Bridge, sewage from private houses flows in", says a fisherman returning home from the Hrazdan River empty-handed.
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