In the period leading to International Children’s Day, the international organization World Vision opened an Aragatsotn regional office in the city of Aparan. The office will work to develop the region and will implement programs aiming at the protection ...
Sipanik Family of Nine Left Homeless and Ill Due to Rising Underground Water For the past few days, the nine meber family of Nina Babakhanyan, a resident of the Sipanik village in Ararat Marz, hasn't been able to live in their own house. The reason is that ...
A technical accident of unknown origin has cut power to the villages of Aghvanatun, Amberd, Lernamerdz and Tzaghkunk in Armavir Marz. Two streets in the town of Etchmiadzin have also seen their electricity cut. Anahit Mnatsakanyan, at the Department of ...
On the last day of school, Ruzanna Grigoryan, Principal at the Aygeshat village school in Armavir Marz, was dismissed. Officials from the Armavir Regional Administration claim she was demanding 15,000 AMD from each graduating pupil. It is reported that the ...
Elections for the city council will be held in the Armavir Marz village of Dasht on May 9. Six candidates, of whom four are serving members, are vying for the five open spots. It can be generally said that such elections aren’t a big deal in Armenia’s ...
Today marks "World Press Freedom Day. On the occasion, a group of young Hetq reporters took to the streets of Yerevan and distributed copies of the Hetq weekly newspaper. While handing out copies, the reporters explained the importance of having a free ...
Lending Institutions Look to Courts for Redress of Non-Payment During the past few months, banks and other lending institutions have increasingly petitioned the courts, seeking redress for non-payment of loans made to rural residents. They want the courts ...
Due to the heavy recent rains, rural agriculture in the Ararat valley has been severely damaged. The Ministry of Agriculture has not yet started to assess the monetary damage. Hetq’s roving photographic eye has visited the region and has noted that ...
Recent rainfall has led to local rivers in Armavir and Aragatzotn Marzes flooding their banks. However, the two Regional Authorities report there is no cause for undue concern. Armavir Deputy Regional Governor Arayik Aghababyan told Hetq that there is no ...
Today, there are four survivors of the 1915 Genocide left in the Armavir Marz of Armenia. We obtained information about them from the Regional Administration and paid the survivors a visit. Yepraksia Gevorgyan is 104 years-old but she puts many younger ...
“I’ve sold the house and will probably move to Russia” Mkrtich Mkrtchyan, a resident of the village of Nor Armavir, in Armavir Marz, is one of the forty local families that now face a host of credit problems with the banks. Many of the cases have ...
According to preliminary estimates by the Aragatzotn Natural Disasters Inspection Committee, 300 hectares of apricot trees suffered frost damage early this spring in the region, resulting in 142 million AMD in damages. Lyova Mnatsakanyan, Deputy Chief of ...
Rise in U.S. Dollar a Primary Cause of the Problem The village of Darakerd, in Armenia’s southern province of Armavir, has 3,000 inhabitants. They all are involved in agriculture. Village Mayor Ghoukas Simonyan said that while residents work the land, ...
Mixed marriages and cultural assimilation are today’s norms It was a Sunday, exactly 10 in the morning. From one of the streets in Bucharest, the Rumanian capital, one could hear the lilting strains of a church liturgy being performed. A few older ...
The recent cold snap has damaged farm crops in the Ararat valley, particularly plum and apricot trees that had blossomed due to the preceding warm weather. The Armavir Regional Authority told Hetq that the region’s entire apricot crop of some 3,360 hectares ...
Glendale Hills, the construction company whose apartments built in Gyumri for families left homeless by the earthquake were described as ‘inhabitable" by President Sargsyan, is refusing to answer any questions posed by Hetq.
Hetq is starting a series highlighting various members of the RoA National Assembly. This week we would like to bring to your attention MP Hrant Grigoryan who represents District 20 in Armavir Marz.
MP Tigran Torosyan: “People must understand officials are not here to hand out favors” Trying to reach the village of Vardenis, Aragatzotn Marz, especially during the winter, is an arduous and nearly impossible journey. Roads leading to the village, ...
Sasha Davtyan, a resident of the Katnaghbyur village in Aragatzotn, had his 4 year sentence for physically abusing his daughter reduced to three years today by the Criminal Court of Appeals. After delivering the sentence, Judge M. Rehanyan freed Davtyan under ...
Raises Three Grandchildren in Hut Next to Town Garbage Dump For the past two years Laura Tadevosyan has been raising her three young grandchildren next to a smoldering garbage dump in the village of Sasunik, Aragatzotn Marz. This is where Carmen Ghahramanyan, ...
Farmers can’t pay off loans when 3,500 tons of grapes remain in refrigerators Everyone in the village of Verin Artashat, in Ararat Marz, is unhappy about their lot in life. Almost all have put their homes and land up as collateral for loans. “There’s ...
Residents of the town of Martuni, in Gegharkunik Province, are fearful and angry. During the past month, crimes have followed one another like clockwork but none of the perpetrators have been caught. The ...
In an apparent surprise to many in attendance, Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan opened the next consecutive session of the Aragatzotn Regional Council. After rural community leaders presented a check list of the problems faced by area villagers, Mr. Gevorgyan ...
Many residents of Verin Artashat, a village in Ararat Marz, are having a tough time paying off their loans. Some put their houses up for collateral, others, their land. Most didn’t want to talk about their financial problems, but a few relented. They ...
Village residents found out that their neighbor, Sasha Davtyan, had been charged with the rape of his own daughter, 17 year-old Anahit, when the police came to arrest him. The news shook the village to its core.
Arshak Ghazaryan, high school principal in the village of Bagaran straddling the Armenian border with Turkey, fears that there’ll be no one left in the community in a few more years. He says that the young people are leaving, due to a lack of work, and ...
In the village of Bagaran in the southern Armenian region of Armavir, the men folk crouched by the house walls were complaining that their wives were so tuckered-out after ferrying water from the well, they couldn’t do any housework. The village, located ...
Questions Linger After Botched Investigation by Police and Prosecutor’s Office
“We’ve had it up to here with our situation, of constantly filing petitions and requests, of writing letters to this and that official, telling them, someone, to help us in saving this library of ours.”
At today’s year-end session of the Aragatzotn Regional Council, Sirasnik Hovsepyan, who heads the Local Self-Governance Administration, threatened to up the fines from 40,000 to 100,000 AMD for those community mayors who continue to evade the chlorination ...
The first thing that a resident of the village of Aragatz, in the Aragatzotn Marz, sees upon entering the community municipality building is a sign stating that those who haven’t paid their taxes need not waste their time by filing any sort of petition or ...
As of 2007, residents of the border village of Nerkin Karmiraghbyur, Tavush Marz, have been living in fear and dread. The Azerbaijani villages of Albalu and Hajalu lie only 700 meters away. During the past two years, there have been eight incidents of cattle ...
20% of the doctors at the “Berd Medical Center” located in Tavoush Marz have reached retirement age. Some of them have reached an age where they suffer from certain physical disabilities. The problem is that there is no one to replace them. Medical Center ...
Former Heritage Party MP Hakob Hakobyan denied allegations that he has given up on politics following defeat last year in the Etchmiadzin race for mayor. When asked why he has been keeping a low profile, Mr. Hakobyan replied, “Who says I’ve left the ...
Government Decision N10645, adopted on September 4, 2008, deals with the procedure for “Supplying the mass media with statistics subject to publication of the property and income of government officials.” We should note that this new decision invalidated ...
“Hetq” conducted the following interview with Emil Gabrielyan, Director of the RoA Ministry of Health’s Center for Pharmaceuticals and Medical Technology Testing Mr. Gabrielyan, how are medicines licensed in Armenia and what is the process involved ...
The two-story building, located in the middle of the village of Ushi, Aragatzotn Marz, seen in the accompanying photo looks to the uninformed observer as a normal; apartment building. There are no signs on the outside wall to suggest otherwise. In reality, ...
Avetik Avetikyan, a resident of the village in Aknashen, in Armavir Marz, signed a 5 year mortgage contract with the “Arfin” Credit Agency at a 24% annual interest rate. Mr. Avetikyan took out a 3.3 million AMD loan to renovate his house and to start-up ...
Yesterday, a group of "Hetq" reporters went to the village of Ohanavan to speak with the local mayor. It seems that residents have been complaining about the potable water situation in the village as well as the problems they face in selling their apple crop. When ...
The Civil Status Acts Register (CSAR) office in the town of Jambarak, Gegharkunuik Marz, has many local residents up in arms. It’s the way they are treated by Lousineh Mkhitaryan, the woman who runs the place as she pleases; often keeping residents waiting ...
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 ...
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