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Orange Subscribers To Send SMS For 1 Dram On March 8

Mar 7th, 2012 | Category: Social

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, March 7 — Orange Armenia has surprise for all its subscribers! On March 8 all Orange subscribers will be given a chance to send SMS to other Orange subscribers and their friends and relatives living abroad for only 1 dram. “On March 8 all Orange subscribers will send congratulatory SMS messages [...]



Armenian Deputy Patriarch Of Constantinople Complains About Discrimination Against Armenians In Turkey

Mar 5th, 2012 | Category: Featured News, Social

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, March 5 — Archbishop Aram Ateshyan, the Armenian Deputy Patriarch of Constantinople, the spiritual leaders of Turkey’s Assyrian Catholic and Orthodox communities also attended the conference held in Istanbul and devoted to the preparations for the country’s new Constitution. Archbishop Ateshyan noted that Turkey’s current Constitution has a distressing point, according [...]



Husband Forced His Wife Into Prostitution In Yerevan

Mar 2nd, 2012 | Category: Social

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, March 2 – The Armenian husband in Yerevan forced his wife into working as a prostitute continuously for several years and used to take away the money ‘raised’ by the wife. As the press-office of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Armenia reports, the woman gave a statement to [...]



Two More Armenians Die After Moscow Bakery Blast

Mar 1st, 2012 | Category: Social

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, March 1 — Another citizen of the Republic of Armenia, who was injured in the recent explosion in a Moscow bakery, has died. According to medical circles, the woman, who was also a citizen of the Republic of Armenia, lost her life on Tuesday. Another citizen Vrezh Sargsyan, 22, died on [...]



Deep Poverty Level Increased In The Republic Of Armenia

Mar 1st, 2012 | Category: Lead Article, Social

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, March 1 — “The 35.8 percent of Armenian population lives below the poverty line and the deep poverty indicator has grown from 1.3 percent to 3 percent,” said RA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Arthur Grigoryan. Grigoryan made this statement based on the research made last year by World Bank. [...]



Armenia’s Public Council Addresses Mashtots Park Problem

Feb 24th, 2012 | Category: Lead Article, Social

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, February 24 — Public Council of the Republic of Armenia discussed on February 23 the situation surrounding the Mashtots park in Yerevan. Chairman of the Christian Democratic Party of Armenia Khosrov Harutyunyan proposed compensations to the owners of kiosks as a possible solution to the problem. “The Yerevan Municipality was wrong [...]



Human Rights Defender, Human Rights State Rolling Down

Feb 23rd, 2012 | Category: Lead Article, Social

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, February 23 — “The state of human rights not only has not improved in the Republic of Armenia, but it is also rolling down,” said Armenian Helsinki Association Chairman Michael Danielyan introducing the annual report on the state of human rights in the Republic of Armenia at the press conference held [...]