Twice Olympic champion, thrice world champion and six times European champion, wrestler Armen Nazaryan is in Yerevan now. He left Armenia in 1996 and lives in Bulgaria. As soon as he entered that country, he was granted the Bulgarian citizenship by the order of the Bulgarian president. Moreover, the Armenian wrestler holds the title …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
These days the developments in Syria are among the most discussed and the most urgent issues. Particularly, the situation in Aleppo is tense, where there is a rather big Armenian community. Therefore, www.aravot.am inquired during a conversation with Arabist Suren Manukyan whether the Armenian government was showing the necessary support to Syrian Armenians and whether …
Colonel Ashot Simonyan, the Cossack ataman of the region of Shirak, talking about the speculations that Vardan Ghukasyan, the mayor of Gyumri, had asked the Cossack organization to join the signature collecting in support of him and the latter had been passive, since the head of the organization was Samvel Balasanyan’s relative, said that there …
The Cooperation for Democracy center has carried out a monitoring in Armenian schools. Stepan Danielyan, the director of the center, stated during a press conference today that cases when children had been forced to pray and cross themselves had been registered in Armenian schools, whereas they had been atheists or there had been cases of …
During the funeral of doctor Vahe Avetyan who has died as a result of being severely beaten at Harsnakar Restaurant, a stranger was pouring earth on Vahe’s grave with his hand being on his knees all the time. After an inquiry, the relatives and friends found out that this man was a father of …
Tsomak Oganezova left Armenia the other day because of humiliation, violated rights and intolerance – this conclusion can be drawn from her Facebook statuses and statements made many times. As soon as Tsomak settled abroad, she wrote on her Facebook wall, “Thank God, I have left that damned country at last. Hurrah! I wish the …
The construction of Gyumri N 6 music school will be realized by “Kanaka” Company. The relevant agreement was signed with the company today. The program for reconstruction of Gyumri N6 music school is implemented by Mediamax, Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR) and Australian Do Something organization. “Kanaka” will start the preparations within coming days and …
Roughly two months ago, I had the honor to get acquainted with famous Russian writer Viktor Yerofeyev. We were talking about cultural interactions and the writer said that he was proud that his novel Good Stalin was translated into Armenian. Naturally, that pleasant fact gave me an incentive to read the given book. The novel …
Acourt in Yerevan sentenced two former executives of Armenia’s state pension fund to seven and three years in prison on Monday in the first trial stemming from large-scale fraud in the payment of social benefits alleged by law-enforcement authorities. Sargis Hakobian, the former head of the fund’s branch in Yerevan’s Davitashen district, was convicted of …
