“We appeared at the bottom”
Marineh MARTIROSYAN | January 26, 2012
Says the President of the Association of Sustainable Human Development Karine Danielyan
- In 2012 June Armenia is going to participate in the ecological conference Rio-20. It is interesting to know what Armenia is going to present if during the past several years Armenia has encountered a serious ecological disaster. On the one hand we have the ghost of Teghut mine and on the other hand the governmental projects, which will mildly-said cause the elimination of Kajaran, Jermuk, Lernadzor. In that case, why are we participating? What do we have to show to the world? - Our country’s participation in this conference is mandatory because it is the UN summit, where all the countries participate. It doesn’t only relate to the exploitation of the resources. The conference relates to sustainable development, the components of which are abundant, including educational, social, etc. I think our country should participate in that conference by trying to learn from the practice of others. - Who should represent our country? Is that the Ministry of Nature Protection? - Usually national delegations... [full story]
JOURNALISTIC CHARITABLE ACTION – “HYE DZMER PAP – 2012”
December 30, 2011
“Hye Dzmer Pap” charitable foundation, together with “Hetq”, “Aravot”, “168 hours”, “MediaLab” and “ArmRegions” online periodicals, presents “Hye Dzmer Pap – 2012” journalistic-charitable release. Read and get acquainted with the stories of families living in various regions of Armenia and NKR and watch the short documentaries based on those stories. These people live next door to us deprived of the minimal conditions of life, without job and hope for a better future. The New Year holidays bring not joy but additional burden to their daily hardships. Separately, our mass media frequently cover social topics, but this is the first edition of the journalistic charitable network. By uniting the media opportunities we anticipate your participation in helping our compatriots out of the social deadlock. Respect, cooperation and volunteering – this is “HYE DZMER PAP - 2012” vision. Your visits to the families...
‘I’M A HAPPY MAN. I RAISE 8 SOLDIERS FOR THE MOTHERLAND,’ says the father of 9 children Armen from Goris
December 30, 2011
http://lenahovsepyan.com/?p=172 Lena HOVSEPYAN ‘May you sit for dinner with seven children’ the folk says when blessing a newly married couple. In this family they gather for dinner with 9 children – eight sons and a daughter. The girl helps the mother to set the table… That’s all about the romanticism in our story. The reality is that the only wish of the well-brought up children of this modest, if not to say poor, house is peace to the world. Only after our insistent questioning they confessed they dream of a bicycle, but most of all of a ball to play football. The brothers would divide into 2 teams. One of the boys dreams of sous (a meat and potato soup) and khorovats (barbeque), while their father dreams of obtaining cattle and feeding his children with dairy products. ‘Two years ago I earned some money and bought several ewes. We got inspired, but one night a wolf attacked and killed them all. You can see our house is close to the wood.’...
LARGE FAMILY ON BORDER: "I HOPE WE WILL NOT BECOME HOMELESS"
December 30, 2011
Tigran PASKEVICHYAN www.haysanta.am The house where Susan and Karen Madatyan family lives is not visible from the position of the Azerbaijani armed forces. However the family, which consists of seven members every day, experiences the difficulties of the life on the border. "Sometimes we hear the shots everyday", says Karen. He also added that the area where they live is located in a pit and the bullets rush past above them. Vazashen village residents of Armenian Tavush region have other problems as well. The privatized lands are being attacked by Azerbaijan and thus, the lands are not being cultivated. Vazashen residents are not peasants anymore. The elder son of the family, Boris and two daughters Bella and Alla are the schoolchildren. Karo and David are little kids. The children bring happiness to the family, but at the same time the parents concern about their future. "Of course, first of all children bring happiness, to all the families…" Karen is a disabled person;...
HEY, DAVO, COME ON! WHOLE OUR LIFE’S A FREAK SHOW, DON’T CRY FOR IT
December 30, 2011
http://www.168.am/am/articles/27900-pr Lusine STEPANYAN www.168.am Aram is getting confused at the sight of the overcrowded truck body-like dwelling-wagon. He looks helpless trying to move and striking against the wooden wall of the wagon. He looks around trying to guess why the voices of these strangers echo. The 11 year-old boy has so strained his ears that cannot find the door of the wagon – something he has long struggled to learn. ‘Aram jan, don’t be afraid, I have only come to visit you,’ I am trying to calm the boy down. Yet, Aram’s fear is flying in the air and penetrating into us as well. While taking a photo of him I ask him to raise his head, but his mother says he cannot. Sometimes he wails of his headache and cannot keep his head high. I am trying to talk to him and tell him not to be afraid of me. It seems Aram begins to trust me, because the sound of my voice convinces him I will not do him any harm. ‘Most of all in my life I love tales,’...
“THE ONLY THING I WANT IS TO WALK 5 METERS UNASSISTED”
December 30, 2011
http://old.hetq.am/am/karabakh/narek-2/ Knar BABAYAN www.hetq.am We met Narek in the village of Tsamtsor, situated 45 km to north from Hadrut region. He was ready to go to the field since his son had some problems with the tractor. Everything would look natural but for Narek’s wheelchair. Narek Avagyan, 57, was born and lives in Tsamtsor. He went to school there, and then he was conscripted into the Soviet Army. After army he went to Martakert and apprenticed to become a machine operator. ‘Whole my life I have lived here and voluntarily participated in Artsakh liberation. I was tank-man,’ says Narek. At war he got burns and contusion times without number. But most of all he suffers from the absence of his legs. ‘At first I had only burns. Later a mine exploded near the Azerbaijani school in Hadrut and the splinter injured my right leg. I didn’t pay attention first. I wasn’t thinking it was serious. But in the end I lost both my legs,’ recalls Narek. It is 8...
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Paper folders burned
December 10, 2011
Yesterday at 6:24p.m. the Fire Department of Armenia received a phone call that the Armenian Ministry of Energy is on fire. Smoke was seen in Nalbandyan Street. Firemen arrived at the scene. Fire was put out at about 8p.m. According to initial information, 3 sq/m of paper was burned and the bookshelf with folders. The fire which broke out at the Armenian Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources at the Ministry’s Personnel Management Department room. It’s still unknown what caused the fire and whether the burned documents were important or not....
Situation uncertain in Upper Lars
December 3, 2011
The situation at the checkpoint of Upper Lars has not only found a solution but there is even no hope that in the near future the problems will be fixed. According to different sources, the number of the stuck trucks at the border is 300. Moreover, if in the past the drivers hoped that during the visit of President Serzh Sargsyan to Georgia this matter will be resolved. But it didn’t happen and they are all desperately waiting for the final decision of the government. In this regard we asked the director of Apaven freight moving company Gagik Aghajanyan to comment, who is in Tbilisi on these days. He is sure that the cargo companies have their own guilt in created situation. Their trucks are stuck at the checkpoint. “We have numerously said that after November 15 thee road is blocked and driving through Lars is really becoming dangerous. They shouldn’t have done it and put the government in such an uncomfortable situation,” said Aghajanyan. As a solution Aghajanyan suggests that the drivers...
Less than in 2010
November 29, 2011
In an annual telethon broadcast from Los Angeles late on November 24, a pan-Armenian charity received about $12.3 million in donations that will be mostly invested in the ongoing reconstruction of Nagorno-Karabakh’s water distribution network. Let’s remember that the fund already raised over $20 million for that purpose late last year. “Right now we are ascertaining and processing the whole list of contributors,” Armenia spokeswoman Hasmik Grigoryan told RFE/RL’s Armenian service. “I think this work will continue until December.” “If we take into account the fact that the sum raised at the latest telethon does not include the results of the upcoming gala, then we can conclude that it exceeds the result of last year’s telethon by $2 million,” said Grigoryan. Hayastan raised a record-high $35 million in 2008. Moscow-based businessman Samvel Karapetyan donated $15 million of that. The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund headquartered in Yerevan said the final figure...
Against the 168 Hours
November 10, 2011
Today the first instance court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan Kentron and Nork Marash administrative districts will hold the court hearing of the case brought by the former director of School 2 of Echmiadzin Mrs. Susan Nazaryan and her son against Marine Martirosyan, a journalist of the 168 Hours newspaper. The two court sessions will take place with thirty minutes difference. Both of the court cases will be heard by judge A. Melkonyan. For your information, Mrs. Nazaryan and her son are requesting 4 million drams from the newspaper for harming their reputation....
25,000 USD per person?
October 6, 2011
Yesterday the court of general instance of Vanadzor heard the case of Serob Ter-Poghosyan, who is charged with child molestation. Although it was planned to conduct the questioning of witnesses but it was cancelled because of the absence of one of the witnesses. The next court hearing will take place on November 7 at 11 a.m. According to our information the relatives of Ter-Poghosyan are actively working on bribing the witnesses. It is noted that the friends of Ter-Poghosyan have paid 25,000 USD to the mothers of the victims to avoid accusations....
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