Last weekend when 60-year old Lyudmila Mirzoyan
went outside as usual in the morning to
work in her garden, she was astonished and
didn't believe what she saw.
The Constitutional Court of Armenia has
turned down an appeal by presidential candidate
Stepan Demirchyan that the March 5 election
of Robert Kocharyan be declared invalid.
"Hello, My Name
Is . . .": Business clerks forced into
first-name basis with customers
By Viorica
Vladica
ArmeniaNow correspondent
"Excuse me, do you work here?"
would sound a desperate question of a lost
customer in a Yerevan supermarket. Often
it is confusing separating the clerks from
the customers.
April 13 was "Tsaghkazard", known in other places
as Palm Sunday, the week before Easter, marking the day Jesus
entered Jerusalem. Here, part of the commemoration includes
making wreaths from branches which are worn by young people
and then placed in homes. The day is also the seventh Sunday
of the Great Fast, as observed among the Armenian Apostolic
Church.
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