Families under Pressure:
Assistance can be the difference between
the street or school for children living
on the edge
By Vahan
Ishkhanyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Arsen, 11, and his brother Andranik, 12,
used to go to Yerevan from Parakar to beg
for money to save their family from hunger.
They had not been to school for two years
because their single-mother Narineh could
hardly provide food for her four sons and
could not afford other expenses.
Sounds of Improvement:
Havat steps in to help hearing-speaking
impaired
by Gayane
Mkrtchyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Four-year old Nina is quietly sitting on
a chair, looking blankly around her environment.
Teacher Erna Shagoyan, a specialist for
the deaf and dumb, steps behind her and
starts shaking a plastic box full of buttons
and stones, and Nina's face comes alive.
Living for Luck: Lotto
fever grips Yerevan in anticipation of new
regulations
by Gayane
Mkrtchyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
The prospect of new legislation placing
restrictions on Armenia's various lottery
games has increased the popularity of the
games throughout Yerevan, as lottery promoters
try to capitalize on the gambling craze
before facing tighter limits on their availability.
Excavations in the Yerevan district of Shengavit
over the past two years have uncovered a
city which local and some foreign archeologists
believe to have been settled five thousand
years before the birth of Christ. Scientists
say the site has yielded some of the archeologically-richest
finds in all the Caucasus, and if the dating
proves accurate, it would mean that the
area was settled nearly 4,000 years before
the Urartus founded Yerevan.
School of Struggle:
Karabakh village honors an advocate of independence
by Vahan
Ishkhanyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
"A society existing within the limits
of fear can't have hope for independence.
But we must have hope. For the struggle,
we have to make sacrifices and suffer."
Russia's Minister of Defense, Sergei Ivanov (smoking
left) and Armenia's Minister of Defense Serzh Sargsyan
(smoking right) blew smoke together this week during
a visit to the Genocide Monument.
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