Capital Gains: Newer, expensive and more, more, more
vehicles make Yerevan a moving parking lot of car fever Suren
Deheryan
ArmeniaNow reporter
The number of vehicles registered in Yerevan in three-fourths
of this year shows a dramatic increase over the number
registered in an entire year only five years ago.
Family of Tigran Naghdalyan and defendants in his murder
trial have had their final say and it is now up to Judge
Saro Aramyan to render a verdict within the next 10
days.
Naghdalyan, the chairman of the Board of Directors
of Armenian Public Television, was shot to death last
December 28.
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.
Last week in this space was proclaimed the good tidings
of great joy that Guinness Beer has made it to Yerevan
(canned, but nonetheless black and frothy and satisfying,
if you can swallow the fact that it cost $5.35 a pop).
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."
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.
Norayr Stepanyan of Yerevan took the Grand Prize in
horse riding-jumping competition in Tbilisi. About 70
horsemen from Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia competed
October 25-30 in the Caucasus Cup Competition.
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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