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INVESTIGATIVE
JOURNALISTS OF ARMENIA
Hrach Bayadyan
Does Armenia Have a Future?
[June 18, 2007]
Many people speak today about how the South Caucasus is an artificially created
region, where the member countries have differing (and sometimes opposing) interests
and wishes. Will it unite in the wake of other countries' entry into the region,
or the region's desire to be part of broader international bodies? Or will it
break down as a result of centrifugal forces? ... [full
story]
Vahe Sarukhanyan
Not Having a Policy,
Is In Itself, A Policy
[June 18, 2007]
Till today the authorities in the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of
Nagorno-Karabakh have no policy regarding the liberated territories. According
to the Edik Baghdasaryan, Editor-in-Chief of the Hetq online newspaper, not having
a policy regarding resettlement is, in itself a policy ... [full
story]
Edik Baghdasaryan
The World Begins Here
[June 18, 2007]
Stretching two fingers apart Yura from Himnashen says, “Even though the beginning
of the world starts here this is how far we are removed from the globe”. He's
been talking non-stop for the past half hour and I've stopped listening. It's
as if he wanted to comment all at once about everything I had discovered regarding
his faraway village ... [full story]
Vahe Sarukhanyan
Alexandre Varbedian – “Blacklisted” for
5 Years
[June 18, 2007]
Since 2002, entry into Armenia has been prohibited for French-Armenian ontologist
and genealogist Alexandre Arord Varbedian. Vardbedian, who had moved from France
to Soviet Armenia at the age of five and received his education in Yerevan, moved
back to his birthplace of Marseille in 1975 ... [full
story]
Haykush Aslanyan
Iraqi Armenians are Disillusioned
[June 18, 2007]
Two years ago Barsegh Hambardzumyan and his family emigrated from Iraq to
Armenia. They lived for a year and a half in Yerevan's Avan district, but paying
$180 a month rent was a luxury the family couldn't afford, and so they moved
to Echmiadzin, where they found a place for $50 a month ... [full
story]
Davit Karapetyan
Karegah – Kashatagh’s
Biggest Village
[June 18, 2007]
The youth center in Karegah, a village in Kashatagh, plays the role of movie
theater, theater, café and discotheque – to put it briefly, “…everything
we need,” said the young people of the village. The center was established in
2003 on the initiative of the Monte Melkonyan charity organization and was named
for Smbat Tatosyan ... [full story]
Hasmik Hovhannisyan
We Feel Abandoned
[June 18, 2007]
“There is nothing to do in the village. After school, we go to the village
square, sit down and talk about this and that. We don't even have an ordinary
café to take girls to. There's only a restaurant, but instead of two cups
of coffee you can only order two bowls of borsch, “ says 10th grader Norayr ... [full
story]
Hasmik Hovhannisyan
Comments on the Article “Marriage,
Armenian Style”
[June 18, 2007]
Dear readers, thank you for your comments on the article “Marriage, Armenian
Style”. The overwhelming majority of the responses came from Armenians of both
genders and different ages, living in Armenia and abroad. Most of the comments
were based on the analyses of subjective experiences ... [full
story]
Now is the time
to uncover corruption and punish for it
An Interview with Amalia Kostanyan, the President of the Center
for Regional Development/Transparency International
[June 18, 2007]
-Where does the country rank in corruption according to the calculations
of Transparency International? How do you explain this position?
- Over the last three years there have been no positive changes. We are again
in that group of countries where corruption is widespread ... [full
story]
State Department releases
2007 Trafficking in Persons Report
[June 18, 2007]
Armenia is a source country and, to a lesser extent, a transit country for
women and girls trafficked to the United Arab Emirates and Turkey for the purpose
of commercial sexual exploitation. Armenian men and women are trafficked to Russia
for the purpose of forced labor ... [full story] |
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On June 12, 1993 Monte Melkonian
was killed
In the early morning the self-defense forces of the Martuni region of Nagorno
Karabakh began an operation to destroy the military strongholds in the villages
of the Aghdam region of Azerbaijan ... [full
story]
An
Open Letter to the Government of the Republic of Armenia
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