Geoteam hasn’t started mining in Amulsar yet but the company has made significant social investments. In Armenia the investment of business entities into social projects is often taken with suspicion especially when a company hasn’t seen profit yet. Why would at all a business entity undertake social development projects?
In order to accommodate the high demand for travel to the United States by Armenians this summer, the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan will be open on Saturday, August 15 to provide additional visa interviews and processing for Armenian citizens.
Three young Armenian entrepreneurs rented a cart last month at the Americana — a large shopping-restaurant-theater complex in Glendale — to sell T-shirts, hats, and other clothing items advertised on their shop1915.com website.
A new significant renewal project is being launched for the redevelopment and renewal of Gyumri, it is called “Gyumri Project HOPE.” The goal of the project is to come up with a long-term development plan for Gyumri that will bring together organizations and individuals from diaspora, international organizations and the municipality of Gyumri for the purpose of reviving Gyumri.
More than a quarter century has passed since the earthquake in Armenia’s Gyumri. On December 7, Gyumri marked the 26th anniversary of the earthquake – 26 years of pain, hunger, homelessness, emigration, suffering and the hope that one day their children will have a home and emerge from homelessness and poverty.
A quarter century has passed since the devastating earthquake in Gyumri on December 7, 1988, however, 4,300 families still live in the same makeshifts they went into following the earthquake.
The humid and cold air in Alvard’s place forces anyone to get out as it creates discomfort for anyone who sets foot in her apartment. It is cold and dark in her place, and the elderly are so sad that even the active sounds of children do not bring them to life as they ponder. Each child in their home is a piece of brightness with smiling faces, kind and open to humans, and even their hugs and kisses cannot make Madam Alvard forget her sadness for a while.
In Armenia so far only 40 people have undergone regenerative plastic surgery, as announced by Gagik Stamboultsyan, director of Avan Guard medical center. Plastic regenerative surgeries allow correction of body defects through transplanting fat from the same body. Such surgeries help to make hands, neck and face younger, correct scars, as well as make breasts and other parts of the body bigger.
On February 7, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the Hadrut direction near Horadiz settlement.
A father of four infants Vardan is saying that not only do they not look forward to the Christmas holidays but claim that these are days of “fiasco and shame” for them.
