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.
The longer we page the history book of our country the more we realize that there are many blank and ripped pages in it. Time distances and the silence erases the old wounds. As a proof of this today we moved back in 1950s to recall a few noteworthy events from that era.
During the recent session of the RA committee on regulating public services it was agreed to sell Vorotan’s HPS’s complex to the American Contour Global company. The latter will pay approximately 180 million USD. The American company will own the HPS’s of Spandaryan (built in 1989), Shamb (built in 1979), Tatev (built in 1970) as well as premises belonging to the complex.
It was a routine day in 1945 when Frank McNamara, director of Hamilton Credit Corporation, after dining in a restaurant in New York found out that he had forgotten his wallet in the pocket of another jacket at home. The businessman had to call his wife to bring money. This became a reason for creating a universal payment tool for service centers.
-Have terrorists ever tried to hijack Armenian airplanes? There will indeed be people who would say no but the most informed ones will claim that there were a dozen of cases when Armenian planes were seized by criminals.