Armenian Villagers Block Road to Protest Continuous Water Cutoffs
The idea that the drinking water is being given to greenhouses has been planted by provocateurs to stir up the situation. We do have a water issue, but it does not...
Residents of Small Armenian Villages Protest Against Government’s Community Enlargement Initiative
- Larger communities will never care for the problems of the smaller ones; they will first and foremost take care of their own issues...
Vanadzor Drivers Protest Against ‘Hazardous’ Roads
The protesters complain that they have been spending money on car repairs every day for the past weeks and insist that if the roads are not repaired, they will stop paying taxes...
Yazidi Village in Armenia Deprived of Water
The village has been without water for over 20 days. The villagers have bought a new pump on their own money, but it turns out that they can't replace the old one because it is...
Armenian Villagers Told to Wait Indefinitely for New Houses
The Armavir budget has already been approved; however, the authorities are again urging the Lenughi villagers to wait indefinitely as they plan to renovate a culture house․․․
Dilapidated School in Armenian Village Heated with Prohibited Tin Stoves
According to Tsilkar village head Hovhannes Melkonyan, the building has not undergone a full overhaul since it was originally constructed in the mid-90s...
Armenia's Government Will Not Cover Winery's Debt to Grape Farmers
During their last meeting with agriculture minister Ignati Arakelyan, the official hinted that the villagers were to demand their money from those whom they have given their grapes...
Armenia's Agriculture Ministry Finally Acknowledges Grape Farmers Are Being Deceived
Note, grape farmers from the village of Kaghtrashen in Armenia’s Ararat province – who after an unusually rich harvest in the fall of 2015 had to sell their grapes...
Armenian Grape Farmers Continue Fruitlessly to Demand Pay for Last Year's Produce
Unconvinced by the deputy minister's promises that the debt would be repaid by the end of December, the protesters continued to demand a meeting with the prime minister...
School in Armenian Village Evacuated Due to Fire
Vardenis village head Kamo Petrosyan, for his part, told Epress.am that they were using diesel fuel to heat the old school building. “We're lucky it has not gotten too cold yet. I met with the governor the other day, and...
Sacked Vardenis Locksmith Promises to Nail His Feet to Bench if Not Reinstated
I took the PM's letter to company director Anatoly Gogotin yesterday, but he said it meant nothing to him. They did not take Karapetyan's letter into consideration and again refused to reinstate me. I don't know what else to do...
Tenants of Dilapidated and Unsafe Buildings in Armenian Village Still Waiting for New Apartments
Residents of the third emergency building in Lenughi were given money from the 2015 regional budget – 6,6 million drams (about $13 700) per family, villager Gayane Poghosyan said; “The governor said then that the allocations would...