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The border-guarding family is at risk of losing their home

Hrach Antonyan's family, with three generations, lives a few hundred meters away from the Nakhichevan border in the Nor Aznaberd village of Vayots Dzor. The ex-serviceman, who was injured during the 44-day war and became disabled, does not know how to repay the loan and support his family with a 69,000 AMD disability pension.

May 15/2023

Yoga is a lifestyle

After returning from India, Gagik Tadevosyan opened the first yoga center in Armenia in the city Vanadzor.

December 6/2022

The Palace on the Plani Glukh — the Corncob

The Youth Palace was an endless labyrinth. There you could swim, listen to rock music in the green bar, get acquainted with someone, fall in love, have a first date at a revolving restaurant.

February 10/2023

The Silk Factory is just a memory now

Everyone is incredibly enthusiastic about their work at the Silk Factory after V. Lenin in Yerevan. To work and to live like a communist: that’s the embodiment of Lenin’s ideas today. Երևանի Սեբաստիա 37 հասցեում տասնամյակներ շարունակ ամենօրյա եռուզեռ էր: 1953 թվականին հիմնված՝ Լենինի անվան Մետաքսի կոմբինատն աշխատանքով էր ապահովում հազարավոր մարդկանց, իսկ այստեղ արտադրվող բնական ու արհեստական կտորեղենն արտահա

June 20/2022

World of Gold

The gold market is a space you can take pictures of forever: what seems like an innumerable number of stalls, lined up to face each other, and glittering gold inside.

February 9/2023

“We didn’t feel like we were in our country”: why Russians are resettling in Armenia?

A few days after the start of Russian-Ukrainian war, conversations in Russian were heard more often in the streets of Yerevan, various parts of the city and social networks started slowly filled with Russian-language announcements.

June 16/2022

Citizenship without a passport: the story of a homeless man

Two homeless people live in the abandoned basement of one of the buildings in Zeytun — one is Iranian-Armenian, and the other is German-Armenian Vahram Hovhannisyan.

January 30/2023

Labor law violations in supermarkets: investigation

Hetq Media Factory had received letters from readers about poor working conditions in supermarkets. The cases of labor law violations described in those letters seemed so unbelievable that our journalists decided to go to work in different supermarket chains to understand the situation.

December 25/2021