Marianna Grigorian
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Two weeks ahead of a crucial debate on Armenia, few of the demands made by the Council of Europe have been implemented.
Politicians’ charitable activities - which include handing out potatoes - are dismissed by some as attempts to win over voters.
Twenty years on, a new generation of children is not getting the treatment it needs for Chernobyl-related sickness.
Parliament steps in to stop people taking up more space than they can possibly use after death.
Officials want to raise Armenia’s education system to European standards but some parents and educators wonder if they can deliver.
A wave of birth abnormalities afflicts a small industrial Armenian town.
Ethnic identity is a sensitive issue for those Armenians and Azerbaijanis who decided not join the conflict-induced, two-way mass emigration.