Lena Badalyan is a journalist from Armenia. She got her bachelor degree in Yerevan, Armenia and her MA in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 2010, she has been working in TV channels as a broadcast journalist. Currently, she is working at the Public Television of Armenia as a journalist and a co-host for the social program "Hard Monday."
Almost every villager in Armenia has at least one outstanding agricultural loan. Money is needed to start the agricultural year and the villagers, who have no other source of income, have to take the road of going to the banks or credit organizations.
Hrant Ter-Davtyan is an Armenian from Iraq. Fearing for their lives, Hrant and his large family of five brothers and four sisters, ran away from the clutches of war in 2006 to Armenia. But before coming, they had to sell all that they had in Baghdad at cheap prices. Now the three brothers and two sisters live in Darakert village in Armenia, where they have a successful auto repairing business. Hrant is sure that a hard-working person can achieve success in every country, especially in the motherland.
Mamikon is one of the few people in Armenia who is not afraid to openly speak about his sexual orientation. During his teenage years, he had an inner struggle, which took him nearly two years to come out. Now he fights with the world outside to be accepted just the way he is; his desire is to form a peaceful life for the LGBT community and for himself.
Prisons are generally associated with cells and men and women confined day and night in a claustrophobic space with lots of time on their hands to think about the past, and little to imagine about the future. But for some inmates in the prison of Kosh, in the northern Aragatsotn province, life is different. A foundation has offered them the chance to develop some new professional skills and earn some money; it gives them a new sense of purpose.
Every morning Azat Barseghyan walks from his house to Lenin’s massive head statue down the road -- to greet him. The 75-year-old is just one of the residents of Lernamerdz, about 40 kilometres north of Yerevan village, whose reverence for Comrade Lenin has outlived the dissolution of the statesman’s Socialist dream. Reportedly only five people were members of the Communist party till 1991, but hardships of the 1990s pushed people towards a nostalgia for the USSR. Now many of 50-old villagers consider themselves communist - they commemorate November 7, the official anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and marks Comrade Lenin’s birth and death.
At the turn of the 20th century, the movement calling for women’s right to vote was spreading worldwide, but a young republic in the South Caucasus was already ahead of history.
Yerevan The capital of Armenia An ancient city that traces its roots back 2800 years But Yerevan is more than just facts; it is defined by the humans who live there. While some are born in the city, other choose their destiny by moving to the capital from cities and villages far away. Migration to big cities is a global phenomena. But the trend is felt more strongly in Armenia, where the difference between life in regions and the capital is especially stark.