by afupdate | Jun 12, 2018 | Features
Old address: metal container No. 231/450 New address: Mush 2 District, Halabyan Street, Building No. 4, Apartment 30 For as long as he remembers, Arsen Khachatryan, a young resident of Gyumri, has lived in huts — known as domiks. Born a few years after the 1988 Spitak...
by afupdate | May 15, 2018 | Features
Old address: Domik No. 214/058, near the new Police Station New address: Mush 2, 7th Street, Building 2/1, Apartment 6 It seems incredible that Natalya Struk was able to raise her family in a ramshackle hut, known as a domik, which lacked even the most basic of human...
by afupdate | May 14, 2018 | Features
Old address: Hut No. 217/054, Repini Street, across from the Music School New address: Mush 2, Building 65, Apartment 16 The Sukiasyans were among Gyumri’s forgotten: struggling on the margins, surrounded by dreadful living conditions, barely scraping by. Such...
by afupdate | May 9, 2018 | Features
On September 19, 2009, Gohar Khachaturyan gave birth to her second child, through Cesarean section. Today, eight years later, she’s about to undergo another surgery, this time for removing gallbladder stones. Earlier in the morning, as Gohar was stepping out of the...
by afupdate | May 2, 2018 | Features
Old address: Makeshift metal container No. 46/009 New address: Mush 2 district, Building 9/1, Apartment 13 The Elbakyans are among hundreds of low-income families in Gyumri who not only lost their home to the 1988 earthquake, but have endured the indignity of having...
by afupdate | Apr 27, 2018 | Features
Artsakh is not just one of the most beautiful countries in the world; given its wonderful climate and fertile soil, it also has the potential of becoming an agricultural powerhouse. So why hasn’t it yet? The answer is, simply, water — not the lack of it, and certainly...
