Beeline and VivaCell-MTS telecommunications companies together claim to have over 2,6 million mobile subscribers. Adding to that the army of over 650 thousand fixed-line phone subscribers in Armenia, we will have an impressive figure, roughly equal to that of official population data for Armenia: 3 million 239 thousand.
The numbers for mobile phone subscribers by [...]
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Armenia – Telephone today and in Soviet times… UPDATED
August 11, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Armenia · Communication · Infrustructure
Most waiters and waitresses never paid salary in Yerevan
July 30, 2009 · 8 Comments
The people who smile at you and serve you and try to make you comfortable in hundreds of outdoor cafes, cafeterias, restaurants in Yerevan – several hundreds of waiters and waitresses in Armenia, most of them young, good looking boys and girls are usually not paid a regular salary in Yerevan.
Instead, they have to rely [...]
Armenian bloggers take part in Presidential press conference on equal terms with journalists
July 24, 2008 · 65 Comments
On July 21 a news conference was held at the presidential office marking the 100th day of Serzh Sarkissian’s presidency. 2 bloggers were invited to the press conference on equal terms with 38 journalists, making the number of invitees a symbolic 40. 40 questions were asked to the president – and bloggers were given the [...]
Transport Hell in Yerevan
September 20, 2007 · 4 Comments
Don’t drive in Yerevan, Notes From Hairenik says, because as a result of Due to the numerous road construction projects car-driving “has become very hazardous with cars passing one another indiscriminately and causing near life-threatening accidents”. The root of the problem is corruption in the way the state grant licenses, Christian Garbis speculates, and the [...]
Tags: Armenia · Infrustructure
Negative Trends of Negative Trade: Armeni’as foreign trade balance deficit made $838mln in January-June, 2007
July 23, 2007 · 2 Comments
The jumpy Caucasian Tiger – i.e. Armenia’s economy grew by 11,2% in January-June of 2007, according to Banks.am, and it looks as if life has gone for good to better, with average monthly salary increasing by 20.5% as compared to the same period of 2006, thus making 71344 drams.
Somehow all these growth figures make me [...]
Tags: Armenia · Development · Economy · Poverty · Society
Strange Logic or Widow of Hope
February 8, 2007 · 1 Comment
Uzogh discusses the recent comments by ex-speaker of the RA Paliament, head of oppositional party “Rule of Law” Artur Baghdasaryan, who has noted, that there is a “window of hope” that the elecitons 2007 might actually bring about change. However, Uzogh is critical of Artur Baghdasaryan and his comment about the fact that the broadcast [...]
Tags: Elections · Opposition · Parties · Politics
