There is a disputable problem in Ayrum village of Lori region which hasn’t been solved for years because the village management has rather means than courage to struggle against the authoritative officials of the region and the republic.

The village has about 400 hectare land, more than half being in hands of former and present officials. And not only the reserve, but also the peasants’ properties are concerned.

“If the peasant’s land is taken away and given to the rich, how will the peasant feel?” asked Manvel Vardanyan and gave the answer to his question, “For already several years I can’t stand for my own land. My living conditions are terrible.” And he told that once he used to have an orchard with 80 trees in it. The new “owners” of his own land have rooted them up and now are sowing corn instead.

These events began 10 years ago. Then the mayor of Lori region was Henrik Kochinyan (executing from 1998 to 2007). Some of the peasants unable to cultivate their lands, as well as to pay the taxes once saw their lands to be cultivated by the mayor’s brothers. (One of them, Hovhannes Kochinyan, is a former parliamentarian of the National Assembly, the other one – Haykaz Kochinyan – the head of neighboring village Shnogh.) The peasants mentioned also Artush Boshyan’s name, head of the RA Police Department of Alaverdi, as a famous village land user.

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Armine Arakelyan, a citizen of Kentron district of Yerevan who pays conscientiously the rates for public services demanded by Kentron condominium every month, wanted once to know what the money collected of the inhabitants is spent on. So she applied to the condominium with a questionnaire made by herself receiving however a denial.

Without delay Armine applied to the court and brought in an action against Kentron condominium.

“It is my right to know what the money is spent on, and if the condominium administration act legally, it won’t be difficult for them to hand information to the habitants,” says Armine.

The court verdict was for Arakelyan and Kentron condominium was obliged to give the information demanded by the citizen, however the condominium managing staff didn’t change their opinion.

“Are we the law victims?” asks Robert Galoyan, head of Kentron condominium. “If so, let all the habitants come and demand an account. And we’ll leave our job and answer their questions. Our state budget is created of the citizens’ taxes. Go and ask the president to give an account. Say that it’s your right and see whether he gives information or not.”

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“Every day President Sargsyan speaks on developing the small and medium size enterprises. Now we are the representatives of that branch, but we are thrown away and the huge area is given to one owner for money making and for only an oligarch getting rich. Maybe later on we would work for him as a slave. But why? I don’t want to give them my property,” says Nikolay Melikyan.

Nikolay is one among those 28 businessmen, who have privatized properties near Botanic Park, an area conterminous to Acharyan Avenue and Tsarav Aghbyur Street. Here there are shops of building materials and car spares, a lot of service centers, but their existence is no longer under threat.

On April 21, 2005 the government came to a decision to separate the mentioned area, 9400square meters, for state needs – for construction. The mayor was assigned to provide realization of the construction projects from 2005 to 2009.

For this reason in July 2006 mayor Yervand Zakharyan adopted Decision 1119-A and assigned the “Investment Project Implementation Unit of Yerevan Construction” (PIU) to realize the construction projects.

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