“Impossible to correct violence within the law through the law”

Nune HAKHVERDYAN | September 29, 2009

Lawyer Varand Gourjian represents the American Gourjian Law Group company, which is occupied in resolving disputes connected with real estate property. Varand Gourjian, aged 35, is an experienced lawyer, who not only knows his profession well but speaks several languages as well. He has studied not only jurisprudence in the university of California, but philosophy as well. He believes that in this profession one should be a good philosopher and analyze well in order to be a good lawyer. One of his biggest cases was connected with a discovered big machination in the Wall Street stock exchange, where they had created a fake pyramid structure and embezzled 2 billion dollars from citizens. As a result of court trials, which lasted about 3 years, Gourjian returned one billion from the embezzled money. Even Armenians from other countries ask for his professional services. He tries to be in Armenia often because he has friends and clients here. He visited Armenia for the first time in 1994, and during this visit he also...

“In 1998 I could have lost my life”, said actress Violet Gevorgyan during the exclusive interview to 168-Zham newspaper

Artak ALEXSANYAN | September 2, 2007

On August 5 was the birthday of famous actress Violet Gevorgyan. She is currently at exactly the same age as her heroine, Aghun. Since 1980 she has performed Hrant Matevosyan’s “In the autumn sun” casting her heroine Aghun for over 800 times. Everybody was admiring Violet - colleagues, theater experts, etc. However the actress hasn’t seen the generation of the independence age on the stage. She has lived in the US the past 16 years. She moved to the US on January 1, 1991. “When I got here I was terribly disappointed, I was in hysteria. Perhaps my first feeling was right…” remembers the actress. Before speaking of her American life I asked the reasons why she’s moved to America. She said, “Why do you want to know that? That’s a complicated story. Who knows it’s fine who doesn’t let them not know.” For the first time in 16 years she told what made her run away from Armenia and what happened in 1988. Thus, in March 1988 convinced by the...

You come to Yerevan and it feels like in Milan. There are a few differences but in rural community there is wide-spread poverty

Lusine STEPANYAN | August 30, 2007

Our compatriot Karo Armen is the main owner of New York’s famous “Anti-jenix” biotechnological institute as well as the founder of the “Armen Partners” pharmaceutical company. Doctor of physical chemistry Karo Armen is a famous businessman, entrepreneur and humanist in New York. At present he’s the director of the board of two major companies, worth hundreds of million of dollars. One of them is located in New York; the other one in Ireland. The “personalized cancer vaccine”, produced by the Anti-jenix biotechnological institute, is in the third stage of its development. Mr. Armen is planning to bring the cancer vaccine in Armenia in order to make our country a progressive state of cancer healing. Also, the fertilizer has been officially approved by the US. “It’s not a chemical therapy. It raises the immunity of the organism and instead reduces the cancer. Our medicine is used in case of 2nd or 3rd degree cancer because it’s too late for the 4th...

“The woman with the mini-skirt wants to say ‘I’m ready for sex’, but deep down inside she doesn’t feel sexual”-says French fashion designer Karin Arabyan

Nune HAKHVERDYAN | October 30, 2006

French-Armenian fashion designer and modeler Karin Arabyan is well-known around the world of fashion. The shoes, purses, jewelry and other accessories are very popular and he makes huge profits in different cities worldwide, including Paris, London, New York, Tokyo…Recently, he also introduced his “Karin Arabyan” brand to women of Moscow. Karin Arabyan’s ancestors have also been in the fashion world; his grandfather was a shoemaker and his dad took in orders for making costumes. After studying a high-class fashion design school and working with the “Svarovski” and “Chanel” fashion homes, he decided to create his own brand and not only produce accessories, but also, as he says, “dress the woman from head to toe”. During his visit to Yerevan, Karin Arabyan introduced Armenians to his new collection with the main motive of being a free and independent woman. His accessories are comfortable and at the same time elegant. The purses made by Arabyan are elegant...

The small boy became a hero for the Americans

Anush MKRTCHYAN | October 27, 2006

Very often we like or dislike a certain foreign city taking into consideration many minor details. The architecture of the city, the culture, night life, cafes, transportation, the dirty or clean streets outline the entire image of the city. However, we don’t only like the city for that. No matter how much we adore the architecture of this or that building, we still form an opinion about the given city just by the citizens. After all that we finally decide whether or not we want to visit that city once again. Brandon from America would probably remember Yerevan as a temporary working site (he works at the U.S. Embassy of Armenia) if it weren’t for the event that took place on Mount Aragats. “In August of this year, we decided to organize a small hiking trip to Mount Aragats. First, we wanted to reach the plateau of Aragats and then go to the western peak,” says regional security officer for the U.S. Embassy of Armenia Peter Ford, who had gone hiking with two infantries (one of which...