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Armenia: City Yerevan
built 655 days ago
Economic conditions in Armenia deteriorated rapidly in 1992. Azerbaijan’s economic blockade of Armenia, which closed both a railway link and a fuel pipeline, caused severe food and energy shortages throughout Armenia. Ethnic-based conflicts raging in Georgia ... impeded delivery of urgently needed supplies to Armenia. Meanwhile, Armenian refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh and other parts of Azerbaijan flooded into Armenia, further straining the economy. In massive demonstrations in Yerevan in 1992 and 1993, Armenians protested the continuing energy crisis and demanded Ter-Petrosyan’s resignation.
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Armenia is subject to damaging earthquakes. On Dec. 7, 1988, an earthquake destroyed the northwestern town of Spitak and caused severe damage to Leninakan (now Gyumri), Armenia's second most populous city. About 25,000 people were killed.
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"The fate of Armenia depends on one person, and this one person is you," read sheets of paper pasted on the base of a monument in Yerevan's Freedom Square. But as Armenia's opposition pushes ahead with plans to contest the May 12 parliamentary vote results, emphasis is increasingly being put on the need for joint action.
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Armenia is often referred to as "Ciudad Milagro" (Miracle City) due to its fast urban growth and development. The local economy main trade is still based on the production of coffee, plantains, and bananas.
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YEREVAN (Noyan Tapan)--According to the Armenian National Security Services, a computer virus program dubbed "Perfect Key Logger" has been discovered in a number of computers in Armenia. The source of the virus has been traced to Azerbaijani Special Foreign Services.
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Under this programme component, UNDP will help to strengthen multi-sector response to HIV/AIDS in Armenia. This outcome will be achieved through accomplishing specific outputs, such as follows: (1) Providing advisory and technical support to the coordinating mechanism of HIV/AIDS and advocating for the establishment of an HIV/AIDS prevention system within uniformed services. (2) Strengthening institutional capacity of the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice and the Police of Armenia for an adequate national response to HIV/AIDS through prevention activities within the uniformed services. (3) Developing national strategies and policy recommendations based on situation and response analysis that addresses HIV/AIDS within national uniformed services with an emphasis on young recruits and demobilized personnel. (4) Raising awareness of HIV/AIDS and related issues among uniformed services employees, with an emphasis on young recruits. In addition, in partnership with World Vision International Armenian Branch and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNDP will support the Government of Armenia to rehabilitate the National Centre for AIDS Prevention, laboratories in Yerevan and five provinces and to provide drugs and commodities/equipment to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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