Every time Sveta Sargsyan prepares pasuts tolma she tries to use all the secrets passed to her by her grandmother.

Sima Badalyan keeps her spices in a special place at her kitchen: the most valuable among them for her is dried ‘maraloty’ (herb which grows only in Nakhijevan and some parts of Vayots Dzor province).

The aroma of roast flour announces that halva (a paste of mainly nuts, sugar and oil) will be ready in a few minutes.

A non-governmental organization in Yerevan has presented a newly launched website that it says proves false about two dozen photographs earlier circulated in public domain about the events near the village of Khojalu during the 1991-1994 Armenian-Azerbaijani war in Karabakh.

Armenia has come a long way to its current internet status, with the connection speed and number of customers seeking to use more advanced technologies showing a significant increase in the past several years. While shifts towards a less expensive internet have also been made, it still remains an unlikely chance to get the best value for money in Armenia as far as internet is concerned.

No sooner had the Eurovision passions subsided than the Armenian public was engaged into another debate on a sensitive subject – the purity of the Armenian language and its protection.

With the number of illegal Armenian workers in Turkey often exaggerated by officials for political gain, the most pressing problem for the community remains educating its children, who are not permitted to study at either Turkish public schools or institutions run by local Armenians. At present, there are somewhere between 6,000 and 70,000 Armenians illegally residing in Turkey.

An Armenian expert on monuments has commended the recent speech by the country’s leader at a leading European think tank in which he raised the issue of Armenian cultural heritage in Azerbaijan.

This year the Great Lent starts on February 15 which will last 48 days till the St Resurrection Day or Easter which this year will be celebrated on April 4.

Wheat, lentil, pea, hemp… every year on February 13, residents of Sisian prepare aghandz (roasted grains of wheat/sesame) at her house using these grains to celebrate Tiarn’ndaraj (Trndez) feast.

And while in capital city Yerevan the Tiarn’ndaraj is celebrated by newly-married or engaged, in Sisian, (Syunik province) 220 km south of Yerevan, Tiarn’ndaraj is first of all a feast for children, because this day they are served in every house.