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The Increase in Gas Prices Will Cause the Whole Village of Azatan to
Move to Yakutia
May 20 2013
And 85%-90% of men are guest workers at the moment Gevorg Abrahamyan,
a member of the council of Azatan, one of the largest villages in the
region of Shirak, informed about this during a conversation with
www.aravot.am. According to him, 85%-90% of the village's men are
guest workers at the moment; most of them are in the remote Yakutia,
5% are in Moscow, some of them have even reached the coast of Alaska.
In the council member's words, news of an increase in gas prices has
already alerted the village's women who reckon that instead of wasting
remittances sent by their husbands on natural gas and saving nothing,
they had better join their husbands. `It is my duty, as a member of
the village council, to walk down the streets of the village and ask
people what concerns they have, whether the waste management was good.
When I started to inquire again a few days ago, they said that they
had no concerns any longer, I could stop asking, the only concern was
to buy a ticket and leave Armenia. The increase in gas prices will
really cost our villagers who burn gas for 7 month in a row dearly.
Considering that the villagers' production becomes cheaper day by day,
prices of gas and other goods rise, will the villager wish to live in
such conditions? I am sure that there will be people among villagers
who will burn their homes to heat: those who have relatives abroad
will leave, and those who don't will either burn their homes or cut
trees in the garden. Let's calculate: one used to pay 100-150 thousand
drams monthly to heat a house, so one had to have more than 1 million
drams each season; if that sum becomes 200-250 thousand drams monthly,
guest workers are not coining money in Yakutia, you know, they cannot
send so much money, even if they rob the whole of Yakutia, they will
not be able to pay for that. That is why they prefer to invite their
families. The most terrible emigration is starting; I am talking about
what I have seen. Probably they have planned not to leave anyone in
this country. This place is just unbelievable; one doesn't want to
know anything. Each time you get new information, you get stressed
out,' Gevorg Abrahamyan says. Nune AREVSHATYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/05/20/154399/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
From: Baghdasarian
Move to Yakutia
May 20 2013
And 85%-90% of men are guest workers at the moment Gevorg Abrahamyan,
a member of the council of Azatan, one of the largest villages in the
region of Shirak, informed about this during a conversation with
www.aravot.am. According to him, 85%-90% of the village's men are
guest workers at the moment; most of them are in the remote Yakutia,
5% are in Moscow, some of them have even reached the coast of Alaska.
In the council member's words, news of an increase in gas prices has
already alerted the village's women who reckon that instead of wasting
remittances sent by their husbands on natural gas and saving nothing,
they had better join their husbands. `It is my duty, as a member of
the village council, to walk down the streets of the village and ask
people what concerns they have, whether the waste management was good.
When I started to inquire again a few days ago, they said that they
had no concerns any longer, I could stop asking, the only concern was
to buy a ticket and leave Armenia. The increase in gas prices will
really cost our villagers who burn gas for 7 month in a row dearly.
Considering that the villagers' production becomes cheaper day by day,
prices of gas and other goods rise, will the villager wish to live in
such conditions? I am sure that there will be people among villagers
who will burn their homes to heat: those who have relatives abroad
will leave, and those who don't will either burn their homes or cut
trees in the garden. Let's calculate: one used to pay 100-150 thousand
drams monthly to heat a house, so one had to have more than 1 million
drams each season; if that sum becomes 200-250 thousand drams monthly,
guest workers are not coining money in Yakutia, you know, they cannot
send so much money, even if they rob the whole of Yakutia, they will
not be able to pay for that. That is why they prefer to invite their
families. The most terrible emigration is starting; I am talking about
what I have seen. Probably they have planned not to leave anyone in
this country. This place is just unbelievable; one doesn't want to
know anything. Each time you get new information, you get stressed
out,' Gevorg Abrahamyan says. Nune AREVSHATYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/05/20/154399/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
From: Baghdasarian