Haykakan Zhamanak : 21 Armenia settlements to be renamed

January 18, 2014

YEREVAN. – In all likelihood, 21 communities in Armenia will have new
names in a foreseeable future, Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports.

`Three of these settlements are cities, eighteen are villages. Another
twenty communities will remain subject to renaming.

`The headship in twenty-one communities has agreed to the renaming,
whereas twenty communities preferred the old names.

`ES [i.e., Education and Science] Minister Armen Ashotyan expressed a
view that the name of Armenia should be changed [from the Republic of
Armenia to the Republic of Eastern Armenia].

`Ashotyan, however, should have known: the name of even a village is
not changed easily in Armenia,’ Haykakan Zhamanak writes.

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From: A. Papazian