OBJECTIVES This study aimed to measure the 5-year progress in the implementation of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Armenia by applying the Tobacco Control Scale, a rapid assessment tool developed to assess the strength of tobacco control policies in Europe. SETTING Armenia, an economy in transition, has extreme smoking rates among men (62.5%) despite acceding to FCTC in...

Background: Schizophrenia is a polygenic mental disorder with about 80% heritability. Growing evidence indicated that synaptic dysfunctions contribute to SCZ etiopathogenesis. The context and purpose of the study: Transcription factors play an important role in the regulation of gene expression. Whereas expression analysis of transcription factor has been performed, studies of their genetic var...

Isoceras shevnini Yakovlev sp. nov. is described from Armenia.

As in most industrialized countries, sex ratios in the Soviet Union revealed little evidence of son preference: sex ratios at birth fluctuated around the biological norm of 1.05 males to females in the western republics as well as in the more traditional, less industrialized republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus. This is as expected in light of the Soviet state’s longstanding efforts to pr...

islamic republic of iran enjoys close and amicable relations with small and christian republic of armenia. on the contrary, the ties between iran and seemingly significant shia republic of azerbaijan are frayed. while tehran’s close relationship with yerevan is widely attributed to geographical and economic isolation of armenia, iran-azerbaijan unfriendly relations have stemmed from suspicion a...

In this paper the authors develop an innovative 21 sector computable general equilibrium model of Armenia to assess the impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or multilateral trade policy commitments. The authors find that a DCFTA with the EU will likely result in substantial gains to Armenia, but they show that the ga...

MODERN ARMENIA IN MACIEJ FALKOWSKI’S DESCRIPTION
 The reportage book of Maciej Falkowski titled Armenia. Obieg zamknięty [Armenia. Closed Circulation] was issued in 2022 by the Czarne Publishing House. author – longtime employee Polish embassy Yerevan his relation about contemporary state Armenia uses own memories and observations. constitutes a significant contribution to research on an i...

To estimate the surgical volume and the incidence of in-hospital complications of RC in Armenia from 2005 to 2012, and to investigate potential risk factors of complications. The study utilized a retrospective chart review in a cohort of patients who had RC followed by either continent or conduit urinary diversion in all hospitals of Armenia from 2005 to 2012. A detailed chart review was conduc...

" From time immemorial malaria has been a widely spread disease amongst the population of Armenia, and now it is the most menacing epidemic threatening them ; 15 per cent, of the population are subject to that disease." The committee recommend that in malaria centres sanitary stations should be established, that if possible 1,000 kilos of quinine should' be distributed free to the people, that ...

This paper examines the European Union’s interaction with civil society organizations in Armenia through the European Neighbourhood Policy as a potential example of normative socialization. Through examining the EU’s interaction with domestic NGOs in Armenia, this paper offers an evaluation of the socialization mechanism coupled with a general critique of the EU’s democratization policy in rela...