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Armenia: School year starts

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 @ 21:50 UTC

by Ben Paarmann

Countries:: Armenia
Topics:: Education, Youth

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Observer reports of the new academic year starting in Armenia. There are less children starting school each year, but there are still traffic jams around schools because of proud parents driving their kids to school.

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