YEREVAN. – A resident of Tsovagyugh, which is one of the largest and most thriving villages at the shores of Armenia’s Lake Sevan, told that 1,200 men left the village this spring to work abroad, Hraparak daily reports.    

“A Russia-based resident of [Armenia’s City of] Gavar came to the village in spring and recruited 400 people and took [them] to Karelia [in Russia], where the Tsovagyugh residents will work on construction.

‘Some of those that left will not come [back],’ the Tsovagyugh resident concluded,” Hraparak writes.