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.