The shortage of work is main to the gradual ageing of kakhakn, a village of 396 inhabitants in armenia’s gegharkunik province a mere 5 kilometers from the azerbaijani border at the southeastern edge of lake sevan. Kakhakn mayor ashot vatyan says that younger guys in the village aren’t marrying because of the shortage of employment. “we’ve young folks who aren’t marrying.

They may be afraid of beginning households due to the fact there’s no paintings. Similarly, now not absolutely everyone is fir for village lifestyles. There are no women within the village. They finish college and are right now taken away by way of humans from other villages,” vatyan advised hetq.