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Articles Four Years and Four Deaths Later: Why the Cover-Up Regarding the Nairit Plant Explosion?

18:40 | May 17, 2013
Hrant Karapetyan’s son Artour was 39 when he dies in the blast. The father is now 81 and lives alone with only a photo album of Artour to keep him company. Every time he leafs through the album, tears stream down his face.

News Hailstorm Hit Farmers: "We want the government to freeze our loan payments"

13:37 | May 17, 2013
Representatives of 47 rural communities whose plantings were wiped out in a recent hailstorm scoffed at government assistance proposals, labelling them as insufficient and ill-targeted.

News Transparency International: Government's Pledges to Battle Corruption are Ridiculous

11:20 | May 17, 2013
The Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center issued a statement ridiculing the Armenian government’s lofty pledges that it is committed to systematic reform and stamping out official corruption.

News Government Pledges to Subsidize Gas Rate Hikes by 30%

16:38 | May 16, 2013
Most likely taking into growing popular fears that the price of natural gas imported from Russia will drastically rise, Armenia’s PM Tigran Sargsyan announced at a cabinet meeting today that the government would subsidize any price hike by 30%.

News One Soldier Dead, Another Wounded, in Weapon Discharge Incident

10:45 | May 16, 2013
The RA Defense Ministry reports that a soldier was killed and one wounded yesterday after another soldier discharged his weapon.

News Turkish High Court: Dink Murder Was “Organized” Crime

16:18 | May 15, 2013
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals today overruled previous decisions absolving suspects in the Hrant Dink murder case of any connection to armed criminal organizations, according to Hürriyet Daily News.

News Safety Specialist Can't Cite Oldest Amusement Ride Operating in Armenia

15:20 | May 15, 2013
Lousineh Hovhannisyan, who works for the National Center for Technical Safety attached to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, told reporters today that none of the 126 amusement rides now operating in Armenia have failed their inspections.

News Message on The International Day of Families

14:35 | May 15, 2013
Families hold societies together, and intergenerational relationships extend this legacy over time. This year’s International Day of Families is an occasion to celebrate connections among all members of the constellation that makes up a family. It is also an opportunity to reflect on how they are affected by social and economic trends – and what we can do to strengthen families in response.

News Catholicos Garegin II Hosts Delegation from Armenia's Compulsory Enforcement Service

14:02 | May 15, 2013
Today, Catholicos Garegin II hosted a reception in Etchmiadzin for employees of the RA Compulsory Enforcement Service of Judicial Acts to mark the agency’s 15th anniversary.

News "Reading Olympiad" Winner Gets Two Tickets to Rome

10:14 | May 15, 2013
Maria Navasardyan, a school pupil in Armenia, was declared the winner of a “Reading Olympiad” and awarded two tickets to Rome for her efforts.

News Varoujan Avetisyan: "This parasitic regime has no need of Artsakh war vets"

13:42 | May 14, 2013
While speaking to reporters today about the sit-down protest that several Artsakh war vets launched two days ago in Yerevan’s Freedom Square, legal expert and depot battalion Colonel Varoujan Avetisyan said that while he wouldn’t participate in the protest, he did support it.

News President of Architects' Union: "They're turning the Pak Shouka into an ordinary store"

12:00 | May 14, 2013
Mkrtich Minasyan, head of Armenia’s Union of Architects, told reporters today that he held out no hope that Yerevan’s landmark “Pak Shouka” could be saved.

Opinion Soldier Discontent: When Artsakh War Vets Come Out Demanding "Dignity" the Government Better Listen

23:10 | May 13, 2013
I've known Volodya for more than twenty years. He was one of the guys who fought in Leonid Azgaldyan's "Liberation Army" and participated in many battles in Artsakh. Now, Volodya and twenty or more soldiers are staging a sit-down strike in Yerevan's Freedom Square.

News The US Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia John Heffern meets students and members of the Winners’ Club

18:54 | May 13, 2013
Todaymembers of the Winners’ Club of Presidential Educational Award, and students at State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA), specializing at microelectronic circuits, had a unique chance to meetwiththe US Ambassador to the Republic of ArmeniaJohn Heffern at Synopsys Armenia R&D Center (Arshakunyats 41). General Manager of VivaCell-MTS Ralph Yirikian, President of Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen (Employers) of ArmeniaArsen Ghazaryan, Director of Unicomp Armen Baldryan,CEO and Chairman Viasphere International, Inc. Tony Moroyan and other guests have attended the meeting.

News Berlin Buskers: As Diverse as the City

15:57 | May 13, 2013
Street musicians in the German capital of Berlin are a diverse breed, performing an equally varied repertoire.

News Deno Gold: Mining Company Threatens the Residents and Environment of Kapan

14:50 | May 13, 2013
Canadian “Deno Gold Mining Company” files a slander lawsuit against Armenian environmental activist Yeghia Nersesian

News Armenia Invited to JAPAN PRIZE 2013

13:18 | May 13, 2013
The RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Armenia has been invited to participate in JAPAN PRIZE (International Contest for Educational Media) 2013.

News Celebrations of May Triple Holiday in Tbilisi

10:15 | May 13, 2013
The concert on 10 May, 2013, at TBILISI ART HALL, organized by the Educational and Cultural Center “Hayartun” at the Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Georgia and supported by the RA Ministry of Culture, was the logical conclusion of May triple holiday.

Articles Minister of Culture Poghosyan: Passing the Buck on the “Pak Shouka”

13:30 | May 10, 2013
Walk past the Pak Shouka in downtown Yerevan and you wouldn’t think it was once a shining example of Soviet Armenian architecture that proudly stood for several decades.

News Voter Complaints Dismissed by Yerevan’s Electoral Commissions

00:37 | May 10, 2013
Following Yerevan’s May 5 municipal election, in which a variety of voting day violations were observed by election monitors, attorneys have filed approximately 160 complaints with the Territorial Electoral Commissions of the four Precincts representing the following three districts of Armenia’s capital: Sebastia-Malatia, Shengavit, and Erebuni-Nubarashen.

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