Tigran Petrosyan junior, a champion of the recent 38th International Chess Olympiad in Dresden, is no relation to world chess champion Tigran Petrosyan. This, despite the fact that the victory and excellent gamesmanship of the latter was a deciding factor when it came time for Levon Petrosyan to name his future son. “Being a chess aficionado, my father always dreamt of having a son. Since our last name was Petrosyan he named me Tigran and...
The most important talent that Levon learnt from his first coach was to think fast. However, as Levon points out, “Here and there I lose when I think too fast, it can be a hindrance.
During the first weeks of November, during a meeting with workers, the General Manager of Deno Gold Mining Company, CJSC (DGMC) Robert Falletta, declared that the drop in world metal prices would have unavoidable consequences on the company’s operations.
“We want to enter the Norashen Church to light candles, that’s our right, no?” says Mikayel Davtyan, an Armenian from Tiflis. “Every Sunday we go to the Norashen courtyard, it’s a meeting place for Armenians. Why can’t we go inside and light candles?”
A Hetq Interview with Lernik Hovhannisyan, Secretary of the ARF Artsakh Youth Union
On November 29th, RKM President Bako Sahakyan arrived in the Swiss city of Geneva and met with businessman Vardan Sirmakesh the following day. The two discussed a variety of issues dealing with development projects and investment in Artsakh, particularly the ...
Last week in Yerevan an international conference on European Union and South Caucasus cooperation and problems took place. Hetq was able to speak with Ivlian Khaindrava, who heads the Georgian Diversity Development and Cooperation Center and has been a member of the Georgian Parliament from 1990-1995 and 2004-2008, as well as with Aleksander Rousetski, the Director of SCRIS (South Caucasus Institute for Regional Security) and Administrator...
Armen Musinyan, the spokesperson for Levon Ter-Petrosyan, told reporters at the "Ourbat Club" that the Armenian National Congress (ANC) has a multitude of viewpoints when it comes to the Karabakh conflict. While Musinyan stated that such a diversity of views ...
On November 26th, the ROA Administrative Court partially sustained a countersuit brought by the "Investigative Journalists" NGO (IJ) against the Mayor of Ijevan. The "IJ" had petitioned the Mayor of Ijevan in writing to make available the minutes of the May ...
These two seven year-old girls, who live in the Lernadzor village in Syunik, are from the group of five children whose hair was found to contain a whole range of heavy metals.
Some 650 Armenian churches are registered in the territory of Georgia. Just in Tiflis alone there were 29 Armenian churches during the 19th century. Today only two remain. Today the property rights of six churches expropriated during the Soviet era remains unresolved – Saint Norashen (15th century) in Tbilisi, Saint Nshan (18th c.), Shamkhoretsots Holy Mother of God (or Karmir Avetaran, 18th c.), Yerevantsots Saint Minas (18th c.), Moughni...
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