On December 8, 2008 an event entitled Human Rights in Armenia took place in Yerevan. The event was dedicated to 60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights and organized by Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Armenian Committee and All Armenian Union ...
Ten year-old Vladimir received many congratulations in school on November 26th. He was proud of his father who had just become an Olympiad champion for the second time. On the evening of November 26th Vladimir along with his brothers, 4 year-old Edward and one and a half year-old Sergei, and mother went to the airport to greet their champion father.
In 1989, at the age of six, Gabriel would follow the chess games played by his grandfather Sargis and his friend. He’d watch how the old wooden chess pieces would move around the board and bring victory to one and defeat to the other.
ROA president Serzh Sargsyan flew to Moscow today to attend funeral services for Aleksy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia who passed away last Friday at the age of 79.
The Russian media claims that these people are living well and that was the case at one time. Later on, they started to deport us and the persecutions began. Due to the influence of the West they are again letting Georgians alone and playing at democracy. ...
The Press Office of the Armenian Defense Ministry reports that Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan today received a delegation of Russian-Armenian comunity leaders headed by Mr. Ararat Gomtsyan, the ROA Consul to the Russian Federation. DM Ohanyan noted the work ...
Today, the 10th shift detachment of Armenian peacekeepers, numbering 70, was given an official send off to Kosovo from Yerevan's regimental headquarters. On hand to see the detachment off was Armenian Armed Forces Headquarters Chief of Staff Yuri Khachatryan, ...
Presidential Press Secretary Samvel Farmanyan has informed Armenian Public Radio that on December 3rd ROA President Serzh Sargsyan granted a pardon to three individuals found guilty of crimes related to the March 1st public disturbances in Yerevan. The three, ...
An official Armenian delegation headed by ROA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan will make a one day visit to the beleagured Armenian Holy Mother of God Church at Norashen in Tbilisi, Georgia. The delegation plans to participate in the 7th economic development ...
Two weeks ago within the framework of the “Caucasus Reporters Network the well-known actor Vakhtang Kikabidze expressed his views regarding recent developments in Georgia. Immediately after the Georgian- Russian war he publicly returned the Peoples Friendship Medal that he had received from Russia in the spring and decided not to return to Moscow.
Lycos Armenia, an information technology and internet portal company operating in Armenia since 2000 and the main subsidiary of Lycos Europe, has stated that it will be shutting down operations. The shareholders of Lycos Europe, founded in the Netherlands in 1997, have voted to either sell the company or liquidate the firm. Proof of this move is to be found in the financial reports of the company posted on its web site.
It has become clear by now that the ongoing financial crisis will have a deep and prolonged impact on a wide range of economies. This is also likely to be true for a peripheral economy like Armenia’s, regardless of how isolated its relevant sectors are from the rest of the world.
The homeless propose that the President and Prime Minister spend just one night in their huts to experience the situation themselves.
An ROA delegation headed by S. Mkrtchyan, Armenian Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), based in The Hague, signed on to a European Union declaration passed at the organization's 12th Advisory Council ...
On December 7th an evening commemorating the 20th anniversay of the Spitak earthquake took place in Los Angeles. The event was jointly organized by the ROA Consulate in Los Angeles and community organizations. After observing one minute of silence for the ...
ROA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian today flew to Brussels to participate in the December 9th European Union - Armenia Cooperation council session that will cover a wide range of issues related to EU - Armenia cooperation, in particular, political activities ...
In this context, Armenia’s economy is likely to be significantly affected. Recent developments in emerging markets suggest that the crisis-related deterioration of the economic outlook is likely to occur abruptly with little signs of early warning, making ...
Gaby, now 25, recounts, “My grandfather really played well. I always liked to follow his games.” In the early 1990’s a woman wearing a thick heavy coat was walking her young son down from Kanaker to the Chess House. Gaby was always in ...
“I really didn’t like chess that much because naturally it’s a more complex game. But I learnt how to play and they immediately took me to the best chess school in Baku.” There they examined Vladimir and were dumbstruck by his phenomenal ...
The neighborhood is so lacking in hygienic-sanitary conditions that residents are in a constant battle with mice and other larger vermin. In their words, city officials graze their animals at the river banks and passersby throw their trash in the stream so ...
In this context, Armenia’s economy is likely to be significantly affected. Recent developments in emerging markets suggest that the crisis-related deterioration of the economic outlook is likely to occur abruptly with little signs of early warning, making ...
“Levon is a modest guy and friendly. It is difficult to have amassed that many victories and still remain an average person. Even though he’s a champion, he’s very easy to get along with.” This is how Levon Aronyan is described by Gabriel ...
Tigran’s father, Levon Petrosyan, became the boy’s first coach at the age of five and helped him execute the first moves in the chess game of wits. Later on it was coach Gagik Sargsyan that revealed the secrets of the game to Tigran for six straight ...
The neighborhood is so lacking in hygienic-sanitary conditions that residents are in a constant battle with mice and other larger vermin. In their words, city officials graze their animals at the river banks and passersby throw their trash in the stream so ...
The Norashen Sourb Astvatzatzin Church (Holy Mother of God) is located in a central and ancient neighborhood of Tbilisi, next to Meydan Square, in Leselidze Street, in the vicinity of Saint Sion, the Georgian Primate’s Residence and the Greek Jvaris ...
“The situation continues to worsen. During January – September of last year we obtained $23,473,000 from the exportation of 5,001 tons of zinc and copper concentrate. During the same period this year we doubled the production of concentrate to ...
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