Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan today ordered stiffer penalties for public transportation drivers caught smoking on the job.
Opening ceremonies for a restored rose garden belonging to the Academy of Sciences at the Botanical Gardens will take place tomorrow. The project was financed to the tune of 6,000 Euros by the Swiss Embassy in Armenia.
DM Ohanyan responded by saying that the Armenian forces in Artsakh hadn't set out to conquer all of Azerbaijan, but rather to liberate Artsakh and guarantee the safety of the people.
A youth group calling itself "Know Your Country" is launching a project aimed at cleaning up Armenian historical monument sites.
Father Yesaye, pastor of the Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church located in the Malatia-Sebastia district of Yerevan, told Hetq that he was threatened yesterday by two young followers of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
"Priests in Armenia differ from those here. Those in Armenia still serve as formal clergy who officiate at various rituals. It's a holdover from the Soviet era. This is slowly changing but this view still holds, and in the people as well. If I am about to conduct a marriage here I meet several times with the couple. This doesn't happen in Armenia."
It is not that I oppose the slogans being used by the Ministry but that, in general, I am against repatriation through the use of any sloganeering. We have lived for seventy years in a country with the most humane of slogans. Luckily or not, one of the vociferous representatives of those slogans is now the Diaspora Minister.
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