Out of the 385 school principals and 131 acting principals who took the recent qualifying examination conducted by the Ministry of Education and Science, 325 principals and 98 acting principals passed.
Minister Nalbandian stressed that Armenia had clearly responded to the "Basic Principles" draft as presented by the Minsk Group but that Azerbaijan was the party dragging its feet.
The Deputy Head of the Department for Investigation of the Criminal Cases Investigated by the National Security Agencies supervising the preliminary investigation of the criminal case initiated by the RA National Security Service adjunct to the RA Government against the general manager of "Akhtala Mining Plant" S. G. Ter-Poghosyan has confirmed the bill of indictment.
When asked why he was demanding 600 million AMD in compensation from a 17 year-old boy, MP Spartak Melikyan told reporters "to mind your own business."
With no clear front-runner in sight yet, any successor to the late President Bagapsh faces task of promoting Abkhazian interests in close but unequal relationship with Moscow.
Shortage of burial plots in Yerevan encourages sell-off of existing space. Yerevan is running out of burial sites, according to the authorities in the Armenian capital, who say they lack the money they need to open new cemeteries.
In response to my article (Reporter's Notebook: Covering the Antics Inside the National Assembly) of a few days ago, in which I stated that it is routine for MP’s to cast votes for their missing colleagues, oftentimes to create a quorum, ruling Republican Party MP Edward Sharmazanov today told Hetq that, “I have never seen Galust Sahakyan cast a vote for me in my absence.”
Arman Melikyan, a former Artsakh foreign minister, stated at a press conference today that Levon Ter-Petrosyan will be too old to run for the presidency of Armenia in the 2013 election.