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A common analysis of Armenia’s economic performance since independence typically focuses on the limitations imposed by geography and geopolitics and mostly ignores, or at best glosses over, the failures of governance and policy to deliver on what could have reasonably been expected.
11 year-old Mariam Sahakyan rarely attends school. The young girl suffers from cystic fibrosis. The family just can't afford to buy the medications she needs.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has labeled the French Senate vote to criminalize the denial of the 1915 Genocide as “racist and discriminatory.”
Notorious Bulgarian Roma boss Kiril Rashkov, aka Tsar Kiro, has been sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for making death threats against two locals from his native village of Katunitsa located near Plovdiv.
The results of a study on access to education and vocational training for juveniles in custody were presented today in Yerevan.
President Serzh Sargsyan sent today a letter to the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy on the occasion of the adoption by the French Senate of the bill criminalizing the denial of genocides.
Her right leg was amputated 20 years ago. The former nurse struggles to make a living by selling pastries to students in the town’s school yard.
The law proposal presented by deputies of the governing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), aiming to penalize in France any challenge to genocide allegations regarding the events of 1915 was adopted by a vote in the General Assembly of the Senate today (23 January). We strongly condemn this decision, which is problematic in every aspect and constitutes an example of irresponsibility, and declare that we will express our reaction against...
Inside the municipal office, a game of backgammon was in progress. Onlookers were freely advising the players as to how to move their pieces on the wooden board.
RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said that yesterday’s decision by France’s Senate to pass the genocide bill is the logical continuation of the law recognizing the Armenian Genocide adopted by France in 2001.
With 127 votes in favour and 86 against, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has 15 days to approve the bill.
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