This week’s column deals with the self-defeating attitude of some Armenians whose negative outlook manifested itself once again with the latest news about the French bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide.
A Slovak court last week reportedly blocked publication of a book implicating a private equity group in a high-level graft scandal.
Iranian authorities are "intimidating and arresting people who they claim have connections with the BBC Persian service," the British broadcasting giant said Tuesday.
In a statement released to the press, ARF MP Lilit Galstyan has lambasted local and national officials in Armenia for working to defend the commercial interest of the few at the expense of public interests.
The Hirair and Anna Hovnanian Foundation has contributed an additional $500,000 to the existing endowed Hovnanian Scholarship at Villanova University, which is now valued at $1.7 million. The Hovnanian Scholarship provides opportunities for academically talented students of Armenian descent. The scholarship covers recipients’ tuition and room and board, and is renewable annually.
Minutes ago, Rule of Law Party MP Gagik Baghdasaryan submitted a request to National Assembly President Samvel Nikoyan allowing him to resign.
A Zurich prosecutor on Monday launched an investigation into remarks by Egemen Bağış, Turkey's EU affairs minister and chief EU negotiator, after he said in Zurich that there was no Armenian genocide and that Swiss authorities could arrest him if they wanted to, Today's Zaman reports.
The reporter said today that he felt like something strange was happening at the time but put his concerns in the back of his mind. Now, he believes it was all a set-up by the cops.
Armeniahas always been a prisoner of its geography, serving throughout history as an arena for both competition and cooperation for larger regional powers. Since its independence,Armenia’s geographic vulnerability became only more pronounced, as bothAzerbaijanandTurkeyclosed their borders withArmeniain a demonstration of “fraternal allegiance” over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
Zohrabyan rose and said that Parliament Speaker Samvel Nikoyan had arbitrarily refused to acknowledge her yesterday as well when she tried to speak.
During his studies at Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory Vardan writes a musical piece breaking one of music composition golden rules. The professor doesn’t approve it; he thinks it is rather a mistake than innovation.
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