On 11 May, the 34/20 precinct commission chairman A. Hovhannisyan reported that on 6 May, at 08:00 a.m., the representative of Kentron TV H. Sargsyan had entered 34/20 precinct and tried to place a camera near the ballot booth and to violate the secrecy of voting.
On 11 May, the journalist of the “GALA” TV of Gyumri N. Nalbandyan reported that on 5 May, he had gone to the polling station 33 located in School 30 of Gyumri with the purpose to get explanations from the commission. The commission chairman G. Hovhannisyan had refused to provide information, quarreled with him and hindered the implementation of his activities.
Armenia Tree Project (ATP) and the Acopian Center for the Environment (ACE) are joining together to initiate a new project in Margahovit Village, which is located in the Lori region of northern Armenia. Titled “Regardening of Eden,” the project is a partnership between two Armenian environmental organizations.
Thousand copies of the book “Karabakh Diary, Green and Black” written by Civilitas expert and Journalist Tatul Hakobyan is published in Arabic in Beirut. The book has more than 500 pages and since August 2008 it was published more than five times in Western Armenian (with classical orthography), Russian and English.
On May 15 at noon, Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian will issue a post-election statement at Heritage Campaign Headquarters, 31-Moscovian Avenue, on the corner of Moscovian and Baghramyan Boulevard.
Accordingly, Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan has instructed all municipal agencies to pay particular attention to the traditional, but illegal, custom of schools collecting money from students.
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the United States, Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, and Jacques Faure of France) and Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk (Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office) traveled May 11-14 to Yerevan and Baku, where they met with Presidents Sargsian and Aliyev to discuss the most recent efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The European Regional Educational Academy (EREA) in Armenia will hold its first “Build your future today” career services expo for Academy students, graduates and alumni on May 17th, from 11 a.m. to 3p.m.
ArtsakhBank has sponsored the publication of an Azerbaijani language textbook for use in Armenian colleges.
RA president Serzh Sargsyan has hosted H. H. Sheikha Fariha Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, President of the Kuwait Association for The Ideal Family, in Yerevan.
Armenian police have detained two environmental activists for unfurling banners about the need to save the Teghout forest at the recent concert rally for the Republican Party in Republic Square – where the balloons burst into flame.
On May 13, the rubber raft carrying two Yerevan men fishing off Gull Island in Lake Sevan capsized.
A “No to Violence Against Women” rock concert will be held on Tuesday, May 15, at the Tumanyan Puppet Theater in Yerevan.
While Japan is now trying to run its economy without nuclear energy for the first time since 1970, the post-Fukushima world's continued dependence on atomic power is probably best illustrated on the other side of Asia.
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