Until it was shut down last year, the company registration business of New Zealander Ian Taylor was one of the most outrageous examples of the criminal services industry – companies that enable organized crime, terrorists and corrupt government officials to steal money, evade taxes and hide ownership. Now they are back – with a new company and a new host country.
The Celebration was doubly blessed – on one hand there was the great joy of Celebration of Holy Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ and on the other, was the memorable occasion for seven young students of Armenian College as it was the day of their baptism.
Agnieszka Holland, one of Poland’s most prominent filmmakers visiting Armenia for the screening of her film “In Darkness” at the Golden Apricot Film Festival, told reporters that, “A quality film about the Armenian Genocide still needs to be made. It’s a reality that still needs recognition.”
The highest paying teaching jobs at Yerevan State University, averaging 700,000 AMD yearly are in the field of jurisprudence.
As one of the 167 state parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which is one of the primary international human rights treaties, Armenia is required to undergo regular examinations of its human rights record before the Human Rights Committee. Armenia was last considered before the Human Rights Committee in 1998.
Out of the 5,400 students who applied to Yerevan State University for the fall semester, 3,507 have been accepted according to the school’s rector Aram Simonyan.
Restorers Save a Minas Avetisyan Mural
Our return was a more ridiculous situation. We received the same civilized behavior at the Georgian border and the same contemptuous attitude on the Armenian side. Except this time, a more ludicrous scenario took place.
The July 10 screening Alexander Sokurov’s “The Sun” was a disaster. You’d think the voice of the young girl doing the translating was reading from a Google translate page. Most in the audience left out of disgust. The rest stayed in their seats, interested to see how far the translator’s imagination would reach.
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