A Yerevan court has accepted to hear the slander suit of Anoushavan Nikoghosyan, who ran for parliament in the May election, against the news site slaq.am.
The clearinghouse says it will take care of the necessary paperwork allowing Syrian-Armenian to work in Armenia and will match their skills to companies registered with it.
On 19 July 2012, a presidential election took place Nagorno-Karabakh (NK). While the NK Republic is internationally not recognised, European Friends of Armenia (www.EuFoA.org) strongly welcomes the wish of the de-facto authorities to organise local self-government based on democratic principles. This wish has been underlined by inviting a large number of international observers, including a group of eight set up by ourselves.
Water has turned into something valuable, more valuable than life. Beneath our eyes, two Geghamavan villagers slipped down on ropes to Sevan-Hrazdan canal, took water with buckets and poured it into narrow pipe, which runs to their land areas. The speed of water running through the canal is very high, canal walls are smooth, while its depth is 7-10 meters. If you fall into canal, it’s almost impossible to survive. Old villagers assured us...
The NGO had sued Gasparyan for remarks he made during an October 2011 interview with the hraparak.am news site and a program called Zinouzh. The organization claims that some of the remarks slandered their good name.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry wishes to reaffirm the Georgian government's unequivocal support for Azerbaijan's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and does not recognize the so-called "presidential elections" which were held in Nagorno-Karabakh on the 19th of July 2012.
Ejmiatzin and surrounding villages have long been considered a de facto fiefdom of Grigorian and another top army general, Seyran Saroyan. They both have extensive business interests in the Ejmiatzin area and other parts of Armenia.
Regarding yesterday’s presidential election in Artsakh, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, while acknowledging the need for the de facto authorities in NK to try to organize democratically the public life of their population with such a procedure, noted that Artsakh is not internationally recognized as a sovereign state.
According to preliminary results, incumbent Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan won reelection in yesterday’s vote with 66.7% of the 72,833 ballots cast.
Papik Aroushanyan has served as the mayor of Metz Ayroum, a village mostly populated by Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan, for the past 15 years. From our brief encounter, I got the clear impression that Mayor Aroushanyan was fed up and tired from the job.
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