The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), has named Turkish cameraman Cüneyt Ünal and his missing colleague, Jordanian reporter of Palestinian origin Bashar Fahmi Kaddumi, the winners of the 2012 SEEMO Human Rights Award.
Europe needs stable, not democratic, elections, meaning that Brussels needs a stable, predictive and adaptive Armenia, not an Armenia that respects democracy or human rights.
Israeli Police raided an alleged crime syndicate from the Taibeh area on Monday, arresting 17 people suspected of being senior operatives in the Abdel Khader organization and seizing assets worth millions of dollars, including houses, luxury cars, bank accounts and even horses, Haaretz reports.
U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John A. Heffern left for the U.S. yesterday to meet with representatives of the American-Armenian community in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and New York. During his two week visit, Heffern will discuss current developments in Armenia, U.S.-Armenian relations, and U.S. assistance to Armenia.
The concept that individuals are either good or bad is false. It is our conduct, our acts, that are either good or bad, legal or illegal. We all know good people who have done bad things. We ourselves are guilty of our own mistakes. And because none of us is without sin we value forgiveness.
Today the opposition HAK (Armenian National Congress) was able to gather the number of signatures needed to take the matter of a calling for a special session to discuss a draft bill to make modifications and amendments to the country’s electoral code to the Constitutional Court.
The conclusions of a report on the existing legislative, regulatory and institutional framework for wildfires risk management in Armenia were discussed at a roundtable discussion in Yerevan today.
Odzoun Round-Table: Spurring Tourism, Job Creation
Hetq has organized a round-table discussion to explore creative ways of spurring the local tourist trade and overall job creation.
Hetq has learnt that Shaboyan is constantly bestowing his buddies with various monetary awards. So we wrote to Shaboyan and asked him to provide us with a list of the recipients of such largesse during 2012 and the amounts awarded. We also wanted to know the reasons for the awards.
It has now come to light that former Shnogh Village Mayor Haykaz Kochinyan was paying 1.2 million AMD ($3,000) every year from 2007 to 2011 out of the community budget in gas expenses for a car that didn't run and that was parked in the mayor’s outside garage for the years in question.
On November 29, the Armenian government declared that it would allocate 100 million AMD towards tuition reimbursement for first and second year university students displaying exceptional achievement and activism in the public sphere.
In a move designed to pull Armenia deeper into the European fold, European Commission President Jose Barroso touted the goal of a simplified visa regime between Armenia and the European Union during his visit to Yerevan last week.
“I used to be Anahit before my 30-years’ husband killed me with a piece of concrete and a wooden stick after a regular violent quarrel.”
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