Work to resurface the walls of the 13th century Armenian monastery of Gandzasar in Artsakh has begun anew, again raising the unanswered question as to who is in charge of supervising the country’s historical inheritance.
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Armenia’s Court of Appeals has rejected the plea of a mother to overturn a lower court ruling allowing for her estranged common law husband to visit their two kids on his own.
On December 10 during the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) meeting in Dublin US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Russian policy and integration processes, which repress opposition in Europe and Central Asia, resemble sovietization by being called a "customsunion" or "Eurasian Union."
A tragic accident has taken the life of famed Artsakh military commander Mrav Ohanyan. Mrav Ohanyan was one of the founders of the self-defense forces in the Martouni region and joined with Monte Melkonian to liberate that corner of historic Armenia.
Responding to a letter sent by the Trchkan Civic Initiative regarding the ongoing defilement of the Symphony of Stones natural site in the Garni Gorge, the Police Department says their investigation is continuing and they have launched road patrols to monitor traffic to the area.
Hakob Sanasaryan, President of Armenia’s Green Union, has pulled out of the presidential commission set up in 2008 to analyze the problems facing Lake Sevan and to draft proposals to resolve them.
Armenians paid their last respects today to RA National Artist Flora Martirosyan whose body lay in wake at Yerevan’s Aram Khachatryan Opera House.
“Katnaghbyur has become an old-aged home. Young people leave for Russia and any foreign shores for work,” said Rafayel Hovhannisyan, a young community resident.
According to the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists, Turkey has more journalists in jail right now than any other country. Turkey had jailed at least 49 journalists as of December 1, including dozens of Kurdish reporters held on terrorism-related charges and other journalists accused of plotting against the government, the group said.
He also declared 100 million AMD and $220,000 in the bank at the start of the year. His AMD deposits shrunk to 15 million by year’s end.
RA Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan today visited the Kilikia School for Syrian- Armenian children in Yerevan.
After nullifying the nomination of a controversial candidate to head the Khosrov Forest Reserve, the RA Minister of the Environment has appointed Hrachya Hovakimyan as its interim director.
But that’s not it. You see, the holidays are around the corner and people are in need of loans in order to celebrate in traditional Armenian style; i.e., tables sagging under the weight of trays of food and drink.
Nearly three months after the Ramil Safarov affair, where suspicions were raised of a backroom deal between Budapest and Baku in the transfer of the Azeri officer Ramil Safarov – Peter Szijjártó, Hungarian State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations, led a delegation to Baku last week for the first opening of a “Hungarian Trade House” in Azerbaijan.
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