On the eve of the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in 2005, Mehmet Ali Birand, a prominent Turkish commentator, wrote an article in Hurriyet urging the Turkish public to be prepared for the upcoming "Armenian tsunami."
Joe Digangi, a U.S. based advisor with IPEN (International POPs Elimination Network), announced that children’s toys randomly tested in the markets and shops in Yerevan were found to contain 250 times the acceptable safe levels of mercury.
On December 15, 2012, the Indo-Armenian Friendship NGO (IAF) organised an interactive session between Dr. T. Suresh Babu, the newly appointed Ambassador of India to Armenia and Georgia, and members of IAF at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
On November 30, 2012, the RA Court of Cassation returned the appeal of the newspaper Zhoghovourd which sought to overturn a lower court verdict that found in favor of former Gegharkunik Regional Governor Nver Poghosyan.
A number of activist environmental groups in Armenia have again called on the prime minister and prosecutor general to review the performance of Minister of the Environment Aram Harutyunyan in order to see whether he is the right man for the job.
The Armenian government allocated 2,739,493 AMD ($6,765) to “maintain” the National Assembly and MPs; 9,344,060 AMD ($23,000) for “household and public food items”; and 23,580,000 AMD ($58,222) for social assistance in the form of money.
The 31 year-old judge, son of Vanadzor Mayor Samvel Gharibyan, only declared 4,969,724 AMD ($12,270) in salary revenue for 2011, bit had more than seven times as much, 38 million AMD, in the bank.
We are writing to express our profound concern regarding the lack of effective investigation into allegations of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment relating to the cases of Razmik Sargsian, Musa Serobian, and Arayik Zalian, accused of murdering two of their fellow conscript soldiers in December 2003.
The boy finally extended his arm, shook hands, and looked away without ever making eye contact with Mr. Heffern. "You should take him to Armenia,” the ambassador told the mother. “It is a long trip, on the way to nowhere."
The most distinctive feature of Serzh Sargsyan's rule is that he as a leader has done and is doing everything possible for clearingthe political field andgaining visibility. Confrontations and competition aren't for him, as he prefers to play on a chessboard where there are no serious pieces, only hopeless pawnscut off from one other.
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