The Russian government has banned Ukrainian investigative journalist Oleg Khomenok from entry into the country due to "national security" concerns, officials informed him earlier this month.
Armenian Weekly Assistant Editor Nanore Barsoumian conducted a phone interview with U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern on Dec. 17, as he was wrapping up his tour of Armenian communities in the U.S. Below is the full transcript of the interview.
By a vote of 70 to 0, the National Assembly adopted a bill that would modify the make-up of the body’s ad-hoc ethics committee.
In June 2009, the Denizli Criminal Court of First Instance ordered the blocking of an Internet site whose owner had been accused of insulting the memory of Atatürk. The order was issued as a preventive measure in the context of criminal proceedings against the site’s owner.
The Doğan News Agency reports that a second round of restoration work on the Armenian cathedral on the island of Akhtamar is set to start next April.
I woke up at 8 AM to the face of an old lady wearing a blue dress covered with yellow flowers. She told me breakfast was ready. I smiled because she had a smile on her face. She knew I was up late the night before hanging out with my friends in the courtyard, drinking tea and conversing about our lives
Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) says it has filed criminal charges against two members of Yerevan’s Criminal Police Investigative Division for breach of police procedure and assaulting a suspect they had arrested.
Rinaldo Marmara, the bishops’ spokesman, had been quoted in a Turkish daily, Vatan, as saying that internal “Armenian problems”—rather than deliberate Turkish policies—were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in 1915. Marmara charged that the quotations attributed to him were taken out of context by “journalists to search for provocation.”
I was asleep, but I woke up at 4am because my mother was screaming. My sister Arpine was still asleep. I hurried to the dinning-room to find the door locked and Valodya hitting my mom.
On December 18th a reconstructed railway bridge on Qober-Tumanyan stretch was opened, which was built in 1898. Reconstruction of the bridge was carried out within the framework of South Caucasian Railway’s program to modernize infrastructure. This is the third railway bridge commissioned by CJSC "SCR" this year.
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