I was sitting with an artist friend of mine in Yerevan’s Art Bridge cafe. It was in 2009, and I again was in Yerevan after a long absence.
Within the scope of the criminal case launched regarding the cases recorded during the provision of the allotments of SNCO “Sevan National Park” for lease and construction, the preliminary investigation on the part of the ex-head of “Sevan” subdivision of the State Committee of Real Estate Cadastre was completed.
During the January 1 to 7 holiday season, the South Caucasus Railway carried more than 7.5 thousand passengers. During that period, 560 passengers travelled the international trains Yerevan-Tbilisi- Yerevan route and the domestic trains transported more than 7,000.
Taron Nazaryan, a judge with Armenia’s Administrative Court of Appeals, continues to receive interest from a $78,500 loan he gave to the Georgian “Unimet” company several years ago.
On December 19, 2012, Armenia’s Court of Cassation has rejected a lawsuit by the Helsinki Citizens Assembly of Vanadzor which sought to overturn an October 17, 2012 verdict of the Court of Appeals sustaining a lower court’s ruling in favour of RA Chief of Police Vladimir Gasparyan.
People have been dumping trash alongside the road to the village of Haghpat, in Lori Marz, for years. The small river that runs through the dale is awash in garbage and no one seems to mind.
Two men, one Armenian and the other American, surpassed in their deaths the global and all-embracing meanings of their lives. Both were widely revered and occasionally resented for galvanizing and defining whole new eras of understanding and acceptance.
Before his diplomatic posting, Manoukyan served as Armenia’s Minister of Transport and Communications from 2001 to 2008, and then as a presidential adviser. He also served as a MP in the 1990s.