Immigration officials and police in Thailand rounded up over 800 Rohingya migrants last week in raids on a human trafficking ring that brought the migrants from Myanmar through Thailand en route to a third country, according to media reports.
The chosen strategy of refusing to participate in the presidential elections taken by the major Armenian political parties--the Prosperous Armenia Party, the Armenian National Congress and ARF-Dashnaktsutyun--was a concrete action and an expression of political will. But their mutual decision wasn’t a way to promote action; instead it created inaction, self-isolation and marginalization.
Nara has been blind all her life. Living alone, and with no relatives next to her, she gave birth to beautiful Natalie in 2009. This is a story about two souls, Nara and Nata, who only have each other.
The trial of Harutyun Sargsyan, accused of the premeditated murder of Karen Yesayan, who was engaged to be married to the daughter of former Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghoukasyan finally commenced today, albeit with a forty minute delay, at a packed Gyumri court.
A new website dedicated to the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Azerbaijan from 1987-1992 called KarabakhRecords.info was publicly launched today in Yerevan.
According to today's The Voice of Russia website, Russian language courses for Syrian-Armenians now residing in Armenia were opened at "Rossotrudnichestvo" offices in Yerevan.
At a Yerevan press conference today, Georgian specialist Haykazoun Alvrtsyan took the Armenian government to task for not doing enough to assist the Armenians of Javakhk, both culturally and politically.
The film "Disobey, become an activist" presents some principles and tools for civic self-organization. What are the values underlying civic struggles?; How to start an initiative group (group of organizers)?; Issues of internal democracy; strategic principles; power analyses; relations with the police. This and other topics are presented by two young Armenian activists, followed with documentary footage from local civic actions.
While the West has recently tightened its sanctions against Iran, its only Christian neighbor has taken a different approach towards the Islamic Republic. Political constraints and lack of options have coerced landlocked Armenia to adopt a policy dissimilar to the West’s for one basic reason – survival.
Perhaps such business holdings are the source of the $1.120 million he declared in his 2011 financial disclosure. He also had 12.2 million Russian rubles ($403,120) and 25.4 million AMD in the bank.
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