The government of Armenia today adopted a plan to develop the southern town of Goris as a center of tourism.
In 2012 the civil society, the Central Election Committee and the government undertook legislative initiatives some of which resulted in changes in statutory laws regulating the media activities whereas some other initiatives had no success because they were either rejected by the National Parliament or were not included in the agenda of the Parliament despite the fact that they had been submitted to the Parliament in the beginning of this...
According to the State Revenue Committee, 13 institutions of higher learning in Armenia were registered as the top 1,000 tax payers in 2012.
I believe, like many others, that the recent attacks on Armenian women in Istanbul are the result of an organized action.
Entitled “Violence, intimidation and legal cases against journalists and the media in Armenia 2012”, the compendium pays particular attention to incidents of violence perpetrated against reporters and a new method that has surfaced within the past two years to impede the functioning of the press; namely to sue the media on charges of slander and insult.
The Armenian community of France plans to establish an Armenian Genocide memorial complex on the grounds of Mekhitarist Samuel-Moorat College in Sèvres, according to a Today’s Zaman.
On January 30, Yerevan’s Zvartnots Airport was named the “Best Emerging Airport of Russia, CIS & Baltic States” at the 2nd Annual Emerging Airports Conference and Exhibition held in Dubai.
Akhouryan is a rural community, but its population and municipal structures supercedes many of the smaller cities in Armenia. In population, Akhouryan with its 10,406 residents, only lags behind the Gegharkounik town of Vardenis with its 10,702 residents. Presently, no one has presented a standard for differentiating a village from a town, but based on the example of Akhouryan were can categorically state that it isn't based on population or municipal...