Interpol has launched "Project Scale" to tackle illegal fishing by coordinating transnational operations to target offenders and disrupt trafficking routes, according to an announcement.
A group of Raffi Hovannisian’s legal advisers today filed a petition with the RA Constitutional Court seeking to annul the official results of the February 18 presidential election.
On March 3rd in Paris Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Edward Nalbandian met with the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Popov, Jacques Faure and Ian Kelly and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.
Three year-old Nelly has withstood the needles and bitter medicines of doctors for the past twenty days. Nelly has been diagnosed with acute leukemia. She’ll receive her first round of chemotherapy tomorrow.
Demonstrators staged a protest today outside the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan to voice their opposition to President Barack Obamas's recent congratulatory message to Serzh Sargsyan regarding his re-election.
Last year, I decided to make the move to Armenia. After finishing grad school, the many summers I had spent working here culminated in my decision to take this step. Although I had considered this option for quite some time, it still caught members of my community with surprise.
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, leaders of states, diplomats, and representatives of international organizations, the February 18, 2013 presidential elections held in Republic of Armenia unarguably showed the public distrust toward the authorities.
Jivan was the dog living in our courtyard. The crisis probably forced him onto te streets. Jivan knew all the residents one by one, and their friends and guests. No strangers could get past him. During the 1990s, we became familiar with the expressions “dog catcher” and “dog shooter”. One day, coming home from school, my Jivan wasn’t in the courtyard. They had killed him.
Arzoumanyan was at the center of an incident that took place between striking students and the YSU administration on February 27. The student was caught on film hurling curses at the strikers assembled outside the school.
You undertook immediate responsibility for the falsifications by congratulating those who falsified the elections, who are directly responsible for human rights transgressions, systemic and organized violations, transgressions and destruction of democratic values. In this case, we do not have any guarantee that Armenia will not turn into another Belarus.
The Armenian Alpinism and Mountain Tourism Federation just marked its second anniversary. The Federation says mountain climbing and related sports activities have taken off in Armenia.