Current Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan leads the ticket, followed by international chess grand master Smbat Lpoutyan and Hovhannes Tokmajyan, Rector of the Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction.
Simon Fraser, Permanent Under Secretary in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, will visit Armenia on10-12 March as part of a wider visit to the South Caucasus.
As we commemorate International Women’s Day, we must look back on a year of shocking crimes of violence against women and girls and ask ourselves how to usher in a better future. One young woman was gang-raped to death. Another committed suicide out of a sense of shame that should have attached to the perpetrators. Young teens were shot at close range for daring to seek an education.
Serzh Sargsyan today met with Phillipe Lefort, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia.
The ‘Median Day of Lent’ (mid-Lent, or Michink) was celebrated at the Surb Echmiadzin Church in Avlabari, Tbilisi.
The government today appointed Feliks Tsolakyan as the new Regional Governor of Shirak.
Hetq has spent the last seven months tracking the trail of $170 million in loans received by the Nairit Plant to ostensibly get up and working again.
Raffi K. Hovannisian today met with Norbert Lammert, President of the Bundestag, the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany. During their one-hour meeting, Hovannisian and Lammert discussed the extraordinary situation created in Armenia after the February 18 presidential vote.
While echoes of the horsemeat scandal still bounce around Europe, we would all do well to look back at an instructive precursor that has only recently been fully exposed.
The Pan-Armenian Eco-Front has called on the RA Ministry of Nature Protection to publish various details pertaining to the eleven candidates now being considered to fill the vacant post of director of the Khosrov Forest State Reserve.
Narineh Mkrtchyan wanted to run in the February 18 presidential election in Armenia. Her name never appeared on the ballot because she didn’t pay the required 8 million AMD ($20,000 filing fee.
A lawyer representing Vardan Setrakyan, the presidential candidate who was recently arrested on charges of ordering the shooting of Paryur Hayrikian, stated today that a court’s decision to hold his client for two months pre-trial detention is unconstitutional.
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