Police have found links between the Irish Republican Army and a powerful branch of the Italian mafia, according to disclosures in Italian court this week.
Myths about women’s health make their way up and down gravel stone streets, traveling from the rocky mountainside to homes casted in concrete and tufa, meandering from the bedroom to the laundry line, whispered from neighbor to neighbor, friend to friend, sister to sister, mother-in-law to daughter-in-law. Myths are a way of life in the remote villages of Armenia.
Raffi Hovannisian’s Barevolution took a decidedly festive mood today in celebration of International Women’s Day. Speakers from the steps of the Opera in Yerevan spoke about the role of women both historically and presently in Armenian society and how they were the backbone of the family and the nation
The works selected in the competition will be presented in solo and group exhibitions and in a catalog. The group exhibition will take place at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA), in July 2013. The solo exhibits will take place in the period from August- December 2013.
Bolivia, Burma, and Venezuela failed to meet international norms in anti-narcotics in 2012, according to the US State Department International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), released this week. The report determined that these three countries “failed demonstrably” to improve their efforts in combating the production and transport of narcotics.
Money laundering continues to pose a serious global threat, with 64 countries fitting the criteria for “major money laundering countries,” the State Department said in the second part of its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), released this week.
Raffi K. Hovannisian has just completed a two-day regional victory tour, which began yesterday in Tavush, where exuberant crowds turned up in town squares to mark the February 18 victory of the Armenian people.
27 year-old Yelena Khachatryan holds the European Championship in the sport known as Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Passengers riding the #10 trolleybus in Yerevan have long gotten used to the fact that a woman might be behind the wheel.