On 16 March, 2013 by the initiative of the art group at the “Hayartun” Cultural Center of the Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church in Georgia (teacher Tamara Sulkhanihvili) and with the support of the “Hayartun” Cultural Center, in the Calouste Gulbenkian Hall «TAMAR and KIDS PAPER FASHION SHOW» took place.
The case pitting Interstate Bank against Nairit Plant CJSC got underway today at Moscow’s Court of Arbitration but had to be postponed since no one from Nairit ever showed up.
The government considers any compromise as a defeat; it always wants to deal with capitulating powers. The government sees potential victims in anyone, that it is possible to buy them off with positions and promises, or else be undermined or intimidated.
Most of the residents of the dormitory in Yerevan's Nor Nork District #2 are refugees who've had a tough go making ends meet for the past twenty or so years without any permanent employment. 31 year-old Temonan is a mother of four.
Most of the residents of the dormitory in Yerevan's Nor Nork District #2 are refugees who've had a tough go making ends meet for the past twenty or so years without any permanent employment. 31 year-old Temonan is a mother of four. She's had to once again borrow money from neighbors to buy bread for her kids. The seniors spend their Sundays sitting on the dormitory's balcony, hoping for better days to come.
Serzh Sargsyan and Catholicos Garegin II will depart from Yerevan later this evening for the Vatican to participate in tomorrow’s enthronement ceremony of Pope Francis.
Director Arshak Zakaryan, who came up with the idea to stage a “million man march” in Yerevan on April 8, told reporters today that if the Yerevan Municipality didn’t grant a march permit the people would take to the streets anyway.
Armenia’s Grandmaster Levon Aronian is the solitary leader at the World Chess Candidates Tournament after three rounds of play at the competition being held in London.
The winners of the women’s Sambo Championship of Armenia, that took place on March 16-17, have been announced.
The second in a newly-launched series of public forums was organized on March 18 at Liberty Square. Former presidential candidate Andreas Ghukasyan led a spirited debate among hundreds of citizens as Raffi Hovannisian took his hunger strike into its ninth day.
At today’s National Assembly session, Heritage Party MP Zarouhie Postanjyan created something of a ruckus when she tried to read a letter entitled “The Petition of Current President Serzh Sargsyan to Newly Elected President Raffi Hovannisian.”
Ara K. Manoogian, a U.S. based human rights activist, started a hunger strike on March 17, 2013, in front of the Burbank, California district office of U.S. Representative Adam B. Schiff.
Mangasaryan was scheduled to appear today as a witness in a separate case involving Lousineh Gyulkhasyan, a woman who paid for but never received an apartment in a building development operated by Mangasaryan.
Emergency crews have called off their search for a Noratous village resident who went missing on March 16 after coming up empty-handed.