On June 21, 350 “intellectuals” (architects, historians, archaeologists, ‘meritorious artists’, musicologists, actors, composers, painters, poets....) signed a letter addressed to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Catholicos of all Armenians Garegin II,
Reforms and recent improvements in higher education as well as measures to fight corruption, to encourage students' participation and ensure quality education are among the topics of an OSCE-supported event that started today in Yerevan.
The Yerevan Municipality has announced that the streets surrounding the Cascade Complex in Yerevan will be closed to vehicular traffic from 11am to midnight on a daily basis.
An online petition drive has been launched to prevent the destruction of remaining Armenian houses in Moush, Turkey.
Seyran Gharibyan, who owns the Argishti 1 company that will undertake the work, is the brother of Vanadzor Mayor Samvel Gharibyan.
Growers are demanding 120 AMD per kilo just to break even. In lieu of this, they have suggested that the government facilitate customs regulations to allow for buyers from Georgia to purchase the crop.
Greater Los Angeles has been a mecca for Armenian immigration for more than one hundred years, as early as the Turkish massacres of Armenians in 1895-96 and the Armenian Genocide of 1915. In the last four decades, the city has attracted an increasingly large number of immigrants from the Middle East as well as from the former Soviet Republic of Armenia, which gained its independence after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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