Gagik Ginosyan, director of the Garin folk dance ensemble, told reporters today that Armenians should be more concerned with displaying their national customs and traditions, rather than giving priority to building hotels, if it wants to promote tourism.
The Ministry of Finance today reported 408.9 billion AMD in budgetary revenues and 377.7 billion in expenditures for Armenia in the first five months of 2013.
Activists say they will organize a picket outside the Harsnakar Restaurant today at 7:30pm to protest a scheduled wedding reception a mere three days after the first anniversary of the beating murder of Armenian Army physician Vahe Avetyan.
The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in his defence of the project of building a new shopping centre and luxury apartments at the place of Gezi Park in Istanbul, said something symbolic: the reconstruction plans, which supposedly would resurrect the architecture of an old military barracks based on the architecture of a 19th century Ottoman building, would amount to “respecting history.”
RA Minister of Health Derenik Doumanyan opened the conference by reading a congratulatory message from Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
The Armenian Red Cross began distributing nutrition and health packets to 4,000 of 14 rural communities in Armavir Province damaged by recent hailstorms.
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