Armenian First Deputy Minister of Defense asked the ICRC to inform the parents and kinsmen of the refugee that he has been successfully transferred to a safe, secure, prosperous and democratic state.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan today had telephone conversations with Catholicos Garegin II and Catholicos Aram I regarding the unfolding situation in Syria and what could be done collectively to assist the Armenian community there.
Toxic fumes have been billowing from the two smokestacks at the Alaverdi Copper-Molybdenum Plant run by the Armenian Copper Programme for the past few days.
A modicum of relative calm has returned to 5 Komitas Street in Yerevan, the site of recent clashes between protesters and police over the construction of a controversial high-rise building.
A few weeks ago I received a parking ticket in the mail (I’ve waited that long to report it so I could properly cool down and not sound vexed). On the ticket was a photograph of my Niva, license plate concealed, parallel-parked a good distance, I would say 50 feet, away from the Tumanyan/Nalbandyan intersection, but parked on the south side on Tumanyan Street.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is scheduled to meet with President Putin of Russia in Moscow on September 3.
Ashotyan also instructed the schools to peg tuition rates for Syrian-Armenian students based on last year’s fees charged to RA citizens.