More than 100 ex-police and firemen have been arrested in the United States for fraud after allegedly filing false mental illness claims in order to receive federal benefits. The fraud is believed to have cost the Social Security system hundreds of millions of dollars, reports the BBC.
"There exists a diaspora which doesn't belong to Armenia: it was created before the independence of Armenia, mostly from the late 19th century up till 1915 and after. It is the diaspora of western Armenians."
According to a report published last August by a major U.S. social policy research organization, the 16.6 million USD allocated by the Millennium Challenge Corporation to fund agricultural training in Armenia from 2007 to 2011 was a total failure.
Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia today departed for Geneva to participate in two conferences that will discuss the plight of Christian communities in Syria.
On January 15, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the northern direction of the Kuropatkino settlement of the NKR Martouni region.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan has been elected president of Yerevan’s Chess Federation.
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