A report released today by UNHCR shows that the number of refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide has, for the first time in the post-World War II era, exceeded 50 million people.
In an earlier move to stem the tide of public outrage, Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan sacked the director of the Zvartnots historical site and severely reprimanded another for renting it out.
The Ukrainian Poetic Cinema program, which includes 10 films, is planned as part of the Parajanov’s Jubilee program
Kış Uykusu (Winter Sleep) a Turkish drama directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan that won the 2014 Palmed’Or at Cannes will be shown.
Armenia’s Ministry of Defense reports that an Armenian soldier serving at a military outpost along the Artsakh-Azerbaijani frontline died today in as yet unknown circumstances.
After being detained by Georgian authorities for nearly five months, Ashot Sukiasyan, the businessman charged with large-scale embezzlement and money laundering in the Cyprus offshore fiasco, was extradited to Armenia yesterday.
The President's proposed budget maintained parity in appropriated U.S. military aid to Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Hot on the heels of widespread negative reaction in the press and public regarding the renting of the Zvartnots historical site for a corporate party, Armenian Minister of Culture has fired Vardan Grigoryan, director of the Zvartnots site.
California Senate Education Committee Unanimously Passes Armenian Genocide Education Act
At least 30 people have been arrested in one of the largest government crackdowns ever on organized crime, money laundering, customs and tax evasion, and abuse of authority, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) confirms.
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