A delegation led by Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan left for Peking last night and participated in ceremonies at Armenia’s embassy in the Chinese capital today marking the 24th anniversary of Armenian independence.
Entering through the small gate leading to a mish-mash of huts and hovels in a central neighborhood in the town of Stepanakert the capital of Artsakh, I was hard pressed to imagine where anyone actually lived.
Even though a Yerevan hospital advised the Noubarashen Penitentiary housing lifer Soghomon Kocharyan, now into his 21st year behind bars, to transfer him to the Convicts’ Hospital for vital treatment as of August 5, the facility failed to do so for two additional weeks.
Roudik Ghoukasyan, mayor of the Armenian town of Sevan, says that the problems facing his community, a major tourist resort given its proximity to the Lake Sevan, will become unsolvable if not tackled today.
The U.S. Embassy in Yerevan and the U.S. Commercial Service in Moscow, in partnership with Ameria Management Advisory Services, organized a one-day business conference focused on franchise business opportunities on September 22 in Yerevan.