From 2000 – 2014, while the number of permanent residents in Armenia dropped by 6.4% (207,300), the number of pupils attending public school (grades 1-12) in Armenia dropped by 40%.
The two-day workshop, hosted by experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), brought together officials from Armenian medical and scientific fields to discuss the “One Health” approach in combatting outbreaks of dangerous illness such as avian flu or anthrax.
No ceasefire violations were reported during today’s OSCE monitoring of the line of contact separating Artsakh and Azerbaijan military forces.
Recently, however, Armenia’s Traffic Police have miraculously discovered that severely tinted car windows lead to traffic accidents and are instructing drivers to conform to a 2005 code specifying the degree to which windows can be darkened. Code violations, the police state, can lead to fines of 50,000 drams.
On the heels of yesterday’s rally in Yerevan, calling for an end to the constitutional change process and the ouster of the President Serzh Sargsyan, the New Armenia Salvation Front has announced that another rally will be held today as well.
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