On January 15, in Tehran, Armenian Ambassador to Iran Artashes Toumanyan met with Reza Ardakanian, Iran’s Minister of Energy and Co-president of the Armenia and Iran Intergovernmental Council.
In 2016, orphanage director Hasmik Mkrtchyan was charged with embezzling AMD 46 million from the institution. (The amount stolen translates to around US$ 93,000 at today's exchange rate).
Hetq visited 70 households in multi-apartment buildings located in eleven of Yerevan’s twelve administrative districts, to find out the ratio of utility bills to monthly winter income.
Harutyun Khachatryan, a soldier serving in the Artsakh Defense Army, died earlier today after being shot in as yet unknown circumstances at a northern military base, this according to the Artsakh Ministry of Defense.
Armenia’s National Assembly today unanimously passed a resolution recognizing and condemning the 2014 genocide of the Yezidi people in Iraq.
Gagik Tsarukyan, perhaps the richest man in Armenia and a deputy in the parliament, told reporters today that they were guilty of spreading falsehoods and were carrying out third party instructions.