Despite the grandiose promise made by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to grow the country’s population to four million by 2040, official stats show a continuing decrease in numbers.
The question as to whether Armen Sarkissian, nominated by Armenia’s ruling Republican Party as its candidate to be the next president of Armenia, qualifies for the post continues.
The Foreign Minister of Armenia and the Co-Chairs discussed issues related to the agreement in principle on the expansion of the capacities of the office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, reached in January at the Krakow meeting of Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Minister of Transport, Communication and IT Vahan Martirosyan told MPs that since people drive on the right in Armenia, traffic regulations call for the steering wheel to be on the left side.
In addition to discussing the possibility of furthering cooperation in the political, economic and humanitarian sectors, the two also talked about matters dealing with multilateral cooperation in international organizations.
Juliana says they are not against Gharibyan using the word "karas" when describing the way his wine is produced in amphora (karas) vessels, but the trademark shouldn’t confuse consumers.
The United States sent the largest amount of aid - $9.4 million. Overall, however, the amount of humanitarian aid from the U.S. dropped a bit when compared to 2016.
A man found dead in a street in the Yerevan district of Avan on February 4 has been identified as Norayr Melkonyan, a 63-year-old Russian citizen who had earlier been charged with stealing a 1,050- dram bottle of vodka from a Yerevan grocery store (Krpak).
In October 2017, Tankian teamed up with Creative Armenia to issue a video challenge to this effect, asking musicians everywhere to write songs beginning with the 7 notes Tankian offered.