Walking across the center of Valletta, Raymond and his partner stop to look at the latest additions to a makeshift memorial for the immensely popular blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was murdered in a car bomb on October 16 last year.
The newly elected Yerevan Council of Elders, comprised of 65 members and elected for four years, held its first session on October 10. Hetq talked to Gayane Abrahamyan, a non-partisan Council member from the Im Kayl (My Step) Alliance.
There was a big flaxseed oil workshop in the village during the Soviet era, and although it doesn’t exist now, some villagers keep the tradition alive.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian today hosted Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopirkin and the two discussed issues of mutual cooperation, in particular, the strengthening of collaboration in the science-education and humanitarian sectors.
Levon Baghdasaryan, attorney for jailed ex-Armenian Army General Manvel Grigoryan, told reporters today in Yerevan that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan violated his client’s right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty.