Arguing that there’s no objective criteria for measuring popularity, the Armenian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport (ESCS) proposes to revoke the honorific titles of “People’s/Meritorious Artist”.
The Armenian government will allocate 77.5 million drams (US$173,300) to lay headstones at the Sisian Community Pantheon for 67 soldiers from Syunik Province killed in the 2020 Karabakh war.
A criminal investigation of how Azerbaijani hackers were able to target the Artsakh telecommunication operator Karabakh Telecom during the 2020 Karabakh war and delete backup copies of its servers has yet to identify any defendants.
On October 10, Azerbaijani troops captured Hadrut and shot 71-year-old Serzhik Vardanyan and 68-year-old Ella Vardanyan to death.
The office of the Russian peacekeeping contingent stationed in Artsakh today also called on Azerbaijan to withdraw its troops from these areas.
Martik Avetisyan, 57, lived with his wife and three children in Togh, a village in Artsakh’s Hadrut region.
Armenia’s Corruption Prevention Commission (CPC) has submitted, for public discussion, a draft “rules of conduct” for public servants.
During the war, 83-year-old Henrikh Mirzoyan would walk the seven kilometers from the Artsakh town of Hadrut to his house in the village of Norashen to feed his two cows.
Victoria Melik-Sargsyan, wife of Yerevan’s Malatia-Sebastia Administrative District Deputy Prosecutor Arsen Kostandyan, owns a company that sells millions of drams worth of clothing to various Armenian state agencies.
Hayrapetyan, who faced mental health issues since birth, never left the village when Azerbaijani troops attacked in October 2020.
Mkhitaryan, in a Facebook post, said he’ll focus on his career with the Italian Serie A Roma football club.
The bodies of Minas and Yeghishe were found on December 5, 2020. Forensic exams say the two were shot in the head.
Last July, the Armenian government approved plans to build a 30 billion AMD ($62million) winter resort complex in the country’s Aragatzotn Province.
On October 5, a family member went to Vardashat to get the elderly couple to safety. They wouldn’t leave. "They didn’t think the Turks would enter the village. Neither did we. We left Hadrut with just the clothes on our back.
Armenia’s Mikayel Mikayelyan came in 61st in today’s Men’s 15km Classic cross-country skiing event at the Beijing Winter Olympics with a time of 43:09.1 minutes.
Armenia’s Katya Galstyan came in 80th place today in the women's cross-country skiing Sprint Free Qualifier at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Mikayel Mikayelyan, representing Armenia, came in 47th in the Men's 15km + 15km Skiathlon today at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.
Cross country skiers Mikayel Mikayelyan, Katya Galstyan, Angelina Muradyan and alpine skier Harutyun Harutyunyan will be joined by Tina Garabedian and Simon Proulx-Senecal who will participate in the ice dance figure skating event.
The office of Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan has purchased twelve 2022 model Lada Niva Legend cars at 5.8 million AMD ($11,800) each.
Armenia’s Ministry of Economy wants to extend the export ban of non-ferrous scrap and waste for another six months.
Armenia’s Varazdat Lalayan won the Silver Medal today in the men's +109 kg competition at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
In early November 2020, when Azerbaijani armed forces attacked the Artsakh town of Shushi, 73-year-old Vladimir Parsiants was one of the few residents, mostly seniors, still there.
The company, according to the tender agreement, must purchase 70 Chinese-manufactured Yutong buses and eighty Russian Gaz minibuses to service the routes.
Mr. Gennady Petrosyan, 69, was a resident of Madatashen, a village in Artsakh's Askeran region. In late October 2020, Azerbaijani armed forces invaded the village and took him prisoner. Petrosyan was the sole remaining resident.
The Shant Alliance won 70.2% of the votes in yesterday’s municipal council elections in the Syunik provincial capital of Kapan yesterday.
An alliance led by incumbent Mayor Samvel Balasanyan won yesterday’s municipal council election in Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city.
Yuri’s graphic murder had been videotaped. Spread on Azerbaijani social media, it shows an Azerbaijani soldier pinning Yuri to the ground, raising his chin, and cutting his throat with a knife.
Free medical services would be provided to family members of Armenia’s President, Prime Minister and Parliament Speaker if a proposal floated by PM Nikol Pashinyan’s office is approved.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan does not know or does not want to answer the question of what the 7th point of the trilateral statement signed by the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia on November 9, 2012 actually means in practice.
Armenia and North Macedonia played to a 0-0 draw yesterday in the fourth round of World Cup European zone qualifiers.
Newly appointed Chief of Staff of Armenia’s National Assembly Vahan Naribekyan and his brother Garik have been supplying furniture to various government agencies for years.
The Armenian Ministry of Environment wants to include Mount Karmir Katar (Tar), in the Gegham mountain range, in the list of natural monuments.
Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh unfurled a 50-meter Russian flag yesterday in Stepanakert to celebrate National Flag Day, an official Russian holiday established in1994.
Danielyan won seven games and drew in four for nine points out of a possible eleven.
Azerbaijani hackers targeted the Artsakh telecommunication operator Karabakh Telecom during last year’s war and were able to infiltrate the company’s servers with relative ease.
The Armenian government today gave the green light for a 30 billion AMD ($62million) winter resort complex in the country’s Aragatzotn Province.
Istanbul police detained three individuals who scaled the walls of the Armenian Apostolic Sourp Takavor Church in Kadıköy and were caught on film dancing around the cross.
Russian Foreign Ministry Representative Maria Zakharova today stated that Azerbaijan is adamant that Armenia hand over all maps of minefields in Karabakh and that Moscow favors resolving the issue without preconditions.
Russian Foreign Ministry Representative Maria Zakharova today reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to offer technical advice to jump start the demarcation of sections of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.
Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov announced that no agreement to send another detachment of Russian peacekeepers to Karabakh will be signed at today’s Moscow meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Acting Armenian PM Nikol Pa
Armenia’s representative to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Yeghishe Kirakosyan reported today that the ECHR has rejected a petition filed by Armenia to obligate Azerbaijan to suspend the ongoing trials of Armenian POWs.
Citing security risks, the Armenian government plans to restrict the publication of certain personal and state data stemming from last year’s Karabakh war it deems sensitive, arguing that such information might be used in economic and political analy
Peter Maurer also stressed that this year the Red Cross has increased the funding of its mission in Nagorno-Karabakh fivefold to € 50 million.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during the annual Direct Line with Vladimir Putin TV program, said that the population of Nagorno Karabakh cannot live in “constant anxiety” and called on all parties to the conflict to strive to live in “peace and f
Former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, whose Hayastan (Armenia) Bloc cam in a distant second in last week’s snap parliamentary election, today predicted that another snap election would take place in eighteen months because Nikol Pashinyan’s gov
Three political forces will be represented in the new parliament: Civil Contract Party, Armenia Alliance, and the I Have Honor Alliance.
"We see that [Acting Prime Minister Nikol] Pashinyan's party won a convincing victory. We congratulate the Armenian people on their choice," Peskov noted, adding that Armenia is Russia's closest ally and partner.
Kocharyan, stressing that Armenia faces serious security issues, said, “Parallel with making the RA Armed Forces efficient again, we must also try to modernize the Russian military presence in Armenia."
In a lengthy interview today with RIA Novosti, former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, running for the post of prime minister, said Armenia’s defeat in last year’s war prompted him to return to politics.
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