According to political analyst Richard Giragosian, the reason that the parliament of New South Wales passed a resolution recognizing the right of the people of Artsakh to self-determination is because Artsakh’s diplomacy is getting stronger.
Political analyst Richard Giragosian told reporters today that Serzh Sargsyan would be re-elected president of Armenia, since there isn’t a viable alternative and that the ruling party would utilize all its administrative resources.
Mr. Rifai said that he had been on a six month lobbying mission to get Armenian tour operators, hotels, tourist associations and others to sign the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism in order to maximize tourism’s socio-economic contribution while minimizing its possible negative impacts.
Armenia’s Court of Cassation today threw out an appeal by Artak Beglaryan seeking to overturn a lower court’s decision that found in favor of the International School of Diplomacy run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On April 24, 2004, Hovhannes purchased a plot of land near the village of Griboyedov in Armavir province. Ever since then, Hovhannes only sees his family when he returns for the winter.
Rising along the terraced slopes of the Debed River near the village of Kobayr in Lori Marz is the 12th century Kobayr Monastery. It’s nestled amongst the trees and mountain springs, literally built on the cliff walls. The complex lies just north of the town of Tumanyan.
The road sign pointing the way to the St. Grigor Monastery leads visitors along the edge of a deep canyon. We are in the forested mountains of Armenia’s Lori Marz, near the village of Dsegh. Walking down the path, we come across broken stone crosses covered in moss and the occasional undamaged ones.
82 year-old Hayk Khamoyan pulls out a slip of paper from his vest pocket. He’s recently returned from visiting his family roots in western Armenia and the paper lists the names of the places he saw along the way. “I have trouble remembering all the names, so I had my son jot them down. When my neighbours ask me where I went, I give them the paper to read. Everyone is curious. Just this morning I showed the list to some people here,”...
To get to Aghavnavank Monastery in Dilijan National Park
“We don’t have a clear concept of what the homeland is. There is no state policy in this regard unlike the former Soviet Union and the United States of today. Large states would crumble if they don’t have a clear-cut ideology on which to be founded.”
The highest paying teaching jobs at Yerevan State University, averaging 700,000 AMD yearly are in the field of jurisprudence.
Out of the 5,400 students who applied to Yerevan State University for the fall semester, 3,507 have been accepted according to the school’s rector Aram Simonyan.
Dzovinar Derderian, a second year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan State in Ann Arbor, was recently in Yerevan to do research on her thesis covering the socio-economic history of the eastern regions of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century.
During WWII, while the city of Bonn was being bombed, a Soviet army officer from officer from Gyumri took Hans from his German parents and brought him to the safety of Gyumri. The plan was that he would return Hans back to his parents once the war ceased.
The RA Appeals Court today rejected the petition of a blind man seeking the overturn of a lower court ruling stating that he was not eligible to take an admission exam to the School of Diplomacy run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“After the Genocide, this will be considered the worst period for our nation. The last twenty years have been a tragedy. 1.5 million Armenians have already left and the rest live in an atmosphere of fear. Corruption is rampant in this country. There is just one leader in this republic; he and his brothers. The rest just sit around in their offices doing nothing,” says Nayiri.
This is the story of Armen Toros, a young man born in California to Armenian parents from Iran who has travelled the world over and now finds himself in an Armenian village, planting trees and farming.
Vladimir Karapetyan (photo l.) the ANC candidate who lost to Samvel Farmanyants of ruling Republican Party, told Hetq that he might dispute the results of the voting in Election District #2.
During the eight hours since pools opened inArmeniaat 8am, the Human Rights Defender’s Office has received 151 calls via its election hotline.
One woman complained that she had been waiting for 10 minutes and that the hall wasn’t big enough. A fellow voter said the long lines were a positive sign that the turnout was heavy.
Armenia’s Human Rights Defender’s Office reports that it has received 137 calls regarding election violations and other infractions during the period 8am to noon.
When Armenia’s president talks...somebody listens. Hot on the heels of Serzh Sargsyan’s public chiding of Yerevan’s mayor on May 1, the commercial kiosks in Mashtots Park is being dismantled.
Children with a host of various maladies and those that are mentally-challenged attend the Emmanuel NGO. The gamut runs from kids with autism to those who have suffered child brain seizures. Some attend regular schools and others, special schools.
Building residents, however, have consistently pointed to numerous violations. A top concern of theirs is that the basement construction is weakening the foundations of the 78 year-old structure.
Musarrat Ullah Jan is a Pakistani journalist working in the Peshawar Bureau of Dunya Television Network. He specializes in covering crime and court related activities, bomb blasts, suicide attacks in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa Province, and making documentaries about families that have been affected.
On March 11, the National Aesthetics Center of Armenia and the Hikari (Light) Center organized a memorial tribute to mark the one year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan.
Hetq has already written about the complaints of building residents regarding the water service and the high cost of their utility bills.
A public “Eco-Forum” will take place tomorrow at Mashtots Park at 3pm where activists will provide a summary of the results of their actions to halt construction of commercial stalls in one of Yerevan’s last remaining green spaces.
Few would be able to live in the tin hut that Garen calls home in Nor Nork...especially during cold of the winter.
The standoff between police and protesters at the Mashtots Park construction site continued yesterday.
Earlier today, around 70 police showed up at Mashtots Park in Yerevan and dispersed a crowd of activists who had been staging a picket to protest the construction of stores in the public green space.
Paruyr Hayrikyan said that it wasn’t the army but the army’s commanders that would bear any such responsibility for civilian deaths during a state of emergency.
“I never fought. I was in Karabakh a few times and occasionally accompanied the guys, not only Peto. The first time I went to Karabakh was in ’89, to the Hadrut region. I don’t have a military resume, per say. You can say that I never engaged in any military actions,” stated Gagik Ghevondyan, brother of Petros (Peto) Ghevondyan.
“The problem vis-a-vis Russo-Armenian relations is that Yerevan underestimates its importance to Moscow and overestimates Russia’s importance to Armenia,” Giragosian noted.
Regarding the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in Armenia, Zohrabyan said it was incumbent that they be as free and fair as possible since the whole world would be watching.
“A few people, party members, have been charged. Members of our party and other political organizations could be charged with the same violations as well."
All seven Yerevan City supermarkets continue to violate the laws regarding “Advertising” and “Food Safety”.
The journalist went undercover as a tax clearing agent to a big shipment company in Tema Harbour which is in charge of administering everything in the ports and worked there for 3 months. Anas was the head of a team consisting of 5 journalists from the same newspaper. They started an investigation and witnessed how big-time businessmen paid bribes instead of taxes.
Beglaryan, in his suit, was also demanding 1 AMD in symbolic moral damages from the RA government.
The museum is running out of space, there are no security cameras installed, there is no artifact repository and only one working computer.
What’s sorely lacking in Armenia is a true learning environment where students are encouraged to study.
With the film, Saro wants to deliver the thought to the viewers that even after suffering a loss of a husband of 60 years there is still a life to be lived, that you can find new meaning in life and that new meaning for overseas Armenians could be reconnecting with their identity and family.
This campaign against the church and the Catholicos was a was a carefully managed campaign from the outside.
Nine months have passed since a fire destroyed a number of homes at 23 Koryun Street in Yerevan. Former residents still don't know if they'll be moving back.
Here’s a photo montage of what took place yesterday morning when local officials from the Arabkir District, backed by police and Special Forces, began to dismantle a cluster of street stalls and kiosks from the intersection of Papazyan and Komitas Streets.
He had visited before and knew the move wouldn't be easy – that he would have to fight for certain things. Pedro came prepared to do just that.
Today, a group of 18 irate Yerevan kiosk owners/renters who have been ordered to dismantle their stalls gathered in front of the Government Building.
"I don't think it will be a time for Kosovo to be a part of Serbia. It's unreal. But I do not think Serbia will recognize Kosovo any time soon. It is better for Serbia to have Kosovo as a good neighbor. It's not in the interest of Serbia to have troubled Kosovo and any attempts to regain control in Kosovo will mean problems not just for Serbia but for the Balkans," Ramadan Ilazi said.
There is an absence of real democracy in the traditional diaspora structures and this is reflected in relations between the diaspora and Armenia.