By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, January 11 — Slovak judge and politician and former Minister of Justice of Slovakia Stefan Harabin sent a letter to Ashot Grigoryan, the President of the Forum of the Armenian Associations of Europe (FAAE). The letter reads: “As previously stated, at the National Assembly of Slovakia we managed to approve the [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, January 10 – French writer and academic Bernard-Henri Levy explained the rationale behind the recent bill passed in the French Parliament criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide in a January 4 article in Huffington Post. “The law doesn’t propose to write history in the place of historians. And for this [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, December 28 – Famous Armenian chansonnier, Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Switzerland Charles Aznavour addressed a letter of thanks to French President Nicolas Sarkozy after National Assembly’s adoption of a bill penalizing Armenian Genocide denial. “You repeatedly urged Genocide condemnation, reminding that the freedom of speech exludes distortion of [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, December 28 – Well-known Turkish publicist Mehmet Ali Birand urged Arnkara to ratify Armenian-Turkish Protocols signed in 2009 in Zurich. According to the Turkish publicist, Turkey shouldn’t have sacrificed itself to the interests of the Azerbaijani side seeing as the West continues “blackmailing Ankara over the Armenian Genocide recognition.” “The Protocols [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, December 13 – When a couple marries in the Nagorno Karabakh, the Government gives them a cash reward of $790. More money comes after the birth of their first child and their second, third and fourth. Families with six children under the age of 18 receive a house, states The New [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, November 22 – In the framework of a joint program of the Ministry of Transport and Communication of the Republic of Armenia, UNESCO and International Telecommunication Union the first internet center for people with vision problems opened in Yerevan on November 21. Armenian Minister of Transport and Communication Manuk Vardanyan noted [...]
YEREVAN, November 17 – In the framework of ArmNet 2011 ArmNet Awards 2011 all-Armenian web site contest and a number of events started on November 16 in Yerevan. Director of SP Marketing Solutions Haykuhi Taksildaryan informed that ArmNet Awards 2011 web site contest will be held in one round and the sites will be awarded [...]
