YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia), March 9–The Brazilian affiliate of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund continues to support major renovations at Yerevan’s Nork-Marash Infectious Diseases Hospital. The latest project benefiting the facility, the sixth such initiative sponsored by the Brazilian affiliate, will result in the reconstruction of the hospital’s Pediatric and Adolescent Infections departments.
Currently under way, [...]

YEREVAN (Novosti Armenia), March 9 — President of Armenia Serge Sarkisian considers that the system of pension provision in the Republic of Armenia, inherited from the Soviet times, does not meet the present demands and requires transformations.
According to the report by the presidential press service, President Sarkisian talked about this issue on March 6 during a [...]

BY ELAINE KRIKORIAN
YEREVAN (Armenian Weekly), March 2—One of the unshakeable first questions any newcomer to Armenia has to answer is “Why are you here?” This question is not asked to make small talk, as it might be in any well-traveled tourist destination of the world; on the part of the asker, an Armenian from Armenia, [...]

YEREVAN (ArmeniaNow.com), February 26–Armenian environmentalists believe one of the main reasons of environmental problems in the country is the absence of specialists in the sphere. The vocational training colleges in Armenia do no have the subject of ecology in their curriculums; even though the faculty of environmental studies and ecology exists in few higher educational [...]

YEREVAN (Panorama.am), February 25–Andranik Toros Ozanian, Zoravar Andranik was born in February 25, 1865 and died in August 31, 1927. He was an Armenian general, political and public activist and freedom fighter, greatly admired as a national hero. Andranik Ozanian was born in the church quarter of Sebinkarahisar, Ottoman Armenia. Today the 145th jubilee of [...]

YEREVAN (ARKA), February 24—“All Armenian schools are provided with licensed software,” said Areg Grigoryan, Director of National Center of Education Technologies.
“Today all Armenian schools are equipped with computers and use licensed software by Microsoft,” he said.
According to the agreement between the Armenian Ministry of Education and Science and Microsoft corporation, licenses for 8,300 operating systems [...]

NEW YORK (Armenian Weekly), February 22—Armenia Fund is implementing a major renovation of the community school of Artsni, a village in Armenia’s Lori region, with financing provided by the government of India.
The project entails the reconstruction of one of the two main buildings of the two-story school, which was built in 1962. At the conclusion [...]

YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net), February 19– A new multilingual online translator was presented Friday at the residence of Armenian President Serge Sarkisian. The web-based tool enables translations between Western and Eastern Armenian languages, and English. The president stressed the need to provide state assistance for the further development of the online tool.
“Since the preservation of the Armenian identity and [...]

YEREVAN (Newsarmenia.ru), February 17 —The ceremony to celebrate the day of the mother language was held near the Matenadaran Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan. Organizers of the event are the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and the Board of Education Hall of Yerevan.
“We have announced this year to be the year of the native language, in [...]

YEREVAN (ARKA), February 12—On Thursday the Armenian government approved the measure for higher and post-graduate distance learning in Armenia. Armen Ashotyan, Armenian Minister of Education and Sciences, said that the measure allows for investing in high technologies in the spheres of education and online learning.
“It will assist in the creation of a new culture and [...]