By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, February 3 — International chess grandmaster, citizen of the Republic of Armenia Levon Aronyan ruled out his participation in the Candidates Tournament of World Championship if they are held in Azerbaijan. The letter by Levon Aronyan addressed to FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and FIDE Presidential Board members states: “Dear Presidential Board [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, February 1 — African footballer Dia Karibia Doumbia from Gandzasar team, which was a bronze prize winner of the previous Armenian national Football Championship, arrived in Yerevan. After spending a few hours at the Yerevan Zvartnots airport the footballer was forced to leave the Republic of Armenia. Border services forbade the [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, January 24 — Tigran Petrosyan won the 72nd Armenian Chess Championship held in Yerevan. The final round featured two chess leaders Tigran Petrosyan and Robert Hovhannisyan. In the end Tigran Petrosyan managed to beat Robert Hovhannisyan with 7 points and consequently became the champion of the Republic of Armenia in the [...]

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, January 16 — Famous Armenian boxer Arthur Abraham captured the WBO European super middleweight title in a fight with Argentinean Pablo Farias. A combination to the head and body put Farias down early in the fifth round. Soon a second knockdown followed, which put Farias down for a third and final [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, December 30 — The newly appointed head coach of the Iranian Persepolis Mustafa Denizli is by turns getting rid of all the representatives of the Republic of Armenia. He firstly got rid of Samvel Melqonyan, the former midfielder of the national team of the Republic of Armenia, who was going to [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, December 20 — Upon the decision of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Sarkisian 106 athletes, who obtained highest results at the World and Europe Championships, received monetary prizes. It’s noteworthy that not only the athletes received prizes but also their coaches (personal coaches, head coaches of the [...]

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, December 16 – Armenian National Team midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan became the best football player of the year of the Republic of Armenia. During December 14’s award ceremony, the head of the Football Federation of Armenia Ruben Hayrapetyan awarded Henrikh Mkhitaryan with the “Golden boots.” Armenian National Team forward Yura Movsisyan became [...]