YEREVAN (RFE/RL), February 26–Azerbaijan stepped up its threats to win back Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenian-controlled territories surrounding it by force on Thursday, with Defense Minister Safar Abiyev speaking of a growing likelihood of “a great war” with Armenia. “For 15 years diplomacy has not achieved any concrete results and Azerbaijan cannot wait another 15 years,” Abiyev [...]
BY ANTRANIG DEREYAN VANCOUVER (Armenian Weekly), February 26–The men’s alpine giant slalom kicked off from Whistler, Creekside with only the top 30 skiers advancing for a chance at a second run and a medal. Austrian skier Marcel Hirscher had the honors of going first and finished with an impressive time of 1:17.48. (He would finish [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), February 25 — On Wednesday, President Serge Sarkisan met with the members of the Public Council to discuss the problems and to propose solutions for the development of agriculture and information technologies in Armenia. At the meeting the President stated that from media publications and meetings with the chairman of the Public Council [...]
YEREVAN (Hetq), February 26—The Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE), as well as the Ministry of Regional Government and a number of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies have launched in the regions an exit fair-exhibition, called “DigiTec on Wheels.” Under the program, the participating companies will visit the urban communities, stopping and making exhibitions [...]
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 (RFE/RL), February 25–The National Assembly approved Tuesday a government bill that will make it easier for Armenia to annul its normalization agreements with Turkey if Ankara continues to delay their ratification. The relevant amendments to an Armenian law on international treaties envisage the suspension or termination of agreements signed by Yerevan before their entry [...]
YEREVAN (ARKA), February 25—The volume of the renewed electric power produced in Armenia in 2009 has grown in 2.5 times and has made 300 million kWh, said Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Armenia Areg Galstyan on Wednesday in Parliament. He said that 30 percent of all the electric power in Armenia should [...]
