YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), April 30—The games of the second subgroup of the female tennis tournament FedCup started yesterday in the Republic of Armenia, reported the press service of the Tennis Federation. Tennis players from South Africa, Norway, Finland, Georgia, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Greece and Armenia are taking part in the tournament. The Armenian team includes Marie-Gayane Mikaelian, [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), April 30–Starting May 30 the company South Caucasian Railway switches to the summer train schedule, according to which the Yerevan-Batumi trips be run daily. A totally reconstructed express train named “Armenia,” consisting of eight cars, will make the journey along this route. According to Shaydullin this schedule will take effect a month earlier than [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), April 30–This year, during the parliamentary elections in the UK on May 6, for the first time ever at least three candidates of Armenian origin will struggle for the deputy’s mandate. The head of the information-consulting center “Hayashen” Misak Ohanian is attempting to get in touch with the Armenian candidates. During an interview [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), April 30—The Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sarkisian called on members of the government to stop smoking. On Thursday, the Armenian government adopted a national program to fight smoking for 2010-2015. The program provides for extensive measures to inform the public about the diseases caused by smoking, to hold an anti-tobacco campaign, to improve [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am), April 30–Armenian chess player Lilit Mkrtchyan celebrated her first victory in the Women’s FIDE Grand Prix competition in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, by defeating Chinese player Hu Zao with black figures. While Mkrtchyan is on the winning side another Armenian player, Elina Danielyan, is having a poor performance, losing to Swedish Pia Kramling with white [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), April 30–The Armenian government’s tax revenues jumped by nearly 20 percent in the first quarter of this year, slashing the state budget deficit to a level equivalent to just over 1 percent of GDP, the Ministry of Finance said on Thursday. The latest fiscal data is a further sign that the Armenia is [...]
YEREVAN (Combined Sources), April 30–On Thursday the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) published a statement during its full session recognizing and condemning the Armenian Genocide, member of the Armenian delegation in PACE and Prosperous Armenia Party National Assembly member Naira Zohrabyan told Tert.am in a phone interview from Strasbourg. Representatives from more than [...]
