YEREVAN (RFE/RL), May 31– According to Colonel Artur Simonyan, the commander of the peacekeeping brigade of the Armenian Armed Forces, the military action in Afghanistan continues and it is impossible to speak of full security guarantees. However, the Armenian unit is “safe.” At Friday’s meeting with journalists Simonyan said that the Armenian peacekeepers serving under [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), May 31–Representatives of the tourism industry expect that the number of Armenian citizens traveling on vacation to Turkey this year will be reduced “due to unresolved Armenian-Turkish relations.” “You know that in recent years the number of Armenian vacationers has considerably increased in Turkey, but in my opinion, at this stage, there may be [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), May 31—The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan canceled his visit to Argentina due to the last-minute refusal to unveil a monument of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Buenos Aires. The Turkish prime minister was to arrive in Buenos Aires on Monday, during his Latin American tour. His meeting with the Argentinean President Christina [...]
Since the government announced in April its intention to modify the current law on language in order to accommodate the opening of foreign language schools in Armenia, several politicians, journalists and public service groups have been in an uproar. The decision primarily stems from the planned opening of a new private school in 2013 situated [...]
YEREVAN (Yerevan Report), May 30–In a major upset for Armenia, Germany won the Eurovision 2010 song contest at the end of the finals held on Saturday night. The country’s representative, Lena, swept Europeans continent wide off their feet with her upbeat, whimsical song, “Satellite.” Armenia’s representative to the contest, Eva Rivas, only took seventh place, [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), March 29–Armenians marked on Friday the 92nd anniversary of the establishment of their first short-lived independent republic that emerged from the ashes of the Russian Empire at the end of World War I. The main ceremonies marking the public holiday in Armenia again took place in Sardarabad, a village 40 kilometers west of [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti Armenia), May 29–The European Union is ready to continue assisting the OSCE Minsk Group negotiations on the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict, José Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, said. “I will not go into constitutional and legal details. We continue promoting the peaceful negotiation process in Minsk Group and [...]
