By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, February 6 — Eshet Tours Company signed a deal with Armenian Armavia Air Company and from now on it will be the company’s exclusive representative in Israel. Direct flights from Israel to the Republic of Armenia, particularly to Yerevan will start in April. Presently Armavia conducts only a flight a week [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, January 30 — The President of the Republic of Armenia congratulated on the 20th anniversary of creation of the Armed Forces of Armenia. The message by President Sarkisian particularly says: “Dear Compatriots, Generals, officers, soldiers, Ladies and Gentlemen, I cordially congratulate you on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, January 27 — The clock hands will no longer be moved in the Republic of Armenia. This decision was passed yesterday at the Government’s sitting. Still in 1930 the Soviet Government decided to move Armenia from GMT 3 time Zone to GMT 4. Only 82 years later the Government decided to [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, January 25 — In regard to the passing of the bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide His Holiness Catholicos Karekin II sent a letter of gratitude to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The letter particularly reads: “All Armenians around the world are happy. The voice of justice was heard in [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, January 20 — Turkish President Abdullah Gul said the fair and transparent court decision on the murder case of Hrant, Turkish journalist of Armenian origin, is but a serious challenge for Turkey. “The fair and transparent court decision is especially essential for us, because it refers to one of our non-Muslim [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, January 20 — Trainings for future employees of Stepanakert airport (Nagorno Karabakh) are being conducted by foreign specialists. Head of the Civil Aviation Administration at the Nagorno Karabakh Government Dmitri Adbashyan said that one of the groups of foreign specialists helps Karabakh specialists to introduce the P3D multi-position system and the [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, January 20 — The Republic of Armenia is planning to hold celebrations dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Armenian Army that will last two days. As the Defense Minister of the Republic of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan says, on January 27 morning the Armenian President will grant awards, the ceremony will [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, January 11 — Slovak judge and politician and former Minister of Justice of Slovakia Stefan Harabin sent a letter to Ashot Grigoryan, the President of the Forum of the Armenian Associations of Europe (FAAE). The letter reads: “As previously stated, at the National Assembly of Slovakia we managed to approve the [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, January 10 – French writer and academic Bernard-Henri Levy explained the rationale behind the recent bill passed in the French Parliament criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide in a January 4 article in Huffington Post. “The law doesn’t propose to write history in the place of historians. And for this [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, December 28 – Famous Armenian chansonnier, Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Switzerland Charles Aznavour addressed a letter of thanks to French President Nicolas Sarkozy after National Assembly’s adoption of a bill penalizing Armenian Genocide denial. “You repeatedly urged Genocide condemnation, reminding that the freedom of speech exludes distortion of [...]
