YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia), March 9–The Brazilian affiliate of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund continues to support major renovations at Yerevan’s Nork-Marash Infectious Diseases Hospital. The latest project benefiting the facility, the sixth such initiative sponsored by the Brazilian affiliate, will result in the reconstruction of the hospital’s Pediatric and Adolescent Infections departments.
Currently under way, [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti Armenia), March 9 — President of Armenia Serge Sarkisian considers that the system of pension provision in the Republic of Armenia, inherited from the Soviet times, does not meet the present demands and requires transformations.
According to the report by the presidential press service, President Sarkisian talked about this issue on March 6 during a [...]
BY ELAINE KRIKORIAN
YEREVAN (Armenian Weekly), March 2—One of the unshakeable first questions any newcomer to Armenia has to answer is “Why are you here?” This question is not asked to make small talk, as it might be in any well-traveled tourist destination of the world; on the part of the asker, an Armenian from Armenia, [...]
YEREVAN (ArmeniaNow.com), February 26–Armenian environmentalists believe one of the main reasons of environmental problems in the country is the absence of specialists in the sphere. The vocational training colleges in Armenia do no have the subject of ecology in their curriculums; even though the faculty of environmental studies and ecology exists in few higher educational [...]
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 (ARKA), February 24—“All Armenian schools are provided with licensed software,” said Areg Grigoryan, Director of National Center of Education Technologies.
“Today all Armenian schools are equipped with computers and use licensed software by Microsoft,” he said.
According to the agreement between the Armenian Ministry of Education and Science and Microsoft corporation, licenses for 8,300 operating systems [...]
NEW YORK (Armenian Weekly), February 22—Armenia Fund is implementing a major renovation of the community school of Artsni, a village in Armenia’s Lori region, with financing provided by the government of India.
The project entails the reconstruction of one of the two main buildings of the two-story school, which was built in 1962. At the conclusion [...]
YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net), February 19– A new multilingual online translator was presented Friday at the residence of Armenian President Serge Sarkisian. The web-based tool enables translations between Western and Eastern Armenian languages, and English. The president stressed the need to provide state assistance for the further development of the online tool.
“Since the preservation of the Armenian identity and [...]
YEREVAN (Newsarmenia.ru), February 17 —The ceremony to celebrate the day of the mother language was held near the Matenadaran Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan. Organizers of the event are the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and the Board of Education Hall of Yerevan.
“We have announced this year to be the year of the native language, in [...]
YEREVAN (ARKA), February 12—On Thursday the Armenian government approved the measure for higher and post-graduate distance learning in Armenia. Armen Ashotyan, Armenian Minister of Education and Sciences, said that the measure allows for investing in high technologies in the spheres of education and online learning.
“It will assist in the creation of a new culture and [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), February 11—Yerevan City Hall will begin planting of greenery and shrubs in the Armenian capital thanks in part to the nature preservation fees that Yerevan factories polluting the air are required to pay.
The head of Yerevan City Hall’s nature protection department, Avet Martirosyan told Tert.am that “city greening” projects have been designed for [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti Armenia), February 9 — In the Armenian resort town of Tsakhkadzor on February 5-7 , the international youth organization AIESEC conducted a “National Leadership Development Seminar” for Armenian students. The Armenian members of AIESEC and also students from various Armenian universities took part in the seminar.
“AIESEC is an organization intended for leadership development, [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am), February 9—In 2010, 500 million dram will be allocated for strengthening and reconstructing multi-level buildings that have been defined as being vulnerable to earthquakes.
According to the head of the construction and organization department at Yerevan City Hall, Frunz Basentsyan, six buildings will be reconstructed during this year in Yerevan on Ararat, Gyumri, Komitas, [...]
YEREVAN (ARKA), February 3–In Armenia, with the participation of specialists of the Armenian language, a computer program that performs translation from the Eastern Armenian dialect to Western Armenian has been developed, the Minister for Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan informed.
“At the base program there are approximately 40,000 processed words, and now with a touch of a button, [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia)–Beginning this year, the headmasters of all Armenian schools will be required to pass obligatory certification to determine if they fit their positions. The decision was announced by the Armenian Minister of Education and Science, Armen Ashotyan, at a press conference on Friday.
He said that there are serious problems with the quality of management [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am)–According to the foreign clergy relations department of Moscow’s Patriarchate, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russians, Kirill I, will visit Armenia in mid-March.
Planned during the visit are meetings with Armenia’s leadership and Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, His Holiness Karekin II.
The same source also informed the press that, on January 21, [...]
YEREVAN (ARKA)–Armenian emergency minister Mher Shahgeldian said to ARKA that his ministry will unveil a strategy and a platform, which are designed to help prevent emergencies.
He added that they will be in compliance with international standards. The ministry is elaborating the strategy for protection of settlements from man-made and natural disasters, he said.
In his words, [...]
YEREVAN (Armenianow.com)–On December 23, President Serge Sarkisian visited the Lori and Shirak provinces in northern Armenia which suffered major damage during the devastating earthquake of December 7, 1988 to inspect the progress and quality of housing construction that would provide more than 5,000 families, now in makeshift residence, with permanent accommodation.
The president first visited the [...]
Yerevan (Tert.am) — Armenia has officially announced that it’s accepting acts for the national selection for participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, taking place in Oslo in 2010.
Until February 10, 2010, 10 acts will be chosen that will then be eligible to participate in the televised selection stage. For this stage, Armenia’s Public TV will [...]
YEREVAN (Panorama.am)–In the frames of the Microsoft educational innovative program, a competition of innovatiove ideas was held on December 16.
“We have brilliant teachers, 140 teachers from different regions were participating,” the director of Microsoft office in Armenia G. Barsegyan said.
According to the director, the presented 19 projects “have been perfect.” They have been highly appraised [...]
YEREVAN (Hetq Online)– On November 23, schoolteacher Mariam Sukhudyan, 29, was interrogated at the Erebuni Investigative Unit. The young activist faces slander charges in a case regarding alleged sexual abuse by staff members at the Nubarashen Special School #10.
Sukhudyan’s defense team has been bolstered by the addition of a new attorney, Liparit Simonyan. She will be [...]