BY JEFF MASARJIAN AND JASON SOHIGIAN
Armenia is very special to those of us in the Diaspora for a number of different reasons. Not typically high up on that list–due especially to a lack of public awareness–is the enormous diversity of landscape, plant, and animal life that exists in Armenia. Armenia is located at the convergence [...]
BY YIGAL SCHLEIFER
(Eurasianet.org), March 9–Turkey watchers in Washington must have been feeling a sense of déjà vu after the March 4 passage by a congressional committee of a resolution recognizing the mass killing of Armenians during World War I as genocide.
The same House Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a similar resolution in 2007, leading Turkey to [...]
BY MARIANNA GRIGORYAN
March 3–Birth rates are reportedly booming in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh after the launch of an Armenian-Diaspora-financed program that offers cash payouts of at least $2,000 for each baby born.
Russia-based, Karabakh-born entrepreneur Levon Hairapetian, along with Ruben Vardanian, the chief executive officer of the Russian investment bank and asset management firm Troika [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–Official Yerevan dismissed on Tuesday Turkish warnings that a US congressional resolution describing the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide would set back the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations.
It also emerged that a group of mostly pro-government Armenian parliamentarians is heading to Washington in an apparent effort to facilitate the passage [...]
YEREVAN (Aysor.am), March 1— Twenty-two years ago, on February 27, 1988 in the city of Sumgait, located 20 kilometers from Baku, a massive extermination of the Armenian population by the Azerbaijani leadership occurred, which was accompanied by plunder and the destruction of the property of Armenians.
In an atmosphere of silence of the Soviet leadership, as [...]
BY EMIL DANIELYAN
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), February 23–They are a thorn in the side of Armenia’s government and the favorite target of Turkish politicians furious with Armenian genocide bills put before foreign parliaments. Hidden away from the public eye, the thousands of Armenian nationals believed to be illegally working in Turkey form the most low-key and obscure [...]
LONDON (Asbarez.com), February 19—An historic charity event in support of Armenian and British charities took place at the Windsor Castle on 10 February hosted by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall. Project initiator and main benefactor Armen Sarkissian, former Prime Minister of Armenia and President of Eurasia House International, [...]
YEREVAN (Panorama.am), February 19–Six years ago, February 19, 2004, Armenian citizen Gurgen Margaryan, 26 years old, was hacked to death while asleep by Ramil Safarov, a Lieutenant of the Azerbaijani Army. Both were participants of an English language training course within the framework of the NATO-sponsored “Partnership for Peace” program held in Budapest, Hungary. The [...]
BY JASON SOHIGIAN
Armenia relies on a diverse mix of energy resources, and renewables present a range of challenges, strategic advantages, and market opportunities.
In 2009 alone, the World Bank announced an investment of $1.5 million to assess sites with geothermal potential and Armenbrok OJSC announced an initial public offering to raise $9 million to construct three [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), February 17—The Real Estate Cadastre of Armenia and the Russian Federal Service of the State Registration of Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr) intend to pass a memorandum of cooperation.
The Information and Public Relations Department (I & PRD) of the State Cadastre of Armenia reported that this agreement was reached during the Armenian delegation’s visit [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), February 9—The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Armenia, Mher Shahgeldyan, discussed the questions of cooperation with the head of the UNICEF Armenia Office, Leili Moshiri.
“The memorandum of mutual understanding, signed by Shahgeldyan and Moshiri, is the basis of this bilateral cooperation. The memorandum is directed on storing of technical resources [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am) – The end of the year is commemorated not only with festivities, but also with ministers presenting reports on their activities over the year. Today, it was Minister of Nature Protection Aram Harutyunyan’s turn.
As with all the other ministries, Harutyunyan noted that all the planned activities of this year were carried out and [...]
YEREVAN (ARKA)–On Monday, Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) and Yerevan State University (YSU) signed a contract on cooperation in the frames of the program “On establishment of Armenian-Indian Center of Superiority of information and telecommunication technologies between the governments of Armenia and India.”
The contract was signed by Bagrat Yengibaryan, Chairman of the Board of EIF, Nerses Yeritsyan, Minister [...]
YEREVAN (ARKA)–”The establishment of united Internet resource for publication and mutual use of Armenian and Turkish jounalists will be implemented in 2010,” said Artak Shakaryan, specialist in Turkic philology to the journalists of ARKA.
“The main problem for the delay of the creation of such a resource is shortage of funding, as daily volume of translation [...]
YEREVAN (A1Plus.am)–The fourth session of the Russian-Armenian inter-governmental commission on military-technical partnership was held on December 14-17 in Yerevan and was headed by the co-chairs of the commission, Armenian Deputy Minister of Defense Alik Mirzabekyan and vice-director of the Russian Federation’s federal service for military-technical partnership, Konstantin Biryulin.
Issues discussed during the session were related to [...]