By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, November 19 — The Armenian President Serge Sarkisian awarded Armen Jigarkhanyan — the famous Armenian actor, the director of the Moscow Theater after Armen Jigarkhanyan, the national artist of the USSR — with an Order of Honor. The press service of the President informs about this. The awarding ceremony was held [...]

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, November 19 — The Governmental delegation headed by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Sarkisian will pay a two-day official visit to St. Petersburg (Russia) on Friday, the press service of the Government informs. In St. Petersburg the Prime Minister will take part in the meeting of the [...]

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, November 03 — According to the Russian edition of Sport Express, in October Henrikh Mkhitaryan was recognized the best football player of the former Soviet Union (FSU) countries. Henrikh Mkhitaryan represents the National team of Armenia and Donetsk Shakhtar. Due to the results of the traditional monthly survey, which was conducted [...]

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, October 25–”Sugar produced in the Republic of Armenia should be the best,” said the Armenian President Serge Sarkisian after his visit to the new sugar factory in Akhuryan (Shirak region) on Saturday. Investments in the new sugar factory amount to about $102 million. The manufactured product conforms to European standards. “Of course, [...]

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, October 25–The body of Manvel Saribekyan, who died on October 5th in an Azerbaijani prison, has not yet been returned. According to Armen Gabrielyan, the head of the Working Group of the Commission on POWs, Hostages and Missing People of the Republic of Armenia, the Azerbaijani side has not even transferred the certificate attesting [...]

By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, October 15 – In recent years, the majority of population in the Nakhijevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan started to emigrate to Turkey and Russia, so the demographic image of Nakhijevan became a subject of change. According to the book “Nakhijevan: Historical and Several Modern-era Problems,” in recent years the number of [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, September 06 — “Twelve-year old Vladimir Arzumanyan will represent the Republic of Armenia with the song “Mama” in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010, which will be held on November 20 in Minsk, Belarus,” said the project manager Diana Mnatsakanyan — the advisor to the Executive Director of the Armenian Public [...]