• Kerkorian shuts down Lincy Foundation
    UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and Kirk Kerkorian, founder of The Lincy Foundation, announced the formation of the Dream Fund at UCLA, a community-based fund devoted to the support of medical research and academic programs at UCLA, as well as the support of a wide range of charitable projects throughout the United States. The Dream Fund will be part of and administered by...
    March 4, 2011 10:08
  • Serj Tankian enlists Tom Morello, Shirley Manson for a musical
    System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian has enlisted Tom Morello for a new EP and Shirley Manson for a musical. Tankian released his digital only Imperfect Remixes EP today through Serjical Strike/Reprise Records on iTunes. The first track ‘Goodbye – Gate 21 (Rock Remix)’ features RATM and Audioslave guitar-twiddler Tom Morello. The four-track EP features remixes...
    March 4, 2011 9:35
  • FAON submits petition on Karabakh to Dutch parliament
    After a rally by Dutch Armenians in The Hague in memory of the Sumgait massacre victims and in support of Nagorno Karabakh on February 28, the Joint Armenian Organizations in The Netherlands submitted a petition on Nagorno Karabakh was submitted to the Chairwoman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Dutch Parliament Mrs. N. Albayrak by a delegation of the...
    March 4, 2011 8:26
  • RA Foreign Minister Makes Speech at OSCE Standing Committee Session
    RA Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian partook today in the OSCE Standing Committee session in Vienna and made a speech on the organization’s agenda items, reforms in Armenia and the process of regulation of the Nagorno Karabakh issue. An official from the press, information and PR department of the RA foreign affairs ministry told that speaking on the OSCE’s role,...
    March 4, 2011 7:53
  • Construction permits to be issued within 27 days
    At today’s cabinet sitting, the government decided to amend the norms applicable in the sphere of construction. By this business-friendly arrangement, the government tends to reduce the number, the duration and the cost of procedures necessary for the conduct of urban development activities. It implies greater safety from the environmental and healthcare standpoints. According...
    March 3, 2011 17:37
  • A free visit to the Museum of Yerevan History
    In the frames of the program of free season tickets for theatres and museums for the pupils of the schools subordinated to the municipality of Yerevan about 70 pupils of secondary schools № 4 and № 52 visited Yerevan History Museum on March 2. By the program agreed with schools, according to the established schedule, the pupils of 3-6 grades of the schools subordinated...
    March 3, 2011 15:18
  • Business environment set to improve
    A cabinet sitting was held today under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan The Prime Minister directed the ministers and agency heads to be more active in making public speeches and introducing the State policy to the public-at-large. The Cabinet amended a previous decision stipulating that the purification of precious metals and the production of banking...
    March 3, 2011 14:46
  • Government to provide incentives for students’ academic achievements
    Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan attended a ceremony of handing scholarship certificates to students with good academic achievements in the Yerevan State University. The head of government handed out the certificates in person. Congratulating the best of eligible students, Tigran Sargsyan noted that the government tends to provide incentives for students’ academic achievements. Addressing...
    March 2, 2011 17:19
  • Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s answers to students’ questions posed during academic achievement certificate handing ceremony at Yerevan State University
    – Mr. Prime Minister, during the last cabinet sitting of 2010 you expressed concern in connection with the high level of corruption in the field of education. What do you think should be done to curb corruption in the sphere of higher education? Can students’ associations be of service to you in this matter? – Thank you. You were right to note that we attach...
    March 2, 2011 16:48
  • Meeting with members of the National Assembly’s “Democracy” fraction
    On 1 March President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan met members of the National Assembly’s “Democracy” fraction. A wide range of issues concerning domestic and foreign policy of the country were discussed during the meeting. Special attention was paid to widening cooperation between political forces and the army-society relations. The Head of the...
    March 2, 2011 12:52
  • Prime Minister receives Asian Development Bank representatives
    Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received ADB Central and Western Asia regional director for transport and communications Hong Wang. Welcoming the guests, Tigran Sargsyan made a point of deepening and expanding cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Armenia and the Asian Development Bank. The head of government appreciated the Bank’s assistance with the...
    March 2, 2011 12:10
  • The NKR Foreign Minister: “The international community should display a stricter attitude to Azerbaijan’s military rhetoric”
    On February 28, during the visit to the United States of America, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Georgy Petrosyan delivered a report at the event dedicated to the Karabakhi problem, organized in the American Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The NKR Foreign Minister presented in his report the stance of the Karabakhi leadership...
    March 2, 2011 12:08
  • Istanbul Armenians Document Violations of Minority Rights in Turkey
    By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier Two recent documents from Istanbul shed new light on violations of minority rights in Turkey. The authors of these reports make cautious, yet accurate assessments of the problems facing the Armenian, Greek and Jewish communities. The first document, dated February 2011, is titled: “Report on non-Muslim Minorities.”...
    March 2, 2011 11:25
  • A good tradition has been rehabilitated by the mayor’s initiative
    Aimed at the rehabilitation of the tradition of attending theatres and museums by pupils of the schools subordinated to the municipality of Yerevan, as well as at the activation of teaching – educational and cognitive activity since March,1 of this year, by the initiative of Yerevan mayor Karen Karapetyan the program of providing pupils of secondary schools with...
    March 2, 2011 10:30
  • Interview of the Austrian daily Der Standard with Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Foreign affairs of Armenia, 01.03.2011
    Standard: You have signed the Zurich protocols that aimed for the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia despite political protests in your country and within the diaspora around the world. How frustrated do you feel that Turkey has put the ratification on hold? Nalbandian: Some people, including in Europe, have no confidence in the Turkish side. They think...
    March 2, 2011 8:05
  • President Serzh Sargsyan sent a congratulatory letter to Kim Bakshi
    President Serzh Sargsyan sent a congratulatory letter to Kim Bakshi, a renowned fiction and script writer, specialist in cultural studies, on his 80th birthday. On behalf of the grateful Armenian nation, the President of Armenia wished him good health and all the best. “You represent a cohort of outstanding masters of words. Your talent manifested itself in Your travel...
    March 2, 2011 0:45
  • Karen Karapetyan “The collaboration between the municipality and large-scale business creates principally new quality of city economy management”
    Today Yerevan mayor Karen Karapetyan and the president of “Tashir” group company Samvel  Karapetyan signed an agreement on long term cooperation, in the frames of which it is provided to implement large scale investment programs directed at development of the capital infrastructures, tourism, constructions, creating recreation zones and green areas and in...
    March 1, 2011 23:42