‘Daily news’

  • President Serzh Sargsyan made a tour of Yerevan
    President Serzh Sargsyan made today a tour of Yerevan. First, the President of Armenia visited Heratsi n. 1 hospital compound of Yerevan’s Mkhitar Heratsi State Medical University, where reforms are being conducted in the educational as well as medical areas aimed at the further improvement of the medical services. President Sargsyan toured the newly renovated medical...
    March 24, 2012 12:33
  • PM Receives Ukraine’s State Customs Service Head
    Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received Chairman of State Customs Service of Ukraine Igor Kaletnik. “We are pleased to see that close ties of cooperation are being formed between the customs authorities of Armenia and Ukraine. We will endeavor to further develop and strengthen those relations,” Tigran Sargsyan pointed out. The head of Ukraine’s State Customs Service...
    March 23, 2012 16:58
  • PM Welcomes Head Of Greek Economic And Social Council
    Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received a delegation from the Economic and Social Council of Greece, headed by council head Christos Polizogopulos. “We attach great importance to the activities of the Public Council, which is a new institution in the Armenian reality and is currently making the first steps. The council is expected to play a key role in the debates over...
    March 23, 2012 16:33
  • A. Hovsepyan: “Legal system has a key role in ensuring the legality of the elections”
    On March 23, the Office of the Prosecutor General in Armenia hosted a conference at the Congress Hotel on free and fair elections. The conference was organized by the International Center for Human Development with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Armenia. The purpose of the conference was to clarify and raise awareness about law enforcement’s responsibilities to...
    March 23, 2012 15:44
  • Vartan Oskanian participates in the 7th Annual Brussels Forum
    Vartan Oskanian is in Brussels March 23 to 25, attending the 7th Annual Brussels Forum, sponsored by the German Marshal Fund of the United States. The Brussels Forum is an annual meeting of the world’s political and financial leaders, as well as senior journalists and opinion makers from around the world. This is the fifth time Mr. Oskanian has attended the Brussels...
    March 23, 2012 15:38
  • National Assembly Sitting Not Held
    On March 22 the National Assembly sitting was not held due to the lack of quorum: 39 deputies were registered at 12:00, and according to the item 5 of the Article 44 of the law “NA Rules of Procedure,” the deputies’ registration continued three more hours, during that period 43 deputies were registered. The sitting was not held due to the lack of quorum.
    March 22, 2012 18:01
  • French Language Day at the UN Celebrated at French University of Armenia
    Students, university professors, authorities, diplomats and journalists learned more about use of the French Language at the UN during the observation of the French Language Day at the UN organized today. In addition to being one of the UN official languages, French is one of the two working languages of the UN Secretariat. It is also spoken on all continents, playing...
    March 22, 2012 17:38
  • Prosperous Armenia Party issues proportional list of candidates
    YEREVAN.- Political council  of the Prosperous Armenia Party confirmed on Tuesday evening the proportional election list for 2012 parliamentary elections. According to NEWS.am sources top 20  is as follows: Gagik  Tsarukyan Vartan Oskanian Vardan Vardanyan Gurgen Arsenyan Samvel Balasanyan Naira Zohrabyan Vahe Hovhannisyan Harutyun Kushkyan Hmayak Hovannisian Michael...
    March 21, 2012 8:37
  • Exhibition of Marina Mamyan’s Works in the National Assembly
    On March 20 in the NA Green Hall the exhibition of the works of the gobelin maker-painter Marina Mamyan opened. Marina Mamyan, who creates works in the sphere of decorative-applied art, is a member of the Armenian Painters’ Union, the Painters’ International Federation and the Russian Painters’ Creative Union. She had personal exhibitions in Armenia and in a number...
    March 20, 2012 20:38
  • Ruling coalition member Orinats Yerkir discloses proportional list
    YEREVAN. – Ruling coalition member Orinats Yerkir Party disclosed proportional list. The party celebrates the 10th anniversary of the establishment on Tuesday and introduced the list during the celebrations. Incumbent Minister of Transport and Communication Manuk Vardanyan is the seventh in the list, while deputy chairmen Mher Shahgeldyan and Hovhannes Margaryan are...
    March 20, 2012 20:30
  • Prosecutor asks 4 years in jail for former Armenian Police official
    YEREVAN. – The prosecutor Harutyun Harutyunyan asked the court for 4 years of imprisonment for the former Chief of the Police Force Criminal Investigation Department, Police Major General Hovhannes Tamamyan at Yerevan’s court on Tuesday. In his accusatory speech the prosecutor claimed defendants Hovhannes Tamamyan, Armen Poghosyan and Vahan Khanzadyan are charged with...
    March 20, 2012 15:40
  • Scholarships Offered To Best University Students
    Armenia’s Youth Fund has assigned scholarships to 750 best first- and second-year university students from vulnerable families who are not included in the system of free education. To this end, the government has allocated AMD 60mn to the Fund. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan handed out today the certificates of scholarship. “This initiative of the Fund is backed by...
    March 20, 2012 15:38
  • Bus heading from Iran to Armenia crashes, casualties reported
    TEHRAN. – The bus heading from Iran to Armenia crashed in northern Iran, there are casualties, Iranian Hayeli.netwebsite reports. According to preliminary information, over 3-4 people are dead, while 10 are injured. Majority of the passengers were Iranians and ten Armenians. Identity of the dead people is still unknown. The accident was caused by the wheel blast, rumors...
    March 20, 2012 13:54
  • Armenian Major killed by Azerbaijanis
    Major Artak Shahbazyan, 35, who was deadly wounded by an Azerbaijani bullet in Armenia’s Tavush Region on Monday, was in agony on the way to Noyemberyan hospital, head doctor of Noyemberyan Medical Center Ashot Gezalyan told the reporter of Armenian News-NEWS.am. “He received a penetrating gunshot wound in his chest,” he informed. As the doctor informed, the soldier...
    March 19, 2012 22:29
  • President Serzh Sargsyan in Moscow participated at the session of EvrAzEs Interstate Council
    President Serzh Sargsyan, who is in Moscow on a working visit, today participated at the session of the Eurasian Economic Community (EvrAzEs) Interstate Council. The session was attended by the Presidents of the EvrAzEs member states – Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan as well as the Presidents of the observer states – Armenia, Ukraine and Moldova. Discussions...
    March 19, 2012 22:05
  • Tigran Sargsyan Receives Asad Alam
    Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received World Bank Regional Director for South Caucasus Asad Alam. Tigran Sargsyan thanked Asad Alam for support of the Regulatory Guillotine fast reform program and Finance Ministry’s capacity building project, for the development of Armenia‘s financial market, as well as for assisting the government with the fight against money laundering. The...
    March 19, 2012 18:08
  • Five Syrian Armenians injured in Damascus blast
    Five Syrian Armenians were injured in the terrorist attack in Damascus, Nouvelles d`Arménie reports referring to its sources. The magazine says their lives are not in danger. Earlier it was reported that an Armenian woman Araxie Bedrossian was among the fatalities of the terrorist act that occurred in the Christian section of Aleppo, Syria, on March 18.
    March 19, 2012 16:39
  • “LOOKING FROM ARARAT: ARMENIANS AND TURKS” BY TATUL HAKOBYAN
    On March 19th an Armenian veteran journalist Tatul Hakobyan presented his new book, entitled “Looking from Ararat: Armenians and Turks.” This 500 page book is the result of eight years of extensive research, analysis and travel by the author. It was first published in Western Armenian using classical orthography. This most recent one in Eastern Armenian will be presented...
    March 19, 2012 16:22