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  • Tigran Sargsyan Gets Acquainted With Irrigation System Rehabilitation Works in Armavir marz
    Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visited Aragats and Aghavnatun communities of Armavir marz to get acquainted with irrigation system rehabilitation works. In Aragats community in process is the second stage of Lower Hrazdan’s 2.183 km-long canal restoration work with an estimated cost of AMD 324mn. The upgraded canal will reduce water losses by about 4.1 million cubic...
    March 19, 2012 15:22
  • Proportional list of Armenian oppositional Heritage party will be published on Sunday
    YEREVAN. – Armenian oppositional Heritage Party will hold a political council on Sunday. The proportional list of the party and the nominees by the majoritarian system will be confirmed during the council, head of Heritage parliament group Styopa Safaryan told Armenian News-NEWS.am. Safaryan refused to make any comments about any nomination. “As long as there is not...
    March 18, 2012 17:51
  • Creative citizen should become Armenian hero – Prosperous Armenia
    YEREVAN. – State should provide tax and other benefits to support small and medium businesses, ruling coalition member Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) leader, Armenia’s biggest businessman Gagik Tsarukyan said during the PAP congress on Saturday. “The 2008 world economic crisis affected our state as well. Almost all states assisted to small and medium businesses,...
    March 18, 2012 0:01
  • Armenian communists confirm proportional list of candidates
    YEREVAN. – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia (CPA) approved the decision to run for the upcoming parliamentary elections jointly with the Progressive United Communist Party in Armenia during the Saturday session. Ruben Tovmasyan, first secretary of the CPA, will head the proportional list of candidates, the Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent reports. At...
    March 17, 2012 23:19
  • Discussion dedicated to the Gender Issues held at UN House
    Some 40 young civil society activists and students of Yerevan universities learned more about gender related issues at the debate led by Jemma Hasratyan, well known expert on gender issues, president of the “Association of Women with University Education” NGO. The participants spoke about gender issues in the framework of Armenian efforts aimed to reach the...
    March 16, 2012 19:48
  • Azerbaijani soldier injured: Armenia vowed attacks against Armenian soldiers not to be left unpunished
    In the aftermath of firefight on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border an Azerbaijani serviceman has been injured and taken to a military hospital, Azerbaijani news agency Trend reported. Press Secretary of RA Defense Ministry Davit Karapetyan has remarked on the incident saying Armenia vowed any military operation against Armenian soldiers won’t be left unpunished. Soldier...
    March 15, 2012 20:06
  • Former Armenian Police official accepts charges against him
    YEREVAN. – Former Chief of the Police Force Criminal Investigation Department, Police Major General Hovhannes Tamamyan, pleaded guilty for the charges that were laid against him. The court hearing of Tamamyan and two other defendants—Armen Poghosyan and Vahan Khanzadyan—finally got underway, on Thursday, at capital Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork Marash General Jurisdiction...
    March 15, 2012 18:26
  • Zvartnots, Armavia reached agreement: Armavia owes to pay off debt
    Armenia International Airports and Armavia Air Company have signed another deal half an hour ago. Armavia Air Company owes to pay off its debt of $5 million 300 thousand up to September; besides a new pricing policy agreement has been reached, managing director of AIA Marcelo Wende told reporters. Panorama.am correspondent quotes managing director as saying that company...
    March 15, 2012 15:23
  • PM Gets Acquainted With Pharmaceutical Company’s Development Programs As Part Of Industrial Strategy
    Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visited today Vitamax-E pharmaceutical company as part of the government’s export-oriented industrial strategy. The Prime Minister got acquainted with the production processes, future programs and development prospects. Operational since 1997, the company produces Marine probiotics in line with GMP international standard. It is exported...
    March 14, 2012 17:22
  • Republican Party of Armenia to back Sedrak Saroyan’s candidacy
    The Republican Party of Armenia discussed at the March 13 sitting of the executive body of the party the issue of candidates nominated in the majority system. Speaking to Armenpress, press secretary of the party Eduard Sharmazanov said the discussions over nomination of candidates in majority system still continue. “According to preliminary information, we will have...
    March 14, 2012 14:08
  • Armenian national carrier, international airport finally come to agreement
    YEREVAN. – As a result of their talks on Tuesday, the representatives of Armenia’s Armavia Airline Company and capital Yerevan’s Zvartnots International Airport reached an agreement, whereby the Airline Company will continue to conduct its flights from Zvartnots, the Armenian General Department of Civil Aviation Press Secretary Nelly Cherchinyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am. She...
    March 13, 2012 18:51
  • Armenian Church presents to Turkish Parliament offers on new Constitution
    ISTANBUL. – Vicar of the Patriarch of the Constantinople Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) Archbishop Aram Ateshian delivered a speech at the Constitutional Council of the Turkish Parliament on Monday presenting the offers by the Armenian community regarding the new Constitution. Ateshian said that he will present the offers both orally and in the written...
    March 13, 2012 11:12
  • Tigran Sargsyan Receives Menno Anel
    Welcoming the guest, Tigran Sargsyan said, “I congratulate you on assumption to the office of IMF Managing Director. We look forward to continued close cooperation with the Fund.” Highlighting the development of bilateral cooperation, Menno Anel said it will beneficial to both of the sides. The meeting agenda comprised issues relating to the improvement of business...
    March 12, 2012 20:01
  • Lithuanian web-site depicted Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh as united territory
    Lithuanian’s mountaineers and campaign Association depicted Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh as a single area. Armenpress reports citing Azerbaijani web sites. Lithuanian mountain climbers dwelled on the campaign of Lithuanian climbers in the fall of 2011. This action drew Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry furious. Embassy of Azerbaijan to Lithuania was ordered to envisage...
    March 12, 2012 17:01
  • No considerable precipitation expected in Armenia’s capital
    YEREVAN. – Armenia currently is under the influence of the cyclone, which comes from the Mediterranean, snow falls in a major part of country’s territory, head of Armenian state meteorological department ‘Armhidromet’ Gagik Surenyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am. According to him, the snow will continue till the evening. Weak precipitation is likely on Tuesday and...
    March 12, 2012 14:53
  • The second stage of “I Know” public awareness campaign is off
    The second stage of government-initiated “I know” public awareness campaign is launched. Chief of Government Staff David Sargsyan told the government press center-hosted news conference that it was meant to brief the public-at-large on the government’s 5-year-long extensive efforts toward improving the citizens’ living standards. Developed and implemented by “America”...
    March 12, 2012 13:33
  • If Medvedev supported hand shaking, Putin prefers breaking hands – expert
    YEREVAN. – Newly elected Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to be a mediator between Armenia and Azerbaijan, however, he is not so patient as the former president Medvedev was, expert Richard Giragosian said at a press conference on Monday. “If Medvedev was a supporter of a hand shaking, Putin prefers to break hands,” he said adding the method however, will...
    March 12, 2012 13:04