‘Daily news’

  • 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
  • Peace Corps Celebrates its 50th Anniversary on March 1
    In honor of the Peace Corps’ 50th Anniversary, U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovitch hosted a celebration with Peace Corps Volunteers and staff, ministry officials, governors, and local and international partners at her residence on March 1, 2011. The event commemorated the lasting legacy of Peace Corps’ founder, President John F. Kennedy, as witnessed by...
    March 1, 2011 17:04
  • President Serzh Sargsyan will conduct a working visit to Sochi
    On March 5, President Serzh Sargsyan will conduct a working visit to Sochi. In Sochi, the Presidents of the Republic of Armenia, Russian Federation and Azerbaijan will hold a tripartite meeting on the resolution of the NK conflict.
    March 1, 2011 14:47
  • United Nations Department of Public Information continues to support Model UN Conferences
    The UN Department of Public Information Office in Armenia, in cooperation with the Armenian UN Association, the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organized a Model UN Conference simulation of the Security Council session, which was held yesterday in Yerevan. This Republican Model UN Conference summarized five Model UN Conferences,...
    March 1, 2011 12:33
  • North-western Turkey depicted as part of Armenia in textbooks of Kosovo’s schools
    Turkish representatives in Kosovo were shocked after learning that south-western Turkey is depicted as Kurdistan and north-west of Turkey as a part of Armenia in the textbooks used in Kosovo’s schools, Haberler website reports. Besides the maps, there were images and texts offending Turks in the textbooks of history and geography. In this regard, the chairman of Union...
    February 28, 2011 10:14
  • Prime Minister attends “Bridge” forum
    Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan attended today the 8th international “Bridge” economic forum in Tsakhkadzor. Addressing the forum, the head of government highlighted Armenia’s commitment to hosting international conferences. According to the Prime Minister, the forum should focus on the ways of ensuring macroeconomic stability in the wake of the global crisis. In...
    February 26, 2011 22:24
  • Cosmopolitan Armenia launches with Kim Kardashian
    Cosmopolitan will launch an Armenian edition in March, said CEO of Hearst Magazines International Duncan Edwards, the New York Observer reports. The Armenian brunette beauty Kim Kardashian will cover the issue. Hrachuhi Utmazyan will become Cosmo’s editor and the magazine will have an initial circulation of 5.000, the source says. “The Cosmopolitan brand has been very...
    February 26, 2011 1:12
  • No gas price rise for Armenia
    The gas price for Armenian consumers will not be raised this year. Moreover, it will be reduced for socially vulnerable sections of population, stated RA Presidential Spokesman Armen Arustamyan. “We are satisfied with the meeting between Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. During the talks in Saint Petersburg the sides reached...
    February 26, 2011 0:37
  • Pace of business environment-related reforms discussed
    The Business Support Council met in the Office of Government, chaired by head of council, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. Underscoring the importance of business-friendly reforms, the head of government reminded that securing a place within the top 10 ranking of Doing Business was one of the priorities of the President’s electoral platform. Speaking on the pace of those...
    February 25, 2011 20:05
  • Armenian, Russian Presidents to meet in St Petersburg
    On February 25, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will pay a working visit to Russia. Serzh Sargsyan will meet his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in St Petersburg. The meeting will be held on the threshold of  Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents’ meeting in Sochi on March 5. The Presidents last met in this format in Astrakhan October 27, 2010 at the invitation...
    February 25, 2011 17:07
  • Official visit to Synopsys Armenia on February 25, 2011
    On February 25, 2011 Samvel Nikoyan, Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly and Board President of the State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA), Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education and Science and Vostanik Marukhyan, SEUA Rector paid an official visit to Synopsys Armenia. Guests visited SEUA “Microelectronic Circuits and Systems” Interfaculty Chair located...
    February 25, 2011 15:47
  • Meeting with members of the National Assembly’s “Homeland” fraction
    On 24 February President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan met members of the National Assembly’s “Homeland” fraction. An exchange of ideas about a wide range of issues related to the parliament’s activity, domestic and foreign policy as well as strengthening army-society relations was held during the meeting. The Head of the State underlined...
    February 25, 2011 10:50
  • Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan attends sitting of Board of State Pedagogical University after Kh. Abovyan
    The academic board of the State Pedagogical University after Kh. Abovyan met, chaired by board chairman, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. The election of the rector of the University was on the agenda. Acting rector Ruben Mirzakhanyan was the key nominee to the post of rector. As a result of the voting, Ruben Mirzakhanyan was elected rector of the State Pedagogical University...
    February 25, 2011 10:11
  • President Serzh Sargsyan sent a congratulatory letter to the President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik ndence Day
    President Serzh Sargsyan sent a congratulatory letter to the President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves on the occasion of national holiday – Independence Day.
    February 24, 2011 19:42
  • President Sargsyan received the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby
    President Serzh Sargsyan received today the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby who has arrived to Armenia to bid farewell. President Sargsyan praised Semneby’s input to the strengthening of the relations between Armenia and European Union. “I believe our relations and political dialogue with the EU started to strengthen thanks also...
    February 24, 2011 19:14
  • The right of the citizens for land use is rehabilitated
    On February 23 about ten residents of Silikyan and Charbakh quarters of the capital were invited to Yerevan City Hall to get the decisions of the mayor of Yerevan related to the execution of rights for their plots. As far as in the 1990s plots in Silikyan, Charbakh quarters of Yerevan and in the territory of former “Haghtanak” village were given to about 1300 families....
    February 24, 2011 15:22