22:27 • 26.06.12

No obstacle to Prosperous Armenia, ANC cooperation – opposition leader

Any political forces laying claims to becoming a serious political factor must be able to resist the pressure…

 

21:31 • 26.06.12

‘We must change this country’ – ANC supporter

The Armenian government submitted draft amendments to Armenia’s tax law to Armenia’s parliament 126 times…

 

20:49 • 26.06.12

ANC holds rally in Armenia’s capital

“The gang rule will come to its end, and this is the ANC’s mission…”

 

19:40 • 26.06.12

First-ever street-art picture in Armenia’s picture

Nikolaj Arndt, a well-known street-art artist is the author of the 3D pictures in Yerevan…

 

19:00 • 26.06.12

Armenia’s minister of nature protection receives US Ambassador

Minister Harutyunyan and Ambassador Heffern reached an arrangement on the joint action Keeping Environment Clean…

 

18:26 • 26.06.12

Armenian president receives outgoing German ambassador

The Armenian leader thanked the German diplomat for his activities aimed at…

 

18:21 • 26.06.12

Republican MP meets Amnesty International reps

Greeting the organization’s Europe and Central Asia Program Director David Diaz-Jogeix, and coordinator Natalia Nozadze, Artak Zakaryan praised the Amnesty International’s role in promoting ...

 

17:26 • 26.06.12

Yerevan hosts Armenia-Austria business conference

The participants were briefed on the investment environments in both countries and the free economic zones ...

 

17:26 • 26.06.12

Armenia president to visit Belgium

The Armenia leader is to attend the Summit of the European People’s Party (EPP) in Brussels…

 

16:49 • 26.06.12

Egypt to have first have Christian, female VPs

“Women’s rights are equal to men. Women have complete rights, just like men. There shouldn’t be any kind of distinction between Egyptians except that is based on the constitution and ...

 

16:34 • 26.06.12

Georgian president to visit Azerbaijan

Mikheil Saakashvili is scheduled to meet with his counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, as well as attend the Crans Montana forum s between June 28 and July 1. The annual event is expected ...

 

16:18 • 26.06.12

Austrian president: OSCE co-chairing states capable of settling Karabakh conflict

“We do expect, and hope that the Minsk Group will invest its efforts towards resolving the problem,” he said, adding that the mission is powerful enough to achieve ...

 

15:32 • 26.06.12

Beach incidents occur mainly at night – rescuer

“We now have 38 employees, while 41 are registered as staff members ...

 

14:46 • 26.06.12

Armenian-Austrian intergovernmental agreement signed in Yerevan

The Armenian and Austrian presidents discussed bilateral relations and regional problems and expressed their willingness for further development of bilateral relations…

 

14:37 • 26.06.12

Crowd sourcing used to identify London riot susptects

"We need Londoners to browse through the app every week or so as new images will appear regularly. This is a fantastic way for Londoners to help us to fight ...

 

13:47 • 26.06.12

Armenia faces serious demographic issues, Paruyr Hayrikyan says

According to him, no serious steps are mentioned in the program while it refers to the coming five years. Hayrikyan says no serious attitude has been displayed toward national values...

 

13:42 • 26.06.12

Over 3,800 drug addicts registered in Armenia

“No society or country can avoid drugs. There are currently over 3,800 drug addicts in Armenia. Drugs are not common among minors as the age ranges between ...

 

13:17 • 26.06.12

Dock collapses during wedding photo shoot (video)

Afterwards, the soaking wet bridal party got a standing ovation from other diners at the restaurant...

 

13:05 • 26.06.12

New details emerge over double suicide case (photos)

Artash Galstyan was released from Nubarashen plenipotentiary just days ago. In November 2011 together with another person he broke the glass of an Infiniti model car parked on Arshakunyants street...

 

12:54 • 26.06.12

Education minister promises free access to internet in schools

“It is planned to open WiFi centers to enable pupils’ free access to computers. Every first-grader will receive a computer ...

 

12:37 • 26.06.12

Romantic night in the Alps is to be auctioned off on eBay

The winners will get to spend one night in a bed placed at the top of a glacier in complete seclusion apart from the stars and the odd mountain goat...

 

12:26 • 26.06.12

Education minister praises entrance exams’ conduction quality

He said he has not received any application-complaints from parents, with media outlets being only positive...

 

12:22 • 26.06.12

Merited singer Gohar Gasparyan will have statue sooner or later – theatrician

“Our nation has had many great singers, and in all likelihood, it still has, but Gohar Gasparyan is a unique phenomenon. I do not share the idea that singers like her are born ...

 

12:03 • 26.06.12

Judge clears way for joint police officer lawsuit against Glendale

Mardikian, Balian and Topadzhikyan filed a separate lawsuit in March in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleging continued racial discrimination and retaliation in the Police Department...

 

11:52 • 26.06.12

Armenian DM meets with CSTO Secretary General

The interlocutors discussed preparation works over Cooperation 2012 joint military drillings scheduled in Armenia for September 3-8...

 

11:33 • 26.06.12

Double suicide committed in Yerevan

The policemen dispatched to the scene found 62-year-old Petros Galustov and his son 30-year-old Arthur Galustyan hanging from a wire rope...

 

11:25 • 26.06.12

Davutoglu talks to Ramussen ahead of Nato meeting

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has had a phone conversation with Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in the run-up to the alliance's summit ...

 

11:07 • 26.06.12

Prosecutor general responds to Oskanyan

Speaking to Tert.am, the press secretary of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Sona Truzyan, confirmed the report, without giving further details. She said it wouldn’t be right to make the document ...

 

10:56 • 26.06.12

Baku buries Nabucco: Azerbaijan, Turkey to sign gas pipeline deal– Nezavisimaya Gazeta

TANAP pipeline will carry up to 16 billion cubic metres a year of gas from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz gas field through Turkey as far as its European borders...

 

10:36 • 26.06.12

ICG: 2013 presidential election opportunity to prove statesmanship in Armenia

“President Sargsyan and his government acknowledge many of the most pressing problems, but numerous reforms exist only on paper or seem deliberately designed with ineffective enforcement ...

 

10:09 • 26.06.12

Moody’s cuts debt rating for Spanish banks

The Spanish government's fragile finances are making it more difficult for that country to support its lenders, according to Moody's. And it says the banks are vulnerable to further losses ...

 

10:04 • 26.06.12

Earthquake hits Azerbaijan

According to preliminary information, at its epicentre the quake was felt with intensity of 4.5. The earthquake caused no deaths or injuries...

 

09:57 • 26.06.12

Haykakan Zhamanak: Oskanyan’s case to be dismissed?

In an appeal submitted last week to Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, Oskanyan reportedly called for annulling the decision on a criminal proceeding and dismissing ...

 

09:45 • 26.06.12

Policemen die in Mexico City airport shootout

Officials said they had spent 18 months investigating corrupt federal and local officials who they suspect are part of a cocaine trafficking ring operating at the airport...

 

09:24 • 26.06.12

Zhoghovurd: REGNUM suspends funding to Armenian branch

“REGNUM works is financially independent, and if there are sums, it makes no sense to get funding from Moscow ...

 

09:24 • 26.06.12

168 Zham: Opposition forces should support Oskanian – Myasnik Malkhasyan

The opposition should not stick to past but move forward, leaving the issue of subjecting him to responsibility to future...

 

08:51 • 26.06.12

Cyprus to ask for bailout from eurozone partners

The announcement came on another day of nervousness about the single currency...

 

08:46 • 26.06.12

South Korea to halt Iran oil imports amid sanctions

Oil is a major source of revenue for Tehran and the EU and US have been trying to use it as a tool to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear program...

 

08:38 • 26.06.12

Haykakan Zhamanak: Some 78 thousand people left Armenia this year

The figures show that the number of people who departed in the first months of this year has increased by 13% as compared with the 2011...

 

Armenia

“Let’s prevent gas tariff rise” to demonstrate civil disobedience
“In case of gas tariff growth we will face very difficult environment protection issue. People in villages are not using gas fuel. Neither of us can force them not to cut tree for using wood fuel...

Army’s issues should be solved without interferences – Armed Forces spiritual leader
“It is a big institution and flaws are possible. The less interferences the better. The leader of our army is very sensible person he knows the army management mechanisms very well,” he said...

Region

No Iranian armed forces, military advisors in Syria: Iran UN envoy
“Despite the unfounded allegations, no Iranian military forces or advisors are present in Syria, but, unfortunately, certain regional countries are interfering in Syria’s internal affairs...

Azerbaijan plans purchase of Ukrainian radars
The Ukrainian representatives have offered Azerbaijan the updated version of the radars ...

Press digest

Zhoghovurd: Armavia fails to pay salaries to pilots, engineers and air stewards for seven months
The paper says the remarkable thing though is not that the company has not paid its more significant employees but it has cheated the Republic of Armenia...

Hraparak: Gagik Tsarukyan, Robert Kocharyan discussed PAP status?
Citing its sources from the Prosperous Armenia party, the paper says a serious conversation took place between the PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan and Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan over...

World

Syria conflict: Opposition willing to attend talks
But a spokesman for the National Coalition, Louay Safi, said that it would only go if President Bashar al-Assad agreed to step down...

US Congresswoman pledges support to Genocide recognition
“The Armenian Genocide claimed 1.5 million lives. Able-bodied men were massacred or forced into labor. Women, children, the elderly and the sick were sent on death marches that spanned ...

Business

Job fair conducted for graduates of Armenia’s State University of Economics
Some fifty employers have presented their vacancies and projects to the graduates who have opportunity to contact with employers directly...

China seals first free-trade deal with Switzerland
Bilateral trade between the two countries is worth $26bn through imports and exports of watches, medicines, textiles and dairy products...

Event

'Black widow' bomber attacks Russia police
Eleven people, including five policemen, were wounded in the attack in the provincial capital Makhachkala, the interior ministry said...

Sweden riots spread beyond Stockholm despite extra police
Cars were set alight in poor suburbs inhabited largely by immigrants, although the unrest was reportedly not as serious as on previous nights...

Science/tech

Why developing more brain cells can means we forget the early days of our childhood
Now a pair of scientists believe they have worked out why the phenomenon, christened infantile amnesia by Sigmund Freud, exists – and why we’ll never get those memories back...

Some statins linked to higher diabetes risks
"We found that patients treated with atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, or simvastatin were at increased risk of new onset diabetes compared with ...

Culture

Nagorno Karabakh president attends opening of archaeological exhibition
Karabakh President considered important the carrying out archaeological excavations in Karabakh on a high professional level...

Dorians to give open air concert in Yerevan
“After returning from Eurovision song contest we were thinking about open air concert through which we want to thank all those who sincerely supported us...

Sports

Wayne Rooney: Man Utd confident forward will stay - David Gill
"I'm confident he'll be there next season. He's a great player, it's a great club and the club doesn't want to lose its star players," said Gill...

Andranik Matikozyan wins Metropolitan Chess Tournament
IM Andranik Matikozyan (Armenia) scored 7.5 points out of 10 and solely took the first prize at the 27th Metropolitan Chess Tournament that was held in Los Angeles, USA…

Lifestyle

Female Viagra due on market ‘within three years’
The drug is said to 'increase sexual motivation and physiological sexual response, such as blood flow to the genitals and lubrication ...

Microsoft mocks Apple in New Ad (video)
The new ad for Windows 8 is called “Less talking, more doing” and it makes fun of Siri, who is rendered useless ...