On July 30 the Italian International Festival Musica Riva presented Armenian music. State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, headed by the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Sergey Smbatyan, performed at the concert, named “Armenia-Italy: the bridge between East and West”, dedicated to the 110th anniversary of great Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian. Soloists were Elena Tansky (violin, …
Monthly Archives: July 2013
The unsuccessful rise of transport fare, the false alternative of Europe-Eurasia, and other shocking events overshadowed the 16th special session of Armenia’s Union of Writers. Earlier, there were some intrigues in the event: Abgar Apinyan was coming “his crew” and starting a squabble with the writers, indecent words, a little squashing, in other words, an …
In 1954, Martin Luther King, assuming the office of the priest of State of Alabama Montgomery City Baptist Church, headed the public movement against racial discrimination in transport. Nearly a year later, a public activist Rosa Parks refused to yield the bus seats to white passenger (so was demanded by the driver), for which she …
Recently, in a conversation with a journalist, the NKR Defense Minister Movses Hakobyan stated that Levon Ter-Petrossyan visited Artsakh for the first time only in 1996, i.e. two years after the signing of the armistice. To this respect, in the interview with Aravot.am, ANC MP Lyudmila Sargsyan answering Movses Hakobyan said: “I would like to …
According to the “DataLex” informational website, Artak Paytyan, born in 1974, registered in the village Norashen and residing in the city of Yerevan, was charged for the fact that being the manager of Choratan and Norashen Branches of “Mkhitaryan Unity” NGO, as an official person, abusing his official position, with the intention of embezzling funds …
According to Washington based Russian politician Sergey Markedonov, the atmosphere is too dramatized both in Moscow and in Yerevan. – According to the Kremlin, the President of RF Vladimir Putin is going to make a Caspian tour in August, now he is getting ready for his official visit to Azerbaijan,- this was said by the …
If the Pope says about gays, “who am I to judge them,” it absolutely does not mean that the leader of Catholic Church supports and encourages this disease. No Christian priest, and in general, no Christian can have a positive attitude toward the sin of Sodom. The matter is completely different, we, the mortals, can …
The potable waterline of more than 58 km long stretching from Gizhsar and feeding November town is not functioning now, because the water reservoir basins accumulate little water due to the heat of summer. Water pumped out from the deep wells of village Berdavan and supplying city of Noyemberyan is hard. Residents of Noyemberyan city …
“Surik Khachatryan’s brothers played a specific role in his organized criminal group, particularly Seyran Khachatryan (nickname Aghalar (translator’s note ‘Mince’) and his sons. Everyone knows that it was Seyran Khachatryan, who in 1999 drunk, armed with a gang, attacked a number of residents in Goris causing serious bodily injuries. It was he, who in 2000, …
Today, Samvel Harutyunyan, the former Mayor of Goris for the period of 1992-94, co-chair of the regional defense committee, presented new amazing facts about the former governor of Syunik Marz Surik Khachatryan and embezzlement in connection with his relatives. “One and a half years ago, the National Assembly passed a law on medical insurance. Surik …
