Globally, countries are losing $160 trillion in wealth because of differences in lifetime earnings between women and men. This amounts to an average of $23,620 for each person in the 141 countries studied by the World Bank Group in a new report released today. The study, Unrealized Potential: The High Cost of Gender Inequality in …
Monthly Archives: May 2018
“Aravot” interviewee is the Special Representative of the President of Armenia from 1992 to 1995, David Shahnazaryan – Mr. Shahnazaryan, you were the Special Representative of the President of Armenia from 1992 to 1995, the main negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh issue both in OSCE Minsk Group and other formats. The announcements on the resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh …
Attended by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, a memorial plaque dedicated to the 100th anniversary of declaration of independence of the First Armenian Republic was unveiled at the Youth House of Tbilisi. Afterwards Nikol Pashinyan and Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili attended the reception dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the First Republic of Armenia at …
Today, during the court hearing on the case of a part of “Sasna Tsrer” group members in a process on the initiative of judge Artush Gabrielyan, the advocate of defendant Manvel Atoyan (on the photograph), Ara Gharagyozyan, submitted to the court a mediation to stop the preventative detention on bail. Returning from the consultation room, …
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who is in Georgia on an official visit, visited the Khojivank pantheon, where he laid flowers at the tombs of Hovhannes Tumanyan, Raffi and Gabriel Sundukyan in tribute of their memory. Then the Prime Minister left for St. Gevorg Church in Tbilisi where he was welcomed by Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan, the …
The advisor to the President of the Investigation Committee of the Republic of Armenia, Sona Truzyan informs: “Five persons, the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Masis City included, are arrested under the criminal case investigated in the proceedings of the Yerevan Investigative Body on the disorders taken place in Erebuni administrative district. Let us remind …
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held private talks with Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili in the frame of his official visit to Georgia. Greeting the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Giorgi Margvelashvili appreciated the results of the meeting between the governments of the two countries and went on to note that the issues and initiatives …
Among other questions, the dismissal of some regional governors based on their own appeal is also included in the agenda of the upcoming government sitting scheduled for June 1. Accordingly, governor of Kotayk region Karapet Guloyan, governor of Ararat region Aramayis Grigoryan, governor of Vayots Dzor Harutyun Sargsyan, governor of Tavush Hovik Abovyan, governor of …
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan who is in Georgia on an official visit met today with Georgian Parliament Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze. Mr. Kobakhidze welcomed the Prime Minister’s official visit to Georgia and expressed confidence that it would give fresh impetus to the further development of bilateral relations in different directions. The Speaker of the Georgian Parliament …
During his charity visit to Armenia, singer Elton John also made some statements and expressed readiness to assist the LGBT community, which caused some tension and became a subject of debate on social networks. In this regard, in order to clarify the Church’s position Aravot.am turned to priest Vahram Melikyan, Director of the Information System …
