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Tert.am -- Nairit plant has launched an international contest for the implementation of its new development plan. At the cabinet meeting on Thursday, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Armen Movsisyan introduced program which had received Nairit ...
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ePress.am -- Turkey’s state-run news agency says a Turkish court has sentenced two military officers to six months in prison for ignoring intelligence that may have prevented the killing of a prominent ethnic Armenian journalist, AP reports.
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RFE/RL -- The Armenian government stands by its earlier projections that the pace of economic growth in the country will nearly double this year, Economy Minister Tigran Davtian said on Wednesday.
According to official statistics, the Armenian econ...
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HetqAm Bekor Papazyan, Executive Director of Armenia's National Competitiveness Foundation, has tendered his resignation effective June 15. A Hetq source within the government says that Mr. Papazyan, rather than voluntarily leaving the post, is being fo...
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EpressAm The following article was written for The National Interest by Thomas de Waal, a senior associate for the Caucasus with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.With the flurry of foreign news at the moment, you will be forgiven for missin...
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ArmeniaNow On International Children’s Day, June 1, specialists in Armenia stress that although the country’s legislation related to this field is all but perfect, there are no mechanisms for its application. Furthermore, they say, the stereotypes pr...
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EpressAM “Proud citizens of the Republic of Armenia, I love you, I am proud of you. This three-year struggle has shown that there are no traitors in this square, there is no one in this square who is doubtful, in this square are Armenia’s victorious c...
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TertAm Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan are expected to attend an opening ceremony Tuesday for the modernized Sarp customs point to mark the passport-free travel agreement between the neighboring coun...
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ArmeniaNow Yerevan mayor Karen Karapetyan has said about 1,000 units of modern mowing equipment will be given to schools, kindergartens and condominiums for the aim of “proper implementation of green areas’ and lawns’ care” in the capital.
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ArmeniaNow Zaruhi Postanjyan, a member of parliament representing the opposition Heritage party faction, is sounding the alarm over what she claims is a continuing illegal imprisonment of her brother charged with receiving “illegal remuneration.”
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RFE/RL -- The presidents of the United States, France and Russia pressed Armenia and Azerbaijan on Thursday to hammer out a framework agreement to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, warning that failure to do so soon would call into question their ...
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RFE/RL -- The Armenian parliament overwhelmingly approved on Wednesday President Serzh Sarkisian’s initiative to declare a general amnesty that will lead to the release of virtually all opposition members controversially imprisoned by the authoriti...
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TertAM The amnesty proposed by Armenia’s president Serzh Sargsyan will refer only to some of Armenian citizens sentenced over the 1-2 March 2008 post-election unrest, the minister of justice has said.
Speaking to journalists after introducing the prop...
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ArmeniaNow It is already two days that a thus far unseen video of shootings during the 2008 post-election street violence in Yerevan has been on YouTube and also circulating on different online social networks. The video arguably shows horizontal gunshots...
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ArmRadio The Civilitas Foundation held discussions on human rights today. Armenian Human Rights Defender Karen Andreasyan was invited to answer the questions.
The Ombudsman welcomed the proposal of the President to declare amnesty ahead of the 20th anni...
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ArmeniaNow Head of Armenia’s State Migration Service Gagik Yeganyan has denied media reports claiming that emigration from Armenia is taking place at a rate of 70,000 people a year, at the same time pointing out media’s negative role in what he descr...
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ArmeniaNow Bread production technologists and a consumer rights activist expressed their concerns about the quality of bread in Armenia as they spoke at a press conference in Yerevan on Monday.
The speakers, in particular, said that unhealthy additives ...
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TertAm Georgia may sink into isolation if it recognizes the Armenian Genocide, says a Georgian expert.
Speaking to Tert.am, Director of the Georgian Center for Strategic Research Mamuka Areshidze said that If Georgia recognizes the Armenian Genocide, it ...
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TertAm To ensure political stability and prevent Russia or others to manipulate the local policies in the Armenian-populated Goergian region of Samtskhe Javakheti, Georgia needs to improve integration of its mostly Armenian-populated Javakheti region.
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ArmeniaNow Last weekend saw another cleaning and improvement effort in the city of Yerevan due to which the Armenian capital got about 30,000 more trees.
Before what is known as Subbotnik, or volunteer work day, Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan called on ...
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