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Epress The Yerevan-based Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression, during the period Feb.–Apr. 2011, monitored the websites of state agencies in order to assess their level of information transparency. Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression Pres...
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ArmeniaNow Jehovah’s Witnesses members accused of attacking a priest deny being the guilty party, while claiming it was rather the Armenian Apostolic Church servant who behaved aggressively in their respect.
Earlier this week media quoted Holy Trinity...
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TertAm An international airport near Armenian capital Yerevan will have a new functioning terminal by the end of this year.
According to the company managing the airport, by its technical parameters and passenger service quality the new arrivals and depa...
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ArmeniaNow President Barack Obama nominated John A. Heffern, for the post of US Ambassador to Armenia, the White House announced on Wednesday.
Heffern is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Mission a...
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ArmeniaNow Citizens of Armenia seeking a driver’s license will no longer be required to submit medical examination certificates, including proof they are not on the outpatient lists of psychiatric and substance-abuse clinics – a money-costing procedu...
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ArmeniaNow Using a $23,500 grant from the German Marshall Fund’s Black Sea Trust, Kadir Has University in Istanbul plans to begin offering Armenian language lessons this month.
Serdar Dinler, director of the university’s Center for Lifelong Learning...
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ArmeniaNow Yerevan Municipality has banned smoking in public transport and public food catering facilities.
Breach of the new decision will entail administrative responsibility, the Municipality said on its website.
Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan also ...
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ArmeniaNow Armenian chess ace Levon Aronian wrote on his Facebook that “many of the best results come after losses” after suffering an unexpected defeat in the quarterfinal of a tournament held to determine the challenger for next year’s Title Matc...
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TertAm Entry visas issued immediately on border checkpoints are a key tool for attracting more tourists, a Dutch expert has said.
Vilem Blom who has arrived in Armenia to conduct E-marketing and website advocacy seminars with tour operators told Tert.am...
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ArmeniaNow Saturday night (May 14) museums in Armenia offered a free night visit; among them History Museum (in the republic square) prepared a trip back to 1950s and 1960s with an old recorder playing waltz and showing old movies about the history of Ye...
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Epress.am Yerevan mayor Karen Karapetyan published a note on his Facebook page in which he promises to give an award to the person who best photographs or films instances of citizens polluting the Armenian capital.
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ArmeniaNow The plan of modern Yerevan’s original architect to build a tower in the yard of Government Building N1 in Yerevan’s central Republic Square has become a subject of broad discussions among specialists, as well as among the general public.
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TertAm Year by year, sexual violence assumes larger scales in the Armenian society, experts say.
"Eighty percent of children are subjected to violence nowadays. While degrading treatment was prevalent in the past, physical and sexual violence have now ad...
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ArmeniaNow Armenia’s entry in this year’s Eurovision has reportedly filed a complaint with the show organizers after failing to go through to the final of Europe’s biggest pop music contest.
In the first semifinal of Eurovision 2011 in Dusseldorf,...
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TertAm The gas price will remain the same in Armenia, Armen Movsisyan, Minister of Energy and National Resources has said.
Speaking to Tert.am at the government Movsisyan said: “The gas price will not change in the Republic of Armenia”.
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ArmeniaNow Armenia has raised the draft age of its army conscripts by a year. A bill setting the new conscription age at 19 was unanimously approved by the country’s parliament on Thursday.
Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasyan said the measure was necessar...
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TertAm Several Jabakhk-Armenians currently residing in Russia have addressed a letter to Catholicos of all Armenians Garegin II, asking him to take the Armenian churches of Javakhk under protection.
This comes after the catholicos unveiled his plans a v...
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ArmeniaNow Tomato producers in Armenia call on the government to impose a ban on tomatoes imported from Turkey, as their products remained unsold because imported vegetables are sold at lower prices.Due to continental climate in the country, producers i...
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TertAm Recent inspections by the Control Chamber have found several ministries responsible for abusing the loans from the World Bank.
Addressing the cabinet meeting on Thursday, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said that the inspections revealed serious f...
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TertAm Though secondary schools will have no graduates this year, the Ministry of Education is organizing university entry examinations, says the minister of education and science.
"We don't have school graduates this year, but entry examinations will b...
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