Russia’s Antonov-26 transport plane crashed in Syria on Tuesday as it was about to land killing 32 people, TASS reports , the Russian Defense Ministry has said.
Citizens of Armenia can be certain that the Collective Security Treaty Organization will not leave them in trouble in case of necessity, Colonel – General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the Joint Staff of CSTO, said during a Moscow-Yerevan-Astana-Bishkek-Minsk video conference on the topic “Main Military Security Threats to CSTO Member-States. The Colonel General made the comment in response to a question from an Armenian reporter regarding the recent statements of Azeri President Ilham Aliyev when the latter made territorial claims towards Yerevan.
The Government of Armenia will debate temporarily ceasing the earlier decision on imposing sale restrictions on certain medications. The restriction has covered certain drugs which from now on can only be acquired with a prescription. The issue will be debated during today’s Cabinet meeting.
The Union of Journalists of Armenia is going to make a number of changes in the nearest future. The structure is going to reveal the sector’s internal problems and will try to solve them, will cooperate also with the law agencies for providing support to journalists in case of different problems.
The national security service of Armenia has uncovered a group of people consisting from both foreign and Armenian nationals who were engaged in forging and selling fake official documents. The documents were “entitling certain rights or exempting from liability,
The Armenian Armed Forces are fully prepared to counter any encroachment, Colonel General Movses Hakobyan, Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, told reporters in the Yerablur military pantheon on the birthday of Commander (Sparapet) Vazgen Sargsyan.
The bill on Bodies of State Administration System was included in the upcoming March 6 extraordinary session agenda after being debated in the parliament of Armenia.
Executive Director of the Tufenkian Foundation Raffi Doudaklian has been hospitalized with several head and eye injuries and broken facial bones after being attacked in Beirut’s Armenian-populated Bourj Hammoud district by unknown assailants, Armenian Weekly reports.
Gagik Harutyunyan’s term in office as president of the Constitutional Court will end March 23.
President-elect Armen Sarkissian has visited the house-museum of National Hero of Armenia, Hero of Artsakh Vazgen Sargsyan. The President-elect is of no relation to Vazgen Sargsyan.
