Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s spokesperson Vladimir Karapetyan has told ARMENPRESS that all media reports claiming that Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Arayik Harutyunyan was relieved of duties are false.
The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports has released an explanation regarding the bill on amending the law on Higher Education and Science, which has sparked a students strike today at the YSU.
Students of the Faculty of Armenian Philology of the Yerevan State University are on strike in protest of a bill which envisages scrapping the Armenian Language, Armenian History and Armenian Literature subjects from the mandatory curriculum and making it optional for students.
On the second day of their official visit to Armenia, President of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos and First Lady Vlasia Pavlopoulo visited Yerevan’s Matenadaran , the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts.
The Trump administration opposes Turkey sanctions adopted by the House last week as well as a resolution condemning the Armenian genocide, arguing that the two initiatives risk further straining relations with a key NATO ally, a senior State Department official said.
