Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, together with his wife Anna Hakobyan and their daughters, attended the Jamiroquai concert in Yerevan, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
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.
Russia is selling the kinds of weapons to Armenia which it hasn’t sold to any other country before, senior Russian lawmaker Leonid Kalashnikov told reporters when asked about Russia’s arms supply to Azerbaijan, the adversary of CSTO member Armenia.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) mechanism will be launched in the event of Armenia coming under attack, Russian State Duma lawmaker Konstantin Zatulin told reporters.
At the invitation of President Armen Sarkissian, President of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos has arrived in Armenia on a two-day official visit.
Armenia is among the top three countries from 65 assessed states to have recorded the biggest progress in 2019 in internet freedom, according to Freedom House.
