Catholicos Karekin II will serve a memorial service on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Baku pogrom on January 19th.
The Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan has changed the preventive measure of former board chairman of Yerkrapah Volunteers Union Manvel Grigoryan. He has been released from jail on signature bond not to leave the country.
The Russian government announced its resignation today in accordance with the Article 117 of the Constitution, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said shortly after President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual state-of-the-nation address, reports TASS.
Former Minister of Finance and former SRC Chairman Gagik Khachatryan was transferred to Asghtik Medical Center. His legal team reported that a need for medical attention had emerged and that doctors had documented the need for cardiology and other urgent assessments as well as medical treatment. This morning Gagik Khachatryan was transferred from Yerevan Penitentiary to Astghik Medical Center and is currently under the supervision of doctors.
On January 16, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh the OSCE Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the border of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, in the north-east of Akna.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has become the first ever incumbent Armenian leader in history to be summoned for questioning by authorities.
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan received Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul Sahak Mashalian at the presidential palace, the Turkish presidential office said.
After the near total physical elimination of the minorities from the Ottoman Empire 1915-23, the Turkish government embarked in 1941 on the financial ruin of the remaining Armenians, Greeks, Jews, and a small number of Turkish Muslims.
The first ever Milan-Yerevan flight FR 4456 operated by Ryanair has landed in Yerevan’s Zvartnots Airport.
Moscow is ready to contribute to launching dialogue between Washington and Tehran if the sides show interest in this, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during today’s press conference, reports TASS.
