President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian departed for Tavush province on a working visit.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez in his remarks criticized Turkey’s attacks on Kurds in Syria and its impermissible behavior in the region in general, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) reported.
On November 8, at 02:47 local time, the Seismic Protection Survey Seismological Network of the Armenian ministry of emergency situations detected an earthquake at the northern latitude 37.820 and eastern longitude 48.340 geographic coordinates (Iran, 45km south from the city of Ardabil) with 5.9 magnitude and 10km depth.
Judge Anna Danibekyan of the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction has denied ex-President Robert Kocharyan’s request to be released from pre-trial detention on bail.
Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London, Professor Ara Darzi expressed his concerns over the fact that the United Kingdom didn’t follow the example of the US House of Representatives on recognizing the Armenian Genocide, The Guardian reported.
The winter conscription will start in Armenia on November 14 and will end on January 31, 2020, the respective draft decision was adopted today during the government’s session.
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.
