The first Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity will be launched on April 24, in Yerevan. George Clooney, world-famous actor and co-chair of selective commission, will grant the first prize to the laureate. During those days George and Amal Clooney will visit Armenia, Genocide memorial, Dilijan International School and other places.

“Remember you were protecting Constitution? However, at least in that Constitution, which I didn’t protect on the whole, I told on separate points on which I was asked. The Constitution reads that we accept the notion of monopoly and regulate it. And what right does the state have to live in beyond-Constitution environment? On Electoral Code they say: how we should print the voter lists, confidentiality will be violated, in this case, how do you violate it for 3 months? Why do you say Mr. Shaboyan what did they bring in, by which monopolist is being defined, and monopolist decides the amount to go to the state budget,” MP Hrant Bagratyan said today during the discussion of the State Commission for Protection of Economic Competition, criticizing how they can adopt the project.

According to N.Pashinyan, global issue is, that both accidents and financial burden increase, and under those conditions what are cameras for, is there any investigation, , whether the situation would have been worse if they weren’t fixed. He attached attention to the fact that all these figures are recorded against the background of migration.

“When I say nobody and nothing is forgotten, this doesn’t mean Vartan Oskanian, or Artur Baghdasaryan, or Serzh Sargsyan, or Tigran Torosyan, or Hovik Abrahamyan, or Robert Kocharyan, or Samvel Aleksanyan, or Gagik Tsarukyan, or ARF members, nobody is forgotten, and I exclude any form of cooperation with March 1 criminals and their servers for myself. I directly classify Oskanian both in the first and in the second group, and my attitude towards this hasn’t changed. Nobody and nothing is forgotten, and no one should hope, he/she shouldn’t be in that nobody,” N.Pashinyan stated.

Armenian Shadowmatic—again a winner. Recently Shadowmatic game produced by Armenian Tiada Studio again was recognized as the best at IMGA (International Mobile Gaming Awards) in two nominations: “Best Technical Achievement” and “People’s Choice Award.” IMGA is one of the leading platforms of mobile games, where best applications for iPhone, Android and other systems are introduced. […]

“The issue has been covered during the meeting of Armenia’s and Russia’s presidents, and at the moment, Ministries negotiate over gas price with Gazprom Armenia Company,” H.Abrahamyan said.

According to him, employees of the Ministry, the Plant and Yerevan TPP will be included in the group headed by L.Shahverdyan, Yolyan’s Deputy Minister. The working group, after studying Nairit Plant condition, in short terms should submit proposals of necessary initiatives on further exploitation of the Plant.

The widespread interest in the World Happiness Reports, of which this is the fourth, reflects growing global interest in using happiness and subjective well-being as primary indicators of the quality of human development. Because of this growing interest, many governments, communities and organizations are using happiness data, and the results of subjective well-being research, to enable policies that support better lives.

Famed international rights lawyer Amal Clooney says Azerbaijan is abusing its power by trying to silence critics of the regime, including imprisoned reporter Khadija Ismayilova.

Vardan Ayvazyan, co-author of the law, RPA MP, replied that the questions refer change to “Customs law,” and it’s an issue of separate discussion, “By this part we don’t charge money for cars imported from EEU space.”