The Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immune and Biological Products at the Russian Academy of Sciences received the Russian health ministry’s permit for clinical tests of its anti-coronavirus vaccine, TASS reports citing the ministry’s press service.
Opposition Prosperous Armenia faction’s MP Arman Abovyan says the recent statements of the Azerbaijani and Turkish leaderships, the joint military drills held in August show that Azerbaijan together with Turkey is preparing to provoke war, is taking preparation actions.
The Prosperous Armenia, Homeland and ARF parties announce about holding a rally, the three parties said in a statement.
On September 21, 1991, the Armenian nation was given a historic opportunity to restore its sovereign statehood, which even today, in the 21st century, is not available to all peoples. Independence implies great responsibility before the generations who are fortunate enough to inherit a free and independent state.
The Board of Trustees of the St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church of San Francisco announced on Thursday that around 4 a.m. the building adjacent to the church was set ablaze by arsonists, Asbarez reported.
On 8 September, a member of the Armenian National Assembly brought forward a legislative proposal on insult and defamation that aims to increase fines for publishing insults and defamatory comments in the media and social networks. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) join their affiliate, the Union of Journalists of Armenia (UJA), in urging the parliament not to take up the proposal.
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan has introduced a legislative initaitive by which he proposes to increase the amount of compensation for insult and defamation published on social networks and in the media, that is, AMD 1,000,000 instead of the previous AMD 5,000,000 for insult, and AMD 10,000,000 instead of the previous AMD 2,000,000 for defamation.
Moreover, based on the legislative amendments, which contain rather abstruse provisions, the opportunity to declare a lockdown shall be granted to all government entities, starting from the government and ending with the heads of local self-government bodies.
Dear sisters and brothers in Artsakh, in the Motherland and in the Diaspora, I am hereby congratulating all of you on the pan-Armenian holiday – Artsakh Independence Day.
Before answering the questions of interest to you, I would like to address the panel with a brief introductory speech. Also, I suggest attaching it to today’s meeting’s minutes.
