Born in 1949 in Colombia, Pablo Escobar (Full name: Pablo Emillio Escobar Gaviria) grew up in Medellin to become one of the wealthiest criminals in history, earning the title of “The King of Cocaine.” Perhaps, he was the most powerful mafia king in history, and a phenomenon of the past century.
Today, Third President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan visited the National Assembly to attend the meeting of the Special Investigative Committee that has been set up to probe into the hostilities of April, 2016. The President will answer the questions of interest to Commission members and will provide information presumably unknown to the Commission.
Please accept my congratulations on your being elected as President of the Artsakh Republic, as well as on the formation of the largest parliamentary faction – the Free Homeland Alliance – in the National Assembly of Artsakh.
People kindly ask if we are doing OK amidst this novel pandemic of 2020. Actually as seniors in our seventies, we are quite used to being at home, mostly reading and resting. At my age, several colleagues have recently died from the normal old-age related causes, so I have an increased sense of both my mentors and some of my peers passing on.
The polls are over; and the preliminary results have already been summarized. And whatever the reaction of individual states and organizations to recognize or not the results of the international standards-compliant elections, it is obvious that the citizens of Artsakh have exercised their inalienable right to free expression of their civic stance.
As we start week three of the COVID-19 self-quarantine, I think back about the defining moments of historic crises that I have experienced. Each has left a profound impact on me. The first was the assassination of JFK in 1963. President Kennedy had been a refreshing voice of the new and hopeful era. With his death, the world paused and mourned. The setback to idealism was etched forever.
Patrick Devedjian, the President of the Departmental Council of Hauts-de-Seine, a department of France located in the region of Île-de-France, has died from COVID-19 at the age of 75, the administrative division’s government tweeted.
So far the responses to the global COVID-19 pandemic have been for the nation-states of the world to mobilize resources and close their borders with other countries, even long-time neighbours. The intended goal is to isolate from outsiders who are perceived to be more sickly and thus a threat. Even in large, affluent countries, such as Canada and the United States, we are struggling with the magnitude of the overlapping medical, financial and economic crises.
The specialists of Russia’s Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza have managed to decode the first full genome of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the Russian Health Ministry said on March 19, reports TASS.
The Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk issued a statement, noting that the OSCE Mission temporarily suspends monitoring exercises, including in the Nagorno Karabakh line of contact, given the current situation caused by the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
