A new significant renewal project is being launched for the redevelopment and renewal of Gyumri, it is called “Gyumri Project HOPE.” The goal of the project is to come up with a long-term development plan for Gyumri that will bring together organizations and individuals from diaspora, international organizations and the municipality of Gyumri for the purpose of reviving Gyumri.
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin generated a major controversy after his January 28 speech at the UN General Assembly in New York.
By results of the year, the Bank has strengthened its position among the top three of the banking system by all key indicators. Net profit income for the year 2014 has been AMD 4,2bln.
Amal Clooney, a prominent international and human rights expert, George Clooney’s wife, has taken on the protection of the Armenian side in the “case of Doğu Perinçek,” The Telegraph reports.
Dogu Perincek, leader of the Turkish Workers’ Party, failed last week to repeat in Greece the denialist show he orchestrated in Switzerland 10 years ago. Along with members of his blasphemous Talat Pasha Committee, Perincek had planned to travel to Athens to challenge the recent Greek law banning denial of the Armenian Genocide. He dreamed of becoming ‘a hero’ by filing a lawsuit against Greece in the European Court of Human Rights after his anticipated arrest for violating that law.
After the terrorist attack on the cartoonists from the periodic “Chalie Hebdo” in Paris, and after the shooting of a French policeman (who was also Muslim) and the other coordinated attacks in Paris this week, it becomes important to reflect about the importance of the preservation of democracy and the freedom of speech.
More than a quarter century has passed since the earthquake in Armenia’s Gyumri. On December 7, Gyumri marked the 26th anniversary of the earthquake – 26 years of pain, hunger, homelessness, emigration, suffering and the hope that one day their children will have a home and emerge from homelessness and poverty.
“Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has put the world closer to a world war than at any time in the last 50 years. He has violated the three key settlements of the 20th century”.
Of great importance, the Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, criminalizing the act of xenophobia and racism practiced by the means of computer systems, was opened to signatures in Strasburg, on January 28, 2003. This protocol is of great significance to the world, and considering our own interest, to the Americas, to the New World.
Since Armenia’s decision, just over a year ago, not to proceed with its Association Agreement including a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, but to join the Russian-led Customs Union instead, highlighting relations with NATO has become more important as Yerevan does not want to seen a fully under the control of Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
