Russia’s Antonov-26 transport plane crashed in Syria on Tuesday as it was about to land killing 32 people, TASS reports , the Russian Defense Ministry has said.
Executive Director of the Tufenkian Foundation Raffi Doudaklian has been hospitalized with several head and eye injuries and broken facial bones after being attacked in Beirut’s Armenian-populated Bourj Hammoud district by unknown assailants, Armenian Weekly reports.
The citizens of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea will be able to visit Armenia without a visa, the draft decision is included in the Armenian government’s March 6 session agenda․
United States citizen Stella Boyadjian and Armenian citizens Diana Grigoryan aka “Dina Akopovna” and Hrachya Atoyan were recently indicted by a U.S. Federal Grand Jury for their alleged roles in a visa fraud operation that illegally brought Armenian citizens to the United States for profit. The indictment includes charges of conspiracy, visa fraud, money laundering, aggravated identity theft, and illegally bringing aliens into the United States.
Russian-Israeli tourism blogger Alexander Lapshin, known for his highly publicized arrest and illegal extradition from Belarus to Azerbaijan, has published a photo of himself wearing a t-shirt depicting an on-duty Artsakh soldier.
Legendary crooner Vic Damone passed away on Sunday at the age of 89, his family tells Fox News.
On February 1st, the Polish Senate passed a controversial law that would make it illegal for anyone who blames the Polish state for collaborating with the Nazis for committing the Holocaust in the Polish territory.
Baroness Caroline Cox, member of the UK’s House of Lords, is extremely delighted by the exciting prospects of Armen Sarkissian who has been nominated by the Republican Party of Armenia as a candidate for the President of Armenia.
The world’s largest online cab ordering system – Uber, and Russia’s Yandex have completed the deal on merging taxi services in Russia and neighboring countries, Reuters reported citing the Russian company.
Recently I came across a document from the U.S. archives that describes the fascinating conversation between Anastas Mikoyan, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, and Vice President Richard Nixon on July 25, 1959 during the latter’s visit to Moscow. The two had met earlier during Mikoyan’s historic visit to the United States.
