“Historic Armenia After 100 Years,” the historical guide to Western Armenia by author Matthew Karanian, is a finalist in the INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards for best travel book of 2015. Foreword Reviews, the sponsor of the awards, announced the finalists this week.
Further simplification of the visa regime by Russia for Georgia will be among the issues discussed at a meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin and Georgian envoy for relations with Russia Zurab Abashidze in Prague on March 16, reports TASS agency, Abashidze told reporters on March 10.
The outgoing session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO PA) Council will take place on March 11 in the “Voskezots” hall of the Armenian Parliament. As 168.am was informed by the Department of Public Relations Media of the National Assembly of Armenia, the CSTO PA Council Speaker Sergei Naryshkin and CSTO PA Armenian delegation head Eduard Sharmazanov will issue statements for the media after the session.
“I may even say that in Moscow there is trust towards everything Serzh Sargsyan does. Secondly, coalition with Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) isn’t news, as it’s updated from time to time. Thirdly, despite Robert Kocharyan’s high and visible resistance, Constitutional amendments have been adopted, which wasn’t complained or commented by Moscow, i.e. from this perspective Serzh Sargsyan has both trust and carte blanche,” Kolerov said.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Federal Republic of Germany Ashot Smbatyan reported on the Armenian-German relations, focusing on trade component of the partnership, as well as on bilateral ongoing projects, achievements and existing problems to the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on March 9.
“The organization, which is not formally affiliated with the Azerbaijani state but has hewn closely to the Aliyev government’s line, has continued this spending, paying $1.46 million for U.S. lobbying services in 2015, most of which went to Fabiani & Company, according to public lobbying disclosures.”
“We see this as the latest in a series of troubling judicial and law enforcement actions taken by the Turkish government targeting media outlets and others critical of it,” Kirby said while responding to a question on the court decision earlier.
The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland required the mutual legal assistance of the French judicial authorities in connection with the criminal proceedings against Joseph Blatter.
An event commemorating the Armenian Genocide will be held at the Tufts University, USA. The Tufts event will feature a lecture by Marc Mamigonian, Director of Academic Affairs at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), entitled “Scholarship and the Armenian Genocide: The State of the Art and the State of Denial.”
“Ensuring land rights, reinforcing the rights of girls and women to education and social protection and increasing women’s participation in decision-making in a meaningful manner are critical,” Elver said.
