Armenia’s Minister of Emergency Situations Felix Tsolakyan spoke over the phone with the Deputy Chief of Mission of Iran to Armenia Ali Mohammad Motaghi after a powerful earthquake hit Iran.
President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian departed for Tavush province on a working visit.
On November 8, at 02:47 local time, the Seismic Protection Survey Seismological Network of the Armenian ministry of emergency situations detected an earthquake at the northern latitude 37.820 and eastern longitude 48.340 geographic coordinates (Iran, 45km south from the city of Ardabil) with 5.9 magnitude and 10km depth.
The winter conscription will start in Armenia on November 14 and will end on January 31, 2020, the respective draft decision was adopted today during the government’s session.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, together with his wife Anna Hakobyan and their daughters, attended the Jamiroquai concert in Yerevan, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
Students of the Faculty of Armenian Philology of the Yerevan State University are on strike in protest of a bill which envisages scrapping the Armenian Language, Armenian History and Armenian Literature subjects from the mandatory curriculum and making it optional for students.
On the second day of their official visit to Armenia, President of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos and First Lady Vlasia Pavlopoulo visited Yerevan’s Matenadaran , the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts.
Armenia is among the top three countries from 65 assessed states to have recorded the biggest progress in 2019 in internet freedom, according to Freedom House.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s spouse Anna Hakobyan has attended the annual charity dinner of the “Armenian Mothers” NGO.
Yerevan, Armenia, is generally a safe, friendly and vibrant city with attractive architecture and rich history.
