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A group of Polish architects from Wroclaw were hosted on Wednesday at the “Service for the Protection of Historical Environment” NCSO to discuss the implementation of new projects with Armenian colleagues. As the Service reported in a released statement, the new format of the cooperation envisages specialized studies at the sit...

Colonel Arman Sargsyan, the First Deputy Police Chief of Armenia, is currently the acting Police Chief after Valery Osipyan’s dismissal, police spokesperson Ashot Aharonyan told reporters. Aharonyan said Osipyan held a meeting with the senior officials of the police force and thanked everyone for the joint work. “Now Osipyan is ...

Shortly after being dismissed as Police Chief of Armenia, Valery Osipyan released the following statement: “During my entire life I have served the state and the people, law and justice, having the officer’s honor and dignity as the exclusive guideline and standards. I will further continue serving my people with the same standa...

The Armenian Prime Minister will hand for the first time the Hero Of Our Times prize within the frames of the celebrations dedicated to 28th anniversary of the Republic of Armenia. Chief of the PM’s staff Eduard Aghajanyan told reporters during today’s press conference that the award will be handed over to a person who establish...

The government has allocated around 220 million drams for organizing the 28th Independence Day celebrations on September 21st, Chief of Staff of the Pashinyan Administration Eduard Aghajanyan told a news conference today. He said the main events will kick off 11:00, September 21 at the Gyumri central park. “Famous bars and cafes...

The Senate (upper house of Parliament) of Romania on September 18 adopted the bill on declaring October 12 as a Day of Armenian language, alphabet and culture, Armenian Ambassador to Romania Sergey Minasyan said on Facebook. “The bill has been submitted by the initiative of MPs Varuzhan Pambukchyan and Varuzhan Voskanyan. Accord...

Number of Armenian citizens who sought asylum in the EU countries for the first time has declined by 27% in the first half of 2019 compared to 2018, and by 44% compared to 2017, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said on Facebook, citing the data of Eurostat. According to the data of 2019, 1815 citizens sought asylum in E...

Armenia’s investigative committee revealed a number of circumstances regarding the ongoing criminal case connected with the abuse of power by separate officials of the defense ministry, the Investigative Committee told Armenpress. Vladimir Gasparyan (former police chief of Armenia) has been charged. According to the investigatio...

Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Suren Papikyan attended the opening ceremony of the Armenian pavilion within the frames of the 63rd general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on September 15-18, the ministry told Armenpress. The program developments of Hayatom scienti...

France will give out free iodine tablets to around 2.2 million people living close to nuclear plants to help protect them from radiation in case of an accident, Euronews reported. The country's nuclear regulator agency ASN said on Tuesday people living within 10-20 kilometres from one of EDF's 19 nuclear plants, as well as so...