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11.06.2014
Yerevan Mayor Taron Maargaryan was present at the ceremony of unveiling the monument to the laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, People's Artist Avag Petrosyan. The monument has been placed at the junction of Syat Nova avenue and Avag Petrosyan street. The members of Avag Petrosyan's family, art figures and townspeople were present at the ceremony too. The honour of unveiling the monument made by the project of architect Levon Galumyan by sculptor Tigran Arzumanyan was... more →
11.06.2014
Chaired by His Holiness Garegin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, and attended by Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, “Crisis in Syria: Challenges for Faith Communities” two-day international conference kicked off today at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. Convened through the initiative of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the event was also attended by WCC Secretary-General, Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit. The conference was opened with the... more →
11.06.2014
ASEU Development Discussed With Prime Minister
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan received Acting Rector of the Armenian State Engineering University Hovhannes Tokmajyan, University Professor Vladimir Movsisyan and Adviser to University Rector Murad Muradyan. The meeting was also attended by Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan. Thanking the Prime Minister for audience, Hovhannes Tokmajyan introduced the University’s problems and development projects. The University Rector praised the recent reforms in the... more →
11.06.2014
Hovik Abrahamyan Introduced To Ceramisia Company’s Investment Program
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan received Italian Ceramisia faience producing company vice president Federico Polidori. Introducing his company’s investment program in Armenia, Mr Polidori said work in underway to build a local faience factory in the near future, with part of the output to be exported to foreign countries. Welcoming the initiative, Hovik Abrahamyan expressed his government’s support for the project. The Prime Minister expressed hope that the project... more →
11.06.2014
Fifth Meeting of the Armenian-Russian Parliamentary Club in the National Assembly
On June 11 in the National Assembly the fifth meeting on “Non-governmental Organizations as Means of State Policy Implementation” of the Armenian-Russian Parliamentary Club was held. The NA Deputy Speaker Hermine Naghdalyan, the NA deputies, experts, representatives of the NGOs and media took part in the meeting. Dmitry Kiselyov, Russia Segodnya General Director of International Information Agency, and Veronika Krasheninnikova, General Director of the Institute for... more →
10.06.2014
Chairman of the NA Standing Committee Meets with the Head of Representation of Russian Cooperation
On June 10 the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Artak Zakaryan met with Mark Kalinin, Head of the Representation of Russian Cooperation. Artak Zakaryan expressed satisfaction with the initiatives of the Representation of Russian Cooperation, the humanitarian programmes implemented by them in Armenia and expressed readiness to support the effective implementation of those programmes. By Mark Kalinin’s assessment, the programmes should be demanded... more →