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12:15 06/03/2020Media Advocate 'concerned' by Armenian Public TV’s work styleFrom February 24 to March 4, 2020, the Public Television of Armenia, operating at the expense of taxpayers allocated 160 minutes 16 seconds of its air to the topic of the constitutional referendum,...
10:53 06/03/2020Karen Vardanyan donates 108 million drams to mothers with multiple children in ArtsakhThe owner of Grand Holding, philanthropist Karen Vardanyan has donated 500,000 drams to each of 216 large families with 6 or more underage children in Artsakh on the occasion of International Women's...
11:45 04/03/2020Freedom House: Artsakh clearly stands out from Eurasia’s other self-proclaimed territoriesThe political opening in Armenia that began with Nikol Pashinyan’s long-shot rise to the premiership in 2018 had a positive effect on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) during 2019, Freedom...
10:52 04/03/2020Remnants of an old Armenian village near AnkaraBy Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier Argun Konuk, a 24-year-old Turkish travel and history enthusiast, published a recent article about the Armenian village of Stanoz located near...
11:13 03/03/2020COVID-19 latest: France confirms its third coronavirus death as EU raises risk levelFrance has confirmed its third death from COVID-19 coronavirus, according to Euronews. An 89-year-old woman died from the disease in a hospital in Compiègne, about 80 kilometres north-east of Paris....
10:33 03/03/2020Ryanair cancels up to a quarter of Italian flights amid coronavirusRyanair is cancelling flights mainly to and from Italy because of a drop in demand caused by the outbreak of coronavirus.
18:10 08/02/2020Maternal mortality rates up, child mortality - down in Armenia
14:05 29/01/2020Men who rape and marry girls under 18 could be pardoned in Turkey - SassounianThe British Independent newspaper published an unbelievable article last week, titled: “‘Marry-your-rapist’ bill to be introduced by lawmakers in Turkey.” This sounds like a subject from the Middle...
13:07 27/01/2020Armenian ombudsman slams Yerevan councilman’s move against Hrayr Tovmasyan’s daughterArmenia’s Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Arman Tatoyan has strongly condemned the move of Yerevan City Council member Henrik Hartenyan against Armenian top court head Hrayr Tovmasyan's daughter.
12:41 23/01/2020Armenia climbs to 86th in The Economist’s Democracy IndexIn the 2019 edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) annual Democracy Index, which provides a snapshot of the state of democracy worldwide, the average global score fell from 5.48 in 2018...
15:02 22/01/2020Pashinyan: Armenia saw over 9 billion drams additional money turnover during New Year celebrationsFrom December 28, 2019 to January 6, 2020 Armenia saw an additional money turnover of 9 billion 307 million drams from the same period of the previous year, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a...
10:14 21/01/2020Oxfam: World's 22 richest men wealthier than all women in AfricaEconomic inequality is widening across the world and women in particular are feeling its effects as care work remains undervalued, according to a new report by anti-poverty charity Oxfam.
15:36 20/01/2020Expert: No guarantees that Azerbaijan won’t attempt to repeat Baku pogromsFactually, Azerbaijan remained unpunished for perpetrating the pogroms of Armenians in Baku, expert in Azerbaijani studies Anzhela Elibegova told a discussion on the 30th anniversary of the Baku...
11:36 16/01/2020HRW: Armenian government embarked on ambitious reform agenda in 2019Having secured a parliamentary majority in December 2018 snap elections, the Armenian government embarked on an ambitious reform agenda in 2019, including tackling corruption and reforming the...
12:46 15/01/2020UN: 55 million children in Europe suffer violence each yearEach year, at least 55 million children in Europe suffer some form of physical, sexual, emotional or psychological violence, the UN health agency (WHO) said on Tuesday, according to UN News.
18:00 11/01/2020Azerbaijan violated ceasefire regime over 700 times - Artsakh Defense ArmyThe Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire along the Artsakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact over 125 times in the past week, the country’s defense ministry reported on Saturday.
16:18 11/01/2020Fruit, vegetable prices up in Armenia in December 2019: statisticsPrices of food and non-alcoholic beverages grew by 3.0% in Armenia December 2019 from the previous month, which was largely prompted by 4.9% and 19.9% rise in vegetable and fruit prices,...
16:39 10/01/2020Armenian airports report 6% growth in passenger flow in DecemberArmenia’s two airports saw an increase in passenger traffic in December 2019 against the same month of 2018.
11:26 09/01/2020Ukrainian plane crash victims' relatives demand answersFriends and relatives of the victims of a deadly plane crash on the outskirts of Tehran were in mourning on Thursday as they demanded answers on what went wrong, Deutsche Welle reported.
13:04 08/01/2020World reacts after Iran fires missiles at US forces in IraqIran launched missile attacks on US-led forces in Iraq early on Wednesday in retaliation for the US drone strike on Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani whose killing last week raised fears of a wider...