Yesterday Hetq Online filed a report stating that four European tourists had been attacked and robbed during the last week. The victims included two people from the Czech Republic and two Dutch tourists. Luckily the assailants were found and many stolen items were recovered. Nevertheless, those foreigners are unlikely to visit here ever again, [...]
Arsinée Khanjian, the Lebanese-born Armenian actress based in Canada who has appeared in most of the films made by her husband Atom Egoyan, spoke before the press on July 21 about her recent impressions of Armenia. She was present at the ARF-sponsored conference in Nagorno-Karabagh held from July 9-10 about the current state of affairs [...]
I just read a disturbing Hetq report about five people living in an underground shelter for eight years in Ashtarak who supposedly went unnoticed by local residents and the authorities.
Here’s some excerpts:
Based on information reported by Aida Papoyan, a resident of the town of Ashtarak, and teachers of the town’s #1 Special Dormitory, staff at [...]
Today Armenian President Serge Sarkisian is flying to Moscow to meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Illham Aliyev. On the meeting’s agenda is coming to terms with some sticky points based on the so-called Madrid principles revealed in November 2007 that the Minsk Group mediators representing the US, France and Russia have so vehemently insisted be [...]
Seems like there are conflicting reports about the circumstances leading up to the death Nazareth Berberian, who was a Armenian-American Philanthropist and businessman. He was most recently developing a hotel that was to be constructed on the corner of Pushkin and Abovyan Streets in Yerevan. On April 25 he went missing, and his dead body [...]
Sunday was the opening day of the sixth annual Golden Apricot Film Festival. The festival showcases films by Armenian filmmakers and others from around the world representing such countries as Guatemala, France, Poland, the US, Germany, Bulgaria, Iran, Spain, Israel and many others.
I’ve already noticed that some films to be shown have some sort of [...]
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