The Azerbaijani forces kept shelling the Armenian villages of Nerkin Karmiraghbyur, Vazashen and several others in the evening of September 3.
An Armenian civilian and a contract serviceman were reported injured. Spokesman for the Ministry of Defense Artsrun Hovhannisyan confirmed the news to .
He said both have been hospitalized. The wounds are not life-threatening.
Hovhannisyan dismissed the reports that the Armenian side is moving armored forces to the border.
A 2006 Olympic ice dancing champion says she is to marry President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman later this summer, the Associated Press reports.
Tatiana Navka has been dating Dmitry Peskov, a father of three from two previous marriages, for several years and they had a daughter in August last year. Despite frequent public appearances together Peskov has not spoken publicly of his relationship with Navka, who also has a daughter from a previous relationship.
Navka, 40, said in an interview with the state-owed news agency on Thursday that the wedding is planned in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, scene of the Winter Games in 2014. She didn’t disclosed the date.
Peskov, 47, has said he would not comment on his private life, which is “nobody else’s business.”
The Generation Panel for the Armenian Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules has been approved, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), after evaluating the way it follows the set of rules included in the document which reglements this aspect, Domain News reports.
The ICANN specialists have reviewed all the documentation that the Armenian script community has sent for evaluation, to make sure that it meets the parameters established in the LGR Procedure.
Not that it has been accepted, the Armenian Script can begin developing the label generation directions.
ICANN’s contribution to this project will be to offer a working place on their website where any of the relevant suggestions and news about the project will be published and discussed.
For the future, additional scripts will be developed, among which we could mention Greek, Japanese, Latin, Arabic, Thai, Cyrillic, Hebrew or Korean.
The Greek government has confirmed that banks will be closed all week, after a decision by the European Central Bank not to extend emergency funding, the BBC reports.
In a decree, it cited the “extremely urgent” need to protect the financial system due to the lack of liquidity.
Cash withdrawals will be limited to €60 a day for this period, the decree says.
Athens is due to make a €1.6bn payment to the IMF on Tuesday – the same day that its current bailout expires.
In reaction to the crisis, the London, Paris and Frankfurt stock markets fell sharply in early trading on Monday, following similar falls in Asia.
The euro lost 2% of its value against the the US dollar. Government borrowing costs in Italy and Spain, two of the eurozone’s weaker economies, have also risen.
Talks between Greece and the eurozone countries over bailout terms ended without an agreement on Saturday, and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras then called a surprise referendum on the issue to be held on 5 July.
Greece risks default and moving closer to a possible exit from the 19-member eurozone.
In today’s Grand Chamber judgment1 in the case of Sargsyan v. Azerbaijan, the European Court of Human Rights held, by a majority, that there had been:
a continuing violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property) to the European Convention on Human Rights;
a continuing violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the Convention; and
a continuing violation of Article 13 (right to an effective remedy).
The case concerned an Armenian refugee’s complaint that, after having been forced to flee from his home in the Shahumyan region of Azerbaijan in 1992 during the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, he had since been denied the right to return to his village and to have access to and use his property there.
In Mr Sargsyan’s case, the Court confirmed that, although the village from which he had to flee was located in a disputed area, Azerbaijan had jurisdiction over it.
The Court considered that while it was justified by safety considerations to refuse civilians access to the village, the State had a duty to take alternative measures in order to secure Mr Sargsyan’s rights as long as access to the property was not possible.
The fact that peace negotiations were ongoing did not free the Government from their duty to take other measures. What was called for was a property claims mechanism which would be easily accessible to allow Mr Sargsyan and others in his situation to have their property rights restored and to obtain compensation.
In today’s Grand Chamber judgment1 in the case of Chiragov and Others v. Armenia the European Court of Human Rights held, by a majority, that there had been:
a continuing violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property) to the European Convention on Human Rights;
a continuing violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the Convention; and
a continuing violation of Article 13 (right to an effective remedy).
The case concerned the complaints by six Azerbaijani refugees that they were unable to return to their homes and property in the district of Lachin, from where they had been forced to flee in 1992 during the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Court considered that there was no justification for denying the applicants access to their property without providing them with compensation. The fact that peace negotiations were ongoing did not free the Government from their duty to take other measures.
What was called for was a property claims mechanism which would be easily accessible to allow the applicants and others in their situation to have their property rights restored and to obtain compensation.
On June 12 Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received the delegation of Iranian lawmakers led by Ali Kaidi.
Minister Nalbandian hailed the good-neighborly relations between Armenia and Iran and emphasized the importance of regular political dialogue between both executive and legislative authorities.
The head of the Iranian delegation conveyed the greetings of Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani to the Armenian Foreign Minister. He noted that the centuries-old friendly relations between Armenia and Iran provide a good basis for the development of cooperation in different spheres.
The parties attached importance to the role of Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Groups for the reinforcement and expansion of relations between the two countries.
Minister Nalbandian expressed gratitude for the kind attitude of the authorities towards the Iranian Armenian community and the Armenian cultural heritage in Iran. He also stressed the importance of the presence of Armenian MPs in the Iranian Parliament.
Ali Kaidi briefed the Armenian Foreign Minister on Iran’s nuclear program and the negotiations on the issue.
The interlocutors exchanged views on a number of urgent regional issues.
The delegation headed by the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, Colonel-General Yuri Khachaturov will participate in the regular sitting of the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of the CIS member states to be held in Sochi on May 26, Press Service of the Ministry of Defense reports.
Tonight in the second show of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, broadcast live from the Wiener Stadthalle, 16 countries took part in the second Semi-final in order to qualify for the 10 places available in Saturday’s final. Below are the ten qualifiers in the order they were announced.
The 11th Aram Khachaturian International Competition (violin) will start in Yerevan on June 6. Twenty-nine young violinists from 17 countries will participate in the first stage of the competition.
The musicians will represent Armenia, Russia, Romania, Austria, Korea, Japan, Serbia, Estonia, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Iran, France, UK, the United States, Belarus and China.
Aram Khachaturian International Competition is a result of joint efforts of the Armenian Ministry of Culture, the Aram Khachaturian Competition Cultural Foundation and the Yerevan Conservatory and is held under the high auspices of First Lady Rita Sargsyan, the Honorary President of the Competition’s Board of Trustees.