Category: 2018

Discussion is held at the Media Center within the framework of the Government’s summary of 100-day activities. The topic of the discussion is “Medical Assistance or Stress?How the rights of patients are protected in Armenia.”

The speakers are:

Davit Melik-Nubaryan, Head of the Medical Care Policy Department of the RA Ministry of Health

Violeta Zopunyan, Director of “Law Development Center” NGO project

Lilit Amirkhanyan, a cancer survivor

Education expert Serob Khachatryan considers the most important step in the first hundred days of the Ministry of Education and Science to be the goal of non-politicization of education.

“We have a bad legacy from the previous authorities, now we have to understand where to start the reforms.”

The expert considers it unacceptable to replace the graduation exams with single exams.

“The Ministry announces that the directors will be responsible for the results, it’s wrong, there are many factors affecting the child’s progress, and now if these exams take place in a strict way, there will be a big market for tutors.”

According to the expert, the children of poor families will suffer in this case.

According to Serop Khachatryan, the quality of exam tasks is not good.

“They only check the child’s ability to memorize, which no one needs.”

He offers to start the reforms with the improvement of teaching ways of foreign languages.

“If children have a good knowledge of foreign languages, we will have a great flight, as it was in Singapore.”

On August 30, at 11:20, the “911” hotline received an alarm that a road accident happened on Kapan-Kajaran highway, and there are victims.

It turned out that a VAZ-2106 car and a FAW truck collided on the 9th kilometer of Kapan-Kajaran highway. As a result of the accident, the driver and passenger of VAZ-2106 died on the spot.

The Armenian government proposes the Speaker of the Parliament to convene an extraordinary sitting on September 6, at 11:00, reports Armenpress.

The respective decision was adopted during today’s Cabinet session.

The government also discussed package of legislative bills on making amendments and changes in the Criminal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code and the Code of Administrative Offenses, which, according to Minister of Justice Artak Zeynalyan, if it is adopted, it will also be used in case of Yerevan City Council elections.

The extraordinary session of the National Assembly will take place on September 6, at 11:00.

Azerbaijan an nounced a reconnaissance for American millionaire Dan Bilzerian, who has millions of followers on social networks, because of his recent visit to Nagorno-Karabakh.

“The Prosecutor General’s Office has received information that Dan Bilzerian visited the occupied territories of Azerbaijan and shooted demonstratively different weapons,” the local media reported.

According to these reports, the criminal case is initiated by the prosecutor’s office. Imprisonment was chosen as a preventive measure against Dan Bilzerian and a reconnaissance was announced.

More information is available here.

Renowned Russian singer Iosif Kobzon, who was sometimes compared to Frank Sinatra and was famous for his crooner style, has passed way at the age of 80. On September 11, he would become 81 years.

On July 27, it was reported that doctors connected the lung ventilation device to the singer. Prior to that, Kobzon was transferred to the reanimation department at the Neurosurgery Department of one of the Moscow hospitals.

On the same day, spokeswoman for Kobzon Varvara Vinogradova said that the singer’s hospitalization was planned and that he had not been transferred to the reanimation department. The singer’s wife, Nino Kobzon, made the same statement, too.

RA Minister of Education and Science Arayik Harutyunyan holds consultation with the directors of the educational institutions under the Ministry of Education and Science.

The agenda includes education issues such as single examinations, school uniforms, school curricula, and more.

There was a video posted on the Internet, where police officers arrested two foreigners. There were various opinions and comments about the video, so we think it is appropriate to clarify the issue.

The police do not see any problem in music and street musicians. The problem appears when music turns into noise and makes inconvenience to the society. As North Avenue is also a residential area, the police officers urge street musicians to keep silent, to select non-residential areas for music and avoid excessive noise.

As to the incident, on August 29, at 4:30 pm, on the basis of Article 175 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, two citizens of Ukraine were brought to the Central Police Division. They were released in accordance with the law.
Citizens were taken to police because they violated public order and co-ordination rules. And the baseless comments and questions regarding the police action were surprising.

The above mentioned people have argued with the citizens by cursing them, and when the police intervened, the video footage showed that one of the offenders resisted passively to the police officers, which, according to the law, is the use of physical force.

RA Police:

Minister of Education and Science Arayik Harutyunyan urge people not to critisize just one separate video of his dialogue with one of the directors yesterday.

“There is no humiliation here. And anyone who knows me can say that I cannot humiliate anyone.”

To remind, yesterday, the principal of School N 130 voiced an issue of teaching a foreign language, in response to which the minister expressed doubts that the principal, who finished an English language training school, could not formulate her thoughts in English, and the principal replied to this by saying the text in English.

“You are used to that ministers looked up others from above. Here, we are partners,” the minister said.

Arayik Harutyunyan stressed that this government is very different from previous governments.