Category: 2018

Midfielder of the Armenian national football team and London’s ARSENAL Henrikh Mkhitaryan will miss the rest of the season due to the knee injury he received during Europa League quarter-finals match against CSKA Moscow on April 5, Mirror informs.

Earlier, Arsene Wenger hoped the Armenian would miss only the match against Southampton. “The scans show rehabilitation period will reach 6 weeks”, the source writes.

Mkhitaryan was transferred from “Manchester United” to “Arsenal” in January. So far he has played 12 matches with “Arsenal”, scoring 2 goals and making 6 assists.

Arsenal-CSKA Moscow match ended 4-1. Mkhitaryan was substituted in the 61st minute as a result of the injury.

During the period from April 1 to 7 the Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact by nearly 300 times firing more than 3000 shots at the Armenian positions, the Artsakh defense ministry reported.

The Defense Army forces mainly refrained from taking countermeasures and continued confidently conducting the military service.

A passenger died on board Ural Airlines flight U6 2813 en route from St. Petersburg to Yerevan, the general department of civil aviation of Armenia told ARMENPRESS.

Press secretary Satenik Hovhannisyan said the plane landed in Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport at 10:45, April 7.

“The passenger had an illness, but the cause of death in the plane was a heart attack. The passenger was an ethnic Armenian citizen of Russia”, Hovhannisyan said.

The crew of the aircraft attended the passenger, along with a doctor who was among the passengers, but they were unable to save the Russian citizen.

A farmer from Ijevan, a town in Tavush province of Armenia, suffered multiple explosion traumas on April 6. Police were notified from the local hospital at 16:30, April 6.

“The man was hospitalized with traumatic amputation wounds of several fingers, bone fractures, multiple traumas of the chest, abdomen and face. The man is identified as 26-year old local of Aygehovit village Hayk Simonyan,” Ijevan medical center said.

Detectives were dispatched to the hospital. Law enforcement agencies found out that the man discovered an unknown item while farming in his garden, and tried to dismantle it the next day, on April 6, when It suddenly exploded.

The farmer was transported to a Yerevan hospital for further treatment. Medics said he is in a serious condition. Ijevan police are probing the incident to determine what caused the blast.

Armenia has all the qualities to be an attractive destination for tourists from the Gulf region or elsewhere, President Serzh Sargsyan said in an interview for a special edition of Gulf News newspaper and Global FDI Reports about Armenia.

He highlighted that Armenia eliminated visa requirement for UAE nationals, and the language issue is easily addressed and resolved. “The country has a rich historical and cultural heritage and fascinating nature, as well as mild weather all year round. We have already established the necessary infrastructure and there are numerous ways for tourists to enjoy themselves – everything is available. Both Yerevan and Armenia in general are extremely safe”, the President said.

Addressing potential investors, the Armenian President said as a small country, Armenia has the advantage on working individually with every single large investor who arrives in the country. “We furnish investors with privileges and tax breaks when their new enterprises produce goods that have not been produced here before. Any investment in Armenia is safe and protected”, President Sargsyan noted.

Columnist of British News The Essential Daily Briefing portal Dimitris Hall has published an article about Armenia, naming the 5 places where, according to him, any tourist should visit. “This former Soviet city is older than Rome and is full of ancient and modern culture interacting in interesting ways”, he wrote.

The author notes that Ararat is one of Armenia’s best-known brandy makers, but not the only one. “In fact, the Noy Wine Factory is built on the foundations of a 16th-century fortress, the walls of which are accessible from the cellar”.

Dimitris Hall also advises the tourists to visit the Lovers’ Park. “It’s right in the city centre, a quiet oasis close to all the important government buildings and sights, such as the Presidential Palace and the National Assembly, and is surrounded by fountains, plants, flowers and statues”, he wrote.

The author also advises to see the Public Radio located in the city center. “One of Yerevan’s most important claims to fame is the jokes connected to Radio Yerevan and its public radio company from the days of the USSR. The popularity of these jokes across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War brought the East and West closer together, and they can still be heard in some countries to this day”, Dimitris Hall wrote, advising to also visit Yerevan Museum of Folk Art and get acquainted with the works of sculptor Eduard Ghazaryan.

“The man known as the “Armenian da Vinci” was the creator (and player) of the world’s smallest violin. Eduard Khazaryan passed away in 2012 and was a polymath sculptor that worked to extraordinarily microscopic levels, often creating works of art smaller than a grain of sugar or containing elements hundreds of times thinner than a human hair. His work was exhibited in the US, where it was dubbed an “8th wonder of the world”, he wrote, advising to finally visit the Yerevanian Lake where a trolleybus with 96 passengers onboard fell into. “Yerevanian Lake. an artificial reservoir in the outskirts of the city, hides secrets in its depths. In 1968, Paleolithic obsidian tools were discovered in a flooded cave on its shores, now belonging to the US Embassy in Armenia and currently out of bounds. Only 8 years later, in 1976, a trolleybus fell into the reservoir carrying 96 passengers, most of which did not survive. Amazingly, world record-breaking fin-swimming champion Shavarsh Karapetyan was jogging along the lake at the time and made history by heroically diving in and managing to save 20 of the trapped passengers from a depth of 10 metres. His sports career was ruined, and the tragedy, too negative for the USSR’s image at the time, was censored within the country, but that only made this lake’s reputation greater”.