Armenian Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Vahram Dumanyan today, in Yerevan, awarded gold medals to members of the Armenian men's team that came in second at the 44th World Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India.
The Russian foreign ministry, in a statement released today, says that recent criticism emanating from Yerevan that Russian peacekeepers aren’t doing enough to prevent Azerbaijani aggression in Karabakh is “unjustified”.
Durian, a Jerusalem native who moved to Armenian in 1957 at the invitation of Catholicos Vazgen I, was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1967.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and Iranian President Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi, by telephone today, discussed regional development and security challenges, this according to a statement released by Pashinyan’s office.