According to unofficial information, conscript Karo Ayvazyan shot four officers, a fellow-conscript and then himself in an apparent attempt to defend his comrade from the officers’ punishment.

Artak Nazaryan died Tuesday at his base in the Tavush province. The Ministry of Defense says Nazaryan – who joined the army for contract service eight months ago – used a machine gun to commit suicide.

Audiences in more than 120 prestigious concert halls of the world, such as Carnegie Hall, New York; Gavo, Paris; Gebau, Amsterdam; Center Hall, Tokyo, and others, have heard Davtyan’s lyrical soprano, including her memorable performance in 1988, in Gebau, of Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘Requiem’.

Rubinyan (who is co-founder of the Committee for the Protection of Political Prisoners and Persecuted in Armenia) posted a retraction on Facebook social network, saying he has later learned that misgivings about the election were due to organizational shortcomings.

The Hague Court stated that one-sided declaration of independence of Kosovo from Serbia does not violate the international right. Only 69 states have recognized Kosovo’s independence as of now.

Torosyan, Chairman of the Javakhk Compatriotic Union, who was banned to enter Georgia by Georgian authorities with the reasoning that he was threatening the national security of Georgia, compares the recent tendencies of reducing the Armenian language curriculum at Armenian schools in Georgia.

Manukyan, who now leads the party that is a key member in the Ter-Petrosyan-led Armenian National Congress, believes that the first president’s statement made on July 17, during the HHSh congress, by its contents does not differ from the one he made in 2007 and which marked his political comeback after nearly a decade of reclusion.

NTRC Chairman Grigor Amalyan said the contests would ensure countrywide broadcasts. Both companies currently broadcasting for capital Yerevan only, or for separate provinces, are among participants in the tender.

“According to my observations and the information that I possess, the recent elections of HHSh board chairman and members at the July 17 party congress were rigged.

The July 16-17 meetings between Armenia’s Edward Nalbandyan and Azerbaijan’s Elmar Mammadyarov, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on the margins of an OSCE ministerial meeting, had been urged by the presidents of the United States, Russia and France, who made a reference to that effect in their joint statement issued from the G8 summit late last month.