12:06,
YEREVAN, MARCH 25, ARMENPRESS. 62 passengers are being flown in to Armenia from Ukraine on board a charter flight operated by the Ukrainian SkyUp Airline, Armenian Ambassador to Ukraine Tigran Seiranian said on social media.
He said the number of passengers is preliminary and that the vast majority of them are Armenian nationals. “It is planned that around 95 people will depart Yerevan to Kiev on the same aircraft,” he said.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan
ArmInfo.With the support of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, 4041 lonely elderly people will be provided with food baskets for one month. This was reported by the press service of the government.
According to the source, the Mission Armenia and the German Red Cross organizations launched a program to provide older people with necessary foodstuffs on March 20.
Thus, the Mission Armenia organization will provide food to 1934 people in Yerevan and another 1892 to lonely elderly people in the regions. The German Red Cross will provide food to 215 single elderly people.
It should be noted that on March 16, in connection with the spread of coronavirus infection in Armenia, a state of emergency was introduced in the country, which will last until April 14. According to the latest data, 160 people are infected with coronavirus in Armenia.
Teach For Armenia (TFA) Foundation founder and CEO Larisa Hovannisian has addressed technological companies.
“The shutting down of schools – especially in underdeveloped and economically deprived countries like ours – crystalizes and makes even more urgent the inequities we're dealing with in the system.
The 15,000+ kids we work with across rural Armenia and Artsakh are already so deprived economically, left out of any educational opportunity, and lack basic necessities for learning. And to give you context, we work with only about 10% of students who are faced with such challenges.
Yes, we should absolutely think of leveraging virtual learning. And I’m glad to see some private and affluent public schools in Yerevan doing this for students. But what about the rest of the country? What about the majority of our students? Thousands upon thousands of kids do not have access to a backpack, notebook, or shoes, let alone a computer or tablet. How do we ensure all of our kids are learning?
For one, we can urgently ask our tech companies to refurbish, sanitize, and donate their technology to students and their teachers living in economic hardship. This will begin to enable learning to happen, albeit not perfect, but a crucial start. PicsArt, VOLO, Synopsys, ServiceTitan, Globbing, just to name a few – would you come together in urgent response to this looming education crisis our kids are faced with now? This will have impact far beyond what we can even know at this point. We’ve got to do something.
To those reading – please feel free to share, message, reach out. If you work for a tech company, please feel free to put your management team in direct touch with me. If you're management of a tech company, let’s set up a Zoom call to discuss!” she wrote in the statement.
20:03, 2 March, 2020
YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. Director of Lebanon’s National News Agency Ziad Harfouche received director of ARMENPRESS state news agency of Armenia Aram Ananyan and Ambassador of Armenia to Lebanon Vahagn Atabekyan.
ARMENPRESS reports the news agencies of the two countries expressed readiness to strengthen cooperation and discussed steps for that. The heads of the news agencies talked about technologies and development of the social media, as well as their impact on press.
The sides also discussed the opportunities for signing an agreement aimed at the development of the cooperation.
Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan
13:05, 4 March, 2020
YEREVAN, MARH 4, ARMENPRESS. The political opening in Armenia that began with Nikol Pashinyan’s rise to the premiership in 2018 had a positive effect on Nagorno Karabakh during 2019, according to the Freedom in the World 2020 report published by the Freedom House.
According to the report, “there was an increase in competition and civil society activity surrounding local elections in September, and the stage was set for further changes in the 2020 elections for Nagorno Karabakh’s president and parliament. Unfortunately, the Eurasia region’s other breakaway territories, which are all occupied by Russian troops, remained locked in a pattern of stagnation or decline in political rights and civil liberties”.
The report in general registered a grim picture in Eurasia in terms of human rights and fundamental freedoms, but states that some positive signs were evident in several of the region’s Partly Free environments, including in Armenia and Ukraine.
As for the other regions of the world, the report says democracy faces obstacles around the world in 2020. Not only China, Russia and Iran, but also a number of other countries with democracy traditions recorded a regress. In terms of freedoms, the worst condition is recorded in Syria, Eritrea, South Sudan, Turkmenistan and North Korea.
09:56, 5 March, 2020
YEREVAN, MARCH 5, ARMENPRESS. The U.S. death toll from coronavirus infections rose to 11 on Wednesday as new cases emerged around New York City and Los Angeles, reports Reuters.
The first California death from the virus was an elderly person in Placer County, near Sacramento, health officials said. The person had underlying health problems and likely had been exposed on a cruise ship voyage between San Francisco and Mexico last month.
It was the first coronavirus fatality in the United States outside of Washington state, where 10 people have died in a cluster of at least 39 infections that have emerged through community transmission of the virus in two Seattle-area counties.
Hours after the person’s death was announced, California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency in response to the coronavirus, which he said has resulted in 53 cases across the nation’s most populous state.
Six new coronavirus patients were confirmed in Los Angeles County, public health officials said.
17:54, 3 March, 2020
YEREVAN, MARCH 3, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian parliament debated today the package of bills on making changes and amendments to the Law on Judicial Code of Armenia.
One of the amendments proposes to reduce the term of office of the Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council, setting it 2.5 year.
“The term of office of the President of the Supreme Judicial Council currently is 5 years. According to the package of bills we have proposed to reduce it to 2.5 year”, Justice Minister Rustam Badasyan said.
However, he added that the current SJC President will remain in office for a five-year term.
Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan