During its session on Thursday, the Government of Armenia rejected the legislative initiative on holding the upcoming parliamentary elections solely by 100-percent proportional election system.  This matter was presented to the Government by Deputy Justice Minister Grigor Muradyan, who noted that the elections’ effectiveness and fairness are not conditioned on any election system. In his words...

The author of the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial, Valerie Boyer offers to renew attempts if the draft law gets rejected. “I didn’t except such an acute reaction from some senators. The bill reaffirms such global values as freedom, equality and fraternity,” Boyer said in an interview with Nouvelles d'Armenie magazine. “Media doesn’t seem to be...

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian commented on remarks by his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Liberman who suggested that “the term Holocaust is inapplicable in reference to any other tragedy. “We don’t accept attempts to term any other conflicts or massacres as Holocaust,” Liberman said. As Nalbandian said, the term Holocaust was never used to describe the Armenian Genocide. “Introducing the term...

President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz met with the Turkish Minister for the EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis. The official discussed the role of Turkey in Syria, the visa regime and the prospective for Turkish membership in EU. Bagis and Schulz also commented the Armenian Genocide and the new bill adopted by the French senate. Egemen Bagis refused to answer a question about...

The municipality in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya has agreed to rebuild a complex involving a chapel, a guard house and an annex for washing the dead inside a historical Armenian cemetery after municipal workers demolished it on Feb 3, Hurriyet Daily News reported. “The folk in the street cried when they saw that our ‘Last Prayer’ [complex] was demolished. I don’t think it to be ‘neighborhood pressure.’ There is...

It is considered that Armenians drink a lot of coffee. However, consumption significantly yields that of European states. Armenia imported 11,800 tons coffee over last year but 1,400 tons returned back. Thus, Armenia used 10,400 tons coffee annually, which is 3.25 kg per person. Hence, each Armenian drinks 67 liters of coffee on average annually. Is it too much? Most of all coffee is...