‘At The Focus’ Archives
French Senate adopts genocide bill
The French Senate adopted bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial after long debates on Monday. President of France will ratify the law in 15 days after receiving the finally adopted law from the government. He can ask the parliament to review the full law or certain articles. The review [...]
French parliament passes bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial
France’s National Assembly passed on Thursday the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial. The bill introduced by MP Valerie Boyer supposes a year in jail or 45,000 euro punishment for those who will challenge or extremely minimize the fact of the 1915 Armenian Genocide officially [...]
British Embassy in Tehran seized
Demonstrators in Tehran stormed the building of the British Embassy. Iranian police initially did not try to interfere with the thugs, and then blocked access to the Embassy. Those who still managed to reach the territory of the British mission will be detained, reports AFP. Reuters reports [...]
Azerbaijanis fired 1,300 shots in direction of Karabakh
STEPANAKERT. – The adversary violated the ceasefire more than 260 times, in the past week, at the line of contact between Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces. Vanguard subdivisions of the Azerbaijani army fired, through different weaponry, around 1,300 shots in the direction of Armenian [...]
Armenia never purchased nonfunctional weaponry – MOLDOVA
YEREVAN. - Press secretary of Armenian Minister of Defense David Karapetyan commented on information published in the media that Armenia purchased nonfunctional weaponry from Moldova. "Purchase of weaponry and military equipment for Armenian army is carried out under relevant norms and [...]
Chief of Armenia’s police arrested
Chief of Armenia’s road police Margar Ohanyan was arrested on Tuesday suspected of abuse of power and misappropriation. Colonel Stepan Karakhanyan, Ohanyan’s close friend, was arrested the other day as well. Karakhanyan appropriated petrol intended for work of police in Armenia’s [...]
Georgian parliament amended law to detriment of Armenian Church
Georgian parliament on Tuesday session amended Civil Code. It partially eliminated the legal status, which has been previously granted to some religious communities including Armenian Apostolic Church. According to new amendments, religious communities have right to register as religious [...]
Visit of All-Armenian Catholicos to Georgia is over: communiqué not signed
Joint communiqué between Georgian and Armenian churches was not signed during the visit of Catholicos of All Armenians to Georgia. Working process and comparison of positions still continue, reported Metropolitan Gerasim, the head of foreign affairs department of Georgian Patriarchate. He [...]
Nikol Pashinyan released
Editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak daily, outspoken opposition activist Nikol Pashinyan has been released. Several dozens of opposition supporters, friends and relatives of the prominent oppositionist welcomed Pashinyan outside the Artik penitentiary, chanting: "Nikol, Nikol." Pashinyan was [...]
NKR, Azerbaijan exchange bodies of the killed
Authorities of the Artsakh Republic, once again showing good will and guided by humanitarian norms, passed the bodies of two Azeri servicemen, Mubariz Ibragimov and Farid Ahmedov, to the Azerbaijani party. Simultaneously, the body of NKR citizen Gavrush Arustamyan was passed to the Karabakh [...]