2 candidates vying for Health Minister’s post are Ara Baloyan and Derenik Dumanyan, Hayatsk daily said.

When asked for comment, Suren Khachaturyan Khachaturyan said he never received such an offer, Zhoghovurd daily said.

Other winners include Merzak Allouache’s “El taaib” and Noemie Lvovsky’s “Camille redouble.”

Tsarukyan and Kocharian’s visit to Russia aimed to make the official Moscow realize who their real allies in Armenia are – paper.

Appropriations Committee recommended “assistance for victims of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in amounts consistent with prior years.”

Muslim Brotherhood attempts to rally support around its own candidate who faces a runoff against Hosni Mubarak’s last PM.

Tehran said that he presence of traces of highly refined uranium may happen for technical reasons beyond the operator’s control.

Christine Lagarde reiterated that the IMF had no intention of softening the terms of Greece’s austerity package.

The maneuver will be carried out to ensure the best conditions for the landing of Russia’s Soyuz TMA-3M manned spacecraft.

It will be the first time that China has allowed a major currency except the dollar to directly trade with the yuan.

U.S. Secretary of State will travel to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey from May 31-June 7.

An 18-year-old man has been detained after the shooting outside bars and restaurants in Hyvinkaa just before 2 a.m.

According to investigation, at least 30 illegal kidney removals and transplants were carried out in the the Medicus clinic.

According to the New Testament, Megiddo will be the site of the final apocalyptic battle between good and evil.

A group of opposition protesters held a small rally in central Baku on the eve of the Eurovision Song Contest final.

Syrian troops using tanks, mortars and heavy machine-guns pounded on May 25 the area of Houla.

Now in its 51st year, Critics Week is the oldest section that runs concurrently with the Cannes Film Festival.

Russian border guards seized 50 firearms, bladed weapons and 300 thous. rubles worth contraband in January-May.

Financial markets are keenly focused on the continuing travails in Europe, but peripheral countries near to the Eurozone cannot wait for their lead. Armenia, for one, has suffered through a debilitating recession, but, through the efforts of its domestic institutions and businesses, it has carved out a respectable recovery track record, sporting GDP growth in excess of 4% a year after the fall in 2009.

Hakob Sanasaryan cited a number of SD provisions, called to ensure public welfare through increase of word production.

The NKR was represented at the round table by Advisers to Foreign Minister Ruben Zargarian and Arsen Melik-Shakhnazarian.

Armenian ambassador to France Vigen Chitechyan answered Armenian foreign and domestic policy related questions.

Armen Sargsyan participated in meeting of UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok.

Hrachya Berberyan: apricot harvest will make 25 and 10-12 thous. tons in Ararat and Armavir provinces respectively

The film is a tale about a group of people all seeking love, about passion and happiness, about jealousy and loneliness.

Vitali Klitschko: one should not boycott country and its people, but specific officials responsible for authoritarian acts.

Sepp Blatter has asked German great Franz Beckenbauer to find an alternative to the ”tragedy” of penalty shootouts.

A final decision over the country to host Euro 2020 is likely to be made at the end of 2013 or the beginning of 2014.

President Sargsyan congratulated Sándor Szabó on his appointment, wishing him good luck in diplomatic activity.

Khachatryan was joined by his sister Lusine, a gifted pianist, for an exciting rendition of Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Sonata.