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High-ranking Russian officials pledged to help spur agricultural activity in Armenia and reaffirmed Moscow’s stated support for the construction of a new Armenian nuclear plant during separate visits to Yerevan on Tuesday.
Tensions between the two main members of Armenia’s ruling coalition rose on Tuesday as deputies from the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) demonstratively walked out of the parliament one day after blocking the passage of a major government bill.
Turkey’s minister for European Union affairs said on Tuesday that he is untroubled by Swiss authorities’ decision to consider prosecuting him for denying that the 1915 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide.
Hayk Gevorgian, a veteran journalist prosecuted on controversial charges, insisted on Tuesday that his arrest last week was government retribution for his critical reports about the chief of the Armenian police.
“Aravot” says that President Serzh Sarkisian and his entourage seem to be reconsidering their plans to limit the presence of “oligarchs” in Armenia’s next parliament.
A Russian coffee chain is taking its own informal poll of who's most popular among the presidential candidates running in the upcoming election. Baristas are creating the candidates' portraits with cinnamon shaken over milk foam, then tallying which face is picked most often for customers' drinks. Communist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov and billionaire businessman Mikhail Prokhorov are apparently more popular than Vladimir Putin on customers' lattes. (AP narrated)
A little-known group claiming to represent young Armenians has launched a club for fans of Vladimir Putin, intended to "popularize the ideas" of the Russian prime minister. In a satirical response, a group of Armenian comedians is creating a club of its own that mocks Putin's cult of personality. To join, fans only need to drink a shot of vodka accompanied by a pickle.
A married couple in Armenia has named their firstborn child in honor of the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, whose political party had initiated a law – passed through both houses of the country’s parliament recently – criminalizing any public denial of what is recognized in France as the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.