Section: Public Radio of Armenia (Armenia)
Champions League draw: Manchester City face Real Madrid, Atletico face Bayern Munich
Real Madrid have been paired with Manchester City in the Champions League semi-finals, while Bayern Munich will have to deal with Atletico Madrid if they are to make it to the final, Goal.com reports. Friday’s draw in Nyon means City manager Manuel Pellegrini will take on his former team, having coached Madrid in 2009-10. Madrid – who saw...
Ukraine parliament approves Volodymyr Groysman for PM
Ukrainian lawmakers on Thursday approved Volodymyr Groysman for the post of prime minister, paving the way for a new government in the biggest shake-up since a 2014 uprising brought in a pro-Western leadership, Reuters reports. “I will show you what leading a country really means,” Groysman said ahead of the vote, which also finalised the...
OSCE Troika discuss recent developments in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomed Serbia’s and Austria’s Foreign Ministers Ivica Dačić and Sebastian Kurz as well as the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier for an OSCE Troika meeting in Berlin today. The members of the OSCE Troika discussed recent developments in the OSCE...
Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to resign
The Ukrainian Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has announced he will resign next week, blaming politicians’ failure to enact “real changes,” the BBC reports. “I am resigning as Prime Minister and I would like to stress with dignity my national liability before the state. I see my competences wider than those of a head of government,” he...
Ukraine’s FM urges Minsk Group Co-Chairs to step up efforts towards Karabakh settlement
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin has urged the OSCE Misnk Group Co-Chairs to step up efforts towards settlement of the Karabakh conflict. “Concerned about the serious aggravation of the situation in Nagorno Karabakh. I urge the OSCE MG co-chairs to step up negotiations for a settlement,” Klimkin said in a Twitter post. Занепокоєний...
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko given 22-year sentence
Photo: Valery Matytsin/TASS Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has been sentenced to 22 years in jail after being convicted of charges relating to the deaths of two Russian journalists, the BBC reports. She was accused of directing the artillery fire in eastern Ukraine in which the two journalists died in June 2014. Prosecutors said she was driven...
Russian court finds Ukrainian pilot Savchenko guilty
A Russian court has found Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko guilty in the case of two Russian journalists killed by mortar fire, the BBC reports. Prosecutors argued that she ordered the mortar fire that killed the journalists in eastern Ukraine and want her jailed for 23 years. But her lawyer said phone records proved she was captured by...
Euronest Parliamentary Assembly session to be held this week
MEPs and parliamentarians from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine meet this week to discuss energy cooperation and common security threats. A session of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, which brings together MEPs and Armenian, Georgian, Moldovan and Ukrainian parliamentarians, takes place in Brussels this week. …read more Source:...
Yerevan to host an ultra-contemporary music recital by Hayk Melikyan
On March 22, 2016 Komitas Museum-Institute will host an internationally renowned Armenian pianist Hayk Melikyan, an Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia. The concert program covers both the Giants of the 20th Century, including Olivier Messiaen, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Henryk Gorecki, Lubos Fiser as well as the works by contemporary young...
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp faces Dortmund reunion in Europa League
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has been handed a return to Borussia Dortmund, with the Reds facing the German side in the Europa League quarter-finals, the BBC reports. Klopp, 48, left Dortmund last summer after leading them to two Bundesliga titles and a Champions League final. Sevilla, trying to win the competition for the third successive...
