Consumer prices dropped by 0.3% in Armenia’s capital in April compared to March 2011, according to the Armenian National Statistical Service.

The top United Nations human rights body voted to condemn the violence and has launched an investigation into alleged crimes.

Vic Darchinyan, 35, lost a close split decision to Mexican Mares in December in the semi-final of the Showtime’s bantamweight tournament.

President Serzh Sargsyan will depart for Switzerland to take part in the 25th Geneva Book and Press Fair, where Armenia has a status of honorable guest.

The 5 were among 11 Chamlian students who competed April 16 at the Los Angeles County Science Fair at the Pasadena Convention Center.

The Soviet army title for this military action is "Operation Ring," because its basic strategy consists of surrounding villages with tanks and armored personnel carriers and shelling them. The next stage of the operation involves the entry of various troops (a combination of Fourth Army units and Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) Internal Troops), followed by the Azerbaijan OMON, who interrogate villagers, round them up, and arrest or take away male heads-of-households to prisons in other parts of Azerbaijan. Finally, Azerbaijani villagers are allowed to come and loot the empty Armenian villages.