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Grigor Minasyan
Grigor Arayi Minasyan (born December 23, 1983) is an Armenian politician and lawyer currently serving as Minister of Justice of Armenia. Formerly, he was the Managing Partner oAM Law Firmsince 2012 and the Director of the Branch of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) in Yerevan since 2014. Career From 2003 to 2004 Minasyan was a lawyer at a private company. From 2004 to 2009 he worked at the Law Institute of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia, holding the positions of Assistant to the Director for Legal Affairs and later Deputy Director for Legal Affairs. From 2008 to 2020 Minasyan was the editor-in-chief of the academic journal ''Justice''. From 2009 to 2010 he worked as a Head of the Department for Relations with the European Court of Human Rights under the Staff of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia. At the same time, Minasyan worked as lecturer at the Law College of the Law Institute of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Arme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Justice (Armenia)
The Ministry of Justice of Armenia () is an Armenian government agency which possesses executive authority and executes policies of the Government of Armenia in sectors that are closely associated with laws and regulations. The ministry oversees the operations of the following agencies: * Compulsory Enforcement Service * Penitentiary Service * Probation Service The ministry was founded in 1918 by the government of Hovhannes Kajaznuni of the newly-formed First Republic of Armenia, Republic of Armenia. History In 1920, the Revolutionary Committee of the Armenian SSR founded the People's Commissariat of Justice, which began to control the Armenian prosecutor's office in December 1923. The Communist Party of Armenia was in-active from 1930 to 1933, of which during those three years, the justice system of Armenia was administered by the Procurator General of the Soviet Union and the Supreme Court of the USSR. In 1936, the prosecutor's office and the investigative bodies were sepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Andreasyan
Karen Aresi Andreasyan (; born 10 September 1977) is an Armenian jurist and former politician who served as the Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council of Armenia from October 2022 to November 2024. He served as the minister of justice from August 2021 to October 2022 in Nikol Pashinyan's government. From 2011 to 2016, he served as the Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) of Armenia. He is also an associate professor of law at Yerevan State University and a member of the Chamber of Advocates of Armenia. Education From 1994 to 2002 Karen Andreasyan studied in various institutions, including the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University, obtaining a PhD in law, as well as at University of California, Berkeley, the University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srbuhi Galyan (1840–1901), Armenian feminist writer and the first female Armenian novelist
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Srbuhi or Srpouhi (in Western Armenian) is an Armenian given name meaning female saint, also denoting being saintly, pure, clean (from the Armenian word ''surb'' or in Western Armenian ''sourp''). Srbuhi may refer to: * Srbuhi Grigoryan (born 1974), Armenian politician, Member of the National Assembly of Armenia *Srbuhi Sargsyan (born 1994), Armenian singer better known by the mononym Srbuk *Srpouhi Dussap Srpouhi Dussap (Armenian: Սրբուհի Տիւսաբ; 1840–1901) was the first female Armenian novelist and an Armenian feminist writer. She used her works to advocate for women’s education, rights, and independence. Her life's work was inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yerevan
Yerevan ( , , ; ; sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia, as well as one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country, as its primate city. It has been the Historical capitals of Armenia, capital since 1918, the Historical capitals of Armenia, fourteenth in the history of Armenia and the seventh located in or around the Ararat Plain. The city also serves as the seat of the Araratian Pontifical Diocese, which is the largest diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and one of the oldest dioceses in the world. The history of Yerevan dates back to the 8th century BC, with the founding of the fortress of Erebuni Fortress, Erebuni in 782 BC by King Argishti I of Urartu, Argishti I of Urartu at the western extreme of the Ararat Plain. Erebuni was "designed as a great administrative and reli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenian SSR
The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (ArSSR), also known as Soviet Armenia, or simply Armenia, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union, located in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Soviet Armenia bordered the Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia and the independent states of Iran and Turkey. The capital of the republic was Yerevan and it contained thirty-seven districts (raions). Other major cities in the Armenian SSR included Leninakan, Kirovakan, Hrazdan, Etchmiadzin, and Kapan. The republic was governed by Communist Party of Armenia, a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Soviet Armenia was established on 29 November 1920, with the Sovietisation of the short-lived First Republic of Armenia. Consequently, it has been referred to as the Second Republic of Armenia. It became part of the Transcaucasian SFSR (TSFSR), along with neighboring Georgia and Azerbaijan, which comprised one of the four founding republics of the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikol Pashinyan
Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan (born 1 June 1975) is an Armenian politician who is serving as the 16th and current Prime Minister of Armenia, prime minister of Armenia since 8 May 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own newspaper in 1998, which was shut down a year later for libel. He was sentenced for one year for defamation against then Minister of National Security Serzh Sargsyan. He edited the newspaper ''Haykakan Zhamanak'' ("Armenian Times") from 1999 to 2012. A supporter of Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, he was highly critical of second president Robert Kocharyan, Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan, and their allies. Pashinyan was also critical of Armenia's close relations with Russia, and promoted establishing closer relations with Turkey instead. He led a minor opposition party in the 2007 Armenian parliamentary election, 2007 parliamentary election, garnering 1.3% of the vote. Pashinyan was a dedicated supporter of Ter-Petrosyan, who made a poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenia
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Nakhchivan to the south. Yerevan is the Capital city, capital, largest city and Economy of Armenia, financial center. The Armenian Highlands has been home to the Hayasa-Azzi, Shupria and Nairi. By at least 600 BC, an archaic form of Proto-Armenian language, Proto-Armenian, an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language, had diffused into the Armenian Highlands.Robert Drews (2017). ''Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe''. Routledge. . p. 228: "The vernacular of the Great Kingdom of Biainili was quite certainly Armenian. The Armenian language was obviously the region's vernacular in the fifth century BC, when Persian commanders and Greek writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Court Of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The court hears applications alleging that a contracting state has breached one or more of the human rights enumerated in the convention or its optional protocols to which a member state is a party. The court is based in Strasbourg, France. The court was established in 1959 and decided its first case in 1960 in ''Lawless v. Ireland''. An application can be lodged by an individual, a group of individuals, or one or more of the other contracting states. Aside from judgments, the court can also issue advisory opinions. The convention was adopted within the context of the Council of Europe, and all of its member states of the Council of Europe, 46 member states are contracting parties to the convention. The court's primary means of judicial interpretation is the living instrument doctrine, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (2021) within its official limits, and a land area of . Athens is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BCE. According to Greek mythology the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Rights Defender Of Armenia
The Human Rights Defender of Armenia () is the official ombudsman, who, acting pursuant to the Constitution of Armenia, as well as, principles and norms of international law, protects the human rights and fundamental freedoms of individuals. The office of the Human Rights Defender was established in 2003 and has since became a member of thEuropean Ombudsman Institute The headquarters of the Human Rights Defender of Armenia are located in Yerevan. Since 12 April 2023, Anahit Manasyan was elected as the Human Rights Defender of Armenia by the National Assembly. Background The word "Ombudsman" has Swedish roots and the literal translation means "grievance person". This word in its modern meaning was first used by the Swedish parliament in the 19th century when establishing the office of the justitieombudsman. This office was responsible for defending citizens when they had issues with the government. Human rights defenders operate all over the world. Independent of whether the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yerevan City Council
The Yerevan City Council () is the lawmaking body of the city of Yerevan, the capital and largest city of Armenia. It has 65 members elected by party-list proportional representation system, headed by the Mayor of Yerevan. The council monitors performance of city agencies and makes land use decisions, as well as, legislating on a variety of other issues. The city council also has sole responsibility for approving the city budget and each member is limited to three consecutive terms in office and can run again after a four-year respite. Elections Appointment "Yerevan City Council elections are being conducted every five years with proportional lists of parties. The City Council has 65 members. The first person in the list of the party that has received more than 40% of seats, is considered elected mayor. If the parties fail to gather so many votes, the mayor will be elected by City Council." Past elections * Yerevan City Council election, 2009 * Yerevan City Council election, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
