In September 2008, the Audit Chamber of Armenia accused Surik Khachatrian, governor of the southeastern Syunik Province, and government officials subordinated to him of embezzling 575 million drams ( US $ 1. 9 million ) worth of public funds and property.

There are two more-recent members of the SAFER family that have made changes to the main encryption routine, designed by the Armenian cryptographers Gurgen Khachatrian ( American University of Armenia ) and Melsik Kuregian in conjunction with Massey.

Surik Khachatrian claims he is innocent.

The most notable female vocalists in the Armenian folk genre have been Araksia Gyulzadyan, Ophelia Hambardzumyan, Varduhi Khachatrian, Valya Samvelyan, Rima Saribekyan, Susanna Safarian, Manik Grigoryan, and Flora Martirosian.

Today's Armenian traditional songs can be associated with performers such as Rouben Matevosian, Ophelia Hambardzumyan, Varduhi Khachatrian, and Papin Poghosian.

* James Massey, Gurgen Khachatrian, Melsik Kuregian, " Nomination of SAFER ++ as Candidate Algorithm for the New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity, and Encryption ( NESSIE )," Presented at the First Open NESSIE Workshop, November 2000.

* The founder, publisher and editor of the world's first Armenian periodical " Azdarar ", Reverend Haroutiun Shmavonian, is buried here.

Author and professor of geopolitics Pierre Verluise detailed in his 1995 book Armenia in Crisis: The 1988 Earthquake, how a French doctor and director of a Leninakan hospital described that he had seen one hundred victims suffering from the syndrome each day during the first three days.

With curtailment of the MCC funding, the European Union may replace the US as Armenia ’ s chief source of foreign aid for the first time since independence.

With new acquired powers, Khrushchev was able to appoint associates to the leadership in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Armenia and Moldavia ( modern Moldova ), while Malenkov, in contrast, was able to appoint an associate to leadership only in Moscow.

With Roman consent, they establish themselves as kings of the Kingdom of Armenia and the district of Sophene ( Armenia Minor ), respectively.

With the help of his new troops, Justinian won a battle against the enemy in Armenia in 693, but they were soon bribed to revolt by the Arabs.

With this intention in mind, he selected an Arshakuni named Artaxias IV ( Artashes ), a son of Vramshapuh, and made him King of Armenia.

With the republic suffering heavy losses after the war, Stalin allowed an open immigration policy in Armenia ; the diaspora was invited to settle in and revitalize the country's population and bolster its workforce.

With a purpose of perpetuation of the National Hero of Armenia, celebrated scientist academician V. A.

With these scenes restored in the revised and expanded edition of 2012, however, the novel ’ s meaning to Armenians is all the more poignant, as Vartan Gregorian writes in the preface, " The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was meant as a memorial set against a new historical phenomenon that had been described as " the murder of a nation ," " the extermination of a race ," and " the assassination of Armenia ..." The novel, in its expanded form, has even more relevance as a document of genocide.

With much pomp and ceremony, Kanayan's remains were taken to Armenia for final burial in Aparan, on 28 May 2000, within the commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Armenia.

With a population of 52, 900 it is the fifth-largest city in Armenia by population.

With his ascent to the throne, the Seljuk Turks attacked the Georgian-held city of Ani, Armenia.

With Diocletian's help, Tiridates pushed the Persians out of Armenia.

With the end of the Communist regime and independence of Armenia in 1991, important steps were made to revive the traditions of the Armenian nobility.

With the establishment of the independent Republic of Armenia in 1990, the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party soon established party affiliates in the new Republic commanding a good number of applicants, adherents and sympathizers.

With Maria of Armenia ( sister of Hethum I, King of Armenia and daughter of Constantine of Baberon ), John had the following children:

With the support of the Parthians, however, he returned to Armenia and successfully made war on Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene, an enemy of his father.

The Lesser Caucasus range extends through northern Armenia, runs southeast between Lake Sevan and Azerbaijan, then passes roughly along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border to Iran.

In 318, Gregory appointed his second son Aristaces as the next Catholicos in line of Armenia's Holy Apostolic Church to stabilize and continue strengthening Christianity not only in Armenia, but also in the Caucasus and Anatolia.

Once again he was banished, this time to the Caucasus in Armenia.

Islamic armies conquered part of Persia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Armenia, and what is now the modern-day post-Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan and surrounded the Byzantine heartland ( present-day Turkey ) in a pincer movement which extended from the Mediterranean to the Caucasus and the southern shores of the Caspian.

In the 19th century, the government's policy was to send the heretics away from the center of the country into Caucasus, especially Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, central Asia, and Siberia.

Before World War I there was a well-known colony of Molokans that had been exiled to the Caucasus ( an area long within Russian hegemony ), mainly to what is now Armenia, Azerbaijan, and eastern Turkey ( Kars plain ).

* 1921 – The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.

He is banished to the Caucasus in Armenia.

Tamar's realm stretched from the Greater Caucasus crest in the north to Erzurum in the south, and from the Zygii in the northwest to the vicinities of Ganja in the southeast, forming a pan-Caucasian empire, with the loyal Zachariad regime in northern and central Armenia, Shirvan as a vassal and Trebizond as an ally.

Some basilicas in the Caucasus, particularly those of Georgia and Armenia, have a central nave only slightly higher than the two aisles and a single pitched roof covering all three.

Loudon ( 1838 ) believed it had a wide native range including Armenia, Caucasus, the Himalaya, China, and Japan.

People in the Iranian plateau and Caucasus region, especially in Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Uzbekistan and Russia, are very fond of playing narde.

According to most classic authors, a district which was bounded on the southwest by Pontus, on the west by the Black Sea as far as the river Corax ( probably the present day Bzyb River, Abkhazia, Georgia ), on the north by the chain of the Greater Caucasus, which lay between it and Asiatic Sarmatia, on the east by Iberia and Montes Moschici ( now the Lesser Caucasus ), and on the south by Armenia.

The Caucasus region, especially northern Armenia, has always been a major area of Romano-Sassanian rivalry.

In 505 an invasion of Armenia by the western Huns from the Caucasus led to an armistice, during which the Romans paid subsidies to the Persians for the maintenance of the fortifications on the Caucasus.

Armenian refers to something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eastern Europe:

** Viceroyalty of the Caucasus – Transcaucasia ( Armenia, Azerbaidjan and Georgia ; first under Governors in Tbilisi 1802 – 1844 ) had Viceroys of Transcaucasia.

It is also spoken in southern Dagestan, along the Caspian coast in the southern Caucasus Mountains, as well as in Armenia and scattered through Central Asia.

The Shaddadids of the Caucasus and Armenia, the Rawadids of Azerbaijan, the Marwandis of eastern Anatolia, the Hasanwayhids, Fadhilwayhids, and Ayyarids of the central Zagros are some of the these Kurdish dynasties.

This new unit included: the original Caucasian Albania, found between the River Kura and the Great Caucasus ; tribes living along the Caspian shore ; as well as Artsakh and Utik, two territories now detached from Armenia.

In 301, 37 Christian virgins, among whom was Saint Nune ( St. Nino for Georgia ), who entered into the Iberian kingdom in Caucasus from the Kingdom of Armenia, where she escaped prosecution from the hands of the Armenian King Tiridates III.

By 1934, raccoon dogs were introduced into Altai, the northern Caucasus, Armenia, Kirgizia, Tatarstan, Kalinin, Penza and Orenburg regions.