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Society

Armenia to introduce certification of Rescue Service employees

Armenian National Assembly’s Committee on Defense and Security Issues approved today a scheme, designed to introduce certification of employees of the Rescue Service, which is a unit of the country’s Interior Ministry.

07.04.2023, 12:50

Incidents

Armenia sending rescuers to Syria and Turkey

Armenia is sending rescue teams to Syria and Turkey to help with search and rescue efforts in areas affected by the devastating earthquakes.

07.02.2023, 18:46

Politics

Pashinyan appoints heads of police and rescue service

Aram Hovhannisyan has been appointed head of Armenia's Police and Deputy Minister of Interior, according to a decree is posted on the government website.

10.01.2023, 09:50

Tourism

Three new beaches to open on Lake Sevan this summer

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who visited today the Ministry of Environment, was told that three new public beaches will open on Lake Sevan this summer.

04.01.2023, 18:07

Society

Armenia to liquidate ministry of emergencies and create new ministry of interior

The Armenian government on Thursday approved a plan to eliminate the Ministry of Emergency Situations and create the Interior Ministry that will consist of three structures: Police, Rescue and Migration Services.

24.11.2022, 12:30

Society

Armenia to put up Special Mountain Rescue Service for privatization

Armenia's National Assembly has passed today in the second and final reading a set of amendments to the privatization program for 2017-2020.

20.01.2021, 13:58

Incidents

About 670 unexploded shells found in Karabakh capital Stepanakert

About 670 unexploded shells were found in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, Mekhak Arzumanyan, the head of the Rescue Forces of Nagorno-Karabakh, said on October 13, adding that they will work to eliminate such shells throughout Artsakh after the ceasefire.

14.10.2020, 05:38

Society

Armenian emergency ministry to receive extra AMD 2 billion in 2020 for increasing rescuers' salaries and bonuses

Armenian emergency ministry's rescuers will have their salaries and bonuses increased thanks to the extra AMD 2 billion earmarked in the 2020 draft government budget for the ministry, Deputy Emergency Minister Ara Nazaryan said Tuesday at a regular session in the National Assembly.

29.10.2019, 11:11

Politics

Vrezh Gabrielyan appointed as interim head of Rescue Service

Armenia's Minister of Emergency Situations Felix Tsolakyan has appointed today Vrezh Gabrielyan as interim head of the Rescue Service of the ministry.

22.10.2019, 19:38

Incidents

Rescuers recover the body of man presumed to have drowned

Armenian rescuers have recovered the body of a man in the northwestern region of Shirak, presumed to have drowned while swimming in the Karnut water reservoir.

24.07.2017, 15:27

Incidents

Armenian rescuers free 3,147 people and 1, 265 vehicles from snow captivity in 12 days

In a time span from December 31 to January 11 Armenian rescuers freed 3,147 people and 1,265 vehicles from snow captivity, the ministry of territorial administration and emergency situations said.

13.01.2016, 17:32