
Headlines for April 07, 2008
VOICES FROM AFAR: FREETOCRACY
Thomas de Waal
Post-Soviet elections have become elaborately choreographed occasions. The script is now getting so precise that we even know what the preferred winning share of the vote is for an official candidate ...ECONOMICALLY UNJUSTIFIED PESSIMISM
Ara GALOYAN
Everything is being politicized now and it is not surprising any more. But even this doesn’t give an opportunity to insist that the politicization of the economy is a purely Armenian phenomenon. ...THE PRICE OF RECOGNIZING THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE NKR
Armine AVETYANOn March 14 the General Assembly of the UN adopted the resolution on the situation of the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, which specifically says, “In the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan ...DEADLOCK SITUATION
What shall the RA government and opposition have a dialog on, which the representatives of the government and the international community have been claiming all the time? Or where is the opposition, which ...€THE ARMENIAN MAN GETS MOST MAD WHEN HE IS TAKEN FOR A DONKEY€
Lilit SEYRANYAN
- What solutions do you envision to overcome the crisis created after March 1 as a political scientist, who was actively participating in all the events of the radical opposition?
- The government should ...NO CHILD KILLED DURING RALLIES
Lusine STEPANYANSeveral weeks ago our newspaper wrote about Artavazd Tadevosyan’s family as a needy family. They are from Garni village community. Yesterday we visited this family with a citizen to help them with ...THE GREAT TRAGEDY VICTIMS
Rafael TEYMURAZYAN
The rumors saying that the US is supporting the Armenian first president Ter-Petrosyan are not true because it is not in the interests of the United States to support him. And the reason is his stance ...CALLED FOR TESTIMONY
Yesterday the staff of the Swan Lake cafe, which belongs to the family of ANM board president Ararat Zurabyan, were called to the police for testimony. Zurabyan’s lawyer Tigran Ter-Esayan has told ...INADMISSIBLE LIMITATIONS
Euro Union and OSCE/ODIHR after a joint expertise have concluded that the recent amendments to the Armenian law on independence of demonstrations are very concerning. The speaker of the Armenian parliament ...WILL BE TENSE
Miami Herald newspaper, an American newspaper, has written that the appointment of the new US Ambassador in Armenia Mari Yovanovich may become the tensest issue for the American Armenians during this ...BLACK MUSTARD AFTER MEAL
One of the main issues to be discussed at the NATO summit in Bucharest concerns granting a membership action plan to Ukraine and Georgia to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The US president ...FIRED
RA president Robert Kocharyan has signed an order to dismiss deputy defense minister Manvel Grigoryan from his position. The president’s media service department’s statement does not specify ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1821 Start of the Greek independence movement against the Turkish oppressors.
- 1858 Birth of Alexander Shirvanzade (writer, playwright) in Shamakh. He was born 1935, in Kislovodsk.
- 1864 Death of Karapet Galstian, businessman of Van and founder of the National School in Cairo (1848).
- 1915 Start of the one-month defense of Van (Western Armenia).
- 1929 First Five-year Plan is adopted for Armenia.
- 1995 The Department of Modern Armenian History, (University of California, Los Angeles) organized an international conference devoted to the 80th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
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