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Headlines for November 06, 2006

FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN AND ARMENIAN MUSIC IS HELD IN YEREVAN
U.S. composer Laura Kaminsky, Armenian composer-pianist Artur Avanesov, and Armenian pianist Margarit Sargsyan are presenting three concerts in Armenia in cooperation with Komitas State Conservatory of ...
SADDAM SENTENCED TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to capital punishment. The Baghdad court has found him guilty of the murder of 148 Muslims in the village of Dujayil in 1982. The Prosecutor ...
THEY LEFT FOR ASTANA
Robert Kocharyan has left for Kazakhstan on a two-day official visit at the invitation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. His delegation included RA Minister of Commerce and Economic development, Minister ...
NEW HEADS
The Presidium of the RA National Academy of Sciences has confirmed the candidacies of the heads of four scientific-research institutes. They are Rouben Safrastyan (NAS oriental studies institute), Pavel ...
STRUGGLE FOR SILVER
In the 27th round of the Armenian football championship «Banants» which was in the second place tied with «Kilikia» 1:1. «Mika» beat «Ulysses» 3:2 and moved on to the second place. In the last round «Mika» ...
WOMAN SUFFOCATED
On November 4 the representatives of the Masis department of the police found a dead body of a 40-year-old woman in the basement of the Culture house behind the artificial pond near the Central Square. ...
POLISH MARSHAL IN THE PARLIAMENT
RA NA Speaker Tigran Torosyan has had a private conversation with Bogdan Borusevich, the Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland. The NA Speaker found the visit of the Marshal important within ...
DO THEY BLAME SERGE SARGSYAN?
The RA Government will approve of the deal with «Vympelcom» from Russia about the sale of the 90% of the shares of «ArmenTel», Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan announced today in the NA. Mr. Sargsyan ...
CROSSROAD CHALLENGES
Which are the problems and possibilities of the region at the crossroad of East and West? What lessons has the 15-year independence taught us? What is the economic policy the Governments should pursuit? ...
A REASON FOR JOY
Former Prime Minister of Armenia, rector of the Armenian-Russian University Armen Darbinyan expressed his joy today, “I’m very glad that a Russian company has become the owner of the telecommunication ...
ARMENIA DOESN’T EVEN GET A SATISFACTORY MARK
“Corruption traps millions in poverty,” said Transparency International Chair Huguette Labelle during the launching of the 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International ...
BABAJANYAN’S FREEDOM DEPENDS ON THE DEFENSE MINISTER
Tomorrow the Court of Cassation will hear the appeal of Arman Babajanyan, editor-in-chief of the newspaper «Zhamanak Yerevan». According to the decision of the Court of the first Instance, Arman Babajanyan ...
«SERGE SARGSYAN IS A CORRUPT OFFICIAL»
Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan uses his administrative and personal means in order to reach his aims. According to Amalya Kostanyan, Armenian representative of «Transparency International», this is political ...
«MY TONGUE IS MY ENEMY»
After the announcement of Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan about accusations against him by Aram Karapetyan, the head of the New Times party has made a statement. «Every time he has to answer a serious ...
TURKISH SHOP-KEEPER AGAINST ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Another attempt of rejecting the Armenian Genocide was made yesterday in Vercelli, Italy. According to newspaper of «Azdak», Beirut, the exhibition of photos by Armin Vegner about the Armenian Genocide ...