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Published on November 29, 2006
BUDGET ADOPTED
- The National Assembly has adopted the 2007 state budget with 77 votes for and three against. Six deputies abstained from voting. The 2007 state income will be 490.2 billion AMD, whereas the expenses will be 558.7 AMD. The Deficit is 68.47 million AMD.
The exchange rate of AMD and USD is 357 AMD for one US dollar.
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Headlines for November 29, 2006ARMED ATTACK
On November 25, 2006, at about 00:30 a.m. near the cemetery of Silikyan district two people attacked driver of taxi service “Golf” Varazdat Hovhannisyan with knives and demanded money. The ...“LONG LIVE SOVIET ARMENIA”
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The Soviet Republic of Armenia is 86 years old, of course if we count the 15 years of independence of the RA. On November 29, 1920, the soviet regime was established in Armenia. Today ...SMESSOV IN THE GOVERNMENT
RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan received newly appointed Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of France to Armenia Serge Smessov. He congratulated the Ambassador on the start of his diplomatic ...SON KILLED HIS MOTHER
On November 28 the central department of the police found the dead body of Maria Galstyan (b. 1935) in her house in Norq 7/105, with head and face injuries. The police revealed that the injuries have ...NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE PRESIDENT KENNETH WOLLACK VISITS ARMENIA
Kenneth Wollack, President of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), visited Armenia on November 29. In Yerevan, Mr. Wollack met with senior Armenian government officials to review NDI activities and ...«WE SPEAK ABOUT EACH OTHER, BUT NOT WITH EACH OTHER»
«Do you know where you are going? Are you sure where you are going? Have you thought it over well enough?» - these were the questions the confused Georgian frontier guard asked the Azeri journalists who ...THE SAME STORY AS WITH «A1+»
Private TV Company ANS has been deprived of the broadcasting license last week according to the law, announced Ali Hasanov, head of the public department of the President's administration. According ...NEW TARIFFS ON GAS SINCE NEW YEAR
Since January 1, 2007, those consumers who use not more than 10 thousand cubic meters of gas, will pay 84 000 AMD per 1000 cubic meters, instead of the previous 90 000 AMD. And those consumers who use ...NO SWORD FIGHTING AGAINST VIOLENCE
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«Where there is fight against violence, my sword is there», said Commander Andranik. Today his sword fighting against violence turned into a museum exhibit by the hand of Defense Minister ...HOUSE BURNT TO ASHES
On November 29 at 01:32 a.m. a fire broke out in houses N10 and 13 in Sari Tagh. A fire brigade left for the site. House N10 burned to ashes. As for the other, only the roof was damaged. It turned out ...THE RETURN OF TERRITORIES IS NOT VERY LIKELY
Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan does not consider it very likely that an agreement is being reached to return territories. As for the probability of giving Qelbajar, he said, “I have never spoken ...ENTRANCE EXAMS OF ARMENIAN WILL BE TAKEN AT SCHOOLS
Today RA Minister of Education Levon Mkrtchyan has signed a decree about the new way of organizing school-leaving and entrance examinations in 2007.
«This system has been experimented three times. The ...ANOTHER “CONSTRUCTIVE” MEETING OF THE PRESIDENTS
Referring to the Minsk meeting of Robert Kocharyan and Ilham Aliev which took place yesterday, the Azeri President announced that “the negotiations have reached the final phase”.
«There have ...BUDGET ADOPTED
The National Assembly has adopted the 2007 state budget with 77 votes for and three against. Six deputies abstained from voting. The 2007 state income will be 490.2 billion AMD, whereas the expenses will ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1868 Death of Mkrtich Peshiktashlian, writer and public figure. He was born in 1828.
- 1868 Death of Mkrtich Peshiktashlyan (public figure) in Constantinople. He was born in 1829.
- 1876 Death of Nahapet Rusinyan (physician and public figure) in Constantinople. He was born in 1819.
- 1920 Soviet power is established in Armenia.
- 1922 Inauguration of the Lenin irrigation canal in Echmeeadsin.
- 1926 Birth of painter Grigor Khanjyan in Yerevan. He died in 2000.
- 1926 Opening of Yerevan's soap and oil factory and lumber mill.
- 1928 Opening of Gyumri's cotton-mill and the "May Revolt" power station.
- 1929 Opening of the Leninakan-Artik railroad.
- 1929 Inauguration of the Yerevan Youth Theatre.
- 1930 Opening of Sardarapat's irrigation canal.
- 1931 Opening of the Kartchevan irrigation canal in the Meghri region.
- 1933 The chemical plant of Kirovakan and the cement factory of Davaloo start operations.
- 1934 Inauguration of the Yerevan-Kanaker railroad.
- 1935 M.I. Kalinin visits Yerevan.
- 1937 Yeghisheh Charents (writer) is murdered in 1937 by the Soviet Police. He was born in 1897.
- 1939 Catholic Gevorg the Sixth addresses the governments of the USSR, USA and Great Britain requesting the reunification (with Armenia) of the Armenian territories occupied by Turkey.
- 1943 The Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences is opened.
- 1944 Opening of the Loree and Adgaman (Martooni region) irrigation canals.
- 1951 Death of Levon Shant (writer, public figure). He was born in 1869.
- 1960 Inauguration of the eternal flame in Shahumyan Park to commemorate those who died for the sovietization of Armenia.
- 1965 Inauguration of Meekael Nalbandyan's (politician/writer) monument in Yerevan.
- 1970 Hrazdan's mineral-chemical plant's cement factory starts production.
- 1992 Artsakh forces liberate the villages of Hayi Bazar, Loolidooz, Ghozloo, and Gharajanli in the northern front of the Lachin corridor.
- 1998 Death of Karp Khachvankyan (actor) in Yerevan. He was known as the "Prince of Laughter". He was born in 1923 in Akhaltskha (Georgia).
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