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Published on November 28, 2007
ONLY ONE MEDAL
The World Junior Chess Championship ended in the Turkish city of Antalia. Eighteen Armenians participated in the championship.
Only 14-year-old Samvel Ter-Sahakian won a medal among the Armenian sportsmen. He took the third place in the group under 14.
World chess champion under 12 Robert Aghasarian took the 31st place with 6 points.
Vice champions of the previous championship Hrant Melkumian and Hovik Hairapetian took the 15-16th places with 7 points each.
Robert Hovhannissian took the 12th place and David Gevorgian the 42nd in the competition under 16.
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Headlines for November 28, 2007BUDGET ADOPTED
The National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia adopted the state budget for Fiscal Year 2008 at today’s plenary sitting.
The budget was endorsed with 82 votes for, 2 votes against and 8 abstentions. ...MONEY WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT
November 28, at 10:50 a.m., a VAZ “24-10” caught fire near “Darani” shopping center in the city of Abovian. The fire was resulted by a gas leakage.
On seeing tongues of flame in the fore-part the driver ...GARBAGE FIRE
A fire broke out in Nor Aresh district at 2:39 a.m. Two fire brigades immediately left for the scene. The fire was put out at 3:14. Six-square-meter garbage burnt down in the result of the fire.FEW MAKE USE OF POSTAL SERVICES NOWADAYS
Ms Siranush has been working as a postwoman for 27 years. She finds it her mission to deliver pension and letters to citizens. Nowadays postmen are “replaced” by new technologies- Internet, fax and mobile ...“PRESIDENT SHOULD BE ELECTED EVERY YEAR”
The next president of the Republic of Armenia must be an honest, literate and well-off person with a deep knowledge of politics. He must be nominated by a strong party. The next president must either ...ANOTHER $20 MILLION TO BE INVESTED IN ARMENIA
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November 28 RA Prime Minister Serzh Sarkissian received Canadian businessmen Jonathan Goodman, James Small and Canadian Armenian businessman, Professor Azat Vardanian.
The Goodman family ...GEGHAMIAN WAS THE FIRST
November 28, leader of the National Unity Party (AMK) Artashes Geghamian submitted documents to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), the CEC press secretary informed A1+.
To remind: the party named ...ARAM KARAPETIAN DENIED
The Passport and Visa Department of the RA Police denied New Times Party (NZhK) leader Aram Karapetian a certificate of RA citizenship over the recent ten years.
To note, the department had reported ...“TURKEY IS STILL PERPETRATING GENOCIDE”
“Genocide” is defined as a physical and cultural massacre perpetrated against people. Judging by the definition of the word we can state that Turkey still commits genocide against Armenians,” Samvel ...CFF FILES MOTION AGAINST HIRAIR HOVNANIAN
The Cafesjian Family Foundation (CFF), on behalf of the Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial, Inc. (AGMM), filed a motion today in an ongoing lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District ...“WE SHOULD GET RID OF THE ACTING AUTHORITIES AT ANY RATE”
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Today the National Democratic Union (AZhM) named AZhM leader Vazgen Manukian for the presidential elections. The nomination was endorsed unanimously by the National Democratic Alliance ...ONE MORE CANDIDATE
Arman Melikian, the adviser to the NKR President and the former FM, has handed in a resignation to participate in the presidential race of the RA president.
The fate of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic ...SERZH SARKISSIAN HAS APPLIED FOR CERTIFICATE
So far ten presidential nominees have applied to the Passport and Visa Department of the RA Police to get certificates of RA citizenship over the past ten years, among them RA Prime Minister Serzh Sarkissian, ...ONLY ONE MEDAL
The World Junior Chess Championship ended in the Turkish city of Antalia. Eighteen Armenians participated in the championship.
Only 14-year-old Samvel Ter-Sahakian won a medal among the Armenian sportsmen. ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1918 Death of Gegham Ter Karapetian, a literary figure in the provinces of the Ottoman Empire. He was a revolutionary figure and the representative for Moosh (Western Armenia) in the Ottoman Parliament.
- 1967 Solemn inauguration in Yerevan of the Genocide Monument. It is dedicated to the memory of the one million victims of the Armenian Genocide committed by the Turks - starting in 1915.
- 1974 The "Russia" movie theatre is opened in Yerevan.
- 1989 The USSR Supreme Soviet liquidates its Volsky Committee in Artsakh.
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