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Headlines for July 28, 2008

RECEPTION ORDER CONFIRMED
On July 28 Ashot Shahnazarian, Chairman of the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition of the Republic of Armenia, signed a decree confirming the order of Citizens’ reception. ...
ARMENIAN GM TAKES PENULTIMATE PLACE
Armenian Grand Master Gabriel Sarkissian lost to Alexander Beliavski of Slovakia at the Georgy Marx Memorial tournament underway in Hungary. At the second and third rounds Sarkissian played a tie with ...
SARKISSIAN TO MEET WITH YUSHENKO
Serzh Sarkissian and His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos and Supreme Patriarch of All Armenians, will leave for the Crimea on July 28 to participate in the 650th anniversary of the foundation of Armenian ...
ARE THEY ON THE TRACK?
A cattle-stealing attempt was averted in the frontier village of Koti, Noyemberian, on July 26. Koti’s resident Arusiak Hepinian says at about 12, on July 26, she heard a noise and went out. She was ...
SHARMAZANOV DOES NOT NURSE GREAT HOPES
Republican MP Edward Sharmazanov doesn’t think the opposition’s rally of August 1 will effect striking changes in Armenia’s socio-political life. “The opposition wants to restore its place and role ...
RUSSELL JOHNSTON PASSED AWAY
Former Scottish Liberal party leader Lord Russell-Johnston died last night in Paris on the eve of his 76th birthday. The life peer had been diagnosed with bone marrow cancer earlier this year. Born ...
MIASNIK MALKHASSIAN UNDER MEDICAL OBSERVATION
“The state of Armenian MP Miasnik Malkassian detained in connection with the March 1 unrest has worsened,” the press secretary to the Penitentiary Department of the RoA Ministry of Justice, Arsen Babayan, ...
DAVID MATEVOSSIAN: “ATTEND THE OPPOSITION RALLY”
Defendant David Matevossian was welcomed with loud applauses and shouts in the RoA Appellate Court. Matevossian appeared in chains and stood in front of his family members who had arrived from Meghri. ...
DELIVERY IS UP IN ARMENIA
In the first half of 2008, 7014 children were born in Yerevan’s maternity hospitals which is up by 5 percent compared with the same period of last year, said Armen Soghoyan, Head of the Department of ...
VERDICT SUSTAINED
Armenia’s Appellate Court sustained the verdict of Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash districts on postponing Armenian MP Smbat Aivazian’s custody for another two months. Sasun Mikayelian was detained ...
LEVON TER-PETROSSIAN WAS THE FIRST
“Most families of Armenia’s political prisoners hardly afford their bare necessities. They have appeared in abject despair after the detention of their husbands, brothers and fathers. As our chances ...