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Headlines for March 25, 2011BEGLARYAN PREFERS LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
Former mayor of Yerevan Gagik Beglaryan dismissed rumors about his possible appointment as Head of the State Committee of Real Estate Cadastre under Armenian Government.
"I picture myself in the system ...EARTH HOUR: TURN OFF LIGHTS
The UN Office in Armenia urges the Armenians to join people of the planet and to turn off non-essential lights on Saturday night, 26 March from 20:30-21:30 to observe Earth Hour.
Turning off the lights ...WOMEN LOSING OUT IN GEORGIAN
By Shorena Latatia - Caucasus
Female representation in Georgian politics has fallen to its lowest level since the country became independent in 1991, and leading activists are now asking parties to set ...CAN HAK BE MORE CATHOLIC THAN THE POPE?
All opposition forces are already united, said the Chairman of Democratic Motherland Party, Petros Makeyan.
He says the party has sided with the opposition since its formation in 1998 and he is well aware ...WILL PARLIAMENT SPEAKER VISIT RAFFI HOVANNISIAN?
Leader of opposition Heritage party Raffi Hovannisian, who declared "Freedom Fast" at Yerevan's Liberty Square on March 15, will continue his hunger strike until Armenian authorities pledge to make radical ...SERZH SARGSYAN SIGNED DECREE ON SPRING RECRUITMENT
Serzh Sargsyan has signed a decree on 2011 spring recruitment and demobilization.
Under the presidential decree, those male citizens who turn 18 before the draft day, as well as those who lost the deferment ...ARMENIA'S TOP BRASS PAYS TRIBUTE TO ANDRANIK MARGARYAN
Armenia's top brass led by Serzh Sargsyan today visited the Pantheon after Komitas to pay tribute to Armenia's late Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan who died on March 25, 2007, at the age of 56.
Serzh ...SCPEC DELEGATION PARTICIPATES IN STATE ORDER 2011 FORUM EXHIBITION
A delegation of the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition (SCPEC) headed by SCPEC Chairman Artak Shaboyan is participating in the special sitting of the International Council of ...AMENDED CRIMINAL CODE PUT INTO FORCE
On March 25, Serzh Sargsyan signed the law on making amendments and addend to the Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia, RA President's press office reports.TWO HOSPITALIZED AFTER TWO CARS COLLIDE IN YEREVAN
Two people were injured as a Lada Kalina and Vaz 21 collided at the intersection of Khanjyan and Vardanants streets this night.
Both drivers, Andranik Gasparyan (born in 1983) and Martun Vardapetyan (born ...ZEYTUN STUDENTS' HOSTEL HAS NO VACANT ROOMS
Over 1230 students stay in the seventh building of Zeytun students' community. The hostel once had ten buildings. Today only one of them is occupied by students. Under the government's decision other ...FEARS FOR UNSCHOOLED GIRLS' FUTURE IN AZERBAIJAN
By Samira Ahmedbeyli - Caucasus
Politicians in Azerbaijan are worried that poverty and prejudices are forcing young women to miss out on education, thus limiting their future opportunities.In Soviet times, ...LIGHT OF SOUL VS. GAPING MAW
Throughout his life, Van Khachatur, the founder of contemporary monumental art in Armenia, has tried to prove that Armenian art is comparable to, and in many respects, superior to European values. Khachatur ...EARTHQUAKE NEAR BORDER, TREMORS FELT IN ARMENIA
A 4-5 -magnitude earthquake hit 30 km south-east of Hadrut, near the border of Nagorno-Karabakh, Iran and Azerbaijan. The force of the earthquake was 6.
Tremors were felt in Armenia as well, the National ...RUSSIAN FOOTBALL FANS DETAINED IN YEREVAN
Several Russian football fans who arrived in Yerevan on Thursday to watch the Armenia-Russia qualifier due on March 26 have been arrested at Yerevan's international airport, RA Police press service reported.
Earlier ...ARMENIA TO SHIFT TO SUMMER TIME MARCH 27
In line with the Law on Calculation of Time on the Territory of the Republic of Armenia, Armenia will shift to summer time on March 27.
At 2 a.m., the hands of the clock must be drawn an hour forward ...VARDAN MINASYAN: "OUR MAIN TASK IS TO SHOW BEAUTIFUL FOOTBALL"
Armenian national team members are in a good psychological and physical shape and are ready for the UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier against Russia, chief coach of the Armenian national team Vardan Minasyan said ...NAZARYAN IS NO WAY LINKED TO TAMAMYAN'S CASE
Chief of Yerevan Police Department, Major General Nerses Nazaryan has been called in for interrogation in connection with the case against Hovhannes Tamamyan, former head of the Criminal Investigation ..."WE CONVEY OUR STRENGTH TO OUR FOOTBALLERS"
Armenian football fans started to encourage the Armenian national team ahead of the Armenia-Russia Euro 2012 qualifier.
Members of the Miasin (Together) youth movement today held "a football march" from ...NA SPEAKER URGES RAFFI HOVANNISIAN TO STOP HUNGER STRIKE
National Assembly deputies headed by NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan today visited Heritage Party Leader Raffi Hovannisian who has been staging a hunger strike in a key Yerevan square for 11 days.
Among those ...HAK: "THIS IS ABSOLUTE CYNICISM"
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) has issued a statement condemning recent police violence against the jailed editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper Nikol Pashinyan.
"The regime's ...NIKITA SIMONIAN AWARDED WITH ORDER OF HONOUR
Serzh Sargsyan today received the legendary football player, multiple winner of the USSR tournaments and Olympic Games, FIFA, UEFA and International Olympic Committee Gold Medal recipient, Designated ...SERZH SARGSYAN TO MEET AHMADINEJAD
On March 27, Serzh Sargsyan will pay a working visit to Tehran at the invitation of his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Sargsyan will meet with Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as ...ASTRONOMERS FIND THE COLDEST STAR IN THE UNIVERSE
Astronomers have discovered the coolest star known in the galaxy with a surface only as hot as a freshly made cup of tea. The alien sun, termed a brown dwarf, is thought to be a star that lacks enough ...ARMENIA VS. RUSSIA 4:4
Football veterans of Armenian and Russian teams held a friendly match on the eve of Armenia vs. Russia EURO 2012 qualifier.
The match ended 4:4.POLICE TO CHECK FANS BEFORE ARMENIA-RUSSIA QUALIFYING MATCH
About 1000 football fans have arrived in Armenia from Russia to watch the Armenia-Russia Euro 2012, Yerevan Police Chief Nerses Nazaryan told journalists on Friday.
Another 500 Russian fans are due in ...ADVOCAAT EXPECTS TO WITNESS ATTACKING GAME
The chief coach of the Russian football team, Dick Advocaat, expects a beautiful attacking game to be shown on Yerevan's Republic Stadium on March 26, Advocaat told a news conference on the eve of Armenia ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1877 Birth of public and political figure Sargis (Sergo) Khanoyan in Tbilissi. In 1937 he was killed -- a victim of Stalin's terror.
- 1912 Birth of Martin Karamian, writer and translator in Varkhuno, Georgia. He worked to improve Armenian-Georgian literary relations.
- 1929 The People's Commissariat of Education of the Armenian SSR approves the Kurdish alphabet for the Kurdish Minority in Armenia.
- 1998 The American-Armenian physician Jack Gevorgian, for the first time in history, implemented the suicide, by lethal injection of drugs, of a patient suffering from an incurable disease. The court sentenced him to a long prison term for his "act of mercy".
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