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Published on November 24, 2011
RUSSIA IS ARMING
- To replenish the Russian Army with special arms and ammunition, the Government of the Russian Federation will allocate 1,109,000,000 rubles to the Ministry of Defense in 2012, and that number will increase up to 4 trillion in the next three years.
This is what former Russian Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov announced during a session held by the military-economic commission. According to him, that number is 17 percent more than this year's military budget, reports RIA Novosti.
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Headlines for November 24, 2011NATO EXPERT GROUP IN ARMENIA
An international expert group formed under the patronage of NATO to support military instruction reforms in Armenia is in Yerevan on another visit on November 23-26. The group includes representatives ...CO-CHAIR REPLACED
The OSCE Minsk Group's French Co-Chair Bernard Fassier will end his mission by the end of this year and will be replaced by the current French Ambassador to Ukraine Jacques For, reports the French Embassy ...TO CONVENE EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
The National Assembly will convene an extraordinary session to discuss the taxing legislation.
The Armenian government today held its ensuing session headed by RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan.
The government ...IMPRISONMENT TO CHANGE, IF...
RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan has given prosecutors of provinces and communities a clear instruction.
They will immediately change imprisonment as a precautionary measure, will terminate investigation ...MILITARY PROSECUTOR FULLY WORKING?
RA Military Prosecutor Gevorg Kostanyan today told journalists that he was fully working and that he was aware of all cases of soldiers that have died in peace.
Parents of soldiers who were killed or, ..."SARGSYAN FREEING HIMSELF OF RUSSIAN-ORIENTED"
Serzh Sargsyan is dismissing those who are oriented toward Russia. This is what former advisor to the RA President on national security Ashot Manucharyan claims.
Manucharyan says this is being done by ...WHO IS TAKING PART IN TSARUKYAN'S BIRTHDAY?
"They need to wash their brains and make sound judgments," this is Prosperous Armenia Party's MP Naira Zohrabyan's advice to those who are currently gathering information about where and how PAP leader ...MD LEADERS WARN AZERBAIJAN
The leadership of the RA Defense Army will take adequate measures to suspend frequent shootings toward soldiers carrying out their border servivce in the Armenian positions.
"Azerbaijani snipers killed ...PROMISING BRIBE TO OFFICIAL TO BE PUNISHED
The government suggests that the National Assembly recognize as criminally persecutable not only receiving help from a state official, but also demanding that help, as well as a promise for illegal payment ...ARMENIA INDIFFERENT TO NK PROCESS?
Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Araz Azimov today told Azerbaijani presses that "Azerbaijan doesn't expect any outcome from the next visit of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to the region ...RED RIBBON NOT CUT EVERY DAY IN COPENHAGEN
The official opening of the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia was held in the Kingdom of Denmark. Attending the opening were RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan, Minister for European Affairs of Denmark ...PRESIDENT EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES
President of the Republic of Artsakh Bako Sahakyan sent a telegram of condolence to RA Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan.
In the telegram it is stated: "I was informed with sorrow about the death ...ARMENIA TO BE GRANTED 65 MILLION DOLLARS
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has confirmed the allocation of a 65 million dollar loan to Armenia. The loan is being given for the expansion of small and medium businesses and entreprises.
The loan ...NEW ROAD TO TBILISI
The transit highways linking Armenia's center with Georgia will be renovated. The Armenian government has given consent to the conception for the reconstruction of Armenia's main transit highways.
That ...ARMENIAN DELEGATES PACKED THEIR BAGS
The Armenian delegation has managed to abort the ensuing session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation to be held in Albania on November 21-24. The delegation did this because ...ARMENIANS TO CLEAN GEORGIA'S ROADS TOO
An Armenian-Georgian joint commission will be established to clean the snow on the border of the road linking Georgia with Russia. This is what RA Minister of Transport and Communication Manuk Vardanyan ...WILL ARMENIA CHOOSE THE U.S. OR IRAN?
Economist Vahagn Khachatryan doesn't rule out Armenia being forced to sign a document prohibiting any economic cooperation with Iran.
The U.S. and Europe are talking about applying new sanctions anyone ...GOVERNOR RESIGNS?
Rumor has it that governor of Gegharkunik province Nver Poghosyan has resigned. This information is already being discussed in the province.
However, representatives of the department of information and ...MAYOR OF MOSCOW CONGRATULATES
The mayor of Moscow has congratulated Taron Margaryan on being elected Mayor of Yerevan.
In Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin's message it is particularly stated:
"I am certain that from this point on, ...V. GHUKASYAN INFORMS TURK GUESTS
Mayor of Gyumri Vardan Ghukasyan today reminded the Turk guests about the disagreements between the two neighboring countries during a meeting with Turk businessmen from the Turkish cities of Ankara and ...PROPOSES TO REPLACE BENTLEY WITH NAREKATSI
Former national security advisor to the RA President Ashot Manucharyan says he is not a member of the ANC because the latter is not proposing a complete change.
Manucharyan says he sees "sectors that ...RUSSIA IS ARMING
To replenish the Russian Army with special arms and ammunition, the Government of the Russian Federation will allocate 1,109,000,000 rubles to the Ministry of Defense in 2012, and that number will increase ...MARCH IN YEREVAN
Members of the "Miasin" Youth Movement today held a march in Yerevan with signs reading "Our Language is Armenian" and "You Are Distorting the Native Language". They started from the Cascade Complex, ...CIS INTER-RELIGION COUNCIL SESSION IN YEREVAN
Leaders and representatives of the conventional religions of CIS countries (Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism) will participate in a session of the presidency of the CIS Inter-Religion Council ...TO PUBLISH DECLARATION FOR SERZH SARGSYAN'S RESIGNATION
The Armenian National Congress central office has not received any alarms from the provinces due to the tradition of closing roads for cars traveling from the provinces to the capital ahead of the rally.
The ...FRANCE WON'T BUY OIL FROM IRAN
France will no longer purchase oil from Iran. This is what representative of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bernard Valero announced today.
He also informed that the application of sanctions against ...DEMAND RELEASE OF "CAPTIVE TO REMORSE"
Tomorrow the Committee on International Control over the Human Rights Situation in Belarus (representative of the Committee in Armenia is the Helsinki Association) will organize a picket in defense of ...SHARMAZANOV: "ANC'S PREDICTIONS DIDN'T COME TRUE"
The Republican Party of Armenia discussed issues related to the party during a working meeting, which ended a short while ago. This is what RPA press speaker Eduard Sharmazanov told "A1+". According to ...SERZH SARGSYAN CONVENES SESSION
RA President, Chairman of the National Security Council Serzh Sargsyan today convened a session of the National Security Council.
The conceptual documents on reforms for and development of civil defense, ...WHO WILL BUILD THE NORTH-SOUTH ROAD?
The RA Ministry of Transport and Communication has opened the packages of technical proposals to select an advisor for the management of the investment plan for the North-South Road Passage. Packages ...DESTROYED DALMA GARDENS
Former owners of the Dalma Gardens are surprised to see that the construction equipment has demolished the gardens. "They have destroyed my trees, just like the cross-stones that were destroyed in Nakhichevan," ...CENTER WARNS DRIVERS
The crisis management center at the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations warns drivers that cars with nylon and worn out tires cause traffic jams and accidents on the country's roads. "We suggest refraining ...TSUNAMI CAUSES THREAT TO JAPAN
An earthquake with a 6.1 magnitude struck the Hokaido Island located north of Japan. The national department of meteorologists has reported a tsunami that causes a threat to the island.
The epicenter ...TV HOST FIRED FOR SHOWING MIDDLE FINGER
Russian REN TV host Tatyana Limonova has been fired after showing the middle finger when pronouncing the name of U.S. President Barack Obama during a live broadcast. The television station's administration ...MAYOR GIVES URGENT ASSIGNMENT
Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan has assigned the heads of all districts and corresponding structures to start working round-the-clock.
Due to the snow in Yerevan, he has assigned to mobilize the existing ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1895 Birth of Hrachia Nerssissyan (actor). He died in 1961.
- 1913 Death of H.F.B. Lynch in London of Irish parentage. Besides his study of law, he became noted as a writer, a geographer, a politician, and a traveller, with a keen interest in Armenia. His two-volume book on his Armenia travels is a classic and describes life in Armenia at the end of the 19th century. In 1906, he was elected to serve as a member of the British Parliament. (He was born on 1862 04 18).
- 1920 The Tashnak government of Armenia falls. Simon Vratsian forms a new government.
- 1927 Death of Shooshanik Kiurghinyan (poetess) in Yerevan. She was born in 1876.
- 1940 Ceremonial inauguration of Lenin's monument, at Lenin Square in Yerevan.
- 1940 Yerevan's Zoological Garden is created.
- 1980 Opening of the meeting (in Yerevan) of Diasporan Armenian representatives.
- 1996 Robert Kocharian is re-elected for a second term as President of Artsakh. International observers witness the election.
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