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Headlines for December 19, 2011

NZHK'S APPEAL ARMENIAN DELEGATES
A delegation headed by Serzh Sargsyan will lead for Moscow on December 19 to attend the session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the session of ...
HHSH YOUTH UNION ELECTS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The 13th youth union congress of the Armenian National Movement (HHSh) adopted a statement concerning the jailed HHSh activist Tigran Arakelyan. "The August 9 standoff between the activists of the Armenian ...
LIFE-TERMER GOES ON HUNGER STRIKE
Another life-termer has started hunger strike in the Nubarashen penitentiary in Armenia to join Arthur Mkrtchyan who has been on strike since December 6. "Life-term prisoner Emil Verdyan has been taken ...
NORTH KOREAN LEADER DIES ON TRAIN
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il has died, reportedly during a train ride. According to local media, the 69-year-old Kim Jong-il died of "physical fatigue" during a train ride on Saturday, though a later ...
CHARLES AZNAVOUR RECEIVES MEDAL
Supreme Council-Deputy Club has awarded world-known Armenian chansonnier Charles Aznavour for his contribution to the protection of democracy and human rights in Armenia. The medal was established in ...
KHACHATUROV ISSUES SECRET ORDERS?
"We shall not keep silent" youth initiative has recently observed weird things in the central recruiting station in Yerevan. Specifically, the initiative states conscripts partly eligible for military ...
SHARMAZANOV BOWS DOWN TO HEROES
Spokesperson of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and newly elected National Assembly (NA) Vice-Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov is ill-disposed to all "abnormal phenomena," but he refuses to give ...
SERZH SARGSYAN OFF TO MOSCOW
Serzh Sargsyan left for Moscow on Monday on a working visit. He will attend the the session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the sitting of the ...
ARMEN ASHOTYAN TO VISIT FRANCE
Armenia's Minister of Education and Science, Armen Ashotyan, will pay an official visit to France on December 20. During the visit, Armen Ashotyan is scheduled to meet with French Minister for Cooperation ...
JUSTICE MINISTRY: "WE HAVE WHAT WE HAVE"
Armenia's Justice Ministry states that life-termer Arthur Mkrtchyan, who went on hunger strike in Nubarashen penitentiary on December 7, is under medical supervision. "Media outlets regularly refer to ...
SEYRAN OHANYAN LEAVES FOR MOSCOW
Armenia's Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan left for Moscow on Sunday to participate in the meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's (OSCE) regulatory bodies. In Moscow, Minister Ohanyan ...
MAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER BEING POISONED IN RESTAURANT
On December 16, E. Stepanyan (born in 1976), an employee of Parvana restaurant in Yerevan, was rushed to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning. His condition is of average severity.
GAS SUPPLY TO ARMENIA RESUMED
Natural gas supply to Armenia resumed on December 18. The gas supply was terminated on Friday connected with pending repair works to be carried out at the 67th-68th kilometer of the North Caucasus-Transcaucasia ...
LIFE-TERMER: "THE MINISTRY IS LYING"
Life-termer Arthur Mkrtchyan, who started hunger strike in the Nubarashen penitentiary two weeks ago, rejects the Justice Ministry's statement that he had been transferred to a 'furnished cell.' Today ...
DO NOT KILL YOUR DAUGHTERS!
On average each year Armenia potentially loses around 1400 future mothers, according to the UNFPA (the United Nations Population Fund) Armenia Country Office. Families with son preference are six times ...
POST-SCRIPTUM TO HOST ERVAND BOZOYAN
The program "Post-Scriptum" will host political scientist Ervand Bozoyan. You can send your questions to ps@a1plus.am or call at 58 54 27. "Post Scriptum" will be webcast live at 3:20 p.m. and repeated ...
BOMB ALERT AT MEDICAL AID STATION
The police in Yerevan received a call on Monday that a bomb is placed in one of the buildings at Dzorap 40. Policemen, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and a squad of rescuers arrived ...
BOY JUMPS OFF BRIDGE IN GYUMRI
A boy jumped off a bridge in Gyumri on Monday afternoon. Lernik Chalapyan, 16, was immediately rushed to hospital after Gyulbekyan where he personally reported his personal data to the nurse, Gyumri's ...
ANDRE WARD WINS SUPER SIX CUP
U.S. professional boxer Andre Ward has been named the Super Six World Boxing Classic champion and the No. 1 super middleweight in the world. Ward dominated England's Carl Froch to win a unanimous decision ...
LEGISLATOR UNAWARE OF LAWS?
Member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) Felix Khachatryan today enraged Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) member Hamlet Harutyunyan with his quotations from the Electoral Code. "Am I a child? I ...
ARMENIAN DELEGATIES PARTICIPATE IN CSTO SITTING
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan and Secretary of the National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan participated in the joint sitting of the Councils of Defense ...
NEW YEAR SUPRISE: POLICEMAN TURNS INTO SNOWMAN
At the threshold of New Year celebrations the Police in Yerevan have prepared a video depicting a policeman who is 'turning into' into a snowman. See the video.