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Headlines for January 11, 2012

PROSECUTOR AND HIS WIFE GUNNED DOWN
Oleg Ukhin, a prosecutor from the Chelyabinsk regional prosecutor's office, has been gunned down with his wife on their way to a kindergarten. Ukhin's wife died on the spot. He was rushed to the intensive ...
NSC SECRETARY OFF TO BELARUS
Secretary of the Armenian National Security Council (NSC) Artur Baghdasaryan has left for Belarus on an official visit. On the sidelines of the visit, the NSC Secretary will meet with Belarusian President ...
ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO HOLD CAMPAIGN IN TEGHUT
Environmentalists are organizing a cognitive campaign in Lori Marz (province) that will mark the start of new actions in support of Teghut. In Vanadzor they will be joined by their local adherents. They ...
VARDAN BOSTANJYAN INJURED HIS LEG
Prosperous Armenia Party MP Vardan Bostanjyan was to meet journalists at the "Urbat" (Friday) Club on Wednesday to speak about the upcoming elections. However, journalists were asked to depart since Bostanjyan ...
FIVE REPUBLICANS RUN IN LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS
Elections to local self-government bodies will be held in nine regions in Armenia on February 12. Registration of candidates will continue at the district electoral commissions till January 13. Twenty ...
NORTH KOREA TO PUNISH NON-MOURNERS
North Korean citizens, who did not mourn the death of former leader Kim Jong-il, are persecuted and sent to prison. Tens of thousands of people endured freezing temperatures in Pyongyang on December 28, ...
RPA PERVERTS CONSTITUTION?
Transition to 100-percent proportional electoral system proposed by the Heritage and ARF-Dashnaktsutyun parties does not suggest constitutional changes, says ARF-Dashnaktsutyun MP Artsvik Minasyan. Note ...
MAYOR'S ADVISOR VS. MAYOR
Advisor to the mayor of Hrazdan city will run in the local mayoral election. According to the chairman of Territorial Electoral Commission N 25 Armen Badalyan, three candidates have submitted the necessary ...
RPA TO CONVENE CONSULTATION JAN 11
The Republican Party of Armenia will convene a consultation in the RPA Central office on Wednesday evening, RPA Spokesman, Parliament Vice-Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov told A1+. RPA President Serzh Sargsyan ...
CHARLES AZNAVOUR HANDS OVER CERTIFICATES OF GRATITUDE
On January 10, the Armenian Embassy in Switzerland hosted a ceremony during which certificates of gratitude were handed to a number of representatives of Swiss Armenian community and Armenian organizations. Armenian ...
MIRACLE IN CHINA ATTRACTS TOURISTS
Residents of Chinese Chzhetsyan Province have witnessed a rare phenomenon: a 1000-meter waterfall completely froze. The amazing scene captured the attention of many tourists who harried to photograph ...
BMW HITS YEGHEGNADZOR TOWN
A BMW car driven by A. Vardanyan (born in 1989) ran into the wall of a house in Armenia's Yeghegnadzor town on Tuesday evening. A rescue squad was dispatched to the scene immediately. Rescuers removed ...
"POST-SCRIPTUM" TO HOST CHIEF WINEMAKER
The program "Post-Scriptum" will host President of Armenian Winemakers' Union Avag Harutyunyan. You can send your questions to ps@a1plus.am or call at 58 54 27. "Post Scriptum" will be webcast live ...
IRANIAN SCIENTIST KILLED IN CAR EXPLOSION
An Iranian nuclear scientist who worked at one of the country's uranium enrichment plants has been killed by a bomb that had been attached to his car in capital Tehran. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, died ...
MIRROR LOVER DETAINED
Yerevan Police Malatia Department have detained Tuesday a 21-year-old youth on theft charges. The young man reportedly stole the side mirrors of a BMW X5 parked in Sebastia street, thereby causing a material ...
ARMENIA HAS NO URANIUM RESERVES?
One New Year Eve, on 29 December 2011, the Armenian Government reached a decision to permit Armenian-Russian Mining Organization (ARMO) to increase chartered capital by 590 million AMD (about1,3 million ...
DO NOT WORRY! CLIMATE CHANGES DO NOT CAUSE EARTHQUAKE
Climate changes or hot weather does not cause earthquakes. Earthquakes occur in any weather and at any hour of the day, in winter and in summer," said Hrachya Petrosyan, Head of the National Seismic Protection ...
LADA LOUTS IN AZERBAIJAN
By Nigar Musayeva - Caucasus Residents of the Azerbaijani capital Baku say they are being terrorised by groups of young men who race their cars through the city streets at night, and police are failing ...
VERNISSAGE TO OPEN IN ALVERDI
A vernissage (shopping market) will open in the Armenian city of Alaverdi which will exhibit paintings by different artists. Exhibitions will be held twice a week. The idea belongs to the principal of ...
VLADIMIR BELOUS RETAINS THE LEAD
Russia's Vladimir Belous keeps the lead at the chess tournament in memory of the ex-prime-minister of the Republic of Armenia Andranik Margaryan. In Round 3, the international master beat Georgia's Giorgi ...
"OPPOSITION WILL NOT BENEFIT FROM PROPORTIONAL SYSTEM"
Republican party MP Artak Davtyan does not think that the Heritage and ARF-Dashnaktsutyun parties will take seats in parliament, if the country switches to 100-percent proportional representation system. "At ...
"ARAVOT" REFUSES TO PARTICIPATE IN JUDICIAL PROCESS
Varduhi Hovhanyan, a judge in the General Jurisdiction Court of Lori Marz, has been sent a note stating that Aravot daily refuses to participate in the judicial process.
IRISH CHAIRMANSHIP'S PRIORITIES TO BE PRESENTED JAN 12
The new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Irish Deputy Prime Minister, Eamon Gilmore, will present the Irish Chairmanship's priorities to the OSCE Permanent Council on Thursday, 12 January in Vienna. These ...