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Published on January 30, 2012
BERD-CHAMBARAK ROADWAY IMPASSABLE
- All roads and highways in Armenia are open as of Monday, as of January 30. Only Selim Mountain Pass and Berd-Chambarak roadway are impassable, reports the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
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Headlines for January 30, 201220 STEPS TURKEY COULD TAKE TO WORSEN RELATIONS WITH FRANCE AFTER GENOCIDE VOTE
By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courier Turkey's leaders have been threatening France for months with various reprisals should the French government pass a law making it illegal to deny the ...ARMENIAN CATHOLICOS LEAVES FOR FRANCE AND ENGLAND
His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians left for France and England on January 30 to meet the benefactors of Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and diocesan divisions.
The ...EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TO ARRIVE IN ARMENIA
The EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and for the Crisis in Georgia, Ambassador Philippe Lefort will arrive in Yerevan on 30 January.
He will meet President Serge Sargsyan, National Assembly ...BERD-CHAMBARAK ROADWAY IMPASSABLE
All roads and highways in Armenia are open as of Monday, as of January 30. Only Selim Mountain Pass and Berd-Chambarak roadway are impassable, reports the Ministry of Emergency Situations."POST-SCRIPTUM" TO HOST PAP SECRETARY ARAM SAFARYAN
The program "Post-Scriptum" will host Secretary of the Prosperous Armenia Party Aram Safaryan.
You can send your questions to ps@a1plus.am or call at 58 54 27.
"Post Scriptum" will be webcast live ...SERGEI MOVSESIAN BEATS ANNA ZATONSKIKHI
Armenia's Sergei Movsesian beat Anna Zatonskikhi at the 6th round of the Gibraltar Chess Festival Masters tournament. After the victory, the Armenian GM gained 4,5 points.
Armenia's Gabriel Sargsyan ties ...NO ONE KNOWS WHERE ASALA FIGHTER WAS BURIED
St. Poghos-Petros church in Paris offered a liturgy on Sunday in memory of ASALA freedom fighter Levon Ekmekdjian.
On August 7, 1982, ASALA organized the EsenboÄa International Airport attack in Ankara, ...PARLIAMENT SPEAKER STILL HAS TIME TO ANSWER LETTER
Armenian Parliament Speaker Samvel Nikoyan has not answered the written proposal of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun, Heritage and Prosperous Armenia party who suggest switching to full proportional electoral system.
According ...FOUR THINGS OPPONENTS OF PAP-ANC COOPERATION SUFFER FROM
Three parties have remained in the political domain - the Prosperous Armenia Party, the Republican Party of Armenia and opposition Armenian National Congress - which will take seats in parliament, says ...SARKOZY PUSHES NEW COMPETITIVE PLAN, PROMISES TO RAISE SALES TAX
In April 2012, France will hold recurrent presidential election; however President Nicolas Sarkozy has not yet officially announced his candidacy for re-election.Sarkozy said he still had time to do it. ...LYUDMILA AZIZYAN TO MANAGE DPA PRE-ELECTION OFFICE
The Democratic Party of Armenia convened a sitting to discuss the party's participation in the upcoming parliamentary vote.
Lyudmila Azizyan was appointed coordinator of the party's pre-election office, ...SAAKASHVILI INVITED TO WHITE HOUSE
U.S. President Barack Obama today received his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili at the Oval Office of the White House.
Political commentators have emphasized the meeting, especially at the threshold ...WILL POLITICAL PROCESSES ACCELERATE OSKANIAN'S DECISION?
Oskanian's Statement on elections "I firmly believe that it is of utmost importance that Armenia hold free and fair parliamentary elections," said Armenia's ex-Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian. "Armenia ...ZURABYAN WARNS MEDIA OUTLETS NOT TO SPREAD FALSE INFORMATION
Coordinator of the Armenian National Congress Levon Zurabyan says it is pointless to speak about extraordinary parliamentary elections at present. However, early presidential elections remain on the agenda ...ON THE EXCHANGE
Deals amounting to USD 5 500 000 at an average price of AMD 387/USD 1 were concluded at NASDAQ OMX Armenia on January 30. The closing price comprised AMD 387/USD 1, reports the RA Central Bank.SALVAGERS START COSTA CONCORDIA €RECOVERY'
Owners of Costa Concordia decided to remove the submerged 114,500-tonne cruise ship that ran aground on rocks off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January, with more than 4,200 people on board.
"The ...SOLDIER KILLED IN KARABAKH
A serviceman died of a gunshot wound in a military unit in Karabakh on January 27, about 3 a.m. local time.
Soldier of the same unit Khachatur Sargsyan was arrested on January 28 on suspicion of murdering ...WE SHOULD HONOUR OURSELVES TO BE HONOURED BY OTHERS
In Georgia, people read newspapers to learn what they have written against Armenians, says Armenian architectural expert Samvel Karapetyan.
The historian has lost confidence in Georgian authorities who ...EACH CHILD TO RECEIVE $2,000
Each of the 27 children suffering from suffering from leukemia and being under treatment will receive U.S. $2,000.
The Tashir charity foundation will transfer the funds through the Ognem (Let me help) ...ARTHUR YEDIGARYAN OFF TO ANTALYA
Midfielder of Pyunik Yerevan Arthur Yedigaryan has left for Antalya to participate in the training of FC Khimki.
The club reports on its website that the Armenian midfielder will play two friendly matches ...ARMENIANS FRUSTRATED ÇAVUÅOÄLU'S PLANS?
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has frozen the activity of its subcommittee on Nagorno-Karabakh.
"The new bureau headed by PACE new President Jean-Claude Mignon took a sound ...SHARMAZANOV HAS TO RECALL FAMOUS ANIMAL
Armenian National Assembly Vice-Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov commented on his Azerbaijani counterpart Bahar Muradova's statement who urged that Turkey assume co-chairmanship in the OSCE Minsk Group instead ...ARMENIAN FM MEETS EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received on Monday EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and for the Crisis in Georgia, Ambassador Philippe Lefort.
The interlocutors discussed a ...TURKEY'S FIRST MISS WORLD DIES AT 99
Keriman Halis Tamer, who became Turkey's first Miss World in 1932, died of heart failure in Istanbul.
Tamer beat out seven other candidates at the Miss Turkey beauty pageant on July 2, 1932, allowing ...SLAIN SOLDIER BURIED JAN 30
Serviceman Paylak Shahnazaryan, who died in one of the military units in Nagorno-Karabakh on Jan. 27, was buried today.
According to reports, Shahnazaryan was sleeping when his co-serviceman Khachatur ...
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Today in Armenian history- 410 Birth of Movses Khorenatsi (historian).
- 1799 Birth of Edward Hyoormoozyan of the Mkhitarist Congregation (Armenian Roman Catholic Order) in Constantinople. He died in 1876 in Rome.
- 1901 Birth of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of Armenia's Communist Party, Aghassee Khanjyan. He was one of the many murdered by Lavrentee Beria in July, 1936 in Tbilisi, where he was invited for consultations.
- 1915 According to statistical data, from the end of 1914 to the beginning of 1915, about 49800 Armenians emigrated from Western Armenia, Persia and the bordering regions of Turkey, to the ten provinces of Yerevan and Tbilisi.
- 1927 First Graduation Ceremony of Yerevan State University students at the Culture House of Yerevan.
- 1975 Opening of the Yeghisheh Charents Museum in Yerevan.
- 2001 French President Jacques Chirac signs the law recognizing the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. From now on, no one in France has the right to deny the fact of the Armenian Genocide.
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