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Headlines for February 08, 2012HEAVY SNOWFALL BLOCKS SOME ROADS IN ARMENIA
Interstate roads, highways and mountain passes in Armenia are difficult to pass, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports.
Some sections of roads are covered with glaze ice. Selim Mountain Pass and ...ARTHUR ABRAHAM'S NEXT BOUT MARCH 31
Former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham will be back in the ring again on March 31 at the Sparkassen-Arena in Kiel, Germany. Although an opponent has not yet been named, "King Arthur" will be ...SNOW REMOVAL OPERATIONS ARE NOT CARRIED OUT IN YEREVAN
All roads connecting Yerevan with its suburbs have been impassable since early morning. Urban public transports could hardly drive on snow-covered roads. Residents of Avan and Nor Nork districts had great ...IRAN PARLIAMENT SUMMONS PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
Iran's parliament has summoned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, BBC reports. Ahmadinejad faces a long list of questions about the state ...ANC POSTPONES ITS SITTING
The Political Council of the Armenian National Congress has postponed its recurrent session on demand of its member parties.
"Representatives of the 18 political parties that make up the opposition bloc ...LAWMAKERS LEAVE NA SITTING HALL
The National Assembly today discussed the draft laws on making amendments and addenda to the Laws on Public Service and Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly. The Heritage faction MPs emphasized ...OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP CONVENES FIRST SESSION
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia hosted the first session of the Armenian Action Plan Working Group within the framework of the Open Government Partnership initiative.
The group ...MONITORING HELD NEAR HORADIZ VILLAGE
On February 8, in accordance with the earlier agreement with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission held scheduled monitoring of the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed ...RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY ARRIVES IN ARMENIA
Secretary of the National Security Council of Russia Nikolai Patrushev arrived in Armenia today at the invitation of his Armenian counterpart Arthur Baghdasaryan.
The Russian delegation comprises the ...BAKO SAHAKYAN HOLDS WORKING CONSULTATION
On February 8, President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan held a working consultation with heads of regional administrations of the republic.
The heads of the regional administrations reported to ...DOLLAR PRICE UP IN ARMENIA
Deals amounting to $2 200 000 at an average price of AMD 389/USD 1 were concluded at NASDAQ OMX Armenia on February 8. The closing price was AMD 389 / USD 1, the RA Central Bank reports.
Remind that the ...GAY PARADE CONTROVERSY IN AZERBAIJAN
By Aliya Haqverdi - Caucasus
A proposal to hold a gay pride parade during this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Baku has sparked anger among conservatives in the mainly Muslim state of Azerbaijan. A ...VETERAN OF 5 SPACE SHUTTLE FLIGHTS DIES AT 55
NASA astronaut Janice Voss passed away from cancer at the age of 55. One of only six women who have flown in space five times, Voss' career was highlighted by her work and dedication to scientific payloads ...CAR GETS STUCK IN SNOW
Armenia's Rescue Service received a distress call on February 8 that a car had veered off the road and got stuck in snow on Gavar-Sevan roadway in Gegharkunik marz.
On arriving at the scene, rescuers ..."POST-SCRIPTUM" TO HOST STEPAN MNATSAKANYAN
The program "Post-Scriptum" will host on Wednesday head of the National Statistical Service of Armenia Stepan Mnatsakanyan.
You can send your questions to ps@a1plus.am or call at 58 54 27.
"Post Scriptum" ...FLIGHTS ARE NOT DELAYED
The heavy snowfall across Armenia has not disrupted ingoing and outgoing flights.
Armenia International Airports CJSC informed A1+ that all flights operate according to the schedule and none of them has ...COSTA CONCORDIA CAPTAIN HAS TO LIVE 2 697 YEARS
Francesco Schettino, the captain of the shipwrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia which capsized off the island of Giglio last month, faces up to 2 700 years in prison.
An Italian court has ruled that ...FORMULA OF BEAUTY BY ARMENIAN GRANDMA
Louisa Aghajanyan, a citizen of Armenia's Alaverdi city, was crowned the winner of Miss Grandma Universe in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia on January 19.
"When I got acquainted with the contestants and ..."AUTHORITIES STILL HAVE TIME TO AMEND THE SITUATION"
The Democratic Motherland Party has issued a statement urging the Armenian authorities to avoid repetition of March 1, 2008.
"Analyzing the actions of Armenian authorities since 2000 and the so-called ...NALBANDIAN: "CHARNY KNOWS WELL WHAT IT MEANS"
The answer of Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on the question at National Assembly
Question: According to some publications, Foreign Minister of Israel Liberman has said that the term Holocaust is ...OPPOSITION PRESENTS LIST TO DMITRY MEDVEDEV
Representatives of the Russian opposition have sent to President Dmitry Medvedev's office a list people whom they consider to be political prisoners. The opposition demands that the people included in ...MORE PEOPLE BECOME UNEMPLOYED AS ELECTIONS NEAR IN HRAZDAN
The struggle between the two mayoral candidates in the city of Hrazdan has heated up in recent days. If earlier the incumbent mayor, Republican Aram Danielyan presented his work of the past ten years, ...SITUATION IS DEPLORABLE IN PRISONS
Atrocities continue in prisons and other penal institutions, says Edmon Maroukyan, a member of public oversight group concerned with the situation in prisons. He recalled a case when all the prisoners ...ARMENIAN MIGRANTS IN MODERN-DAY SERFDOM
By Vahan Ishkhanyan - Caucasus
Rafik looks closer to 80 than his real age, 55, because the nine years he spent in virtual slavery in Russia ruined his health.
By the time he returned to his home in the ...TRIAL INTO SOLDIER'S DEATH AGAIN ADJOURNED
The trial into the case of Artak Nazaryan, who died under non-combat conditions in one of the military units in Tavush marz, was due to take place on February 8.
The sitting started with a 15-minute delay ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1806 General Tshitshianov is murdered in Baku.
- 1895 Constantinople's Armenian Patriarch, Matevos Izmirlian, in a letter to Turkey's Minister of Justice, informs him, in detail, of the illegal actions of Turks in the Armenian Provinces, including the murders and deportations of the Armenians.
- 1914 The Great Powers and Turkey sign an Armenian Improvements Project. The Dutch official, Westenenk and the Norwegian envoy, Hoff arrive in Constantinople as observers. Because of the start of the First World War, the agreement remains a dead letter.
- 1915 The Young Turks' "Union and Progress" Committee creates a special Sub-Committee for organizing deportations and genocide of the Armenians in Turkey.
- 1918 Death of Dr. Vaheh Minassian the translator Hayneh.
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