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Headlines for February 09, 2012HANDBOOK FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST TRAFFICKING
Tomorrow the OSCE Office in Yerevan will release an instructional handbook on the fight against human trafficking for law-enforcement bodies. The capacity building of law-enforcement bodies in the fight ...MINISTER TO WRAP UP THE YEAR
On February 10, the advisory board of the RA Ministry of Emergency Situations will hold a session to sum up the results of the ministry's activities in 2011. During the session, RA Minister of Emergency ...LIVE RPA-ANC DEBATE ON "A1+"
Deputy of the Republican Party of Armenia Artak Davtyan and member of the Armenian National Congress, leader of the "People's Power" social-political initiative Zoya Tadevosyan will debate at "Hayeli" ...STATE OF EMERGENCY EXPECTED IN ARMENIA?
"The RA draft law "On the Legal Regime for the State of Emergency" should be legitimized," Deputy of the Republican Party of Armenia Hakob Hakobyan declared during today's press conference. "That law ...GOVERNMENT DENIES ARF-D AND "HERITAGE"
"Making a transition to the 100 percent proportional electoral order is untimely." Accepting this as a basis, the Armenian government today denied the legislative initiative presented by "Heritage" and ...NIKOL PASHINYAN TO RUN?
Rumor in Tavush province has it that editor-in-chief of "Haykakan Zhamanak" newspaper Nikol Pashinyan is likely to run in the elections for the National Assembly through the majoritarian electoral order ...WHO IS MORE THAN ONE DEPUTY?
Deputy of the "Heritage" faction Larisa Alaverdyan got off line during the vote on bills today.
Alaverdyan said she was certain that 67 deputies weren't present at the National Assembly, according to ...LAST RALLY
Member of the Armenian National Congress, former mayor of Hrazdan and current candidate for mayor Sasun Mikayelyan will hold his last pre-electoral rally at the Constitution Square in Hrazdan at 16:00 ...REPUBLICANS IN STRUGGLE ALREADY
The two incumbent and former village heads of Arshaluys village of Armavir province will be in a heated struggle for the office of village mayor on February 12. Both candidates are members of the Republican ...URBAN DEVELOPMENT: PATH LEADING FORWARD
Mayor or Yerevan, Chairperson of the Urban Development Council Taron Margaryan headed the first session of the Urban Development Council of Yerevan in 2012. The only item on the agenda was the regulation ...HOW MUCH MONEY ALLOCATED TO CEC?
During its subsequent session today, the government decided to allocate sums to the RA Central Electoral Commission for replenishing the electoral commissions at the polling stations and providing them ...FESTIVE RECEPTION IN GEORGIA
A festive reception dedicated to 20th anniversary of the formation of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia was held in Tbilisi on February 8.
The event was attended by RA Ambassador Extraordinary ...CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS TO HZBOLLAH?
The number of people dying as a result of the inter-political crisis in Syria is growing day after day. More than 117 people died on February 8.
According to data provided by the National Al-Arabia Television ...TENNIS PLAYER LOSES 60 MILLION DOLLARS
In her newly released autobiography, famous Spanish tennis player Aranta Sanchez-Vicario has written that her parents spent the 60 million dollars that she earned.
"I never had a doubt that my father ...PRINCIPAL RESIGNS
Principal of the school in Akoru village Anahit Musayelyan has told her staff that she intends to resign from office and that her resignation is in the interests of the students. However, Musayelyan isn't ...COMMUNIQUE ON THEFT FIVE YEARS LATER
On February 8 at 15:00, police officers arrested a 47-year old woman and took her to the Davitashen police division. The woman is suspected of stealing from a house located at Barbyus Street in Yerevan.
In ..."NO THREAT TO COURTS"
During a state of emergency, the army can only be used when the police and the National Security forces are no longer capable of maintaining the constitutional order, says the RA Minister of Justice. "Someone ..."ELECTIONS IN HRAZDAN WILL BE FALSIFIED"
Deputy of the National Assembly Larisa Alaverdyan said the elections for mayor in Hrazdan will be falsified and that falsification has already turned into a custom in Armenia.
During today's discussion ...DEMONSTRATORS MEET SARGSYAN'S REPRESENTATIVE
A group of cheated citizens gathered near the government building today and tried to prove that their homes are now in the hands of officials due to trickery. The citizens had a meeting with Serzh Sargsyan's ..."AGAINST" IN 1996, "FOR" NOW
The National Assembly today passed the bill "On Setting a Legal Regime for State of Emergency" by the first reading.
Chairman of the Public Council Vazgen Manukyan told "A1+" that the Public Council had ...PARTIES TURN EPP MEMBERS
Representatives of the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), "Country of Law" Party (OEK) and "Heritage" Party are participating in the political conference of the European People's Party in Brussels. The ...MARGAR OHANYAN'S CASE ENTERS NEW STAGE
The RA Special Investigative Service today ended the criminal case on former RA Road Patrol Chief Margar Ohanyan, Commander of the RP 2nd Officer Battalion Stepan Karakhanyan, Chief of the RP Economic ...SERZH SARGSYAN VISITS PATIENT
Serzh Sargsyan today visited academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, highly distinguished professor Sergey Sarinyan at Yerevan Medical Center.
Sargsyan wished the renowned intellectual ...HYATT HOTEL TO BE BUILT IN YEREVAN
The Mayor of Yerevan had a meeting with Vice-President of Hyatt International in Europe and Central Asia.
Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan discussed Hyatt International's investment programs in Yerevan ...PM APPOINTS SRC DEPUTY HEAD
By the decision of RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Armen Alaverdyan has been relieved of the office of Deputy Head of the State Revenue Committee adjunct to the Government of the Republic of Armenia ...MAYOR MEETS AMBASSADOR
Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan today met UK Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia Catherine Jane Lich. According to the Department of Information and Public Relations of Yerevan Municipality, ..."A1+" APPEAL DENIED AGAIN
The RA Court of Appeals today denied Meltex Ltd's appeal filed against the National Commission on Television and Radio (NCTR) and ArmNews CJSC and left the verdict that the court of general jurisdiction ...OMBUDSMAN SAYS GOVERNMENT IS INACTIVE
For years, nearly 800 citizens of Armenia haven't been receiving their compensations for damages caused to their health during labor. Nearly 100 of them are former civil aviation employees that had a ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1750 Birth of Harootyoon Shmavonyan (public figure). He died in 1824.
- 1888 Birth of Koghbetlyan in Nor Nakhijevan (Rostov, Russia). He was a mathematician, geophysicist and inventor.
- 1916 Senate Concurrent Resolution 12 resolved that "the President of the United States be respectfully asked to designate a day on which the citizens of this country may give expression to their sympathy by contributing funds now being raised for the relief of the Armenians", who at the time were enduring "starvation, disease, and untold suffering".
- 1921 Proclamation on the opening of literacy courses for illiterate and semi-literate citizens.
- 1939 Birth of Yervand Terzyan in Alexandropol (Gyoomree). He later became an astronomer and a member of the International Union of Astronomy. He was a Deputy Director of the Radiophysics and Cosmic Research Department at Cornell University (USA).
- 1953 Death of "Mother" Sosseh.
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