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Published on February 17, 2012
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- The "Friday" club will host today opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) activist Sasun Mikayelyan who was participating the February 12 mayoral elections in the town of Hrazdan. The meeting will focus on the mayoral vote and post-election developments.
A1+ will webcast the press service live at 1:00 p.m. Before that we offer our viewers to watch the debate at the Mirror club at 12:00. The club will host Republican Mp Manvel Badeyan and former Foreign Minister of ARtsakh Arman Melikyan.
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Headlines for February 17, 2012PROSPECTS OF YEREVAN-BEIRUT SISTER CITIES DISCUSSED IN LEBANON
Armenia's Ambassador to Lebanon Ashot Kocharian met on Thursday with Lebanese Minister of Culture Gaby Layoun and Mayor of Beirut Bilal Hamad.
The parties discussed the imlementation of bilateral cultural ...SITUATION REMAINS UNCHANGED ON ROADS
Most roads, highways and mountain passes in Armenia are open for traffic. Some roads are snow-covered or icy. Selim Mountain Pass, Verin Getashen-Madina and Berd-Chambarak roadways are closed.
Snow removal ...WATCH DEBATE LIVE!
The "Friday" club will host today opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) activist Sasun Mikayelyan who was participating the February 12 mayoral elections in the town of Hrazdan. The meeting will ...EARLY VOTING BEGINS IN RUSSIAN ELECTIONS
Early voting has begun in Russia's presidential election, and will run till March 3 in the country's remote regions, hard-to-reach locations, on vessels and at some polling stations abroad.
The Central ...GERMAN PRESIDENT RESIGNS, CONFESSES HE DID NOT WORK WELL
German President Christian Wolff announced his resignation. Germany's President Christian Wolf resigned on Friday after a series of scandals that rattled the country over the past three months.
"The developments ...PROSECUTOR SACKED FOR MISCONDUCT
Davit Baroyan, a prosecutor of Armavir city, has been relieved of his duties for inappropriate conduct, on February 17, Sona Truzyan, a spokesperson for the General Prosecutor's Office, told A1+. On the ...NAZIK AVDALYAN TO APPEAR ON BHK LIST?
Weightlifting World Champion Nazik Avdalyan has applied for membership to the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK).
In 2009, Nazik Avdalyan won the world champion in weightlifting in Goyang, South Korea. This ...PROTESTERS LIE IN FRONT OF VEHICLE TO BAN ITS MOVE
More people are joining the environmental activists who are holding a non-stop protest in Yerevan's Mashtots Park against the municipality's decision to install dismantled kiosks on the green space.
Deputy ...SASUN MIKAYELYAN: "A MOMENT GRANTED BY GOD"
"Serzh Sargsyan is my companion in arms. It is a moment granted by God," says commander of Sasun detachment Sasun Mikayelyan. The former lawmaker cannot imagine how he will continue his way with his comrade-in-arms ...EDUARD SHARMAZANOV, ASHOT GHULYAN MEET IN STEPANAKERT
Vice-Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Eduard Sharmazanov met in Stepanakert Speaker of the NKR National Assembly Ashot Ghulyan to discuss cooperation between the two legislative bodies.
The Armenian ...POLICE CHASE AWAY PROTESTERS
Police in Yerevan are forcibly removing environmental activists from Mashtots avenue where the group has been staging protests for seven days now against what they say installation of kiosks in green ...FOUR INJURED IN CAR ACCIDENT IN YEREVAN
Four people were injured as an Opel vehicle veered off the road and crashed with an electric pole in Alek Manukyan Street in Yerevan in the morning.
As a result, driver Roman Sharoyan (born in 1986), ...ROOF COLLAPSES BECAUSE OF SNOW
The roof of the house and barn belonging to one of the residents of Lusagyugh village in Aragatsotni marz has collapsed under the weight of snow. House owner Soghomon Grigoryan says the collapse was resulted ...WATCH ACTIVISTS' PROTEST LIVE!
Does a new menace threaten green spaces in Armenia? Are Mashtots Park, Teghut and other green areas periled? Are the controversial amendments to the Law "On environmental impact assessment that dangreous?
The ...THEY PROMISED TO SMASH ONE OF ACTIVISTS' HEAD
The tension in Yerevan's Mashtots Park continues amid environmentalists' protest against installation of dismantled kiosks. A1+'s journalist reports from the ground that the activists blocked the way ...CHARLIE CHAPLIN WAS A COMMUNIST?
Britain's spies foiled plots and cracked Nazi codes, but were unable to solve the mystery of Charlie Chaplin's birth.
Although the entertainer is celebrated as one of London's most famous sons, newly ...MR MAYOR, PERFORM YOUR DUTIES
This is Our City initiative has addressed a statement to Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan on his Facebook page.
The initiative asks the mayor to call back the constructors and police officers from Mashtots ...PROSECUTOR WAS NAKED?
One of the prosecutors in Armenia's western Armavir city will be dismissed from the system. Being heavily drunk, he made a violent uproar in one of the capital's nightclubs.
According to eye-witnesses, ...AUTHORITIES TARGETED AT PARTIES AFFILIATED WITH HAK
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) has issued a statement condemning the authorities' crackdown on its member parties. "With a rough breach of law, the Ministry of Justice has registered a new Social ...'SHERIFF' APPOINTED HEAD OF BHK REGIONAL STRUCTURE
Ex-commander of the Police forces, Grigor Grigoryan (nicknamed Sheriff) has been appointed head of the office of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) stationed in Ararat.
Grigoryan was involved in the post-election ...DRAFT LAW ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DISCUSSED IN YEREVAN
A new draft law on domestic violence was the focus of today's discussion organized with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan.
The meeting of the Inter-Agency Commission for Combating Gender-Based ...ARA YERNJAKYAN MEETS ACTIVISTS
Ara Yernjakyan, a representative of the Yerevan Municipality and member of the Elders' Council, today visited Mashtots Avenue to meet environmental activists who have been holding a protest there for ...
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Today in Armenian history- 362 Birth of Mesrop Mashtots. He invented the Armenian alphabet. He died in 440.
- 1811 Establishment of the Mkhitarist Congregation of Vienna (Austria). It is still located on Mechitaristengasse.
- 1830 Birth of poet Gevorg Dodokhyan in Gogenlo (Crimea, the Ukraine). He died in 1908.
- 1888 Death of Hovsep Shishmanyan (Tserents) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He wrote historical novels. He was born in 1882 in Constantinople.
- 1908 The Armenian National Council of Teheran is organized. In 1911 it was recognized by the government and called "Teheran's Armenian General Council".
- 1948 Death of Hakob Oshakan. He was born in 1883.
- 1951 Death of Nikoghayos Tigranian, composer and pianist.
- 1992 Artsakh forces control the important Azeri Turk military cross-road of Gharadakhlu.
- 2000 The remains of Armenias Hero, General Andranik are transferred to Armenia.
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