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Headlines for February 22, 2012ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF ABKHAZIAN PRESIDENT
An assassination attempt has been made on the President of Republic of Abkhazia Aleksandr Ankvab. The president was unharmed, however, one bodyguard is dead and two more are seriously injured.
¬According ...SEYRAN OHANYAN, ANDREY SOROKIN DISCUSS EXPANSION OF COOPERATION
Armenia's Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan received on Tuesday the new head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin.
Congratulating the Ambassador on appointment, Minster Ohanyan wished ...PLANNED POWER OUTAGE TO LAST 24 HOURS
A planned power outage is expected to affect some communities in Yerevan on February 22. The power will be shut off for maintenance work, the Electric Networks of Armenia CJSC reports.
The outage will ...ABRAHAM GETTING READY FOR MARCH 31 BOUT
Former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham is preparing for his next bout to be held on March 31 at the Sparkassen-Arena in Kiel, Germany.
Abraham's opponent is already known. "King Arthur" or "Abrahammer", ...SYRIA UNREST: 100 PEOPLE DIE IN HEAVY BOMBARDMENT
Syrian security forces have intensified their attack on rebel-held areas of the besieged cities of Homs and Idlib.
Hundreds of shells rained down on the cities, reportedly razing buildings, killing at ...HAK PREPARING FOR MARCH 1 RALLY
The political council of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) convenes a meeting on Wednesday to discuss organizational issues related to the opposition's upcoming rally.
The meeting will also ...SITTINGS CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF QUORUM
The Council of Elders of Armenia's northern Ijevan city was to convene extraordinary sittings on February 20 and 21.
However, the meetings were cancelled due to lack of quorum -something that has developed ...RAFFI HOVANNISIAN MEETS YOUTH
Founding leader of the Heritage Party met on Tuesday members of Hayk Youth and Student Union, party supporters and representatives of NGOs and other political parties.
The parties emphasized involvement ...GERMAN MISSION DEPUTY HEAD VISITS HAK
Coordinator of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) Levon Zurabyan met on Wednesday Deputy Head of the German Embassy Mr Christoph Breunig.
The interlocutors dwelt on political developments in Armenia ...SERZH SARGSYAN RECEIVES ANDREY KOVACHEV
Serzh Sargsyan received today the delegation of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament headed by MEP Andrey Kovachev.
He welcomed the visit of the delegation to Armenia and said similar ...ARMENIA, EU TO FIGHT AGAINST CROSS-BORDER CRIME
Secretary of the National Security Council of Armenia, Artur Baghdasaryan, received on Wednesday Mr Ilkka Laitinen, Executive Director of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation ...BILL RECALLED
Armenia's Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has addressed a written letter to Parliament Speaker Samvel Nikoyan, urging to return the draft law "On Legal Regime of the State of Emergency" passed in its first ...ENVIRONMENTALISTS DO NOT RETREAT
Though construction of kiosks has been temporarily suspended at Yerevan's Mashtots Avenue, environmental activists are not going to leave the area. People protesting against the construction since February ...YSLU DOES NOT EXPRESS OPINION ON CONSTRUCTION
Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov (YSLU) has issued a statement saying the University finds it beyond its competence to share an opinion on the controversial construction at the capital's ...MURDER IN NUBARASHEN DISTRICT
On February 21, the Police Investigation Department of Erebuni administrative district received a call that a man's body had been found near a private house in Yerevan's Nubarashen district.
Arriving ...POST-SCRIPTUM TO HOST CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER
The program Post-Scriptum will host on Wednesday Leader of the Conservative Party of Armenia Mikael Hayrapetyan.
The program will be webcast at 3:20p.m.ICE THREATENS PEOPLE, AND SALT - TREES
Pedestrians in Yerevan do not know which side to look at: above their heads or under their feet. The uncleared snow has turned the city's sidewalks and squares into a real skating-rink, with huge icicles ...TAILING DUMPS POSE SERIOUS DANGER FOR ENVIRONMENT
EcoLur Informational NGO has addressed letters to Ministries of Nature Protection, Emergency States and Energy and Natural Resources, calling their attention to environmental issues. In the letters the ...ANONYMOUS DONOR GIVES MINIBUS TO ARTSAKH VILLAGE SCHOOL
An anonymous donor from Toronto has gifted a new minibus to the school of Shosh, a village in Artsakh's Askeran Region, as a New Year's present.
"It's hard to imagine how children from nearby villages ..."PILOYAN IS FATHER OF CORRUPTION"
Authorities in Armenia continue to roughly violate human rights, Head of Helsinki Association in Armenia Mikael Danielyan said on February 22. Today the human rights activist presented the organization's ...OEK: "IT IS NOT TIME TO GIVE BRIBES"
According to press reports, the Country of Law Party (OEK) has started distributing election bribes in Yerevan's Erebuni district. The news angered OEK faction head Heghine Bisharyan who said in reply, ...ARMEN MARTIROSYAN: "WHOM IS PREMIER SAVING?"
The draft law on the Legal Regime of State of Emergency was sent back since it had been passed in fake voting, Heritage Party MP Armen Martirosyan said when commenting on Prime Minister's decision to ...ISRAEL EMBASSY BOMB PLACES GEORGIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN SPOTLIGHT
By Teo Bichikashvili - Caucasus
As Georgian police investigate the source of a bomb planted in an Israeli diplomat's car, analysts say that behind the scenes, officials are frantically trying to prevent ...HAK DISCUSSES ITS UPCOMING RALLY
In its February 22 sitting, the political council of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) discussed preparation for the bloc's upcoming rally to be held in downtown Yerevan on March 31.
The ...OSCE/ODIHR TO OOBSERVE 2012 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) has decided to deploy 24 long-term and 250 short-term observers in Armenia to monitor the upcoming 2012 parliamentary elections, ...RAFFI HOVANNISIAN SENDS LETTER TO GERMAN OFFICIAL
Heritage Party founding leader Raffi Hovannisian has addressed a letter to Volker Kauder, chairman of Germany's conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group
"Mr. Volker KauderParliamentary LeaderCDU/CSU The ...TEMPERATURE TO RISE IN ARMENIA
No precipitation is expected in Armenia from February 23 to 27. The air temperature will rise by 9-11 degrees during the reporting period, reports the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
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Today in Armenian history- 1837 Creation of the Armenian Supreme Ecclesiastic Council in Echmiadsin - the Synod attached to the Catholicos of All-Armenians.
- 1909 Birth of Taras Toosoozyan in Yekaterinodar (now Krasnodar). He was a Major-General of the Soviet Army. He was the Military Commissar of the Armenian SSR from 1950 to 1969.
- 1931 The Central Affairs Committee decides to establish a Radio-Broadcasting Committee.
- 1932 Birth of architect Arthur Tarkhanyan in Leninakan (Gyoomree). He designed and implemented the "Tsitsernakabert" Genocide Memorial Complex, the "Airarat" (formerly "Rossiya") movie theater, the Palace of Youth, "Zvartnotss" Airport, and many other buildings.
- 1938 Birth of Artavazd Peleshyan in Leninakan (Gyoomree). He became a famous artist, State Prize Laureate, and a master of the documentary film genre .
- 1939 The Armenian Supreme Soviet awards the right to the Opera and Ballet Theater of Yerevan, to be called the Alexander Spendarian Opera and Ballet Theatre.
- 1960 The Armenian Theater Association in Beirut decides to be known as the Vahram Papazyan Association.
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