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Headlines for February 24, 2012

SUMGAIT IS UNPUNISHED GENOCIDE
"On February 26-29, 1988, with the actual support of the Azerbaijani authorities and the connivance of the Soviet leadership, a massacre of Armenians was carried out in the city of Sumgait, the Azerbaijani ...
SELIM PASS STILL CLOSED
Most roads, highways and mountain passes in Armenia are opened for traffic, with some sections being covered with glaze ice. Selim Mountain Pass and the road to Yerenjapat village in Aparan are closed ...
PASTOR SENTENCED TO DEATH IN IRAN
Yousef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor living in Iran, will be hanged for apostasy after he repeatedly refused to recant his Christian faith. Pastor Nadarkhani was arrested in his home city of Rasht on ...
SURVEYED STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS DISPLEASED WITH GOVERNMENT
"My Opinion" civil initiative has surveyed some 1700 students and young professors in Armenia to know their opinion on the country's political domain. The results of the survey are as follows, Are you ...
OEK VOWS NOT TO DISTRIBUTE ELECTION BRIBES
The survey conducted by the Country of Law Party (OEK) shows that the party will receive at least 10% votes during the May parliamentary elections, OEK Vice-Chairman Mher Shahgeldyan told a press conference ...
V. HOVHNANNISYAN: "AUTHORITIES STARTED RIGGING ELECTIONS"
While the authorities continually say they are not going to rig the upcoming parliamentary elections, they have already started violations, says member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) ...
OPPOSITION'S TOP THREE CANDIDATES ALREADY KNOWN
The pre-election list of the Armenian National Congress will be topped by Armenia's First President, HAK Leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Chairman of the People's Party of Armenia (HZhK) Stepan Demirtchyan ...
EXPO-2012 TO BE HELD SEOUL
As part of his official visit to South Korea, Armenian Minister Edward Nalbandian met on Thursday South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik. The interlocutors discussed the preparation for a nuclear security ...
ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR TO OMAN RELIEVED OF DUTIES
Serzh Sargsyan has signed a decree on relieving Sergey Manasaryan as Armenia's Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman. According to another presidential decree, Armenia's Ambassador to the State of Kuwait ...
RECURRENT MONITORING HELD ON CONTACT LINE
On February 24, 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 ...
A1+ TO WEBCAST DEBATE
A1+ Company will webcast a debate between songwriter Ruben Hakhverdyan and Republican MP Manvel Badeyan who will assess the ecological movement. The debate will take place at the Hayeli (Mirror) club ...
MUNICIPALITY UNAWARE OF ANYTHING
The Yerevan Municipality did not convene an urban development meeting on Thursday, Arthur Gevorgyan, Head of Information and Public Relations Department at the Municipality, told A1+. This came after ...
WATCH DEBATE ON ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI RELATIONS LIVE
A1+ Company will webcast at 1.00 a debate between Heritage party MP Larissa Alaverdyan and Republican Karine Achemyan. They will discuss Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, the results of the EuroNest sitting ...
EU TO DISCUSS KARABAKH ISSUE
The EU Foreign Affairs Council will discuss on Feb. 27 the cooperation between the European Union and South Caucasus. As part of the discussion, the Council will dwell on the settlement of the regional ...
ENVIRONMENTALISTS GUIDED BY EXTERNAL FORCES?
Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) MP Manvel Badeyan says after a thorough study of the protest action at Yerevan's Mashtots Park he concluded that the demonstrators are divided into three layers. "The ...
LITIGATION OVER: COURT TO RETURN VERDICT MARCH 7
A court in Yerevan is due to return a verdict in a defamation case filed by lawyer Arthur Grigoryan against Haraparak daily on March 7. Artur Grigoryan sues the newspaper over allegedly insulting comments ...
HERITAGE TO CONVENE SPECIAL SITTING FEB 28
The Heritage Party considers the switch to a full proportional system to be a top priority and is going to discuss it in its special sitting on February 28. The National Assembly's Standing Committee ...
BILL ON STATE EMERGENCY RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT
On Thursday evening the executive body returned to the parliament the draft law "On Legal Regime of the State of Emergency," Armenian Revolutionary Federation -Dashnaktsutyun MP Vahan Hovhannisyan told ...
HAK CONVENES ENLARGED MEETING
The heads of regional offices of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) held an enlarged meeting on February 24 to discuss preparations for the opposition's March 1 rally. Heads of the HAK regional offices ...
BHK GOING TO INVOLVE YOUNG PEOPLE ON ITS LIST
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) is for the generation change in the political arena and is going to use the principle in the formation of its party list. During today's meeting with journalists, BHK ...
MURDERS UP IN ARMENIA, PROSECUTOR GENERAL DISPLEASED WITH INVESTIGATORS
The number of crimes increased in Armenia by 7% as compared to 2010. Sixty murder cases were recorded in the country in 2011 against the 41 cases of 2010. Most of them occurred in Yerevan's Erebuni and ...
FALSE BOMB ALERT IN YEREVAN
At 6:15 p.m. the police received a report that a bomb was placed at 56 Pushkin in Yerevan. A task force of the police, National Security Service, Ministry of Emergency Situations and fire brigade arrived ...
PRISONER DIES AT HOSPITAL
Harutyun Aghekyan, 31, died of a serious heart disease in Erebuni medical center on Friday. He was taken to the medical center a month ago from prison. Aghekyan's mother had asked Serzh Sargsyan for help ...