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Published on April 09, 2012
FILM ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SHOWN IN IRAN
- Manoto 1, a Persian-language TV channel, showed on Sunday evening prominent British historian Laurence Gardner's documentary dedicated to the Armenian Genocide.
The one-hour documentary was filmed in France in 2005 and was translated into Persian with the help of the Iranian TV Company.
While local Armenians and Iranians hailed the presentation of the film, Azerbaijanis criticized the move. Iranian Armenians requested the channel to show it again on April 24.For more details, you can read the Armenian version here http://www.aravot.am/2012/04/09/57174/
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Headlines for April 09, 2012WILL OFFICIALS GO ON LEAVE?
There is no clear evidence that the officials of the Mayor's Office of Armenia's northern Gyumri city are on holiday. Some 44 high-ranking officials involved in next month's parliamentary elections allegedly ...FILM ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SHOWN IN IRAN
Manoto 1, a Persian-language TV channel, showed on Sunday evening prominent British historian Laurence Gardner's documentary dedicated to the Armenian Genocide.
The one-hour documentary was filmed in ...PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD ON CONTROVERSIAL BILL
On April 10, a public hearing will be held on the bill "On Legal Regime of Emergency Situations".
Representatives of the Constitutional Court, National Assembly, National Security Council and the police ...IRANIAN OIL PRODUCTS TO ENTER ARMENIA
Armenia has expressed interest in importing oil products from Iran, Armenian service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (azatutyun.am) cited the managing director of the National Iranian Oil Products ...VACANT SEATS IN TECS
The Central Election Commission of Armenian announces that two vacancies are yet to be filled in the Territorial Election Commission #11 (Yerevan) and #21 (Armavir).
Candidates are submitted the required ...PARLIAMENT CANDIDATE USES VANO SIRADEGHYAN'S SLOGAN
Varuzhan Babajanyan, who is running for parliament from constituency N40, has chosen Vano Siradeghyan's slogan used during the 1999 parliamentary elections - "We will not guests in own homes."
Siradeghyan ..."VOTERS ARE NOT EMPTY-HEADED"
The results of a recent survey among Armenian voters show that every tenth voter expects social support, sociologist Aharon Adibekyan told a news conference on April 9. He expects voter turnover to reach ...PRE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN ON LIVESTREAM
The pre-election campaign of the Heritage and Free-Democrats party starts on April 9, with a meeting at Yerevan's Armenia Marriott.
A1+ Company will webcast the meeting live at 3:00 p.m.SYRIA: OPPOSITION READY TO SIGN TRUCE
Syrian opposition announced that they were ready to sign a truce with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The truce plan, devised by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, was supposed to go into effect on Tuesday, ...ARF SAYS IT WILL NOT PUNISH SQUANDERERS
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation - Dashnaktsutyun is going to double the minimum wage in 2013 if the party wins a majority of seats in the National Assembly.
"According to our calculations, the minimum ...NKR VOWS TO ENSURE SECURITY FOR OSCE MISSION
On April 12, in accordance with an agreement with the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission will hold scheduled monitoring of the Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces' ...RITA SARGSYAN TAKES NO HEED OF WHAT CHURCH SAYS?
Serzh Sargsyan and his spouse Rita Sargsyan attended on Sunday a Pascal service at Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. The service is held in Christian churches as the official celebration of the Resurrection ..."RUBEN HAYRAPETYAN ALSO NEEDS SUPPORT"
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) decided to name candidates in as many constituencies as possible in order to show its resolve, exclude election machinery and win the elections, HAK member Vladimir ...V. BOSTANJYAN LIKES ARF'D ELECTION PROGRAM
Armenian MP Vardan Bostanjyan is delighted with the election program of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun.
"The society should be ready to implement similar programs," he saidduring ...R. HOVANNISIAN: PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE US IN 30 DAYS"
The opposition Heritage party today announced the onset of its election campaign, with party leader Raffi Hovannisian declaring their wish to wake up in a new Armenia after the election day.
The party ...LEVON TER-PETROSYAN TO VISIT APARAN
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) led by Armenia's First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan will hold meetings in Aragatsotni marz as part of its election campaign. The representatives of the opposition ...PACE DELEGATES TO ARRIVE IN ARMENIA
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will send a three-member delegation to Armenia on April 11-12 to assess election campaign and pre-election moods ahead of the May 6 parliamentary ...NKR PRESIDENT HOLDS CONSULTATION WITH SUPREME COMMAND STAFF
On 9 April, President of the Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) Republic Bako Sahakyan held a consultation with the supreme command staff of the Defense Army at the head of Defense Minister Movses Hakobyan.
Issues ...UFO FLYING OVER SEOUL
A video of an alleged UFO has appeared on YouTube. The UFO 'was caught' from an airplane and was filmed by a passenger over the City of Seoul in South Korea on April 07, 2012. The video has been viewed ...RAIN AND THUNDER EXPECTED IN ARMENIA
Short rain and thunderstorm are expected in some regions in Armenia in the second half of the day. The precipitation will continue on April 10.
The wind will blow at the velocity of 2-7m/s, reaching 15-20m/s ...MAN COMMITS SUICIDE IN ARMENIA'S TAVUSH MARZ
...FIRE BREAKS OUT IN GAS-FILLING STATION IN YEREVAN
A fire burst out at a gas-filling station in Yerevan's Babajanyan street earlier on Monday.
Four firefighting brigades, ambulance service co-workers and a task group of the Crisis Management Center under ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1920 Meeting of the three Caucasian Republics' Council in Tbilisi. The question of Gharabagh was also discussed.
- 1922 The Assembly of the Transcaucasian Western Armenian workers opened in Yerevan.
- 1932 Creation of Armenia's Union of Soviet Writers, the Union of Musicians, the Union of Soviet Painters and Fine Arts, and the Union of Soviet Architects.
- 1994 Artsakh forces start their Aregasar operation. This ultimate effort liberates the Mataghis, Chaily, and Talish areas of Martakert.
- 1999 In a commendable letter, Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, then Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, pledged that the administration would raise with Turkey the issue of the recovery of Armenian assets from the genocide period held by the Imperial Ottoman Bank.
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