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Headlines for April 27, 2012ELECTORAL HEADQUARTERS CONVENES RECURRENT SESSION
The Union of Political Scientists will host the fourth plenary session of the joint inter-party electoral (or public) headquarters. The meeting will start at 11:00 p.m. at the union-run POLITLOGOS situation ...VANADZOR PREPARING FOR SERZH SARGSYAN'S VISIT
Leader of the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) Serzh Sargsyan is due to visit Armenia's Vanadzor city on April 27 as part of his party's election campaign.
The drivers of inter-city minibuses are complaining ...ST. PETERSBURG DELEGATES COMMEMORATE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS
A Russian delegation from Russia's northern capital led by deputy governor of St. Petersburg Olga Kazanskaya visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex to pay tribute to the victims of the Armenian ...HDK GIVES ITS APPROVAL TO CIVILIZED RULES OF COMPETITION
The Democratic Party of Armenia (HDK) issued a statement, expressing its approval to a draft document agreed between the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), Rule of Law ...INTER-PARTY ELECTORAL HEADQUARTERS TO APPLY TO CC
There are 400 000 non-existing voters in Armenia, Chairman of the Union of Political Scientists Hmayak Hovhannisyan said on Friday during a meeting of the joint inter-party electoral headquarters. "I ...LEVON TER-PETROSYAN WAS NOT ALLOWED TO GO TO MEGHRI
Armenia's First President and leader of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) Levon Ter-Petrosyan did not meet with voters of Armenia's southern Meghri city (Syunik province).
The HAK leader ...ARMENIAN FM TO LEAVE FOR IRAN
Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will pay an official visit to Tehran April 29-30.
Within the framework of the visit Minister Nalbandian will have meetings with the leadership of Iran.
During ...WATCH HAK CAMPAIGN RALLY LIVE
More and more people are leaving Armenia in search of better living conditions, Gagik Jhangiryan, a senior representative of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK), said during a campaign rally ...€YOUR THEME' ON OUR LIVESTREAM!
The program "Your Theme" will focus on April 27 on the activity of divisional election committees. The program will explain the rights and obligations of committee members.
Guests at the studio will be ...U.S. ON GUARD FOR ATTACKS AHEAD OF BIN LADEN ANNIVERSARY
President Barack Obama has reviewed potential threats to the United States before next week's anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, but there is no concrete evidence al Qaeda is plotting any ...S. SARGSYAN: "ADVERSARY WILL BE GIVEN ADEQUATE RESPONSE"
The Armenian side will not delay its reply to Azerbaijan. We shall respond to Azerbaijan's shelling of Armenian border checkpoints in Tavush region in the last two days, Serzh Sargsyan said during a meeting ...OSCE/ODIHR EOM ISSUES INTERIM REPORT
The Election Observation Mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic institutions and Human Rights has issued the second interim report on the election campaign in Armenia.
"The Observation Mission has ...ARMENIANS IN TURKEY IN COURT OVER LAND RIGHTS
An Armenian community that was forced to vacate their villages in the southeastern province of Batman (Sasun settlement of historical Aghdznik province - ed.) 25 years ago due to politically motivated ...THREE ARMENIAN SOLDIERS DIE IN TAVUSH REGION
Three Armenian soldiers were killed on the night of April 26 in Armenia's northeastern Tavush province.
According to the Armenian Defense Ministry, at around 04:15 they received a report that three servicemen ...ARTSAKH PRESIDENT VISITS SOS VILLAGE, LISTENS TO VILLAGERS' COMPLAINTS
On April 26, President of the Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) Republic Bako Sahakyan visited the village of Sos in Martouni region to meet local population.
The visit was initiated following the request of ...CIVIL INITIATIVE STARTS COLLECTION OF SIGNATURES
A civil initiative campaigning for the protection of Tegut forest has launched a collection of signatures for the salvation of the forest. The initiative demands that the Armenian government stop exploitation ...OSCE OFFICE IN YEREVAN ORGANIZES WORKSHOP ON RIGHTS OF NATIONAL MINORITIES
A workshop by the OSCE Office in Yerevan on the rights of national minorities as envisaged in international and national legislation and measures to raise awareness of the issue among politicians, the ...NGOS BACK SUREN ZOLYAN, CONDEMN MINISTER'S DECISION TO SACK YSLU RECTOR
A number of non-governmental organizations in Armenia issued a statement, epressing their disappointment with Education Minister's decision to dismiss Suren Zolyan, Rector of Yerevan State Linguistic ...POLLING STATIONS SHOULD ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Free and fair elections should first of all be available to everyone, Armenian Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Karen Andreasyan said on Friday during a meeting with disabled people.
"We can have normal ...OSCE MINSK GROUP CONDEMNS ANY LOSS OF LIFE
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the United States, Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, and Jacques Faure of France, released the following statement today:
"The ..."CEC SHOULD TAKE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO COURT"
People can lose their jobs simply for greeting me or standing close to me, said David Matevosyan, an opposition candidate running for parliament in single-mandate constituency N 37. "I have never seen ...PACE ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION TO ARRIVE IN YEREVAN
...TIGRAN BALAYAN: "EP HAS NOT CHANGED ITS POSITION"
Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Tigran Balayan has commented on the resolutions on Armenia and Azerbaijan adopted by the European Parliament last week. "The official position ...ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS EUROPE
The second round of negotiations on the facilitation of visa regime and readmission agreements between Armenia and the European Union was held in Brussels on April 26-27. The Armenian delegation was headed ...BRIBE-TAKERS TO BE EXEMPTED FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY?
Everyone, who has been offered electoral bribe, will be exempt from criminal liability, if he/she personally reports the Prosecutor's Office about the bribery attempt, according to the procurator's office. "If ...SUREN ZOLYAN CLOSED CABINET DOOR AND LEFT ARMENIA
Acting Rector of Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov, Gayane Gasparyan, has to sit in a dean's room as the ex-rector, Suren Zolyan, has closed the door of his cabinet.
In an interview ...AUTHOR OF BEST STATUS TO PARTICIPATE IN CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
Starting from April 27 till May 7, all Orange voice and internet subscribers will be provided the chance to get a package for two to be present as a VIP guest at 65th Cannes Film Festival. Subscribers ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1749 Death of Mkhitar Sebastatsee. He founded the Roman Catholic Mkhitarist Congregation. He was born in 1676.
- 1827 Russian forces lay seige to Fort Yerevan (currently the Armenian Winery building).
- 1849 Students create the "Ararat Union" in Paris.
- 1868 Death of Grigor Aghatonyan in Paris. He was born in 1823.
- 1915 Birth of Hovhannes Shiraz (poet). He died in 1984.
- 1919 In Constantinople, start of the trials of the leaders of the Young Turk government and the central committee members of the "Union and Progress" party.
- 1925 The Science and Art Institute of the Armenian SSR opens in Yerevan.
- 1930 Death of Archbishop Eghisheh Doorian, historian, literary figure, author, and Patriarch of Jerusalem.
- 1931 An earthquake (Richter Scale: 6.3) occurs in Zangezoor and affects a 100 000 sq.km. area. The Monastery of Tatev and other structures on the Tatev highlands and in the valley of the Vorotan River are destroyed.
- 1994 Israel officially condemned the Armenian Genocide as Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin proclaimed on the floor of the Knesset (the Israeli legislature), in answer to the claims of the Turkish Ambassador, that "It was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide, something the world must remember".
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