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Headlines for June 28, 2012PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN MONGOLIA
Mongolians are voting for a new parliament.
The polls have been open for 2.8 million voters since this morning, and the official results of the vote will be announced in two weeks.
The main contenders ...HRAYR TOVMASYAN: "NEW SWEEP TO COOPERATION"
Armenia has made a decision on European integration and that is final. This is what RA Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan announced during the third session of the Armenia-EU subcommittee on Justice, ...TURKEY SENDING MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO SYRIAN BORDER
Turkey is positioning itself in its border with Syria. Local mass media outlets today reported that the Turkish authorities have sent military technical equipment to some positions on the border.
Turkey ...PACE PRESIDENT HELD PRIVATE TALKS WITH DAVID HARUTYUNYAN
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Jean-Claude Mignon has had meetings with the heads of the Armenian and Azerbaijani delegations to the PACE.
Head of the Armenian delegation ...HHK DEPUTY'S BODYGUARDS WERE ARRESTED
In an interview with "A1+", Police Chief of Yerevan Nersik Nazaryan confirmed the news that there were members of Republican Deputy Ruben Hayrapetyan's bodyguards among those arrested for the incident ..."PROCESS OF CIVIL SOCIETY ESTABLISHMENT IS SEEN"
There were flaws in the 2012 parliamentary elections in Armenia, but they were the most invulnerable elections in the history of Armenia, excluding the elections in 1990-91. This was the evaluation given ...BHK WILL NOMINATE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
"The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) will nominate its own candidate in the upcoming presidential elections," said political figure Ashot Manucharyan during a press conference today.
However, according ...TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR BASHAR ASSAD
Russia and China have finally decided to come to terms on changing Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime-something that the UN Security Council, the United States, Western Europe and the Arab League ...DAVID HARUTYUNYAN: "THEY SIMPLY CLAIM"
Will Head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) David Harutyunyan criticize the final report of the OSCE/ODIHR on the May 6 NA elections the same way ...NALBANDYAN TO LEAVE FOR ARTSAKH
...YEGANYAN MEETS CHAIRMAN OF CANADIAN SENATE
On June 27, RA Ambassador to Canada Armen Yeganyan had a meeting with Chairman of the Canadian Senate Noel Kinsella. The main topic of discussion were the Armenian-Canadian inter-parliamentary relations, ...NKR PRESIDENT MEETS RADIK MARTIROSYAN
President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan on 28 June received President of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, academician Radik Martirosyan in Artsakh.
During the meeting, a broad ...19TH ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION OF MARTAKERT
President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan on 28 June participated in the festivities dedicated to the 19th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Martakert at the center of the Martakert ...YOUR QUESTION FOR THE RESCUER
Today "P.S." will host Deputy Head of the Department for Rescue Forces Pavel Gyozalyan.
You can send your questions by calling at 58-54-27 or sending an e-mail to ps@a1plus.am.
Watch "P.S." live at ...AMBULANCE IN FRONT OF GOVERNMENT BUILDING
An ambulance arrived at the government building today after conscript Ruben Mikayelyan's grandmother lost consciousness. For three days, Ruben Mikayelyan's mother, Shamiram Mikayelyan and his grandmother, ...FLIGHTS TO ALEPPO
Armavia Airlines informs that there will be flights to Aleppo starting on July 2 once a week on Mondays.RUSSIAN STUDENTS TO LEARN ARMENIAN
On June 27, a meeting-presentation dedicated to the educational program for the study of Armenian language as the first Oriental language, Armenian history and culture established for the 2012/13 academic ...120 APPLICANTS TO TAKE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE EXAM
The Russian language oral exam started at the Agrarian University this morning.
There is a total of 120 applicants, and 40 are taking the exam today. Chairperson of the exams commission Lilia Balasanyan ...WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE JUDGES?
RA Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan today participated in the third session of the Armenia-EU subcommittee on Justice, Freedom and Security before the launch of today's government session.
When asked ...ACTION IN FRONT OF COURT BUILDING
The court postponed today's trial for the youth activists of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) due to the absence of prosecutor Hakob Martirosyan and the youth activists' defense attorney Stepan Voskanyan. Prosecutor ...GAGIK BEGLARYAN CONTENT WITH HIS FATE
After today's government session, Minister of Transport and Communication Gagik Beglaryan assured journalists that he wouldn't crack down on cadres in government, even though he has already dismissed ...ASHOT MANUCHARYAN: "WHO CARES WHO THE PRESIDENT IS?"
""Foreign gods" rule Armenia," said Ashot Manucharyan during a press conference today. According to him, all "foreign gods" have one name, and that is money.
"We Armenians are "wandering in the deserts" ...SEVERAL FLAWS IN COURT SYSTEM
Judges and courts violate several people's rights to freedom and people find themselves in jail, said lawyer Lusine Sahakyan said during a press conference today. "This hurts the government and taxpayers ...KARABAKHTSI MEDIATOR BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN?
Nagorno-Karabakh is the most important issue for bringing Armenia and Azerbaijan closer together, says head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) ...ARMENIA'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE DIASPORA
On June 28, RA Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan received a group of experts of the World Bank (WB).
Among the participants of the meeting were the WB economist for the financial and private sector ...IS A NEW EU HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE REALLY JUSTIFIED?
The recent creation of a new EU Special Representative on Human Rights may be unnecessary duplication of work already being done by the Council of Europe, warned Anne Brasseur (Luxembourg, ALDE), opening ...TRIAL TO RESTART ON JULY 3
Upon the procedural decision of the RA Constitutional Court of 28 June, the court proceeding on the basis of the appeal filed by Nikol Pashinyan, deputy candidate running under the majoritarian ticket ...HEALTH MINISTER CONDEMNS
The June 17 incident that took place at Harsnakar Restaurant-Complex could have taken place anywhere, says Minister of Health Derenik Dumanyan.
"I don't think we have to link the phenomenon to the scene ...MINISTRY OF HEALTH IS NOT POLITICALLY AFFILIATED
"The Ministry of Health belongs to the state and has never been politically affiliated," said Minister of Health Derenik Dumanyan during today's government session, touching upon the question of whether ...NEW MARZPET MAKES PROMISE
The position of the marzpet (governor) of Gegharkunik region Nver Poghosyan, who is a member of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), had remained vacant since May 31, but the government filled the gap ...BROADCASTING POLICY TO CHANGE
Serzh Sargsyan and Chairman of the RA Public Council Vazgen Manukyan have discussed issues related to television and the issue of developing a new policy on broadcasting.
They have touched upon the letter ...
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