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Headlines for November 23, 2007

SEEING PAST LIMITATIONS: “NORMAL” LIVING IS A SPECIAL CHALLENGE FOR ARMENIA’S BLIND POPULATION
Armine Ghazaryan is not intimidated by her “disability”, nor does she easily surrender to cultural stereotypes in a society in which people with special needs are still considered “handicapped”. Armine ...
DONNA EVANS: AMBASSADOR’S WIFE CALLS DISMISSAL “TRAUMATIC”
Two years after her husband, Ambassador John M. Evans, became the first U.S. official to publicly acknowledge the Armenian Genocide since President Ronald Reagan in 1981, Donna Evans discussed the resulting ...
DOLLARS MAKE NO SENSE: RATE OF EXCHANGE HITS 300 (AND FALLING STILL . . .)
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Editor's note: This article was filed at 7 p.m. Friday. By 8 p.m. the dollar had dropped another 10 drams, to as low as 290 in some exchanges -- reflecting a drop of about 8 percent in 72 hours. The ...
PAYMENT OR PAYBACK?: TAX SERVICE SAYS SIL GROUP IN MAJOR VIOLATION
National Assembly Deputy and oppositionist tycoon Khachatur Sukiasyan owes the State back taxes on goods worth about $340,000, a tax inspection has revealed. The prominent oligarch, “honorable chairman” ...
DECISION 2008: LTP V. SERZH BOUT HAS BROUGHT HOTTER DEBATE TO ARMENIAN POLITICS
The speech delivered by Armenia’s ex-president at a public rally in Yerevan’s Freedom Square last Friday added fuel to the heated debate around him in Armenian internal political life. As political analyst ...
HR106: RECOGNITION RESOLUTION “NOT DEAD YET” ARF LEADER SAYS
Giro Manoyan, director of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Bureau Hay Dat and Political Affairs Office, told media this week that the US Congress’ resolution to acknowledge the Armenian Genocice ...
NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS: RESEARCH SHOWS TELEVISION STATIONS UNDER “DIRECTION” AGAINST TER-PETROSYAN
Media in Armenia, specifically television, has never been so bad and so biased as today, according to the head of the Yerevan Press Club. “The reflection of the war between the two camps on air is quite ...
NATURAL CONCERNS: ENVIRONMENTALISTS WORRY OVER PLAN TO HARNESS GETAR
Against opposition of environmentalists, the River Getar is being directed into a pipeline for the sake of opening a motorcar road that, they say, threatens the life of the capital. The activists also ...
NEW DELIVERY OF OLD MESSAGE: GENOCIDE MUSEUM GOES ONLINE
Recently, the Armenian Genocide Institute-Museum was fitted out with modern equipment due to which it will become possible to digitalize a large amount of materials pertaining to the genocide. Armenian ...
PROGRESS IN DC: GENOCIDE MUSEUM UNVEILS PLANS
At the Armenian Assembly of America's 35th Anniversary Banquet in Beverly Hills, California, earlier this month, a video and a brochure issued simultaneously unveiled the architecture and exhibit designs ...
SPORT: ARMENIA END EURO-2008 CAMPAIGN, AWAIT DRAW FOR WORLD CUP QUALIFICATIONS
Football Euro-2008: Armenia looked a better side hosting Kazakhstan on Wednesday but let the visitors capitalize on their mistakes to take all three points from Yerevan. The 0-1 midweek defeat at Republican ...