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Headlines for June 27, 2008
‘URGENT DEBATE’: STRASBOURG SAYS DISCUSSION ‘WARRANTED’
Gayane Abrahamyan
The summer plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) begins in Strasbourg Monday having on its agenda an ‘urgent debate on Armenia’ to assess the country’s progress ...DEALING WITH DIASPORA: ARMENIA TO SET UP NEW MINISTRY FOR COMPATRIOTS ABROAD
Gayane AbrahamyanPresident Serzh Sargsyan has signed into law a parliament-adopted change in the structure of the government that will include a ministry in charge of Armenia’s relations with its worldwide Diaspora. ...FREEDOM HOUSE: ARMENIA’S YEAR-ON-YEAR ‘DEMOCRACY SCORE’ UNCHANGED, BUT ON THE DECLINE SINCE 1999
Suren Musayelyan 3
On a scale from one to seven, where lower means more democratic, Armenia scores 5.21, according to the latest annual report of a U.S.-based pro-democracy group. The Nations in Transit report focusing ...POSTPONED: PACE GIVES ARMENIA TIME UNTIL JANUARY TO COMPLY WITH ITS DEMANDS
Gayane Abrahamyan
The debate on Armenia at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) ended late on Wednesday, with Yerevan managing to avoid sanctions and suspension of its delegation members’ voting rights ...SPORT: KING ARTHUR GIVES REPEAT THRASHING TO COLOMBIA’S MIRANDA
Suren Musayelyan
Armenia-born current IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham knocked out Edison Miranda from Colombia in the fourth round of what became King Arthur’s first-ever fight on American soil. The victory ...CODE IN QUESTION: RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SAY DEATH PENALTY CASES NEED INDIVIDUAL REVIEW
Vahan Ishkhanyan
“When they ask what is preferable death penalty or life imprisonment, I say death, because I don’t want to turn into an animal in the cattle shed to get grass and left to live,” says Artur Mkrtchyan who ...FROM PAST TO FUTURE: SHUSHI PROMISES TO REGAIN ITS FAME
Naira Hayrumyan
Sixteen years after liberation the Armenian town of Shushi still bears the traces of hostilities. Most of the buildings and roads are destroyed. And Nagorno-Karabakh authorities as well as Armenian organizations ...GOLDEN SEASON: BANNER YEAR FOR ARMENIA’S NATIONAL FRUIT
Gayane Mkrtchyan
The apricot orchard of 56-year-old Edik Vardanyan is bursting with the abundance of its crop. The fine fruits of nature’s tiny tasty suns play a hide-and-seek game as they skillfully escape human hands ...OUTREACH: STORY OF NKR ORPHANS BRINGS HELP FROM AFAR
Marianna Grigoryan
The story of twin brothers Alen and Aren, not only moved Anna, who lives in Hillsborough, New Jersey, USA, thousands of miles away from Armenia, but also made her think about what to do to bring in a ...WAITING FOR COMPENSATIONS: AFRICAN FEVER CAUSES FINANCIAL LOSS IN LORI
Naira Bulghadaryan
Villagers in the Lori province complain that state compensation for swine slaughtered in prevention of swine fever has not been distributed properly. The procedure of the financial support distribution ...HOME AID: FULLER CENTER COMPLEMENTS WORK OF HABITAT
Arpi Harutyunyan
Some 400 Armenian families have managed to build or to repair their homes to have safe and available housing owing to the means provided by the Armenian Habitat organization since 2000. “We mainly help ...LEADERS CAMP: KAPAN SCHOOL ENCOURAGES TEENS FOR ACTIVE ROLE IN SOCIETY
Armine Avagyan
For the past eight years the School for Young Leaders in Kapan has encouraged teenagers to develop leadership skills. The organizer of the school is the Kapan Women’s Regional Association NGO. School ...GOING NORTH: PRESIDENT SARGSYAN SEEKS TO BOOST TIES WITH MOSCOW ON HIS FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT
Aris Ghazinyan
Armenia and Russia reaffirmed their firm strategic partnership and hoped for a further boost in relations as the two countries’ leaders met in the Kremlin earlier this week. Serzh Sargsyan, on his first ...POSTPONED: PACE GIVES ARMENIA TIME UNTIL JANUARY TO COMPLY WITH ITS DEMANDS
Gayane Abrahamyan
The debate on Armenia at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) ended late on Wednesday, with Yerevan managing to avoid sanctions and suspension of its delegation members’ voting rights ...UNTOWARD DEVELOPMENT: ARMENIA CHALLENGED IN PACE RESOLUTION ON AZERBAIJAN
Gayane Abrahamyan
While the Armenian authorities were celebrating a ‘domestic policy’ victory having avoided sanctions at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), they appeared to have suffered a major ...NKR IN REVIEW: TALKS OF MILITARY INTERVENTION RAISE CONCERNS
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“A public opinion poll was recently conducted in Azerbaijan and it showed that 29 percent of the country’s population was in favor of a military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem,” Armenia’s Foreign ...
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