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Headlines for August 01, 2008
TIME FOR ‘CIVILIZED’ DEBATE: RULING PARTY’S REP. SAYS ‘RALLY SEASON’ OVER IN ARMENIA
Arpi Harutyunyan
A senior governing party member has countered the assertions that authorities in Armenia are worried over the opposition rally planned for August 1, noting that “the rally season in Armenia is over.” ...CRITICAL VIEW: FORMER DIPLOMAT LAMBASTES AUTHORITIES OVER “WEAK FOREIGN POLICY”
Arpi Harutyunyan
Armenia’s former consul general to St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday leveled scathing criticism at the authorities for what he described as a “weak foreign policy”, saying that its consequences might ...SENIOR OPPOSITIONIST RELEASED; PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE SAYS 14 STILL REMAIN IN DETENTION OVER MARCH 1
Armenia’s Prosecutor-General has ordered a change in the measure of restraint applied against one of the opposition leaders kept in pretrial detention over his presumed role in the post-election violence. ...VISIT TO THE CRIMEA: PRESIDENT SARGSYAN SAYS PENINSULA’S ARMENIANS HAVE “A HOME IN ARMENIA”
Arpi Harutyunyan
President Serzh Sargsyan called on one of the earliest Armenian diasporas in the world to “cast their views back to Armenia” as he visited an Armenian community in the extreme south of Ukraine earlier ...SPORT: SHATTERED DREAMS OF “EURO AUTUMN” FOR ARMENIAN CLUBS AGAIN
Suren Musayelyan
Football Armenian clubs ended ingloriously another attempt at bringing ‘big football fall’ to Yerevan this year suffering eliminations in the first qualifying rounds of European competitions. Following ...TALKING POINTS: ARMENIAN, AZERI FMS MEET IN MOSCOW WITH FOCUS ON MADRID PROPOSALS
Arpi Harutyunyan
The meeting between the top diplomats of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow on Friday afternoon followed active efforts by international negotiators to ensure options were open for continued negotiations ...UNREST IN GEORGIA: ARMENIAN COMMUNITY CONCERNED OVER RECENT UPRISING
Aris GhazinyanAn explosive device that went off near a police chief’s house in an Armenian-populated town in Georgia and the chain of events that followed it have caused anxiety among the Armenian population of the ...SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE APPROVES YOVANOVITCH
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ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA COMMITTED TO STRENGTHEN U.S.-ARMENIA RELATIONS Washington, DC - July 29, 2008- The Bush Administration's nominee to serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ...NEW LOOK ON OLD: GYUMRI WELCOMES THE INFORMATION PORTS FOR ITS HISTORICAL DISTRICT
Ani Hakobyan
The Gyumri Renaissance festival held in the historic center of the town last weekend gathered a big number of guests from both various provinces of Armenia and also abroad. The occasion for the festival ...OVERPRICED: ARMENIAN ANTI-TRUST BODY SEEKS THE REASONS OF EXPENSIVE WHEAT IN ARMENIA
Sara Khojoyan
The fall of price for wheat and flour observed on the world market in the past two months has not been adequately reflected on the Armenian market, a local anti-trust body concludes. Armenia’s State ...AGE AND RAGE: ELDERLY PROTESTOR SAYS SHE RALLIES FOR A DREAM AND A MEMORY
Gayane Mkrtchyan
For 19 years on end, 83-year-old Parandzem Torozyan’s eyes have been wet with tears. “When they brought the coffin with my Edik and put it in front of me, I said I did not regret his death, I sacrificed ...WATER WORRIES: A STRUCTURE DESIGNED TO PREVENT LANDSLIDES IS NOW A THREAT ITSELF
Armine Avagyan
“Hakarvik”- a structure safeguarding the area and ensuring water drainage built adjunct to one of Kapan’s landslide zones- has now become a threat to residents of neighboring houses. A resident of 39th ...KARABAKH: COMMUNICATION SECURITY IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT THE LIBERATED LANDS
Naira Hayrumyan
During the recent session of the Karabakh government, NKR Prime Minister Ara Harutyunyan stated that the repair of Drmbon-Qarvachar-Vardenis highway is planned in perspective. Recently 44-kilometer section ...BEYOND AND INSIDE: TURK LOOK ON ARARAT WITH ARMENIAN PERCEPTION
Sara Khojoyan
Ten days spent in Armenia made such a strong impression on a Turkish photographer that he decided he would visit again the country that had a history of troubled relations and no current diplomatic ties ...HOMELAND EDUCATION: AN INTERN EVALUATES HER TIME IN ARMENIA
I had imagined a lot of things about my internship in Armenia. Of the myriad of possibilities, never did I predict that I would have filed an article within the first week of my two-month stay. I arrived ...RALLYING ON: OPPOSITION PUSHES FOR SARGSYAN RESIGNATION, EARLY ELECTIONS
Suren Musayelyan 5
Armenia’s opposition has defied another municipality ban on rallies in city center locations to renew its demands for the current administration’s resignation and holding of pre-term elections. Thousands ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1680 Death of Catholicos Hakob the Fourth (Jughayetsee). He accompanied Israel Oree to Europe, seeking assistance from the Christian states for Armenian emancipation.
- 1766 Catholicos Simeon Yerevantsi sends a message to Tsarina Ekaterina (Catherine) the Second, asking for help on behalf of Armenia.
- 1812 The "Deetak Byoozantion" periodical was published until September 1816 in Constantinople.
- 1817 Birth of Hovhannes Aivazovsky (seascape artist) in Feodosia (the Ukraine). He died in 1900.
- 1862 Armenians meet in Constantinople and ask the Sultan to ratify the National Constitution.
- 1894 Defense of Sassoon (Western Armenia) against Turkish attacks.
- 1896 500 Kurds are brought to Constantinople by the Turkish Government to help carry out the Genocide of the Armenians there.
- 1903 Birth of Goorgen Mahari (writer). He died in 1969.
- 1905 Tsar Nicholas the Second abrogates his 1903 06 12 law closing Armenian Parish Schools. They are reopened.
- 1914 With the start of the First World War on this day, all previous agreements concerning Armenia were ignored. The Armenians were in imminent danger: in fact, the Armenian Genocide started eight months later.
- 1918 Opening of the First Parliament of the Armenian Republic under the presidency of Father Abraham (Aveteek Sahakian).
- 1919 The Armenian Parliament opens in Yerevan.
- 1919 The Azerbaijani Government and the Artsakh National Council sign a Provisional Treaty.
- 1934 Opening of the First Congress of Armenia's Soviet Writers.
- 1954 The All-Union Agricultural Exhibition reopens in Moscow.
- 1997 On the appointment of Artsakh President Kocharian to the post of Prime Minister of Armenia, by President Ter-Petrossian of Armenia, the minister of Foreign Affairs for Artsakh, Arkady Ghoukasian is elected President of Artsakh for a five-year term.
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