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Headlines for May 22, 2009
BEST PERFORMANCE, WORST PLACE: ARMENIA ONLY TENTH AT EUROVISION-2009
Suren Musayelyan
With 92 points received in a combined vote by viewers and national juries, Armenia finished only tenth in the 25-nation Eurovision final in Russian capital Moscow Saturday night. This is the lowest ...REPUBLICAN SAMVEL NIKOYAN ELECTED DEPUTY PARLIAMENT SPEAKER
Armenian parliamentarians on Monday voted overwhelmingly (104 to 3) in a secret ballot to elect Republican Party faction secretary Samvel Nikoyan to the post of deputy speaker of the 131-seat body, according ...POUR TOI, AZNAVOUR: NATION IN WARM WELCOME TO ITS RENOWNED CROONER ON HIS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION TOUR
Suren Musayelyan
The concert entitled ‘Pour toi, Armenie’ (For you, Armenia) by French-Armenian singers and a joint French-Armenian orchestra that took place at the National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet in Yerevan ...AAA: SUPPORT GROWS IN U.S. CONGRESS FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
Another four United States congressmen have joined in supporting the resolution affirming the Armenian Genocide bringing the total number of cosponsors to 125. Congressmen Bruce Braley (D-IA), Peter ...SPORT: ARMENIA HOSTING AIBA WORLD JUNIOR BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Suren Musayelyan
Boxing International Boxing Association (AIBA) world junior boxing championships are due to open in Armenia’s capital Yerevan May 23 to last till May 30. According to AIBA (www.aiba.org), the premier ...REALITY CHECK: HOW REAL ARE THE “ROADMAP” AND “BASIC IDEAS” AGREEMENTS?
April and May have been months of intense diplomatic activity concerning Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan, involving summitry among the presidents of the three nations and a large measure of United States ...WEATHERING THE STORM: STATISTICS DON’T LIE
Speaking at a 13 May conference organized by the Union of Industrialists and Manufacturers, one of the largest business groups in Armenia, President Serzh Sarkisian launched a spirited defense of his ...EUROVISION 2009, THE DEBATE CONTINUES: THE RICH VOCAL OF ARSHAKYAN SISTERS FAILS TO ECLIPSE THEIR GLOOMY PERFORMANCE AND GOTHIC MAKE UP
Karine Ionesyan
The Eurovision Song Contest held in Moscow last Saturday caused a wave of distress and frustration in Armenia, raising more questions and new conjectures about the factual failure of Armenian singers ...NO TRESPASSING: OPENING OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PARK STILL DEBATED
Karine Ionesyan
The idea of turning the fenced park near the National Assembly building into a public park has found both support and dissatisfaction among Armenian citizens. The National Assembly was built in 1947; ...NOCTURNAL DISPLAY: MUSEUMS IN ARMENIA OFFER FREE LATE EVENING ENTRANCE AS PART OF INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN
Siranuysh Gevorgyan
Last weekend art lovers in Yerevan and other towns in three provinces of Armenia had a chance to visit different museums free of charge till midnight thanks to the ‘Museum Night’ campaign. It is the ...STRIKING A BALANCE: TURKISH JOURNALISTS IN ARMENIA TO PROMOTE INFORMATION EXCHANGE
Gayane Mkrtchyan
An Istanbul-based Armenian weekly editor has led a group of Turkish journalists on a weeklong trip to Armenia, which he says is a good opportunity for them to develop professional contacts with their ...GLOOMY FORECAST: IMF PREDICTS DEEPER DECLINE, SLOW RECOVERY FOR ARMENIA’S ECONOMY
Sara Khojoyan
Armenia will see an even deeper slump in economy and a slow recovery process, according to a forecast by specialists of an international institution. Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund ...POLITICS IN EUROVISION: THE CONTEST IS OVER, BUT NOT THE DEBATES
Aris Ghazinyan
Some episodes of backstage life of Eurovision-2009 held in Russian capital Moscow last week can develop into a real political scandal. Last Saturday saw a grand finale of this popular pan-European song ...NO CINEMA, NO MEDICAL CENTER: CRISIS FREEZES LARGE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN VANADZOR
Naira Bulghadaryan
The construction of a new medical-rehabilitation center in the heart of Vanadzor was to have been completed in May and the construction works of the cinema were to have started at the beginning of the ...GROW ROOTS: WHILE PEACE PROCESS GOES ON, KARABAKH FOCUSES ON DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL ISSUES
Naira Hayrumyan
Every time after the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk group on the Karabakh issue settlement make statements that the Armenian armed forces have to withdraw from the territories surrounding the former Autonomous ...FRONTRUNNERS AND UNDERDOGS: DIFFERENT FORCES SOLVE DIFFERENT TASKS IN YEREVAN ELECTIONS
Gayane Mkrtchyan
For the third week political parties taking part in the Yerevan City Council elections have been holding their election campaigns, using all the ‘playing cards’ at their disposal to reach the desirable ...CHEMICAL CONCERNS: NAIRIT WORKERS’ LINGERING QUESTIONS OVER EXPLOSION AT THEIR PLANT
Karine Ionesyan
Eight days have passed since the explosion at Nairit plant LLC, however the cause of the disaster that led to four deaths is still unknown. On May 14 in late afternoon, a series of explosions rocked ...RFE/RL: SARKISIAN SAID TO PARDON JAILED OPPOSITIONISTS
President Serzh Sarkisian will declare next week an amnesty for opposition members and supporters arrested following Armenia’s disputed February 2008 presidential election, parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian ...POLITICIANS, PASSIONS, PROMISES, POSTERS, PEOPLE: ELECTION CAMPAIGN THROUGH THE PRISM OF A CAMERA
For nearly three weeks now Yerevan residents have been drawn into the ups and downs of another election campaign, which has brought some diversity into their work, soup-opera watching and pre-vacation ...ARMENIA ON FOREIGN PRESS PAGES
(Weekly digest, May 16-22) France on Wednesday cautioned Turkey against linking its efforts to normalize ties with Armenia to the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute, saying the two are parallel but separate processes, ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1864 Turkish forces attack Sassoon (Western Armenia), but retreat because of Armenian resistance.
- 1907 Birth of composer Goorgen Alemshah. He died in 1947.
- 1918 Start of the four-day battle of Sardarapat at the end of which the Armenian forces defeated the Turkish Army.
- 1919 The Publication of Constantinople's Extraordinary Military Tribunal's decision on the perpetrators of the deportation of Trabizond's Armenians.
- 1924 Birth of Charles Aznavour (singer).
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