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BATTLE CRY: KARABAKH WAR VETERANS IN ARMENIA DEMAND A NEW LAW AND PRIVILEGES
Gayane Mkrtchyan
A group of Karabakh war veterans in Armenia intends to apply to the National Assembly demanding the adoption of a law which would define privileges for them and therefore help them resolve their social ...JUNE 29: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MISSING IN ACTION IS MARKED IN ARMENIA
Gayane Mkrtchyan
Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan accompanied representatives of different organizations and relatives of Armenia's Missing In Action to Yerblur' Military Cemetery today (June 29) to commemorate International ...AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…. ARMENIA PUBLIC TELEVISION AWARDED "UNPLEASANT TV" TITLE
Gayane Abrahamyan
A disagreeable title "Unpleasant TV Broadcast" was awarded to the Armenian Public television as was defined by most of the 110-member panel of judges in the first-ever contest of television channels in ...ANIMATED ARMENIA: YEREVAN TO HOST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL
Karine Ionesyan
Armenia will for the first time host an international animated film festival, October 3-6. ReAnimania, as it is named, will be held in Yerevan and will enable Armenian and foreign artists to present their ...NO REGRETS: ARMENIA DELEGATE DEFENDS HER BEHAVIOR AT STRASBOURG BRANDED AS "UNPATRIOTIC"
Georg Khachaturyan
An opposition member of Armenia's parliament serving on the delegation to the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) has dismissed claims by critics and political opponents that her move to ...OUTRAGE AND ACCUSATIONS: ARMENIA DELEGATES UP IN ARMS OVER COLLEAGUE'S PACE PERFORMANCE
Gayane Mkrtchyan
Heritage MP Zaruhi Postanjyan continued to feel the wrath of fellow Assembly members Tuesday (June 30) over her decision at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) last week to accept ...CULTURE AND CORRUPTION: AUDIT SHOWS WRONG DOING BY ARMENIA MINISTRY AND REGIONAL BODIES
Gayane Abrahamyan
The Armenian Audit Chamber, which twice a year audits state departments to see how State Budget money is spent, registered a recurrent misuse of about half a million dollars in the communities of Armavir ...TELEVIRTUAL VIEWING: TV THROUGH INTERNET TO BECOME AVAILABLE FOR VIEWERS IN ARMENIA
Georg Khachaturyan
Men in blue company uniforms have been busy these days installing long black cables along the streets of the capital of Armenia, laying the information highway for potentially tens of thousands of Yerevan ...GOLDEN APRICOT: SIXTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN ARMENIA PROMISES SOME NOVELTIES
Karine Ionesyan
With less than two weeks to go before the opening of Armenia's best known international film festival, Golden Apricot, the mood among cinemagoers in capital city Yerevan appears festive not least due ...FLOWER POWER: TURKS PLAN TO DECORATE STADIUM WITH 70,000 CARNATIONS FOR ARMENIA SOCCER GAME
Suren Musayelyan
Turkey is preparing a large-scale floral greeting to Armenia's national soccer team and few fans that will be traveling across the border for a return World Cup 2010 qualifier this fall, according to ...PROJECTS CONTINUE, RELATIONS STRENGTHEN: IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA SPEAKS OF FURTHER COOPERATION BETWEEN COUNTRIES
Gayane Mkrtchyan
Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia Seyed Ali Saqqaiyan, speaking about the post-election developments in Iran, said the latest events will not have their influence upon Armenian-Iranian ...MORE PUNISHMENT?: ARMENIAN ACTIVIST FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHTS OF ARMENIANS IN JAVAKHK DENIED INTERNATIONAL ATTORNEY
Gayane Abrahamyan
A Georgian-Armenian political activist who was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment was not allowed to have a French-Armenian defense attorney, based on amendments to Georgian law stipulating that a ...UNDER-MINING: PLANT IN SOUTHERN ARMENIA RESUMES AMID WORKER CONCERNS
Karine Ionesyan
A copper-molybdenum plant in southern Armenia that ground to a halt last year influenced by the unfavorable world market situation and the broader global economic slowdown has resumed operations this ...TV BRIDGE: EXPERTS IN ARMENIA, GEORGIA LOOK BACK AT SAAKASHVILI VISIT
Georg Khachaturyan
Societies and political elites in Armenia and Georgia view positively last week's visit by President Mikheil Saakashvili to Yerevan, said a majority of speakers during a teleconference between Yerevan ..."HELLO. I AM NIKOL PASHINYAN, AND I CAME TO BE ARRESTED": ARMENIA OPPOSITIONIST WANTED BY POLICE SURRENDERS AND ANTICIPATES PUNISHMENT
Gayane Abrahamyan
The passionate oppositionist and the editor of an ultra-oppositional newspaper who surrendered to police after 16 months of hiding may face at least 6-7 years of imprisonment, according to his lawyers. ...BLOCKED ROADS AND BEATEN ACTIVISTS IN ARMENIA: UPCOMING OPPOSITION RALLY PROVOKES CLASHES
Gayane Mkrtchyan
ArmeniaNow has received reports today of police interfering with travelers attempting to reach Yerevan. In what appears to be a gross violation of the rights of free movement, police are stationed on ...RALLY REALITY: ARMENIA OPPOSITION MOOD MODERATES AS RELEASED 03/01 PRISONERS ADDRESS CROWD
Karine Ionesyan 1
As leaders of the opposition, including those who recently emerged from prison under a general amnesty declaration, were speaking on stage Thursday evening in front of Matenadaran, Armenia's ancient manuscripts ...WAY FOR RAIL: ARMENIA GETTING BACK ON COMMUTER TRAIN TRACK
Georg Khachaturyan
The Russian managers of Armenia's rail network have announced an imminent launch of a major commuter train service from Yerevan westward that they say will potentially open up new prospects for domestic ...FREEDOM HOUSE REPORT HIGHLIGHTS DECLINES IN DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT
According to newly released report by the US based Freedom House human rights organization Armenia saw a worsening of its democratic development statistics, largely as a consequence of the violent political ...ARMENIA, KARABAKH, AZERBAIJAN: COMMUNITIES OF THE THREE COUNTRIES HAVE TO DEFINE A DIALOGUE FORMAT SUITING ALL SIDES
Representatives of Azeri intelligentsia are planning a visit to Karabakh encouraged by the idea of the importance of public opinion stressed by the international community. However, the dates of the visit ...ARMENIA, RUSSIA, AZERBAIJAN: ENERGY INTERESTS AND STATE AWARDS CHANGE GEOPOLITICAL ACCENTS IN THE REGION
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Azerbaijani capital Baku early this week took place amid warming relations between Azerbaijan and Russia on the one hand, and on the other, unprecedented criticism ...LETTER HOME: A DIASPORA DISCOVERS ARMENIA AND "ARMENIANNESS"
When I discovered AGBU's Yerevan Summer Internship Program, I immediately applied hoping to have the opportunity to challenge myself by learning to adapt and interact with another culture apart from the ...IN DEFENSE OF A HERO OF ARMENIA: STEP BACK BEFORE STEPPING UP TO CRUCIFY POSTANJYAN
Frankly stated: Armenia National Assembly Deputy Zaruhi Postanjyan's got balls. She represents the sort of fresh, youthful leadership that Armenia needs more of. Instead she has become a target for ...SPORT: ARMENIA ICE HOCKEY DELIGHT AMID SUMMER HEAT
Suren Musayelyan
Ice Hockey Yerevan will host World Division III Championships to be held next spring, according to the Ice Hockey Federation of Armenia. The Federation's Vice-President Hayk Jaghatspanyan told ArmeniaNow ...RELEASED: AMNESTY FOR ARMENIA PROTESTORS BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
The decision of President Serzh Sargsyan and the National Assembly of Armenia to grant amnesty to political opponents arrested and imprisoned following the tragic violence on March 1, 2008, is welcome ...WEATHERING THE STORM: POLITICAL DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
For a period of six years, Armenia posted an impressive rate of double-digit economic growth, with Armenia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanding considerably (see chart below). But as a direct result ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1852 Birth of Minas Sheraz in Constantinople, teacher, speaker, and public figure. He died in 1929.
- 1913 Start of the conference of the ambassadors in Constantinople. They discuss Armenian reforms.
- 1913 The "Armenian Commission on Reforms" starts its work in the Enikyoy suburb of Constantinople.
- 1955 Inauguration of the memorial over the tomb of Hunan Avetisian (Hero of the Soviet Union).
- 1957 Creation of the Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
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