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Headlines for May 19, 2006HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE MAINTAINS MILITARY AID PARITY BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN
WASHINGTON, DC--Early reports from Capitol Hill sources indicate that the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations approved by voice vote to maintain military assistance parity between ...TURKEY USES BLACKMAIL TO BLOCK PASSAGE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL
(Combined Sources)--Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Bureau member and Parliament Vice Speaker Vahan Hovhannisian said on Friday that the derailing of the Armenian genocide bill in French Parliament ...ARMENIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY FESTIVAL TO BE HELD IN LITTLE ARMENIA
(HOLLYWOOD)--The Armenian Cultural Foundation, in conjunction with the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) Western Region, will host a festival on May 28 to commemorate Armenia's independence. The festival ...ARMENIAN SINGER ANDRE IN EUROVISION 2006 FINAL
(Combined Sources)--Armenian singer from Karabagh, Andre Hovhanyan, qualified Friday night to participate in the final round of the Eurovision Song Contest being held this weekend in Athens. Andre is ...NO AGREEMENT REACHED YET ON ARMENIAN-AZERI SUMMIT
YEREVAN (RFE/RL)--Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said on Friday that he and his Azeri counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov did not set a date for the next Armenian-Azeri summit on Karabagh during talks in Strasbourg ...KOCHARIAN APPOINTS YESAYAN DEPUTY MINISTER OF EDUCATION
YEREVAN (RFE/RL)--President Robert Kocharian's special Anti-corruption Adviser and Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) member Bagrat Yesayan, was relieved of his duties and appointed Deputy Minister ...OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER EDITOR HARSHLY BEATEN IN AZERBAIJAN
BAKU (AP)--Bahaddin Khaziyev, editor of the Bizim Yol (Our Way) newspaper, was seized late Thursday in the Azeri capital, Baku, by five men who put a bag over his head and drove him to a lake outside ...SUNDAY’S TELETHON TO RAISE FUNDS FOR ANC PROGRAMS
GLENDALE (Glendale News Press)--The Armenian National Committee of America has done a lot for the Armenian community through its programs, but in order to do more, it needs more money, organization officials ...THE NEW YORK TIMES REBUKES TURKEY OVER ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL
-- Editorial Decries Turkey's "Self-Destructive Obsession" with Denial of the Genocide NEW YORK—In an editorial published Tuesday, May 15, The New York Times pointed out Turkey’s “self-destructive ...GENOCIDE SEMINAR FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HELD IN FRESNO
FRESNO--One hundred and ten students from junior highs and high schools around Fresno and Clovis participated in a successful Genocide Seminar on Saturday, May 13, at the Armenian Community Center in ...‘FROM NEED TO GREED:’ NEW FILM DOCUMENTS ILLEGAL LOGGING AND DEFORESTATION IN ARMENIA
A 20-minute film about illegal logging and deforestation in Armenia, titled “From Need to Greed,” was released this week by Vem Media Arts in Yerevan. The fourth in a series of environmental films, the ...THE ‘BUZZ’ ABOUT BEZZERIDES: FILM ABOUT ARMENIAN-GREEK SCREENWRITER FEATURED AT SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL
This year, the Southeast European Film Festival has chosen as its closing night film “Buzz,” a film about a legendary Hollywood scriptwriter of Armenian-Greek descent. The closing night event, during ...THE CONFLICT IN DARFUR
By Representative Joe Schwartz, MD Those with Armenian, Jewish, and Cambodian heritage, among others, understand all too well what happens when good people remain silent and allow atrocities to continue ...CRITICS’ FORUM: VISUAL ARTS
Joanne Julian: Concerning the Spiritual in Art By Adriana Tchalian The title of my article, “Concerning the Spiritual in Art,” comes from a book written by twentieth-century Modernist Wassily Kandinsky ...IRRITANTS III
By Garen Yegparian OK, this week, let’s just have some fun. It’s been a year and a half since I went on a whining spree and there are weighty issues coming next week. As I quoted before, Jean Paul Sartre ...SKEPTIK TAKES ON GOLDBERG
By SKEPTIK SINIKIAN In any given week, I receive a dozen or so emails from around the world from various readers. I try to respond to as many as I can but sometimes it will be one of those weeks where ...
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Today in Armenian history- 325 The First Ecumenical Council in Nicea. It adopts the "Nicean Creed".
- 1817 Thanks to the efforts of the public figure Krtsheekyan, Rashid and Ali pashas received the Sultan's confirmation for two meetings of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople. The first was a Spiritual Meeting with fourteen members and the second was a Supreme Meeting with twenty members. This confirmation led to the eventual proclamation of a National Constitution.
- 1892 Birth of Hamo Beknazaryan (actor, film director). He died in 1965.
- 1915 Victorious outcome of the one-month defense of Van (Western Armenia).
- 1969 Death of writer Arsen Yerkat.
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