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Headlines for January 30, 2012EU SUMMIT TO BE OPENED IN BRUSSELS
European Union leaders will gather Monday for their first summit of the year. The good news is that conditions for Italy and Spain are improving. But the fate of Greece is still uncertain, cnn.com reports. ...SELIM PASS AND BERD-CHAMBARAK ROAD CLOSED
Roads are passable in Armenia as of January 30, 08:00, according to the Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations. Berd-Chambarak road and Selim Mountain Pass are impassable, because of snowstorm and ...ITALIAN FORMER PRESIDENT SCALFARO DIES
Former Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, who was head of state during the "Bribesville" corruption affair that overturned Italy's old political order in the 1990s, has died, officials ...ORANGE REVOLUTION IS IMPOSSIBLE IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Russian Chairman of Parliament Sergey Naryshkin stated that an Orange Revolution, as happened in Ukraine, has no chance of taking place in Russia, the Russian media says.
He believes that "the society ...MEDIAGID.AM:SERZH SARGSYAN'S NAME WAS MORE FREQUENTLY MENTIONED
"According to the people's rating Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan was the most referred person in the news feed. Second was the Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and the third one was Bako Sahakyan. On ...INDIA WON'T CUT BACK ON OIL IMPORTS FROM IRAN
According to the AP India will not cut back on oil imports from Iran, its finance minister said, despite stiff new U.S. and European sanctions designed to pressure Tehran over its nuclear program.
"It ...AYSOR.AM AMONG THE LEADERS
"Mediagid" is the first Armenian news aggregator both in Armenian internet and in Trans-Caucasus. Such aggregators exist only in Ukraine and RF in the CIS territory," told the journalists the head of ...A. SARGSYAN TO PARTAKE IN A SESSION IN VIENNA
The press service of the "Dialogue of Civilizations" NGO reports that leader of Democratic Party of Armenia, Aram Sargsyan, as a head of "Dialogue of Civilizations" NGO, member of International coordinating ...NEW RECORD OF SOLDIER OF ARMENIAN ARMY
On the occasion of 20th anniversary of creation of Armenian Armed Forces, serviceman of Armenian Armed forces Rubik Mikayelyan has hit a new record doing 7550 press-ups in 4 hours and 35 minutes (it was ...NO SECRET TALKS ARE HELD WITH TURKEY
"There are no secret or not-secret talks held with Turkey. There are neither direct nor mediated. The reason is simple enough; it will be done only if Turkey is ready to undertake any practical steps. ...HIS HOLINESS KAREKIN II LEFT FOR FRANCE, ENGLAND
His Holiness Karekin II Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians left for France and England on Patriarchal Visit. There he will meet with benefactors of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and ...SARKOZY TO RAISE CONSUMER TAXES IN FRANCE
President Nicolas Sarkozy, insisting that he was acting as a head of state — not a presidential candidate — announced Sunday that he would raise consumer taxes to make French companies more ...AIR TEMPERATURE TO GO DOWN WITH 2-4 DEGREES
The weather will be conditioned by Western mass penetration into the region. On the 30th of January precipitations are expected in separate regions. The air temperature will go down by 2-4 degrees. Wind ...ARMAN YEREMYAN TO TAKE PART IN OLYMPIC GAMES
Arman Yeremyan has become the first Armenian taekwondo athlete to compete in the Olympic Games by winning the gold medal in Men's under 80kg weight category at the European Qualification Tournament for ...RA FM RECEIVES HEAD OF OSCE YEREVAN OFFICE
Today the foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received the newly appointed head of the OSCE Yerevan office Andrey Sorokin, the Press Service of the RA Foreign Ministry reported.
Armenian Foreign Minister ...
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Today in Armenian history- 410 Birth of Movses Khorenatsi (historian).
- 1799 Birth of Edward Hyoormoozyan of the Mkhitarist Congregation (Armenian Roman Catholic Order) in Constantinople. He died in 1876 in Rome.
- 1901 Birth of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of Armenia's Communist Party, Aghassee Khanjyan. He was one of the many murdered by Lavrentee Beria in July, 1936 in Tbilisi, where he was invited for consultations.
- 1915 According to statistical data, from the end of 1914 to the beginning of 1915, about 49800 Armenians emigrated from Western Armenia, Persia and the bordering regions of Turkey, to the ten provinces of Yerevan and Tbilisi.
- 1927 First Graduation Ceremony of Yerevan State University students at the Culture House of Yerevan.
- 1975 Opening of the Yeghisheh Charents Museum in Yerevan.
- 2001 French President Jacques Chirac signs the law recognizing the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. From now on, no one in France has the right to deny the fact of the Armenian Genocide.
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