OSCAR: "THE ARTIST" WINS BEST PICTURE

"The Artist" won five Academy Awards including best picture, becoming the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood's highest honors since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago. Among other prizes Sunday for the black-and-white comic melodrama were best actor for Jean Dujardin and director for Michel Hazanavicius, the AP reports. The other newly Oscar-ed actors included Meryl Streep, whose 17th nomination, for The Iron Lady, turned into the third Academy Award of her career; Octavia Spencer, from The Help, who delivered an emotional acceptance speech; and Christopher Plummer, who at 82 became the oldest winner of an acting Oscar for his supporting performance in Beginners, the hollywoodreporter.com reports. It was a night that certainly celebrated the sounds of silents as Martin Scorsese's Hugo, which recounts the career of French film pioneer Georges Melies, captured five prizes of the 11 for which it was nominated, tying with Artist for the year's biggest haul.

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Headlines for February 27, 2012

AIR TEMPERATURE TO GO UP A LITTLE MORE
The weather in Armenia will be conditioned by high pressure field. On the 27th of February no significant precipitation is expected in the whole territory. No precipitation is expected mainly in Shirak, ...
OSCAR: "THE ARTIST" WINS BEST PICTURE
"The Artist" won five Academy Awards including best picture, becoming the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood's highest honors since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago. Among other ...
HOVIK HAYRAPETYAN FULFILLS GM NORM
Hovik Haurapetyan, who represents Armenia in "Aeroflot open" in Moscow, has fulfilled the GM norm, the armchess.am reports. It also informs that Hovhannes Gabuzyan has fulfilled norm of international ...
BERD - CHAMBARAK HIGHWAY IS CLOSED
As of February 27 at 08:00 all the interstate, republican roads and mount passes are mainly passable. Attention: Berd - Chambarak highway is closed. Transport and Communication ministry calls on all ...
ERIC SIGIRJYAN OPENS CHESS SCHOOL IN CANNES
French - Armenian chess player and trainer Eric Sigirjyan has launched a chess club in Cannes which is called "Azure". Trainings for the young chess players are being held here. The club is planning ...
SYRIANS VOTED IN A REFERENDUM ON A NEW CONSTITUTION
that pledges to introduce political pluralism after almost a year of violence between pro-reform protesters and the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, the Los Angeles Times reports. The new constitution ...
RA PRIME MINISTER HAS SENT HIS CONDOLENCES TO H. BAGRATYAN
The RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan addressed condolences to RA former Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan on his mother's death. The address in particular says, "I express my deep condolencse on the death ...
US TO ENLARGE TERRITORIES OF ITS EMBASSY IN MOSCOW
The US plans to enlarge territories of its embassy in Moscow by building additional seven-stored apartment. The seven-story building will house consular and visa departments to meet the growing demand ...
BAKO SAHAKYAN MEETS GRIGOR AMALYAN
On 27 February President Bako Sahakyan met chairman of the National Commission on Television and Radio of the Republic of Armenia Grigory Amalyan. Issues related to the cooperation between corresponding ...
EU EXPECTS TO HAVE BIGGER ROLE IN NKR ISSUE
EU wishes to have bigger role in supporting Armenia and Azerbaijan in connection with the NKR conflict settlement, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Baroness ...
ARMENIAN CHESS PLAYERS TAKE PART IN CAPPELLE LA GRANDE OPEN
GMs Tigran L. Petrosian, Zaven Andriasyan, Gevorg Harutyunyan, Tigran Gharamian, Sergey Grigoriants, David Harutyunian, Grigor-Sevak Mkhitarian, WGMs Karina Hambardzumova and Tatev Abrahamyan are going ...
ARMENIAN GMS IN ROCHFORT
GMs Gevorg Harutyunyan, Davit Harutyunyan, Grigor-Sevak Mkhitaryan received 3 points each after 3 rounds in the open being held in French Rochfort city. As the armchess.am informs the same result have ...
A GROUP ATTEMPTED TO ASSASSINATE PRIME MINISTER VLADIMIR PUTIN
Russian and Ukrainian special services have arrested a group of suspects over an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Russia's state television reported Monday. The Channel One ...
RA REPRESENTATIVE ELECTED MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF EUROPE
According to the official information issued by the Council of Europe the Armenian representative has been elected a member of the CoE Committee on Gender Equality in a closed, secrete ballot. The newly ...
BAKO SAHAKYAN VISITS FILTER STATION N1 IN STEPANAKERT
On February 27 Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan visited filter station N1 in the capital Stepanakert and got acquainted with the process of construction activities. The President noted the significance ...
"OLD YEREVAN" SHOULD BE QUICKLY IMPLEMENTED
Today at the consultations held at the Mayor's Office, Yerevan Mayor Taron Mragaryan has commissioned to present the complex event program arranged by the UNESCO in occasion of declaring Yerevan as International ...