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Headlines for June 17, 2008NOTIFICATION OF OPPOSITION WAS REJECTED
The City Hall of Yerevan rejected the second notification of the Center of the Popular Movement to hold a rally on June 20 on the Square of Freedom. The City Hall had turned down the first notification, ...FAMILIES OF VICTIMS UNDERGO BLACKMAIL
During the meeting of the PACE rapporteurs John Prescott and George Colombier with the National Assembly, Member of Parliament Zaruhi Postanjyan, Heritage Party, said with regard to the tragedy of March ...WHO WILL BE INVESTIGATING MARCH 1
Yesterday the National Assembly passed the bill on setting up an ad hoc parliament committee for studying the events which took place in Yerevan on March 1 and 2, 2008. From the coalition parties the ...LEVON TER-PETROSYAN MET PACE CO-RAPPORTEURS
On June 16 the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan met with the PACE co-rapporteurs John Prescott and George Colombier. They discussed the implementation of the PACE resolution 1609, as well ...CO-RAPPORTEURS OBSERVED WILL
According to the news release of the press office of president, Serge Sargsyan said in the meeting with the PACE co-rapporteurs John Prescott and George Colombier that the implementation of the PACE resolution ...COMMITTEE IS ON ORBIT OF CONTROVERSIES INSIDE GOVERNMENT
The National Assembly of Armenia passed the bill on setting up an ad hoc parliament committee to study the events of March 1 and 2, 2008 in Yerevan. The committee, as its official name suggests, must ...SUIT OF INTERNET PROVIDERS AGAINST ARMENTEL WILL BE DISCUSSED
Tomorrow the State Commission of Protection of Economic Competition will hold a session to discuss a number of issues, including the suit of the Internet providers against Armentel, the results of the ...NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IS HOPEFUL
Today the National Assembly voted 80 to 4 for the draft statement on the implementation of the PACE resolution 1609. 2 members of parliament abstained. The statement holds that for two months since the ...ADMINISTRATIVE COURT DECLINED
Today the administrative court declined the suit of Levon Ter-Petrosyan against the decision of the City Hall to refuse permission to hold a rally on the Square of Freedom on June 20.HRANUSH HAKOBYAN’S CANDIDACY CONSIDERED FOR MINISTER OF DIASPORA
We have learned that the president administration is considering the nomination of Member of Parliament Hranush Hakobyan as minister of Diaspora, a ministry to be set up soon. It is not known whether ...HERITAGE DECLINED THE POST
Today the National Assembly elected the chairs of two newly-established parliamentary committees, the committee of agriculture and environment and the committee of territorial governance and local government. ...HAYPOST TO LAUNCH “BLIZKO” MONEY TRANSFER SYSTEM
Since June 2, 2008 Haypost has joined the international BLIZKO money transfer system. BLIZKO allows receiving transferred amounts within just a minute after sending them, whereas each transaction is protected ...SERGE SARGSYAN CONGRATULATED THE QUEEN
On the official holiday of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, Serge Sargsyan visited the embassy of the UK to Armenia. He congratulated ...VARDAN MALKHASYAN WENT ON HUNGER PROTEST
The committee of support of Vardan Malkhasyan reports that Vardan Malkhasyan went on hunger protest at the penitentiary of Vardashen, joining the other political prisoners and the women who went on hunger ...GOVERNMENT LACKS POSSIBILITY TO RETRIEVE COUNTRY FROM COLLAPSE
Manvel Sargsyan, expert for the Armenian National and International Studies, thinks that the implementation of the PACE resolution 1609 is clear imitation, which complicates the situation even more. Any ...AGAIN THE HOTEL
Today a conference of women devoted to the issue of functioning of democratic institutions in Armenia was to take place at the Congress Hotel. It was cancelled, however. The reason was the refusal of ...MEETING WITH LEVON TER-PETROSYAN
On June 17 the chair of the Central Board of the Social Democratic Hnchak Party Setrak Ajemian and the head of the Armenian board of the Hnchak Party Liudmila Sargsyan met with the first president, the ...ECHR DECIDED FOR A1+
Today the European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights concerning the Armenian authorities’ refusal ...RAFFI HOVANNISIAN SENT A LETTER TO SPEAKER
On June 17 the leader of the parliamentary faction of the Heritage Party Raffi Hovannisian sent a letter to Speaker Tigran Torosyan, informing him that the delegates of their faction to the ad hoc committee ...ARARAT ZURABYAN GOES ON HUNGER PROTEST
The ministry of justice reports that Ararat Zurabyan held in custody at Yerevan Center Penitentiary notified the warden of the prison on June 17 at around 6 pm that he goes on hunger protest.
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Today in Armenian history- 1500 Birth of Kiram Kazmogh (sculptor).
- 1847 The Venice Mkhitarist Congregation publishes the "Europe" weekly, which later become a bi-weekly journal.
- 1869 The Gayanyan Girl's School opens in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1887 Birth of academician and historian Ashot Hovhannisyan in Shooshee (Artsakh). He died in 1972.
- 1929 Birth of Tigran Petrossyan (World Chess Champion).
- 1965 The Avetik Issahakyan statue is inaugurated in Yerevan.
- 1971 Parooyr Sevak (writer, political figure) is murdered by the State Police. He was born in 1924.
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