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Headlines for December 30, 2011

WHAT DESIGNERS ADVISE ON FASHION-2012?
YEREVAN. - Fashion trends vary widely in 2012, and are divided into different directions. Anyone can find his or her style in the fashion, artistic director of Harmony fashion house, designer Mika Danielyan ...
ARMENIAN AGRICULTURE MINISTER CELEBRATES NEW YEAR WITH HIS GRANDCHILDREN
By Inga Martinyan YEREVAN. - Armenian Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan will celebrate New Year with his family and grandchildren. "I cannot often see my grandchildren due to heavy work schedule," ...
ARMENIAN DESIGNER CALLS NOT TO CUT DOWN TREES FOR ONE DAY
YEREVAN. - Symbol of 2012, the dragon, has the ability to breathe fire, therefore while decorating a Christmas tree and your house you should use many candles and flaming colors, designer Arman Davtyan, ...
BIRTH OF MY SON THE BEST PRESENT - ARMENIAN ECONOMY MINISTER
YEREVAN.- Armenian Minister of Economy Tigran Davtyan will celebrate the New Year with his family at home and will probably go to the countryside after January 2. "I do not like either give or receive ...
ARMENIA'S VICE PREMIER ACTIVELY PARTICIPATES IN NEW YEAR PREPARATIONS
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Vice Premier, Minister of Territorial Administration Armen Gevorgyan will not break with tradition and will spend New Year Eve with his family. "I am actively participating in New ...
ARTIFICIAL ACCELERATION OF NEGOTIATIONS WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO KARABAKH CONFLICT'S SETTLEMENT - EXPERT
YEREVAN. - The negotiation process on settling the Karabakh conflict has actually stopped after the presidents' meeting in Kazan. That is a result of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev's attempt of accelerating ...
ARMENIA'S ECONOMIC SUCCESSES INSIGNIFICANT - OPPOSITION MP
YEREVAN. - Armenia registered no serious achievements in the economic sphere for this year. There are small successes, which cannot be called achievements, oppositional ARF Dashnaktsutyun party MP Artsvik ...
ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER PLANS TO SPEND NEW YEAR EVE WITH HIS FAMILY
YEREVAN. - Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan plans to spend New Year Eve at home with his family but prior to it he will accompany President Serzh Sargsyan in his trip to the state border where ...
IF SOUP WERE TO BE COOKED IN KARABAKH, GEORGIA WOULD NOT BE ITS BUTTER - ANALYST
YEREVAN. - Stability was the most important thing for South Caucasus in 2011, President of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, political scientist Alexander Rondeli told Armenian ...
I TAKE UPON MYSELF THE FAILURES OF ARMENIA'S NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM - FEDERATION PRESIDENT
YEREVAN. - Armenian News-NEWS.am interviewed Ruben Hayrapetyan, President of the Football Federation of Armenia (FFA). Below is an excerpt from the interview.What were our achievements in the passing ...
WHERE WILL ARMENIAN REGIONAL GOVERNORS WELCOME NEW YEAR?
By Inga MartinyanYEREVAN. - Governor Kovalenko Shahgaldyan of Armenia's Kotayk Region will spend the New Year in the country, at home, together with his relatives, Shahgaldyan himself told Armenian News-NEWS.am. ...
AZERBAIJANI ARMY HAS WEAPONS, BUT LACKS STRENGTH AND POWER - AZERBAIJANI PRESS
BAKU. - "Be the case," the Azerbaijani political authorities speak about returning Karabakh, but, in reality, the armed forces lack strength and power. There are weapons, but it is meaningless to speak ...
FOOTBALL FUNNIES OF 2011
TVGOLO prepared the video of the funniest football incidents in 2011.
TURKEY'S POLICY OF "ZERO PROBLEMS WITH NEIGHBORS TRANSFORMED TO "ZERO NEIGHBORS WITHOUT PROBLEMS" - RUSSIAN EXPERT
Foreign policy doctrine introduced by Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu as a policy of "zero problems with neighbors" smoothly transformed into the wording "zero neighbors without problems", Russian political ...
WE RESPECT ARMENIANS' PAIN, BUT THEY SHOULD RESPECT OURS, TOO - TURKISH FM
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ANKARA. - During his regular meeting with Turkish ambassadors, Turkey's FM Ahmet Davutoglu spoke about the text which was not stated during official signing of the Armenian-Turkish protocols, in Zurich ...
TOP 10 EVENTS IN ARMENIA'S IT SECTOR FOR 2011
By Samvel AvagyanBelow is our list of top ten most important events that occurred in Armenia's information technology sector in 2011 1. Fourth annual ArmTech Congress was convened in capital Yerevan.2. ...
THREE CHILDREN NOT ANSWERING TO TELEPHONE CALLS AND DOORBELL IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. -A call was received Friday that three children of an apartment in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, were not answering to the telephone calls and the doorbell, and that a rescue team was needed.A ...
YOUNG MAN FOUND IN CANAL IN ARMENIAN
YEREVAN. - An Armenian Arshak Avetisyan, 28, who was lost without trace, was found in a canal near the 'Yerevan Nights' restaurant complex, Armenian Police PR officer Armen Malkhasyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am. Avetisyan ...
IN THE PASSING YEAR, ARMENIA'S ARMY PERFORMED ITS TASKS WITH HONOR - MOD
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan delivered a congratulatory message in connection wit the coming New Year. "For the Armenian Armed Forces, 2011 was a year of maintaining success and ...
THREE CHILDREN, WHO WERE NOT ANSWERING TO TELEPHONE CALLS AND DOORBELL IN YEREVAN, ARE FOUND ASLEEP
YEREVAN. - As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, a call was received Friday that three children of an apartment in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, were not answering to the telephone calls and the doorbell, ...
VODKA PRODUCTION DROPS IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - In comparison with the same time period last year, Armenia's vodka and vodka-liquor production reduced by 20.3 percent in January-November 2011, the National Statistical Service informed. According ...
MAN DIES OF SMOKE INHALATION IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Police Force received a call Thursday, from Yeghvard city Fire Department, that a fire had broken out in an unused office in Nor Gegh village and that a person was inside. The fire ...
FATAL HIT-AND-RUN SUSPECT CAUGHT IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Police Force caught the person responsible for a fatal hit-and-run in the capital Yerevan. An unidentified driver had hit a 70-year-old woman, who had died on the spot on Tuesday. And ...
TOP SPACE PHOTO DISCOVERIES - 2011 (PHOTOS)
YEREVAN. - Passing year made many discoveries in the sphere of astronautics. Researchers shot many surprising moments in space and on the Earth. The best photos on space are presented by the Universe ...
ARMENIA'S INTERNATIONAL RESERVES DOWN IN NOVEMBER
YEREVAN.- Armenia's international reserves as of November 2011 totaled $1.88 billion, says the report issued by the Central Bank of Armenia on Friday. As compared with October, international reserves ...
NAGORNO-KARABAKH DESERVES INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION - RUSSIAN POLITICIAN
MOSCOW. - Russia, Europe, and later the U.S. will gradually recognize Armenians' rights for their historic homeland, while Turkey has to reckon with it, said head of the Russian Liberal-Democratic Party ...
ARMENIA CLOSES YEAR WITH 4.7-PERCENT INFLATION
YEREVAN. - In comparison with December 2010, Armenia's 12-month inflation made up 4.7 percent in December of the current year, the National Statistical Service informed. And in comparison with past ...
ARMENIAN PRESIDENT VISITS YERABLUR PANTHEON (PHOTOS)
YEREVAN. - Prior to the New Year and Armenian Christmas holidays, President Serzh Sargsyan, accompanied by senior officials, paid a visit to the Yerablur Pantheon in the capital Yerevan. At the Pantheon, ...
KARABAKH PRESIDENT DISCUSES MILITARY ISSUES WITH HEAD OF ARMENIAN ARMED FORCES
STEPANAKERT. - President of Nagorno-Karabakh Bako Sahakyan received Chief of Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Yuri Khachaturov on Friday. The sides discussed issues on military building of the two Armenian ...
ARMENIAN PRESIDENT AWARDS STATE EMPLOYEES
YEREVAN. - Under Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's decree Vahram Petrosyan, Vardan Aramyan and Nikolay Grigoryan were awarded with Anania Shirakatsi medal. Aida Aghabekyan, Harutyun Yaghubyan and Artak ...
CONCERT AND FIREWORKS ON NEW YEAR EVE IN ARMENIA'S CENTRAL SQUARE
YEREVAN. - Yerevan municipality invites residents and guests of the capital to celebrate the New Year Eve in the Republic Square on Saturday. The celebration event will start with 3D show and will go ...
TURKISH HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS APPEAL TO VALERIE BOYER: WE STAND BY YOU
Human Rights Association Istanbul branch, Committee Against Racism and Discrimination appealed to French MP Valerie Boyer, author of the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial. The association ...
ARMENIAN POLICE CALLS TO AVOID DRINKING ALCOHOL
YEREVAN. - Armenian Police congratulates New Year and Christmas and warns drivers to be on alert and avoid drinking alcohol. Police warns that Road Police will carry out intensified work during holiday ...
SHOOTINGS IN ARMENIAN CAPITAL
YEREVAN. - Arabkir district of Yerevan, Armenia, registered shootings at 3.00 a.m. on Friday. A jeep vehicle crashed with Busy taxi service car wash entrance door and escaped the scene. However, the jeep ...
STRIP DANCER WORLD CHAMPION OF ARMENIAN DESCENT TO VISIT AND HOLD SHOW IN ARMENIA (VIDEO)
KIEV. - Strip dancer world champions Armenian-Ukrainian Vardanush Martirosyan and Ukrainian Vitali Kozlovski may launch a joint show to be held in Ukraine, Russia, Armenia and European states. The Strip ...
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN ARMENIA AND RUSSIA SUPPORTS SECURITY IN SOUTH CAUCASUS - RUSSIAN PRESIDENT
YEREVAN. - Russian President Dmitri Medvedev congratulated his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan in connection to New Year. "The effective and developing strategic partnership between Armenia and Russia ...
US DOLLAR ENDS YEAR WITH INCREASE
YEREVAN. - The average exchange rate made AMD 386.17 at NASDAQ OMX Armenia stock exchange on Friday, which is higher by 0.31% or expensive by AMD 1.19 compared to Thursday. Sales totaled $10.55 million. U.S. ...