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FIRST COMPETITION OF ‘UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS' TO TAKE PLACE IN ARMENIA
- YEREVAN. - The Union of Information Technology Enterprises announces 2012 as competition year of 'unmanned aircrafts' in the framework of Armenian open tournament of robots (ArmRobotics). The participants must design and create devices that will be able to survey the area during the flight, to understand signs of positioning, to send online images, to find special target, to throw a load of 300 grams at the target and to return to the starting point.
The robot can be constructed in any way: VTOL (vertical take-off and landing), CTOL (conventional take-off and landing), STVOL (short vertical take-off and landing). The take-off and landing of the robot can be controlled automatically as well as remote.
Applicants can register on the website and must present the robot's thorough design and plan ten days after the registration.
The competition is organized by The Union of Information Technology Enterprises. It is sponsored by VivaCell-MTS, the technical sponsor is 'ArtinVaruzhan' company. Armenian MOD and Microsoft innovation center support the competition as well.
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Headlines for January 13, 2012AZERBAIJANI LEADERSHIP STRICTLY ADHERES TO POLICY OF FALSIFICATION OF 1990 POGROMS OF ARMENIANS IN BAKU
By Ivan Gharibyan
On January 13, 1990, Baku is still the capital of Soviet Azerbaijan. The city is covered by massive anti-Armenian riots. The national fascist Popular Front of Azerbaijan (PFA) wants ...ARMENIAN POLICE CHIEF DID NOT BEAT 'POTATO'
YEREVAN. - Norik Mirzakhanyan (by nickname 'Potato') who is a close friend of General Manvel Grigoryan and was arrested on December 12 for using drugs has not insulted Armenian Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan ...ARMENIAN PM TO BECOME PARLIAMENT SPEAKER? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - According to informed sources, Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan intends to assign to the National Assembly (NA) his deputy chief of staff, Tigran Gevorgyan, as NA Chief of Staff, Haykakan Zhamanak ...ARMENIA'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER BOWS BEFORE PM - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenian National Assembly's (NA) newly-elect Speaker Samvel Nikoyan's every step is closely followed, and commented on, by his fellow MPs, Hraparak daily writes.
"On December 31, President ...ARMENIAN URBAN DEVELOPMENT MINISTER TO LEAD RULING COALITION PARTY HEADQUARTERS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - It became apparent yesterday [Thursday] that the ruling coalition's Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) election headquarters will be lead, in all likelihood, by the Minister of Urban Development, ...MISSING AUTO INSURANCE STICKER RUINS ARMENIAN POLICE CHIEF'S "SHOW" - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - For the first time ever, Armenia's Police Chief Vladimir (Vova) Gasparyan decided Thursday to leave the Government Building from the front, instead of the back, Haykakan Zhamanak daily writes. ...OUT OF FEAR, ARMENIA'S RULING COALITION PARTNER DISTRIBUTES BRIBES TO FELLOW MEMBERS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenian ruling coalition's Rule of Law Party (RLP) is scared so much by running in the upcoming parliamentary elections that it distributes bribes to its own members, out of fear, Hayatsk ...I AIM TO BE PART OF ARMENIA'S WOMEN'S NATIONAL CHESS TEAM - YEVGENIA DOLUKHANOVA
By Garik Hovsepyan
YEREVAN. - Yevgenia Dolukhanova, the 2009 women's chess champion of Ukraine, will now represent Armenia in international tournaments.
She is currently participating in the 67th Armenia's ...GORAN BREGOVIC VISITS YEREVAN FOR CHARITY CONCERT
YEREVAN. - World-renowned musician Goran Bregovic arrived in Armenia Thursday, and took part in a charity event aimed at providing assistance to the scholarship fund of the AYB School.
Goran Bregovic, ...GEORGIAN PATRIARCH PROMISES TO ASSIST TOWARD CARE OF ARMENIAN CHURCHES IN TBILISI
Representatives of Georgia's Armenian community, led by Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanian, Primate of the Georgian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, paid a visit Thursday to the Patriarchate of the Georgian ...US CONTINUES TO ENCOURAGE NORMALIZATION BETWEEN TURKEY AND ARMENIA
U.S. will continue to encourage normalization between Turkey and Armenia, said Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon delivering a speech at the Korber Foundation on Wednesday.
Gordon also stressed ...IRAN LOOKS FAVORABLY TOWARD PROPOSAL TO COMMENCE NUCLEAR PROGRAM TALKS IN TURKEY - IRANIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER
ANKARA. - Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani, who is in Ankara on the invitation of his Turkish counterpart, stated that Iran is prepared to start talks on its nuclear program.
Larijani stressed ...AZERBAIJANI SIDE CONTINUES RIDICULOUS PROPAGANDA MOVES
STEPANAKERT.- Defense Ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh dismissed Azerbaijani reports saying alleged ceasefire violations were registered in different directions on Wednesday.
The recent reports, as well as ...GEORGIAN CITIZEN INJURED IN ACCIDENT IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN.- Georgian citizen was injured as a truck overturned in Armenia on Wednesday.
Driver of the truck, citizen of Georgia Mamuka Imniashvili was taken to Gyumri hospital, he is critical, Ministry ..."MODERN-DAY SLAVE MARKET" OPENS IN TURKEY - TURKISH DAILY
ANTALYA. - A Turkish company brought footballers from Argentina to Turkey and accommodated them in a hotel in Antalya city, in an attempt to sell them to different clubs.
Informing this news, Sabah daily ...MERCEDES BENZ GOES OFF ROAD NEARBY MILITARY UNIT IN ARTASHAT CITY
YEREVAN. - A Mercedes Benz went off road Friday, nearby a military unit in Armenia's Artashat city, and it subsequently hit a tree and rolled over. The vehicle's driver was Garnik Nersisyan.
As a ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION'S PROPOSAL TO CHANGE TOWARD PROPORTIONAL SYSTEM IS PRE-ELECTION BALLOON - RULING PARTY MP
YEREVAN. - By demanding a change toward a 100-percent proportional election system, Armenia's opposition is already attempting to justify its own defeat at the parliamentary elections to be held in May ...ARMENIAN MAN PREPARES ILLEGAL CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE AT HIS CELLAR
YEREVAN. - Armenian Police Force officers from capital Yerevan detained, at a home on Thursday, Gevorg H., 38, and Arman K., 31, on suspicion of preparing and possessing illegal chemical substances.
During ...TRIAL OF ARMENIA'S FORMER ROAD POLICE CHIEF RESUMES
YEREVAN. - The trial of Margar Ohanyan, Armenia's former Road Police Chief, resumed Friday at capital Yerevan's Kentron and Nork Marash General Jurisdiction Court.
Along with Margaryan, the other defendants, ...TURKISH, AZERBAIJANI AND IRANIAN FMS TO MEET NEXT WEEK
Trilateral meeting of Turkish, Azerbaijani and Iranian Foreign Ministers will be held in Nakhchivan on January 17.
Representative of Turkish foreign office Selcuk Unal said Ahmet Davutoglu will visit ...SOCIAL SITUATION WILL CHANGE AFTER PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS - RULING PARTY MP
YEREVAN.- Socio-economic situation in Armenia will change for the better after the 2012 parliamentary elections, MP from Republican Party Gagik Melikyan told journalists on Friday.
According to Melikyan, ...RUSSIAN PM PAYS RESPECTS TO MEMORY OF RENOWNED ARMENIAN SECRET AGENT
Russian PM Vladimir Putin went to Troyekurovsk Cemetery in Moscow to bid his final farewell to Gevorg Vardanyan, the legendary Armenian spy of the ex-Soviet Union, who passed away Tuesday at the age of ...EUROPEAN COURT RELEASES JUDGMENTS ON ARMENIAN JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES MEMBERS
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) released two new judgments on January 10 protecting the right of conscientious objectors in the cases of Bukharatyan v. Armenia and Tsaturyan v. Armenia, both ...CORPSE FOUND IN HRAZDAN RIVER IN ARMENIA
ARARAT. - Man's corpse was found in Hrazdan River in Armenia's Ararat Region on Friday.
Firemen and rescuers arrived at the scene and took out of the river the corpse of Yura Grigoryan, 70, resident of ...ARMENIAN POST OFFICE BRANCH TREASURER COMMITS SUICIDE
Armenian News-NEWS.am ascertained that Andranik Manukyan, the senior treasurer at Armenian Abovyan city's post office branch of Haypost Company, committed suicide Thursday afternoon
Manukyan, 49-50, ...ARMENIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY MEETS WITH CSTO SECRETARY GENERAL
YEREVAN. - Ending its visit to the Belarusian capital Minsk, the Armenian delegation, led by National Security Council (NSC) Secretary Arthur Baghdasaryan, arrived in Moscow.
And at Armenia's Embassy ...WHO WILL LEAD ARMENIAN RULING COALITION PARTY'S ELECTION HEADQUARTERS?
YEREVAN. - We cannot rule out the possibility that the ruling coalition's Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan could lead the Party's election headquarters, PAP MP Naira Zohrabyan told ...TWO CARS COLLIDED IN ARMENIA'S VANADZOR CITY (PHOTO)
VANADZOR. - Mercedes Benz and Mitsubishi vehicles collided in Armenia's Vanadzor city on Friday, Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent reports from the scene. There were no casualties, while both vehicles ...EUROTERM COMPANY INVESTS $3.5 MILLION IN ARMENIAN FOOD AND VEGETABLE PROCESSING FACTORY
YEREVAN.- President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan visited on Friday food and vegetable processing factory which is under construction in Armenia's Armavir region.Eduard Ghazaryan, director of the Euroterm ...ARMENIAN-DUTCH JOINT COMPANIES TO INVEST €2.5 MILLION IN PRODUCTION OF VEGETABLES AND MUSHROOMS
YEREVAN. - Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan visited on Friday Biga and Amster Flowers Armenian-Dutch joint companies in Armenia's Armavir Region to get familiar with the achievements and prospects of ...PACE CO-RAPPORTEUR AXEL FISCHER WILL NOT ARRIVE IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Axel Fischer, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Co-Rapporteur on Armenia, will not arrive in the country, for health reasons. And solely Co-Rapporteur John Prescott ...DURING MY TERM IN OFFICE, NO COMPLAINTS WERE SUBMITTED CONCERNING LACK OF GASOLINE FOR ROAD POLICE VEHICLES - AGGRIEVED PARTY AT ARMENIA'S FORMER ROAD POLICE CHIEF'S TRIAL
YEREVAN. - Zhirayr Karapetyan, representative of the aggrieved party, took the floor at Friday's trial of Margar Ohanyan, Armenia's former Road Police Chief.
Karapetyan noted that, during his term in ...TURKEY LAUNCHED LARGE-SCALE OPERATION AGAINST KURDS
ANKARA. - Turkish police launched operation on Friday in 17 provinces on the case of Union of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK).
Over 32 Kurds were arrested, 45 orders for arrest were issued. Searches are ...TURKISH EX-FOOTBALLER MP WILL RECEIVE $90 THOUSAND, PER MONTH, TO COMMENT ON SPORTS GAMES
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party's ex-footballer MP from Istanbul, Hakan Sukur, signed a contract, with the country's Lig TV television, on providing commentaries for sports games.
The Turkish ...PERPETRATORS OF MASSACRES IN BAKU SHOULD BE PUNISHED
YEREVAN. - The 1990 slaughter of the Armenians in Baku was implemented under the agreement and improvement of the then Azerbaijani authorities, head of the Assembly of Azerbaijani Armenians Grigory Ayvazyan ...AZERBAIJAN'S DEBT TO ARMENIAN REFUGEES IS OVER $100 BILLION
YEREVAN.- The case Minas Sargsyan v Azerbaijan considered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) can serve as a precedent, said Grigory Ayvazyan, head of the Assembly of Azerbaijani Armenians.
He ...PRE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN "STARTS" IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - The Armenian Center for Political and International Studies, together with the US Democratic Institute, convened a political discussion Friday devoted to the economic platforms of Armenia's ...AZERBAIJAN'S NEW AGGRESSION MAY LEAD TO EXTERMINATION OF COUNTRY
YEREVAN.- Head of the Assembly of Azerbaijani Armenians Vardan Ayvazyan considers that a new war over Nagorno-Karabakh may lead to catastrophic consequences for Azerbaijan.
According to him, in case war ...SEVERAL ARMENIAN OFFICIALS RECEIVE DIPLOMATIC DEGREES
YEREVAN. - With the decree of Armenia's President, Serzh Sargsyan, several officials received the diplomatic degree of extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister, the Presidential Press Office informed ...HELSINKI CITIZENS ASSEMBLY IN ARMENIA'S VANADZOR CITY CONDEMNS ARMENIAN POLICEMEN ACTIONS
VANADZOR. - Armenian Helsinki Citizens Assembly (HCA) Vanadzor office made a statement, claiming that Armenian law enforcement agents continue to make pressures and threaten the citizens.
"HCA has regularly ...SUPERMARKETS ARE EVIL - ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION
YEREVAN. - Supermarkets have become the evil of trade in Armenia, parliamentary oppositional ARF Dashnaktsutyun MP Artsvik Minasyan said at a discussion on economic platform of political parties on Friday.
According ...TURKISH SPEAKER SENDS LETTER TO PRESIDENT OF FRENCH SENATE
ANKARA. - Turkey's Speaker Cemil Cicek sent a letter to the President of French Senate Jean-Pierre Bel regarding the bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide.Cicek pays Bel's attention to the ...US DOLLAR REVALUATION CONTINUES IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN.- Armenian dram devaluation against US dollar continues.
The average exchange rate at NASDAQ OMX Armenia stock exchange made AMD 389.11/$1, Friday, a 0.14% or 0.56 points increase. Sales totaled ...ARMENIA'S FORWARDER TO JOIN RUSSIAN FC KUBAN
Forward of Armenia's national football team Marcos Piñeiro Pizzelli, 27, will play in Russian FC Kuban.
Pizzelli has scored five goals in 18 matches playing for the national team since 2008.
"Pizzelli ...FAMOUS JAZZMAN DIED IN ARMENIA
Famous Armenian jazzman, founder of Yerevan State College of pop and jazz Aksel Bakunts, 65, passed away on Friday. The Ministry of Culture informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.
In connection with the famous ...RUGBY RULES BY SEXY MODELS (VIDEO)
The advertisement of Axe Company is very popular in New Zealand. The company used New Zealand's national addiction to rugby. Models present rugby rules video clip.REPRESENTATIVES OF RUSSIAN ELITE SEND OPEN LETTER TO TURKISH PM
A group of Russian public figures have sent and open letter to Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Yerkramas informs.
In the letter surprise is expressed on Turkey's reaction to the adoption of the bill ...ARMENIAN MP ASKS POLICE TO PROVIDE HER WITH SECURITY (PHOTO)
YEREVAN. - Armenian MP of Heritage parliament group, member of State and Legal Affairs Committee Zaruhi Postanjyan sent a letter to Armenia's police chief Vladimir Gasparyan on Friday asking to provide ...FIRST COMPETITION OF ‘UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS' TO TAKE PLACE IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - The Union of Information Technology Enterprises announces 2012 as competition year of 'unmanned aircrafts' in the framework of Armenian open tournament of robots (ArmRobotics). The participants ...KUWAIT PRINCE CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY?
A member of Kuwait's royal family, Prince Al- Abdullah Al-Sabah has converted to Christianity.
An Arab satellite channel called Al-Haqiqa broadcasting Christian programs released an audio file allegedly ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1832 The first Armenian newspaper of Constantinople "Lragir Metsi Terutian Osmanian" was published until 1883.
- 1858 Publication of "Hyusisapayl" newspaper by S. Nazariants in Moscow (it lasted until 1864).
- 1860 Publication, in Tbilissi, of the "Krunk Hayots Ashkharhi" (Crane of the Armenian World) periodical. The editor was M. Aghabekyan.
- 1865 First publication of the "Sion" Periodical, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem's official organ.
- 1878 Russian forces occupy the district of San-Stefano in Constantinople.
- 1883 First publication of the children's illustrated Eastern-Armenian "Aghbyoor" magazine in Tbilissi (editor T. Nazarian).
- 1887 Birth of the scholar, linguist, professor and author Arakel Arakelian in Askeran.
- 1897 Birth of Anna Aslan (Aslanian), physician, geriatrician, academician, professor in Romania. She founded the geriatric school in Romania.
- 1912 Birth of linguist, philologist Dr. Prof. Sahak Bazian in Western Armenia (Shatakh).
- 1913 Birth of philologist and linguist Dr. Prof. Grigor Grigorian in Ghookasavan (Masseess region).
- 1919 Death, in Western Europe, of K. Kostanian, author, philologist and historian. His works deal with medieval Armenian history, pagan beliefs, and armenology.
- 1920 The publication of Constantinople's Extraordinary Military Court's statement on the perpetrators of the murder and deportation of Kharbert's Armenians.
- 1923 Birth of sculptor Khachatoor Iskandarian in Yerevan.
- 1925 Birth of Marcel Martirosian in Marseilles. He was a Doctor of Technical Sciences.
- 1933 Birth of Dr. Karlen Karamian in Yerevan. He was a civil engineer.
- 1976 Yervand Kochar is awarded the title of Peoples' Artist of the USSR.
- 1990 Start of the massacres and expulsion of 200000 Armenians in Baku by forces of the Baku-Moscow axis.
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