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Headlines for January 20, 2012

REJECTION OF BILL ON GENOCIDES IN SENATE COMMISSION DOES NOT ANTICIPATE OUTCOME OF SENATE VOTE
PARIS. - French Senators Philippe Kaltenbach and Luc Carvounas, who are going to defend the bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide from the Socialists, stated that rejection of the text by ...
ITALIAN EXPERT: MEDVEDEV WON'T HAVE MUCH CREDIT IN KARABAKH NEGOTIATIONS ON THE EVE OF RUSSIAN ELECTIONS
Dmitry Medvedev will not have much credit in Karabakh negotiations on the eve of the presidential elections in Russia, Carlo Frappi, expert at Italian ISPI analythical institute, told Armenian News - ...
PERPETRATORS ON 1990 EVENTS IN BAKU BECAME INVIOLABLE DURING HEYDAL ALIEV TIMES - AZERBAIJANI SOURCE
BAKU. - The appeal for the Soviet Troops' entrance to Baku in January 1990 was signed by current Azerbaijani PM Arthur Rasizade, Azerbaijan's former Internal Affairs Minister Iskander Hamidov announced. According ...
HEAD OF ARMENIAN PUBLIC COUNCIL NOT WISHING TO BE MP
YEREVAN. - Head of Armenian Public Council and off parliamentary National Democratic Union Party (NDU) Vazgen Manukyan does not want to be an MP. Moreover, learnt of his candidacy from media, he himself ...
HRANT DINK MURDER DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE LEFT UNSOLVED - TURKISH JOURNALIST
ANKARA. - With all due respect to Turkish judiciary, everyone has seen what kind of reaction the verdict on the Hrant Dink case has received. The cry echoing from the public should be taken into consideration, ...
ARMENIAN COMMUNIST PARTY WANTS TO INCLUDE GRANDMASTER ARONYAN IN THEIR PRE-ELECTION LIST
YEREVAN. - Armenian Communist Party will participate in the coming parliamentary elections. For now it has been decided to participate alone. However, currently negotiations with Armenia's Advanced United ...
13 YEAR OLD GIRL MARRIES FOR THE 2ND TIME IN TURKEY
As a 1.5 months old baby was taken to hospital in Turkey's Gaziantep (Aytap) region, it came out the mother of the child, 13-year-old A. Y. has managed to get married for the second time. When it came ...
CHILD TRAFFICKING IS NOT WIDESPREAD IN ARMENIA - REPORT
YEREVAN. - In line with statistics, child trafficking is not widespread in Armenia, but the recorded cases are alarming and they demand persistent preventive measures. This is noted in Armenia's preliminary ...
TURKISH PROSECUTOR CRITICIZES JUDGES OF HRANT DINK MURDER TRIAL
ISTANBUL. - After the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office's decision to file an appeal of the court ruling on the murder trial of Hrant Dink—the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul's Agos ...
JOHNNY OTIS, ONE OF RHYTHM AND BLUES CREATOR, DIES
American musician, rhythm and blues creator Johnny Otis died in California. Singer, composer, drummer, producer, TV presenter, political activist Otis died at the age of 91, The Los Angeles Times reports. Otis ...
FORMER POLICE CHIEF'S ACTIVITIES IRRITATE ARMENIAN REGIONAL GOVERNOR - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenia's former Police Chief Alik Sargsyan not only visits the campaign headquarters of the ruling coalition's Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), in an attempt to take part in organizing the ...
QUICK-WITTED ARMENIAN DRIVERS FIND THE WAY - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Several days have passed since video cameras are installed in Armenian capital Yerevan's roads and intersections, but the drivers have already found the way for these cameras to not be able ...
US STATE DEPARTMENT THREATENS ARF DASHNAKTSUTYUN'S ARMENIAN CAUSE - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Representatives of the US Department of State had a fairly unpleasant conversation with the representatives of ARF Dashnaktsutyun's Armenian Cause Committee of the United States, Aravot daily ...
ARMENIAN RULING COALITION PARTY LEADER "WANTS TO HUNT" EXOTIC ANIMALS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The ruling coalition's Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan recently headed to Singapore for hunting, Zhoghovurd daily writes, referring to its well-informed sources. "He ...
SOME ARMENIAN ROADS ARE DIFFICULT TO DRIVE
YEREVAN. - All of Armenia's motorways are passable as of Friday 8:30 a.m. But the Berd-Chambarak, Berd-Ijevan, and Vanadzor-Alaverdi highway, and Dilijan city's bends are difficult to drive because of ...
19-YEAR-OLD YEREVAN GIRL SUFFERS DRUG POISONING
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Rescue Service received information, on Thursday, that capital Yerevan resident Zhanna Gasparyan, 19, is taken to hospital on symptoms of drug poisoning. She is in severe condition, ...
SHOTS FIRED NEARBY YEREVAN CAFÉ
YEREVAN. - Shots were fired Thursday night at Champion Café in Armenian capital Yerevan. According to the information which Armenian News-NEWS.am ascertained, Kamo Unanyan,25, entered the Café, ...
TRUCK GETS STUCK IN SNOW IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - A GAZ 53 truck went off road on Thursday, at Armenia's Shirak-Kamo Highway, since the latter was difficult to drive, and it got stuck in snow. The Rescue Service established contact with ...
NO VICTIMS IN DOUBLE TERRORIST ATTACK IN NORTHERN IRELAND
No victims were registered in a terrorist attack in the city of Londonderry in the Northern Ireland. The terrorists used two explosive devices for making a blast. One of them was put near the department ...
GUARDHOUSE COVERING COLLAPSES FROM GAS EXPLOSION IN ARMENIAN CITY
YEREVAN. - There was a gas explosion, in the early morning hours of Friday, in a guardhouse of Armenia's Martuni city. And the guardhouse's reinforced concrete covering collapsed as a result of the explosion, ...
HRANT DINK'S KILLER IS THE STATE - TURKISH MP
ISTANBUL. - Tens of thousands took to the streets in Istanbul, on Thursday, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the passing of Hrant Dink—the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul's Agos ...
TWO PEOPLE DETAINED WANTED FOR FRAUD AND ROBBERY IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Armenian police detained 38-year-old resident of Nor Kyuri village at 8.30 p.m. wanted since Feb. 15, 2011 for robbery. The same day another 36-year-old resident of Yervandashat village of ...
ITALIAN NANNI MORETTI TO HEAD JURY OF CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
Italian film director and actor Nanni Morretti will head the jury of the 65th Cannes Film Festival. Maretti said it is a joy, an honor and a great responsibility to head the jury of the world's most prestigious ...
ARMENIA AGAIN AMONG "PARTLY FREE" COUNTRIES - FREEDOM HOUSE
In 2011, Armenia did not take any significant step in the sphere of democracy and freedom, the Freedom House international human rights NGO's new report states. And, in the report, Armenia is ranked among ...
FIVE YEARS AFTER DINK'S MURDER JUSTICE HAS STILL NOT BEEN DONE - OSCE REP.
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic issued a statement on the fifth anniversary of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink saying the OSCE participating States ...
TURKEY'S KURDISH PARTY AGAIN DOES NOT SIGN DOCUMENT CRITICIZING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL
ANKARA. - Turkey's three parliamentary parties, except for the Kurdish "Peace and Democracy Party," adopted a document, whereby they are calling upon the French Senate members to vote against the bill ...
INDEPENDENT, TRANSPARENT JUDICIARY SYSTEM IMPORTANT IN HRANT DINK CASE - STATE DEPARTMENT
Washington has regularly talked to the Government of Turkey about the Hrant Dink case and others, spokesperson for State Department Victoria Nuland told reporters on Thursday. "I would note that both ...
RUSSIAN PILOT DIES IN BANGKOK-MOSCOW AIRCRAFT
Russian pilot of the Utair company aircraft, died from heart attack. The accident took place on January 17 on the way to Thailand. Information about the accident was revealed only on Friday. The passenger ...
ARMENIA MUST CHANGE TO PROPORTIONAL ELECTION SYSTEM FORTHWITH - ARF DASHNAKTSUTYUN
YEREVAN. - Armenia must change to a 100-percent proportional election system forthwith, parliamentary opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party's Supreme Body member, MP Armen Rustamyan stated during Friday's ...
3 SHIPS COLLIDE NEAR ISTANBUL
Three ships collided because of bad weather conditions in the strait connecting the Black and Marmara seas. As a result of clash 86-meter-long giant Kayan vessel faces risk of collapse, NTV reports.
ONE OF ARMENIA'S RULING COALITION FORCES SUPPORTS 100%-PROPORTIONAL ELECTION SYSTEM
YEREVAN.- Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), one of the political forces of the ruling coalition, supports change to 100%-proportional election system in Armenia, said member of the party Naira Zohrabyan. She ...
NUMBER OF GOOGLE+ USERS EXCEEDS 90 MILLION
The number of Google+ users exceeded 90 million, reads the fourth quarter financial report 2011 published by Google. Over the last three months the number of the resource users doubled. At the same time ...
"HOSTAGES" AT ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER HEAD TO ARMENIA
The Turkish and Georgian bus drivers finally permitted the forty-seven passengers—who were heading to Armenia's capital Yerevan from Istanbul, and who were stranded inside the bus, for nearly a ...
ABOUT 100 PEOPLE IN HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS
About 100 of people were hospitalized as a result of chemical experiments in the laboratory of the Dresden University of Technology. The freshmen were carrying out chemical experiments when the students ...
ARMENIAN RULING REPUBLICAN PARTY AGAINST 100%-PROPORTIONAL SYSTEM
YEREVAN. - Armenian ruling Republican Party MP Koryun Nahapetyan does not understand why the issue of 100%-proportional system has become a key problem in Armenian political life, he said at the conference ...
IT IS VERY HARD TO BE ARMENIAN IN AZERBAIJAN - ETHNOGRAPHER
YEREVAN. - The remaining Armenians in Azerbaijan are afraid of admitting their nationality, Armenian ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan said at a press conference on Friday. Commenting on the question of ...
ARMENIAN OFF PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION READY TO SUPPORT INITIATIVE OF ARFD AND HERITAGE
YEREVAN. - There is a mechanism of fraud in Armenia, while political powers should destroy it, otherwise, people's expression of will is violated, off parliamentary opposition Armenian National Congress ...
ARMENIAN RULING REPUBLICAN PARTY MP CALLS ANYBODY WHO INSULT HIM "CATTLE"
YEREVAN. - Defective Armenian parliament cannot take over responsibility and improve the extremely tense situation in the state, off parliamentary opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) member Felix ...
ARMENIAN CINEMATOGRAPHY TO HOLD NATIONAL CINEMA AWARD FOR FIRST TIME
YEREVAN. - Yerevan will hold for the first time in the Armenian cinematography National Cinema Award ceremony scheduled for March 18 this year. The honorary statuettes are already ready. The statuette ...
SARKOZY REPLIES TO ERDOGAN'S LETTER - TURKISH DAILY
Hurriyet daily of Turkey claims that its reporter was able find French President Nicolas Sarkozy's letter addressed to Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with reference to France's examination of the bill ...
PROBLEMS OF ARMENIAN REFUGEES FROM AZERBAIJAN SHOULD BE DISCUSSED IN INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES -ETHNOGRAPHER
YEREVAN. - The issue of the Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan should become a topic of discussion in the international agencies, ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan said at a press conference on Friday. According ...
ARMENIA'S REPRESENTATIVES SPEAKS AT UN SECURITY COUNCIL
Armenia's Permanent Representative to UN, Ambassador Karen Nazaryan, delivered a presentation at the UN Security Council discussion, on Thursday, which was devoted to the rule of law. Nazaryan noted ...
ANOTHER QUAKE JOLTS TURKEY'S VAN
VAN. - Another earthquake of 4.9 magnitude shocked Van, Turkey on Friday. According to preliminary reports, no one died or was injured as a result of the quake, Sabah newspaper reports. As Armenian News-NEWS.am ...
TURKISH OPPOSITION LEADER CONDOLES WITH HRANT DINK'S WIDOW
In connection with the fifth anniversary of the murder of Hrant Dink—the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul's Agos Armenian weekly, who was killed on January 19, 2007—Turkey's main ...
TURKISH FM ADVICES FRENCH PRESIDENT TO FACE HISTORY
ANKARA. -Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu commented on the letter by the French President Nikolas Sarkozy addressed to Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan regarding the genocide bill adoption in France. Turkish ...
NO TRADING AT ARMENIA'S STOCK EXCHANGE
YEREVAN. - No foreign currency trading was conducted Friday at NASDAQ OMX Armenia stock exchange. And the reason was the high-priced offer for the US Dollar. One dollar was offered at AMD 388.50, but ...
WOMAN'S BURNED CORPSE FOUND AT POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY IN ARMENIA'S GYUMRI
GYUMRI. - Police received an alarm at 12 p.m. on Friday that a woman's burned corpse, torn by dogs is found in the wrecking of the former Polytechnic University of Gyumri. Policemen arrived at the scene, ...
SITUATION IS UNSTABLE IN INTERNATIONAL MARKETS - EURASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK OFFICIAL
YEREVAN. - One of the key problems in the banking system is the current monetary resources' availability in the capital markets, Eurasian Development Bank Executive Board Deputy Chairman Dmitry Zhurba ...
KARABAKH PRESIDENT ADDRESSES JUDICIAL SYSTEM STAFF
STEPANAKERT.- President of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan attended the event dedicated to the day of staff of judicial system. In his speech President Sahakayan stated that the role of judicial ...
APPOINTMENT OF SPOUSES AS UK ENVOYS IN ARMENIA NOT FIRST PRECEDENT - FOREIGN OFFICE
Appointment of a married couple as UK Ambassadors to Armenia is not the first precedent, official representative of the UK Foreign Office told ITAR-TASS. The official said Foreign Office has no special ...
ARMENIA'S CITIZENS WRITE MORE LETTERS TO PARLIAMENT
YEREVAN. - Armenia's National Assembly (NA) received 2,203 letters from citizens in the fourth quarter of 2011, NA official website informs. This is the greatest number of letters received, in comparison ...
ARMENIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION PRESIDENT MEETS WITH SEPP BLATTER, MICHEL PLATINI
YEREVAN. - Ruben Hayrapetyan, President of the Football Federation of Armenia (FFA), is in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to attend the 100th anniversary event of the Football Union of Russia and the 20th ...
DEMONSTRATION ORGANIZED IN FRONT OF TURKISH EMBASSY IN GERMANY FOR HRANT AND JUSTICE (PHOTOS)
BERLIN. - Several events were held to commemorate Agos Armenian newspaper former chief editor Hrant Dink's fifth year of death in Berlin. During the demonstration citizens held posters condemning Dink's ...
ARMENIAN STUDENTS' OLYMPIC SUCCESS CONTINUES IN KAZAKHSTAN
ALMATY. - The 8th international Olympiad for schoolchildren after Zhautikov on Physics, Mathematics and Informatics ended in Almaty Kazakhstan on Friday. 54 teams with 343 participants from 18 different ...
DEMAND FOR US DOLLAR GOES DOWN IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Banks purchased $65 million and sold $82 million in interbank foreign exchange market last week, Central Bank of Armenia website reports. To note, it is a low index of financial activity, as ...
YEREVAN MAYOR DISCUSSED PROJECTS WITH US AMBASSADOR
YEREVAN. - Mayor of Yerevan City Taron Margaryan met with U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern to discuss the project for development of the capital. Mayor Margaryan briefed the Ambassador on the main ...
ARMENIA'S ARONIAN WINS MATCH AGAINST AZERBAIJANI GM
Armenian GM Levon Aronian gained victory against Vugar Hashimov in the sixth round of the Wijk Aan Zee 2012 chess tournament. Aronian, the second in FIDE rankings, has 4.5 points. The other games are ...