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Headlines for January 30, 2012ARMENIA'S GDP DISCREPANCIES ARE ALARMING
YEREVAN. - The official statistics have publicized Armenia's 2011 economic activity index.
In line with this, the country's economic index for 2011 started and finished with 106.1 percent.
In Armenia's ...IN GREECE, DIPLOMATIC MILITARY CORPS MARKS ARMENIAN ARMY DAY (PHOTO)
ATHENS. - A celebratory event devoted to the Armenian Armed Forces Day 20th anniversary was held in Greece, "Hayastan" Center of Greece informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.
The event brought together close ...US PRESIDENT TO MEET WITH GEORGIAN COUNTERPART AT WHITE HOUSE
MOSCOW. - US President Barack Obama will receive Georgia's President, Mikheil Saakashvili, on Monday at the White House.
According to the press release which the White House has issued, the presidents ...8 ARMENIAN POLITICAL PARTIES PROPOSE PROPORTIONAL ELECTION SYSTEM
YEREVAN. - Eight Armenian political parties issued a statement whereby they propose a change in the Electoral Code toward passing to a 100-percent proportional election list, and, also, to reduce the ...ARMENIAN CATHOLICOS HEADS TO FRANCE, ENGLAND
ETCHMIADZIN. - The Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II headed to France and England, on Monday, on a patriarchal visit.
During his visit, the Catholicos will meet with the Holy See of Saint Etchmiadzin's ...TURKISH MAYOR VISITS ARMENIAN CHURCH
ISTANBUL. - Istanbul's Eyup District Mayor Ismail Kavuncu paid a visit to the District's Armenian church on Sunday.
Kavuncu met with Arto Arman, chairman of the church's fund, and then he was invited ...NO TALKS ARE UNDERWAY WITH TURKEY - ARMENIAN FM
YEREVAN. - No secret, or non-secret—neither direct, nor mediated—talks are underway today with Turkey, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian stated during his interview with television stations. ...CLOSED ROADS IN ARMENIA
There are roads closed for traffic in Armenia.
Press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations informed that only Berd-Chambarak road and selim pass are closed as of January 30 morning.
The other ...IF TURKEY WISHES TO HELP KARABAKH PROCESS, IT SHOULD STAY AWAY - ARMENIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER
YEREVAN. - If Turkey truly, genuinely wishes to help the Karabakh process, it should stay as far away from that process as possible, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian said during his interview with television ...SHEVARDNADZE CALLS FOR GEORGIAN GOVERNMENT T TO RESTORE DIALOGUE WITH RUSSIA
TBILISI. - Former President of Georgia Eduard Shevarnadze considers necessary to make changes in his country to restore dialogue with Russia. According to him, the main executor of these changes can be ...ARMENIAN, MOLDAVIAN PROSECUTOR'S OFFICES SIGN MEMO
Armenia's Deputy Prosecutor General Mnatsakan Sargsyan and his Moldavian counterpart Valery Zubko signed a memorandum on understanding between the offices of two states.
The document signed on Sunday ...IN SOCHI, IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT MINSK GROUP WORKED EFFECTIVELY - ARMENIAN FM
YEREVAN. - Although Azerbaijan is stating that the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs are unsuccessful, the statement, which was adopted as a result of the meeting in Sochi, Russia, between the presidents of ...TRICHLORFON POISONING IN ARMENIA: PATIENT IS CRITICAL
YEREVAN.- At 8.02 p.m. on January 28 information was received that a citizen from Armenia's Vayots Dzor region had been taken to Eghegnadzor Hospital with poisoning from trichlorfon substance.
As Armenia's ...LAST VERSION FOR KARABAKH SETTLEMENT HAS 14 PRINCIPLES - ARMENIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER
YEREVAN. - The most recent version, which the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs introduced toward the resolution of the Karabakh conflict, is the March 2011 proposals, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian said during ...UK READY TO ASSIST ARMENIA-TURKEY NORMALIZATION PROCESS -AMBASSADOR
YEREVAN.- UK is ready to assist the initiative on convergence between Armenia and Turkey, newly appointed Ambassador Catherine Leach told journalist on Monday.
Asked about UK's position on Turkey's joining ...ST. NSHAN CHURCH IN TBILISI REPLACED MORE ANCIENT ARMENIAN CHURCH-EXPERT
YEREVAN. - Georgian Patriarchy's recent statements that a Georgian church was in the place of the current Armenian St. Nshan are absolutely baseless, head of the Yerevan branch of Research on Armenian ...TRANSPARENT AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA ARE IMPORTANT FOR DEMOCRATIZATION - UK AMBASSADOR
YEREVAN.- The upcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia are important for the Armenian nation, the British ambassador to Armenian Catherine Leach announced during a press conference on Monday. She welcomed ...PACE SUSPENDS WORK OF SUB-COMMITTEE ON KARABAKH
YEREVAN.- Work of the sub-committee on Nagorno-Karabakh was suspended within the framework of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), said Armenian delegate to PACE.
"The session of ...400-HECTARE FOREST IS TO BE PLANTED IN ARMENIA'S TEGHUT
YEREVAN.- During the coming 12 years 400-hectare forest will be planted near Teghut's copper-molybdenum deposit in Armenia, Armenia's Minister of Nature Protection Aram Harutunyan told reporters on Monday.
The ...ARMENIAN NATIONAL CHESS TEAM IN GIBRALTAR MASTERS
In the 6th round of Gibraltar Masters annual chess tournament Armenian national team's second number Sergei Movsesian gained victory American Anna Zatonskih and scored 4.5 points. All the eight top players ...IRON ORE DEPOSIT IN ARMENIA'S HRAZDAN TO UNDERGO NEW ECOLOGICAL EXPERTISE
YEREVAN. - Hrazdan iron ore mine will undergo a new ecological estimation in the context of the amended legislation, Armenian Minister of Nature Protection Aram Harutyunyan told the journalists on Monday. ...UK AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA COMMENTS ON HER APPOINTMENT
YEREVAN. - The previous UK ambassador worked so well that now two envoys are appointed, the newly appointed UK ambassador to Armenia Catherine Leach made a joke during a press conference on Monday.
"Everybody ...EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SOUTH CAUCASUS TO ARRIVE IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Philippe Lefort, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia, will arrive in Armenia on Monday.
During his visit, Lefort will have meetings with Armenia's ...GOLD SAVINGS ARE NOW PREFERRED IN ARMENIA - EXPERT
YEREVAN. - Gold—instead of US dollar, Euro, and Armenian dram (AMD)—savings are preferred in Armenia in the past two months, Ameriabank official Tigran Jrbashyan said during a press conference ...ARMENIA'S ARMY DAY IS CELEBRATED IN TEHRAN
ATHENS. - Armenia's Embassy in Iran organized Sunday, at Tehran's Ararat Sport and Cultural Complex, a celebratory event devoted to the Armenian Armed Forces Day 20th anniversary.
The event brought together ...ECHR TO ACQUIT TURK WHO IS CHARGED WITH ARMENIAN GENOCIDE'S DENIAL?
BRUSSELS. - The European Court of Human Rights' (ECHR) examination of Dogu Perincek's—one of the main defendants in Turkey's Ergenekon case—lawsuit against Switzerland is nearing its end, ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION DECIDES TO RUN IN ELECTIONS WITH UNITED BLOC
YEREVAN. - The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) had heated discussions, in the past several weeks, with respect to its strategy for the upcoming parliamentary elections, ANC Central Office ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION LEADER SHOULD TOP ELECTION LIST- OPPOSITION
YEREVAN. -It is already pointless to talk about snap parliamentary elections but snap presidential elections remain on the agenda of Armenian National Congress (ANC), the coordinator of parliamentary ...DISAGREEMENTS BETWEEN ARMENIA'S RULING COALITION PARTNERS COULD RESULT IN FREE, TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS - OPPOSITION MEMBER
YEREVAN. - If the disagreements being detected between the ruling coalition's Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) deepen, this could enable for the upcoming parliamentary ...WHO IS POLITICAL PRISONER FOR OFF PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION?
YEREVAN. - If somebody is imprisoned for his/her political viewpoints, that person is a political prisoner regardless his/her further behavior, off parliamentary opposition Armenian National Congress ...EDUCATION MINISTRY TO PROVIDE ARMENIAN SCHOOLS IN GEORGIA WITH TEXTBOOKS
Armenia's Ministry of Education and Science has sent textbooks to the Armenian schools in Georgia.
One hundred and fifty Armenian schools in Georgia will be provided not only with textbooks but also with ...EARTHQUAKE IN PERU STIRS PANIC
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake happened in Peru on Monday. As the US Geological Service informs, the hypocenter of the earthquake was 39.2 kilometers deep and the epicenter was 15 kilometers south-east from ...YEREVAN OFFICE OF BRITISH COUNCILS TEN YEARS OLD
YEREVAN-The Yerevan office of British Council is ten years old.
As the UK Ambassador to Armenia Catherine Leach mentioned even though British Council is independent from the other foreign office organizations ...PACE MOVES TO MORE RATIONAL POLICY SUSPENDING WORK OF KARABAKH SUBCOMMITTEE - MP
YEREVAN. - International organizations fully understand that the mediator mission on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict has been assigned to OSCE Minsk Group. Any interference in the procedure might ...DOLLAR IS STAGNANT IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Following a two-day interval, when no trading was conducted at NASDAQ OMX Armenia stock exchange, one US dollar's average exchange rate against the Armenian dram (AMD) constituted AMD 387.27 ...CLASH OF CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY IS A CAUSE FOR CRISIS - ARMENIAN PM
YEREVAN. - Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan met with the students from Yerevan School of Political Studies, on Sunday in Tsaghkadzor city, and delivered a lecture.
Sargsyan noted that the objective of his ...NEW SOCIAL NETWORK FOR RICH TO BE ESTABLISHED
World Economic Forum (WEC) in Davos was launched forecasting the end of modern capitalism, while many experts did not share the opinion that unequal division of wealth is the blow of modernity. Hence, ...ARMENIAN SQUAD'S GOALKEEPER MAY PLAY RUSSIA'S DYNAMO
The goalkeeper of Armenia's national football team Roman Berezovski, 37, had dissolved his contract with FC Khimki and might soon move to FC Dynamo. As the football player told the reporter of Armenian ...YEREVAN MUNICIPALITY DEALS WITH CHILDREN NOT ATTENDING SCHOOLS
YEREVAN. - Yerevan municipality will continue studying the number of children not attending schools, said Mayor Taron Margaryan.
The Mayor stressed that the municipality will also study the reasons and ...ARMENIA'S DEPUTY PARLIAMENT SPEAKER RESPONDS TO AZERBAIJANI COUNTERPART
YEREVAN. - Armenia's National Assembly Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov commented on his Azerbaijani counterpart Bahar Muradova's statement, which she made on Monday, according to which Turkey must replace ...FRONT PARTS OF YEREVAN BUILDINGS ARE TO BE RENOVATED THIS YEAR
YEREVAN-Yerevan City Hall has signed more than 3,600 contracts with business entities to improving the territories.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan has assigned to continue the processes and to include ...AROUND 300 STUDENTS VISIT YEREVAN PANTHEON FOR FALLEN MILITARY HEROES
YEREVAN. - On the initiative of the ruling coalition's Republican Party of Armenia Youth Organization and the Yerevan State Medical University, around three-hundred youth and students visited capital ...ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR VISITS MALTA IN ORDER TO PRESENT CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT
Armenian ambassador to Italy Ruben Karapetyan visited Malta on January 25-28 to present his credentials to President of Malta George Abela.
During the first day of the visit Ruben Karapetyan presented ...IRAN TO PUT EMBARGO ON OIL FOR EUROPE - MINISTER
TEHRAN. - Iran will respond Europe's sanctions by imposing own sanctions on limiting oil supplies to states threatening Tehran by economic sanctions, Iranian Minister of Petroleum Rostam Ghasemi said ...IRAN TO PUT EMBARGO ON OIL FOR EUROPE - MINISTER
TEHRAN. - Iran will respond Europe's sanctions by imposing own sanctions on limiting oil supplies to states threatening Tehran by economic sanctions, Iranian Minister of Petroleum Rostam Ghasemi said ...ARMENIAN FM RECEIVES NEWLY APPOINTED HEAD OF OSCE YEREVAN OFFICE
YEREVAN.- Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received on Monday newly appointed head of the OSCE Yerevan office Andrey Sorokin.
Greeting the guest, Minister Nalbandian expressed hope that the ...CHER: WHO CLAIMS I DIED?
WASHINGTON. - The 65-year-old Cher of Armenian descent (Cherilyn Sarkisian) rejected rumors of her death in Twitter. Moreover, she claims she feels great and has no intentions to die until finishes her ...ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT TO DISCUSS FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH EU (PHOTOS)
YEREVAN. - Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan has convened consultations on Monday regarding the start of negotiations on Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) between Armenia and the EU.
"The ...GEORGIA REGISTERED 6.8% ECONOMIC GROWTH IN 2011
YEREVAN. - Georgia's economic growth made 6.8% last year, civil.ge reports quoting Georgian Statistics Service.
According to preliminary data, Armenia's economic growth reached 5.9% last year. Besides, ...MAN INTRUDES WITH LUGGAGE IN KARDASHIAN'S HOUSE
LOS ANGELES. - Kim Kardashian had to call police after she had an intruder with luggage who claimed he is going to live with her in Beverly Hills.
The man claimed he came by Kardashian's invitation to ...ARMENIA SQUARE OPENS IN CHILE
YEREVAN. -Square named Armenia was opened in Puerto Williams city, Chile, on Jan. 29 with a cross-stone set up in the square.
The initiative to donate a cross-stone to the city belongs to Argentinean-Armenian ...RUSSIAN POPULAR RESTAURANT CHEF WAS HIV-POSITIVE
MOSCOW. - A new scandal is brewing around Il Pittore Italian restaurant in Moscow. Besides the fact that it did not follow fire security rules, it turned out that its chef was HIV-positive and suffered ...5-YEAR-OLD CHILD DIES FROM SURGERY ON TONSILS IN ARMENIA'S HRAZDAN
HRAZDAN. - The 5-year-old girl died a day after a surgery on tonsils in Armenia's Hrazdan city. Materials are being prepared, police press service informs Armenian News-NEWS.am.
According to the agency, ...
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Today in Armenian history- 410 Birth of Movses Khorenatsi (historian).
- 1799 Birth of Edward Hyoormoozyan of the Mkhitarist Congregation (Armenian Roman Catholic Order) in Constantinople. He died in 1876 in Rome.
- 1901 Birth of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of Armenia's Communist Party, Aghassee Khanjyan. He was one of the many murdered by Lavrentee Beria in July, 1936 in Tbilisi, where he was invited for consultations.
- 1915 According to statistical data, from the end of 1914 to the beginning of 1915, about 49800 Armenians emigrated from Western Armenia, Persia and the bordering regions of Turkey, to the ten provinces of Yerevan and Tbilisi.
- 1927 First Graduation Ceremony of Yerevan State University students at the Culture House of Yerevan.
- 1975 Opening of the Yeghisheh Charents Museum in Yerevan.
- 2001 French President Jacques Chirac signs the law recognizing the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. From now on, no one in France has the right to deny the fact of the Armenian Genocide.
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