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ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR TO LEBANON DISCUSSES BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH NAJIB MIKATI
- BEIRUT. - Armenian Ambassador to Lebanon Ashot Kocharyan met the Lebanese PM Najib Mikati to discuss bilateral relations and cooperation in the field of trade.
Both sides highly rated the current level of Armenian-Lebanese political cooperation. They expressed satisfaction with the results of the Lebanese President's and Parliament speaker's visit to Armenia in late 2011, the MFA press service informs Armenian News-NEWS.am.
Importance was given to the visits of delegations and necessity to organizing another session of inter-governmental committee and business forum.
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Headlines for January 31, 2012PAP LEADER HAS NO INTENTIONS TO BUY ARMENIAN FAMOUS WRITER'S HOUSE IN GEORGIA
YEREVAN. - Head of Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), big businessman Gagik Tsarukyan has no intentions to purchase Armenian famous writer Hovhannes Tumanyan's house in Tbilisi, Tsarukyan's spokesperson ...EAST OF BYZANTIUM - COMICS ABOUT ARMENIAN HISTORY (PHOTOS)
Comics depicting one of the most famous chapters of the Armenian history have become popular among comics fans in U.S. The idea of comics showing the Armenian history belongs to Roger Kupelian, famous ...TURKISH PM TRIES TO MISLEAD ALGERIANS - ALGERIA'S RULING PARTY
Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had voiced the Algerian "genocide"—after the French National Assembly's passing of the bill that criminalizes the denial of genocides, including the Armenian ...TURKISH SOLDIER SHOWS IN COURT HOW OTHER SOLDIER KILLED ARMENIAN FELLOW SOLDIER
During Monday's trial into the death of Sevak Balikci—the Istanbul Armenian who was killed, on April 24, 2011, in a military unit while serving in the Turkish army—Halil Eksi, who had witnessed ...GASOLINE PRICES RISE IN ARMENIA - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Following a nearly 2.5-month stability, the gasoline prices again went up in Armenia. This time, the price increase is 10 Armenian drams (AMD) (approx. 0.03 US cents) per liter, Hayots Ashkharh ...I WAS MP ONCE, I ATTENDED NO SESSION - ARMENIAN OPPOSITION MEMBER - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - In an interview with 168 Zham daily, Armenian opposition's Republic Party Chairman Aram Sargsyan stated: "Those people who master those activities must carry out activities in the legislative ...ARMENIA'S FIRST PRESIDENT WAS NOT INVITED TO ARMY DAY CONCERT - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's (NKR) incumbent President [Bako Sahakyan], NKR former President [Arkadi Ghukasyan], another NKR former President—who worked as PM in Armenia, and later worked ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT'S 20-YEAR STAFF MEMBER IS DISMISSED FOR 2-DAY ABSENCE FROM WORK - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenian National Assembly (NA) Speaker Samvel Nikoyan continues to consistently free himself from the associates of former NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan, Haykakan Zhamanak daily writes.
NA ...MOST ARMENIAN ROADS ARE PASSABLE
YEREVAN. - Armenia's motorways and mountain passes are drivable, for the most part, as of Tuesday 10 a.m.
But the Berd-Chambarak Highway and Selim Mountain Pass are closed, the Ministry of Emergency Situations ...FIREMEN COME ACROSS SHORT CIRCUIT, INSTEAD OF FIRE, IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Rescue Service received a distress call, on Monday, informing of smoke coming out from an electricity substation in the capital Yerevan.
A firefighting squad was dispatched to the ...AZERBAIJAN IS WINNER OF CURTAILING FREE SPEECH - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Azerbaijan is the winner of curtailing free speech, Apaga newspaper writes.
"During a recent anti-government demonstration, the police forcibly took to the precinct a 5-year-old girl, who was ...THOSE WANTED IN RUSSIA ARE DETAINED IN ARMENIA'S AIRPORT
YEREVAN. - Armenia's police officers detained Monday, at Zvartnots International Airport, a 25-year-old resident of Ijevan city who, ever since October 26, 2011, was wanted by the law enforcement of Samara, ...WOMAN WANTED FOR ROBBERY IS DETAINED
GYUMRI-Police officers detained a 30-year-old citizen of Armavir, Armenia on Monday.
As the press service of the Armenian Police informs Armenian News-NEWS.am she has been wanted by the police for robbery ...ARMENIA'S POLICE CHIEF ISSUES NEW APPOINTMENTS, DISMISSALS
YEREVAN. - With the order of Armenia's Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan, Police Force Gegharkunik Regional Investigation Division Chief Edik Poghosyan is relieved of his duties, on Monday, and sent to ...IRAN ARRESTS ORGANIZERS OF BEAUTY CONTEST ОN FACEBOOK
Police officers of Iran, who are responsible for cyber crimes, arrested four administrators of the group in the social networking website.
The beauty contest was organized among the members of Facebook ...SNOW IS EXPECTED IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Snowfall is forecast for Armenia from Tuesday to Thursday, with fog in some parts, the Ministry of Emergency Situations informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.
The air temperature will rise 4-6 ...TURKISH PM CALLS UPON FRENCH TO OPPOSE GENOCIDE BILL
During the "Address to the Nation" program, Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan again criticized France for passing the bill that criminalizes the denial of genocides, including the Armenian Genocide. ...ARMENIA'S RULING PARTY TO CONVENE CONGRESS IN MARCH
YEREVAN.- Armenian ruling Republican Party will convene congress on March 17, MP Hovhannes Sahakyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
The party members will form party's council, executive body and will touch ...TRIAL OF FORMER ARMENIAN POLICE GENERAL TO COMMENCE ON FEBRUARY 17
YEREVAN. - The court hearing, into the case of former Chief of the Police Force Criminal Investigation Department, Police Major General Hovhannes Tamamyan, is set for February 17, capital Yerevan's Kentron ...ARMENIAN SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS FOR MEDICARE FRAUD SCHEME
An Armenian man is sentenced to six years in jail for his participation in a Charleston-based Medicare fraud scheme.
The judge sentences Sargis Tadevosyan, 42, to six years in prison on counts of aggravated ...SAUDI HACKER THREATENS PRESIDENT OF SYRIA
Saudi hacker Salman Al-Anzi broke the e-mails of Syria's President Bashar Assad and a number of ministries of Syria, Al-Arabia TV channel informed.According to the TV channel, the hacker presented a number ...ARMENIA'S NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION UNION TO RUN IN ELECTIONS ON ITS OWN
YEREVAN. - Armenia's National Self-Determination Union (NSU) will run on its own in the upcoming parliamentary elections, NSU Chairman Paruyr Hayrikyan stated during a press conference on Tuesday.
Hayrikyan ...ARMENIAN GM MAKES GOOD SHOWING AT GIBRALTAR MASTERS
Armenian GM Sergei Movsesian won his match in the seventh round of Gibraltar Masters playing black against Ruben Felgaer from Argentina.
Another Armenian chess player Gabriel Sargsyan ended his game in ...ARMENIA'S RULING PARTY DOES NOT WISH TO DESCEND TO OPPOSITION MEMBER'S LEVEL
YEREVAN. - The ruling coalition's Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP Mkrtich Minasyan leaves for the conscience of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) Coordinator Levon Zurabyan, the latter's ...ANNIVERSARY OF "KAROT" ARMENIAN FOLK DANCE ENSEMBLE CELEBRATED IN NETHERLANDS
The tenth anniversary of the "Karot" Armenian folk dance ensemble was celebrated in Leerdam city in Holland.
The representatives of the Armenian community in the Netherlands and the neighboring countries, ...BRITISH TOURISTS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER U.S. BECAUSE OF TWITTER JOKE
A British couple was deprived of an opportunity to visit the U.S. because of a joke made in Twitter.
Their entrance is forbidden for their post "destroy America", which was found by employees of the police ...DECEASED PENSIONERS WILL NO LONGER RECEIVE PENSIONS - ARMENIA'S MINISTER PROMISES
YEREVAN. - Pension payments for deceased pensioners and for those outside Armenia will be excluded, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Arthur Grigoryan, said on Tuesday.
As per the Minister, this ...ARMENIAN MAYOR TO BUY FAMOUS ARMENIAN POET'S HOUSE IN TBILISI
YEREVAN.- Mayor of Gyumri Vardan Ghukasyan will buy the house of famous Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan, chairman of Armenian Writers' Union Levon Ananyan told reporters on Tuesday. As he informed he ...ARMENIAN HEALTH MINISTRY WILL LOOK INTO 5-YEAR-OLD GIRL'S DEATH
YEREVAN.- On the instruction of Armenia's Health Minister Harutyun Kushkyan, a commission is formed to look into the death of 5-year-old Milena Martirosyan, in Hrazdan city on January 28.
The little ...GOOGLE, MICROSOFT, YAHOO, FACEBOOK AND AOL UNITE TO FIGHT AGAINST SPAM AND PHISHING
Global big tech companies including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and AOL united for fighting against e-mail spam and phishing type of cyber fraud the objective of which is to get access to users' confidential ...SPECULATIONS ABOUT ALLEGED ‘POWERFUL' AZERBAIJANI ARMY ARE BLUFF-ARMENIAN GENERAL
YEREVAN. - Rumors about alleged 'powerful' Azerbaijani army are bluff, while Ilham Aliyev's statement is nothing but a show, Artsakh liberation war veteran, Arkadi Ter-Tadevosyan (Commandos) said at a ...IRANIAN ATTACKS AIRPLANE CREW AND BREAKS WINDOW IN TURKEY
A fight broke out between the passengers and the crew after the Istanbul-Antalya flight was delayed and the passengers were waiting three hours in the airplane.
As the Turkish Milliyet informs, an Iranian ...ARMENIAN POET'S HOUSE IN TBILISI TO BECOME CULTURAL CENTER
YEREVAN. - Once Armenian Gyumri city Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan purchases the great Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan's house in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, it will become an Armenian-Georgian—or simply ...FRENCH SENATORS APPEAL TO CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL OPPOSING GENOCIDE BILL
Constitutional Council of France accepted on Tuesday Senators' appeal against the bill criminalizing genocide denial, European Democratic and Social Rally parliamentary group informed AFP.
Seventy-two ...ARMENIA'S FORMER NATIONAL TEAM MEMBER COULD JOIN FC GANDZASAR
By Khachik Chakhoyan
YEREVAN. - Football in Armenia is getting more active, and the country's Premiere League teams are preparing for the coming season.
But Kapan city's FC Gandzasar has some problems ...TRUCKS CANNOT PASS THROUGH CHECKPOINT ON GEORGIAN BORDER
Due to heavy snow and ice covering the traffic of trucks and busses is again closed on the Pasanauri-Lars road.Traffic for other kinds of transportation is open only if the wheels have chains and there ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT'S COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS POSSIBILITY OF HEARINGS ON PROPORTIONAL SYSTEM
YEREVAN. - Armenian parliament's standing committee on state and legal affairs will hold a session on February 1 during which the proposal of the parliament's three factions- Heritage, ARF and Prosperous ...JOURNALISTS WORKED UNDER DIFFICULT CONDITIONS IN ARMENIA LAST YEAR
YEREVAN. - The overall number of cases when media representatives were pressurized reached 49 last year, head of committee on protection of freedom of speech Ashot Melkonyan told the journalists on Tuesday.
There ...ARMENIA-EU COOPERATION PROJECTS FOR 2012-2013 ARE DISCUSSED
YEREVAN. - The discussion of 2012-2013 projects realized within the framework of the European Neighborhood Policy's Armenia-EU cooperation took place in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Members of the committee coordinating ...FOREIGN DIPLOMATS HOLD ANNUAL MEETING IN ARMENIAN CONSULATE OF LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES. - Armenian Consulate General in Los Angeles held traditional annual meeting of accredited foreign diplomats.
Over fifty diplomats participated in the meeting, Armenian MFA's press service ...DEFENSE MINISTER AWARDS MEDAL TO RECTOR OF FRENCH UNIVERSITY IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Minister of Defense, Seyran Ohanyan, visited Tuesday the French University in Armenia, in connection with the Armenian Armed Forces Day 20th anniversary.
Ohanyan spoke about ...TURKISH PM THANKS FRENCH SENATORS WHO OPPOSE GENOCIDE BILL
Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan commented on the French Constitutional Council's acceptance of the appeal submitted by the French senators who oppose the bill that criminalizes the denial of genocides, ...ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR VISITS NAZI VICTIMS' MEMORIAL COMPLEX IN CZECH REPUBLIC
YEREVAN. - Armenian Ambassador to Czech Republic Tigran Seyranyan visited on Monday Lidice village in the outskirts of Prague which was built to replace a village destroyed by Nazi.
The Ambassador observe ...ARMENIAN MIDFIELDER MAY JOIN RUSSIAN FOOTBALL CLUB
Midfielder of Armenian national team and FC Pyunik Arthur Yedigaryan is currently participating in trainings with Moscow's FC Khimki held in Turkey. Yedigaryan left for Turkey on Monday.
The football ...ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR TO LEBANON DISCUSSES BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH NAJIB MIKATI
BEIRUT. - Armenian Ambassador to Lebanon Ashot Kocharyan met the Lebanese PM Najib Mikati to discuss bilateral relations and cooperation in the field of trade.
Both sides highly rated the current level ...$1 COULD NOT "STRETCH" TO AMD 387
YEREVAN. - The US dollar is continuing to weaken in Armenia's financial market.
One dollar's average exchange rate against the Armenian Dram (AMD) comprised AMD 386.93, at NASDAQ OMX Armenia stock exchange ...PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TO KICK OFF IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - The "I KNOW" public awareness campaign will start in Armenia on Wednesday. The event is organized by Ameria Consulting Company, and it is funded by the World Bank.
The campaign aims to inform ...KARABAKH PRESIDENT MEETS WITH MEMBERS OF ARMY BRASS
STEPANAKERT. - President of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan convened working consultation with heads of the republic's power structures.
The issues related to the activities carried out by the ...TURKEY'S GUL CONFIDENT FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL WILL MAKE RIGHT DECISION
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said he does not believe that the France would cast shadow on their country.
His remarks came in response to French Senators' intention to appeal to the Constitutional Council ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1860 Birth of Sargis Moubaiajyan (writer). He died in 1937.
- 1860 Birth in Ghars, of the Armenian writer and public figure Atrpet (Sargees Moobayajyan). His short story, "Tjvtjvik", reflects the social life of the times.
- 1911 Birth in Constantinople of astronomer, faculty member (emeritus) of the University of Mexico Dr. Pishmish (also known as Pareess or Mary Sookeeasian).
- 1924 Adoption of the First Constitution of the USSR.
- 1931 Birth of doctor, pharmacologist and Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Emil Gabrielyan in Ashtarak. He is presently working on the cure for AIDS as the leader of the group that has discovered the Armenicum drug.
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