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Headlines for February 18, 2012ARMENIA'S FOREIGN CURRENCY TRADING INCREASES THIS WEEK
YEREVAN. - The volume of foreign currency trading in Armenia grew in the passing week.
In the cash foreign currency market, the banks purchased US$ 73.5 million and sold $86.5 million. And as compared ...UNDECLARED WAR BETWEEN IRAN, AZERBAIJAN?
Azerbaijan has closed its border for the trucks coming from Iran, Arannews website of Iran informs, referring to its sources.
"Azerbaijan is arguing that the trucks do not meet the standards. But in ...ARMENIAN TOURISM AGENCIES BLAME ARMAVIA AIRLINE COMPANY AND ITS OWNER - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenia's several tourism agencies have serious problems in connection with the New Year passenger transportation, and as a result they have suffered losses worth tens of thousands of dollars, ...DATE FOR ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS TO BE SET SOON - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan must sign, no later than February 27, the decree on setting the date for the upcoming National Assembly (NA) elections, Haykakan Zhamanak daily writes.
"The ...HEAD OF ARMENIA'S CIVIL AVIATION IS DISMISSED? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Artyom Movsisyan, Head of Armenia's General Department of Civil Aviation, is dismissed, Zhoghovurd daily writes, referring to the information it has received.
"What is more, he recently left ...COFFEE MACHINES TO BE INSTALLED IN YEREVAN SCHOOLS? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - News was spread months ago that coffee machines were to be installed in several schools of Armenia's capital, Yerevan, Yerkir daily writes.
"There was bewilderment that the installment of such ...CLOSED, DIFFICULT-TO-PASS MOTORWAYS IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - There are closed and difficult-to-drive roads in Armenia, as of Saturday 9 a.m.
Selim Mountain Pass and the Berd-Chambarak Highway are closed. The Talin-Maralik and Aragats-Artik motorways ...FORMER ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER WILL NOT LEAD RULING PARTY CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The ghost of mistrust hovering over Hovik Abrahamyan, Armenia's former National Assembly Speaker and chief of the ruling coalition Republican Party of Armenia's (RPA) nonexistent Campaign Headquarters ...ARMENIA CREATES VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY SERVER
YEREVAN. - The Institute for Informatics and Automation of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia has created a virtual observatory (VO) database.
The Armenian VO likewise is a product of cooperation, ...KEY ISSUE IS FREEDOM, ENSURING LIFE WITHOUT FEAR - KARABAKH ANALYST
STEPANAKERT. - People's diplomacy is a platform where models can be tested to achieve reconciliation in official politics, Shanna Krikorova, the Director of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Center ...INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY POLITICIZES CONCEPT OF AGGRESSION - DUTCH EXPERT
STEPANAKERT.- The international law vaguely defines concept of aggression, the Dutch expert said during a conference in Stepanakert.Marieke de Hoon, expert for Public International Law & Policy Group, ...ASSISTANCE ARRIVES TO THE STRANDED IN BLIZZARD ON ARMENIAN REGIONAL ROAD
YEREVAN. - Rescuers from Armenia's Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) finally came to the assistance of the numerous vehicles, and their drivers and passengers, who were stranded in a snowstorm since ...RECOGNITION OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH'S INDEPENDENCE IS IN INTEREST OF AZERBAIJAN - RUSSIAN EXPERT
STEPANAKERT.- Armenia should immediately recognize independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian political analyst Aleksey Martinov said during a conference in Stepanakert.
Martinov, Director of International ...ARMENIAN WOMAN STABS, KILLS FELLOW VILLAGER
YEREVAN. - A murder took place in Armenia's Noramarg village, nearby Masis city of the Ararat Region, in the early hours of Saturday.
Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned that the aforesaid village's resident ...KARABAKH RULING ELITE DIFFERS FROM THAT IN NEIGHBORING STATES - POLITICAL ANALYST
STEPANAKERT.- Nagorno-Karabakh's ruling elite positively differs from that of the neighboring states, political analyst Alexander Krilov believes.
Krilov, expert for Institute of World Economy and International ...SNOWSTORM LEAVES MILITARY MOTORCADE, 60 VEHICLES STRANDED ON ARMENIA'S HIGHWAY
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Rescue Service received a distress call on Saturday informing that a military motorcade was caught in a traffic jam due to a blizzard on the Aparan-Spitak Highway.
It was found out ...U.S. ACTIVELY REALIZES PROJECT OF SPLITTING POLITICAL UNITS OF EURASIA - POLISH EXPERT
STEPANAKERT. - The U.S. actively realizes a project of splitting political units of Eurasia by establishing a great Middle East. The six states of the South Caucasus are included in the project, director ...HEAD OF ARMENIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT CONSIDERS FRENCH MPS APPEAL LEGALLY WEAK
YEREVAN. - French MPs' appeal to the Constitution Council against the bill criminalizing denial of the genocides, including the Armenia Genocide, has rather a weak justification, head of Armenian Constitution ...ARMENIAN YERKRAPAH VOLUNTEER UNION CONGRESS CONVENES
YEREVAN. - Congress of Yerkrapah (War Veterans'') Volunteer Union (YVU) commenced Saturday in Armenia's capital, Yerevan. President Serzh Sargsyan is among the attendees, which total approximately two-thousand.
Among ...KARABAKH PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES VAHAKN HOVNANIAN ON 80TH BIRTHDAY
STEPANAKERT. - Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), or Artsakh, President Bako Sahakyan sent a congratulatory letter to renowned entrepreneur and philanthropist, President of Hovnanian International Ltd., ...NAGORNO-KARABAKH MAY SERVE VERY GOOD MODEL OF LEGAL STATE - HEAD OF ARMENIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
YEREVAN. - The Constitution of Nagorno-Karabakh as a legal document is a pretty good act, and in its constitutional decisions are even ahead of the Constitution of Armenia, head of Armenian Constitution ...MAN STEALS ROAD TRAFFIC SIGN NEAR SCHOOL IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Police detained Suren Varosyan, 35, on Friday. As the press service of the Armenian police informs Armenian News-NEWS.am, he stole the traffic sign near a school in Alaverdi, Armenia at 7.00 ...DRIVER INJURED AS TWO CARS CRASH IN ARMENIA'S DILIJAN CITY
DILIJAN. - Volkswagen Golf went off the road and crashed with Mitsubishi Pajero at 4.10 p.m. in Armenia's Dilijan city on Friday.
The Volkswagen driver was injured and hospitalized as a result of the ...ARMENIA IS A COUNTRY OF VICTORIOUS PEOPLE - PRESIDENT
YEREVAN.- President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan attended on Saturday the 9th Convention of the Volunteer Homeland Defenders Union held in Yerevan. President Sargsyan addressed the participants:
"I am obligated ...SNOWFALL IN ARMENIA WILL CONTINUE UNTIL SUNDAY
YEREVAN. - Snow is expected throughout Armenia on Saturday and Sunday, Hydrometeorology Center's Forecasting Department Head Gagik Surenyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am, and he added that wind velocity ...YERKRAPAH VOLUNTEERS' UNION SUPPORTS ARMENIAN PRESIDENT
YEREVAN. - Each Armenian is indirectly a member of Yerkrapah Volunteers' Union, head of the Union Manvel Grigoryan said during the ninth congress of the Union on Saturday.
"Protection of Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] ...ARMENIA SEEKS KARABAKH'S INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION - DEPUTY PARLIAMENT SPEAKER
STEPANAKERT. - Armenia seeks Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's (NKR) international recognition, Armenian National Assembly (NA) Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov stated Saturday during official closing of the ...WARS END WHEN GENERATIONS LEARN LESSONS FROM THEM - ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER
YEREVAN. - Wars do not end by the signing of ceasefires, but rather when generations learn lessons from wars, Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan stated during the 9th congress of Yerkrapah (War ...INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KARABAKH'S DECLARATION ANNIVERSARY WRAPS UP IN STEPANAKERT
STEPANAKERT. - The international conference, entitled "20th Anniversary of [Nagorno-Karabakh Republic] NKR Independence: Realities and Prospects," being held in NKR capital, Stepanakert, and devoted to ...VOLUNTEERS IN KARABAKH SURPRISED EVEN EXPERIENCED MILITARY THEORISTS-COMMANDER OF KARABAKH DEFENSE AMY
YEREVAN. - Courage of volunteers in Karabakh at the beginning of 1990s surprised even experienced military theorists who doubted the Armenian Army will gain victory, Commander of Karabakh Defense Army ...WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FRIENDS WITH ARMENIANS - GEORGIAN NATIONAL BOXING TEAM HEAD COACH
By Khachik Chakhoyan
ABOVYAN. - Georgia's national boxing team is currently holding trainings in Armenia's Abovyan city, and Armenian News-NEWS.am caught up with the team's head coach, Ramaz Paliani. ...RULING COALITION PARTY MP DEMANDS BACK HIS APPLICATION TO GIVE UP PARLIAMENTARY SEAT
YEREVAN. - The dismissed member of ruling coalition's Orinats Yerkir Party, MP Gagik Baghdasaryan demands back his application on giving up the seat. He demanded it back from the National Assembly Speaker, ...GENERAL RE-ELECTED AS HEAD OF VOLUNTEERS' UNION IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - General Manvel Grigoryan is re-elected as head of Armenian Yerkrapah Volunteers' Union.
The Union was established in 1993, and unites more than 10,000 people, majority of which are veterans ...CREATION OF PROFESSIONAL ARMY WILL INCREASE ARMENIA'S DEFENSE CAPABILITY - MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
YEREVAN. - The creation of a professional army will increase Armenia's defense capability, opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party MP, and chairman of the National Assembly Committee on Defense, Arthur Aghabekyan ...CENTURIES-OLD HISTORY PROVES NATION WILL STRUGGLE - HISTORIAN
YEREVAN. - Centuries-old history of the Armenian nation proves that it can struggle and will continue doing so, head of History Institute at the National Academy of Sciences Ashot Melkonyan said at the ...CORPSE OF MAN FOUND NEAR RESTAURANT IN ARMENIA
SEVAN. - Armenia's Gegharkunik Region law enforces received an alarm at 12.44 p.m. on Saturday that corpse of Mayis Manukyan, 55, a Karjaghbyur village resident, was found near Paros restaurant.
Water-rescue ...RUSSIA AND CHINA IN LIST OF SYRIA'S FRIENDS
Russia and China were invited to participate in the Syria's Friends conference held in Tunisia on Feb. 24, said Tunisian FM Rafik Abdessalem.
He assured no one has intention to suspend the states from ...THREE TEENAGERS BEAT BOY NEAR CHURCH IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - Police detained Murad H., 17, Grigor B., 16, Sergey A., 17, and Sergey Y. 15 near St. Grigor the Illuminator Church in Yerevan downtown on Friday.
It was clarified that the three teenagers ...ARMENIA'S AMBASSADOR INVITES BUENOS AIRES MAYOR TO YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Ambassador to Argentina, Vladimir Karmirshalyan, met on Thursday with the Mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri.
During the meeting, the Ambassador presented to the Mayor the Armenian ...AZERBAIJAN VIOLATES CEASEFIRE 250 TIMES PAST WEEK
STEPANAKERT. - The adversary violated the ceasefire, at the line of contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces, around 250 times in the past week.
Through different weaponry, more than 1,000 ...MINIBUS STRANDED IN SNOWSTORM ON ARMENIAN REGIONAL MOTORWAY
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Rescue Service received a distress call, on Saturday, informing that a Ford minibus, with passengers, was stranded in a blizzard on the Aparan-Spitak Highway, in the vicinity of Alagyaz ...ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS PLAN TO SPEND NIGHT IN MASHTOTS PARK IN YEREVAN (PHOTOS)
YEREVAN. - Activists gathered together in the Mashtots Park on Saturday as well demanding to stop the illegal construction, environmentalist Mariam Sukhudyan wrote in her Facebook page adding poor policemen ...ARMENIAN MPS VISIT DEFENSE ARMY UNITS IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
STEPANAKERT. - Armenian National Assembly delegation headed by the Deputy Speaker Edward Sharmazanov visited one of the units of the Defense Army of Nagorno-Karabakh on Saturday
The delegation participated ...WE WILL DIE IF ARMENIAN PRESIDENT ORDERS - YERKRAPAH
YEREVAN. - Armenian Volunteers' Union Yerkrapah will support the incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan and will die if he orders that, head of the Union Manvel Grigoryan told the journalists on Saturday ...ARMENIA FOLLOWS US AMONG COUNTRIES DANGEROUS FOR WEB SURFING
In 2011 Armenia ranked 4th in the list of hacker attacks through internet surfing, Russian Kaspersky Lab anti-virus producer company informs.
Russian ranked on the first place, Oman is the second, and ...BLIZZARD, STRONG WIND, POOR VISIBILITY - CLOSED ROADS IN ARMENIA
As of Saturday, 20.15, the interstate highways and main roads in Armenia are mostly passable.
As the press service of Armenia's Emergency Service informs Armenian News-NEWS.am, on some parts of the roads ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1853 Birth of Christapor Kara Murza (composer and conductor) in Gharazubazar (Crimea, Ukraine) . He died in 1902.
- 1856 After the Crimean War, Sultan Abdul Mejid of Turkey signed an Edict on the security of life for the non-Muslim peoples of the Ottoman Empire. This Proclamation, the goal of which was to prevent possible Russian intervention, did not change the Armenians' situation at all.
- 1856 Sultan Abdul Megid publishes the "Hatti Hoomayoon" reform plan as the second statement of the "Tanzimat". No reforms took place.
- 1877 Birth of academician and author, Derenik Demirtjian. He died in 1956.
- 1879 Creation of the "Cilician Society" benevolent organization. Its purpose was the spread of national education in Cilicia. The founders were Minas Sheraz, Karapet Karakyan, Hrant Asatoor, Hakob Nazaryan, and others.
- 1918 Andranik's small force arrives in Erzroom (Western Armenia). It could not repel the attack of the 25 000-strong Turkish Army. It fought a rear-guard action and managed to save many refugees by bringing them to the Caucasus.
- 1920 Foundation of the Armenian Government Red Cross.
- 1921 Revolt against the Bolshevik government in Armenia.
- 1921 The anti-Bolshevik February Rebellion in Armenia ended in victory for the people.
- 1963 Death of Catholicos Zareh the First of the Cilician See.
- 1977 The monument of Commander Gai (Haik Bjshkiants) is inaugurated in Yerevan.
- 1994 Artsakh forces regain control of the Omar Pass having lost it three months earlier.
- 1994 The Moscow Communique is issued following negotiations among the defense ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Artsakh.
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