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ARMENIANS ARRESTED IN LOS ANGELES PROSTITUTION STING
- Armenians were arrested by Los Angeles police in Sun Valley on Wednesday.
Thirty-four people were arrested during an undercover prostitution sting, theLos Angeles Daily News reports.
Among the arrested are Edik Hakhnazaryan, 34, Charles Stepanian, 62, Sarkis Tunyan, 62, Saribek Pogyosyan, 52, Edik Hazarian, 51, and Stepan Karapetyan, 62.
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Headlines for March 09, 2012CLINTON ANSWERS AMERICAN ARMENIANS WITH EVASIVE PHRASES
In her written reply to the letter of protest presented by the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton refrained from calling the Armenian Genocide 'the business ...ARMENIANS ARRESTED IN LOS ANGELES PROSTITUTION STING
Armenians were arrested by Los Angeles police in Sun Valley on Wednesday.
Thirty-four people were arrested during an undercover prostitution sting, theLos Angeles Daily News reports.
Among the arrested ...US SENATORS CALL ON CLINTON TO PRESS TURKEY ON RETURN OF CHURCHES
Senators Scott Brown Dianne Feinstein and Mark Kirk introduced a bipartisan measure on Thursday calling upon the Secretary of State to press Turkey to return stolen Christian church properties and allow ...CLOSED, DIFFICULT-TO-PASS ROADS IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Armenia's interstate highways and mountain passes are mainly difficult to drive as of Friday at 10.00 a.m.
There is black ice on some roads, Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations informs ...TURKISH MINISTRY LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO CIRCULATION OF ANTI-ARMENIAN BOOKS
Turkish Education Ministry has launched an investigation into circulation of anti-Armenian textbooks in the schools of Kartal districts.
The statement issued by the Ministry said that a new edition contains ...ARMENIA HOSTS BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL
YEREVAN. - Moscow cinema will hold the solemn opening ceremony of the 10th British film festival on Saturday in Yerevan. UK Ambassador Katherine Jane Leach, head of the British Council Armenia Arevik ...ARMENIAN COMMUNISTS OCCUPY SIXTH PLACE IN SURVEY
YEREVAN. - The Armenian Communist Party (ACP) has conducted a survey among 550 potential voters asking who they would give their vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Communist leader Ruben Tovmasyan ...ARMENIAN COMMUNISTS TO PARTICIPATE IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
YEREVAN. - The Armenian Communist Party (ACP) will participate in the parliamentary elections, ACP leader Ruben Tovmasyan said at a press conference on Friday.
The ACP has still to decide it participates ...TURKISH YOUNG MAN JUSTIFIED IN DINK MURDER CASE DETAINED FOR RAPE
Turkish young man Zeynel Abidin Yavuz, 25, who was justified in Armenian chief editor Hrank Dink murder case, was detained for raping an underage.
Yavuz contacted a 14-year-old girl through social networks. ...TURKISH PRESIDENT CALLED SHAMEFUL ANTI-ARMENIAN SLOGANS
ANKARA. - Turkish President Abdullah Gul stated that slogans voiced at the event dedicated to the Khojalu events in the Taksim Square in Istanbul on Feb. 26 do not express Turkey's policy and feelings ...ARMENIAN FAMOUS SINGER TO BE FIRST HIPSTER MP
YEREVAN. - If the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) makes an offer to the famous Armenian singer Shushan Petrosyan, she will agree to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections, Petrosyan ...ARMENIANS TO HAVE THREE SEATS IN ABKHAZIAN PARLIAMENT
SUKHUMI. - Armenians will have three seats in the Abkhazian Parliament, head of the Union of Armenians of Abkhazia (UAA) Khachik Minasyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
Asked who has more chances to appear ...65-YEAR-OLD TIGRANUHI ONLY FEMALE TAXI DRIVER IN ARMENIA'S SHIRAK (PHOTO, VIDEO)
GYUMRI. - Tigranuhi Gevorgyan is well known in Armenia's Gyumri, as she is the only female taxi driver. Armenian News-NEWS.am wrote about her on the occasion of the March 8 celebration. She has been working ...OSCE MINSK GROUP EXAMPLE OF MOST EFFECTIVE DIPLOMATIC WORK-RUSSIAN MFA
MOSCOW. - Russia considers the OSCE Minsk Group an example of most effective diplomatic work, Russian Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov told APA's Moscow correspondent commenting on the activity of the OSCE Minsk ...WEDDING PARTICIPANTS INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Three vehicles, two Volkswagens and a VAZ, crashed at 1.00 p.m. near the Lamada Bridge in Yerevan on Friday, a traffic inspector Vahagn Hovhannisyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
There are no ...THREE PEOPLE INJURED IN ACCIDENTS IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - A bus and a car crashed at 1.30 p.m. in Armenian Etchmiadzin city on Thursday. Car driver was injured and hospitalized.
The same day GAZelle and Opel Vectra crashed at 6.00 p.m. on Armavir-Haykavan ...KARABAKH CONFLICT TO SETTLE THROUGH INTENSE INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE - INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
The New York Times published an article 'A frozen conflict that could boil over again' by the Director of the South Caucasus Project for the International Crisis Group Lawrence Scott Sheets.
The author ...17 YEARS LATER CRIME REVEALED IN ARMENIA'S GYUMRI
GYUMRI. - Armenia's Gyumri city police had registered a robbery back in 1995.
This Wednesday, 17 years later, police detained Harutyun S., 59, in suspicion of having carried out the aforesaid robbery ...OBAMA HAS NO TIME TO CONGRATULATE PUTIN
WASHINGTON. - U.S. President Barack Obama has no time to congratulate newly elected Russian President Vladimir Putin for his victory, the White House representative Jay Carney said, utro.ru reports.
Carney ...ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN SWEDEN BELIEVES FALSE RESOLUTION ON KARABAKH TO BE DECLINED
The Committee on Foreign Affairs of Sweden will discuss on Saturday a resolution on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement submitted by a Turkish MP Mehmet Kaplan. The Armenian community in Switzerland ...ILLEGAL TREE-CUTTINGS CONTINUE IN ARMENIA'S LORI (VIDEO, PHOTO)
VANADZOR. - Illegal tree-cuttings continue in Armenia's Lori Region, Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent reports from the scene adding over 10 birch trees were cut. Chief Forest Supervisor of Armenia ...RULING RPA TO CHANGE BOARD AND ELECT CHAIRMAN
YEREVAN. - Ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) will elect a chairman and make changes in the executive body at the 13th congress on Saturday, RPA member Hovhannes Sahakyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
The ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Areg was the 8th month in the old Armenian calendar (March 9 to April 7). This name is based on the Armenian for sun (arev). Armenians began the New Year with the awakening of nature: the first month of spring.
- 1799 Death of French armenologist Simon-Petros Lurden. He studied at St. Lazarus island and translated the Bible from Armenian to Latin, and created an Armenian-French dictionary. His works are kept in Munich's Royal Manuscript Library.
- 1801 Death in Tbilissi (Georgia) of H. Arghootyan.
- 1880 An Armenian publishing company is founded in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1899 Death of Petros Shanshyan (public figure) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1819.
- 1911 Birth, in Gyoomree, of the engineer and architect Edmon Tigranyan. He was the son of the composer Armen Tigranyan..
- 1914 France and Turkey sign an agreement on building roads and railways in Western Armenia.
- 1917 The Temporary Government annuls the Caucasian Viceroyship and creates the Transcaucasian Special Committee (Ozakom).
- 1920 Birth of Jansem (Hovhannes Semerjian) in Seleg (Turkey). Many of this artist's works are in European and US galleries.
- 1921 Signature of the French-Turkish Agreement on political, military, and economic cooperation.
- 1924 Death of poet Mateos Zarifyan.
- 1936 Birth of the Italian architect Breccia Fratadocci. He founded the "Mediaeval Armenian Architecture Research Center" in Rome. He organized the first exhibition of Armenian mediaeval architecture in Rome and Venice in 1968.
- 1983 The Ambassador of Turkey is killed in Belgrade. Raffi Elpekian and Harootyoon Levonian (Andranik Poghosyan) are arrested and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. They were both members of the "Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide", an underground political organization. Levonian was set free after four years in jail. Elpekian was freed after seven years.
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