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Headlines for April 17, 2012YOUNG AMERICAN ARMENIANS TO ORGANIZE LARGE SCALED DEMONSTRATION FOR RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
American youth movement Unified Young Armenians is to organize a large scaled demonstration on April 24 demanding recognition of Armenian Genocide and compensation.
The event is one of the most extensive ...ARMENIAN WHO MURDERED HIS SISTER AND TURKISH BROTHER-IN-LAW SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
ISTANBUL. - Armenian Genay Ogmen from Istanbul was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his sister and her Turkish husband. The murder occurred in the evening on December 12, ten days after the ...AMERICAN ARMENIANS TO COMMEMORATE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS AT TIMES SQUARE
NEW YORK. - American Armenians and Americans, who stand for the recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide, will gather at Times Square, New York on April 22 in order to commemorate the victims ...MINISTRY OF ENERGY TRIES TO EXTEND LIFE OF ARMENIAN NPP'S SECOND POWER BLOCK
Armenian Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources conducts inspections in order to raise the safety of Armenian NPP's second (currently operating) power block. The issue will be presented during the session ...ARMENIAN POLICE SELLS USED VEHICLES FOR $50
YEREVAN. - Armenia's police decided to get rid of 47 vehicles registered in the system through an auction. State Property Management Department submitted the issue for the Government's Thursday session. ...PHOTO JOURNALIST IS BEATEN AT ARMENIAN NATIONAL MUSIC AWARDS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The annual Armenian National Music Awards, which was held in the capital Yerevan on Sunday, started off with the obstruction of the journalists' activities, Zhoghovurd daily writes.
"Grigor ...YEREVAN DEPARTMENT STORE OWNER BEATS SECURITY GUARD - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - A bizarre incident occurred on Sunday at Armenian capital Yerevan's Hayastan department store, Zhoghovurd daily writes, referring to its sources.
"The [department store] owner Hayrapet Hayrapetyan, ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY TO INSTALL VIDEO CAMERAS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Well-informed sources have conveyed that the ruling coalition's Prosperous Armenia Party's (PAP) 2,000 video cameras already have arrived in the country, Irates De Facto writes.
"According ...ARMENIAN VILLAGE'S VOTERS ARE 500 MORE THAN ACTUAL RESIDENTS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun daily writes that it continues to receive calls from Armenia's citizens who inform that unknown people are registered in their home addresses.
"Ararat Region's Taperakan ...PASSPORT ISSUANCE PROBLEMS IN ARMENIA - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The citizens of Armenia are often facing problems when applying for a passport in recent times, Haykakan Zhamanak daily writes.
"According to the news circulated in the press, the reason is ...MURDER AT ARMENIA'S GAVAR CITY
YEREVAN. - A murder was committed in Armenia's Gavar city on Monday at midnight.
As sources at Gavar told Armenian News-NEWS.am, Vigen Sahakyan, 28, and Shahen Chandoyan, 26, tried to receive a loan of ...SITUATION CONCERNING IRAN DOES NOT AFFECT RUSSIA'S REGIONAL PRESENCE - ARMENIAN PM
In connection with the aggravating situation around Iran, Armenia is not initiating any additional measure to strengthen Russia's regional presence, Armenia's PM Tigran Sargsyan stated in an interview ...ARMENIA PLANS TO PRODUCE DOMESTIC DRONES - PRIME MINISTER
Armenia is considering producing its own unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), PM Tigran Sargsyan said in an interview with the Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily of Russia.
"We already have a ready-product. We have ...MOSCOW NOT INTENDING ON INSTALLING RADAR STATIONS IN ARMENIA, TRANSNISTRIA
MOSCOW. - Official Moscow is not planning on installing radar stations in Armenia and Transnistria, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily of Russia informs, referring to its source at the Russian MOD.
Instead, ...FORMER ARMENIAN ROAD POLICE CHIEF'S TRIAL ADJOURNS FOR 2 WEEKS
YEREVAN. - The next hearing into Armenia's former Road Police (RP) Chief Margar Ohanyan's case resumed on Tuesday, at capital Yerevan's Central and Nork Marash General Jurisdiction Court. But it became ...6 ROAD ACCIDENTS, 7 INJURED IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - A BMW and a Škoda Fabia crashed at an Armenian capital Yerevan intersection on Monday at 12 pm. Škoda Fabia's driver was injured and taken to hospital.
At 2 pm, the driver ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION BLOC TO HOLD RALLY IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN.- The opposition Armenian National Congress bloc will hold a rally in Yerevan's Liberty Square on Friday.
The municipality has taken into consideration the application to hold a rally and a march.
Armenian ...ARMENIAN BUSINESSMAN KILLED IN MOSCOW
MOSCOW. - Armenian businessman Tigran Hovhannisyan was murdered in Moscow.
His dead body, with two gunshot wounds on his chest, was found near the elevator of a building by the neighbors on Tuesday ...MORE SPEEDOMETERS AND CAMERAS IN ARMENIA'S ROADS
YEREVAN. - Installation of speedometers and video surveillance cameras to control and register violations of traffic rules will continue in Yerevan.
Newly installed equipment will be operated from Friday, ...34% OF ARMENIA'S CITIZENS READY TO VOTE FOR RULING PARTY - GALLUP ORGANIZATION
YEREVAN.- A survey showed that 34% of Armenia's citizens are ready to vote for the Republican Party.The Gallup Organization conducted a public opinion poll from April 4 to 10 throughout the country among ...YEREVAN TO HAVE BELARUSIAN BUSES, ELEVATORS
YEREVAN. - Armenia's PM Tigran Sargsyan received the Belarusian FM Sergei Martynov. "High level relations are formed between Armenia and Belarus. At the same time, there is a huge potential for developing ...56% OF ARMENIAN CITIZENS DO NOT BELIEVE IN FAIR ELECTIONS - THE GALLUP ORGANIZATION
YEREVAN. - Fifty-six percent of respondents do not believe in holding fair, transparent and free elections in Armenia on the threshold of parliamentary elections, The Gallup Organization Representative ...ARMENIA'S POLICE HAVE INNER CONVICTION
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Police Passport and Visa Department Chief Hovhannes Kocharyan has an inner conviction that the voting lists for the upcoming parliamentary elections will be prepared competently. ...ARMENIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES TO HOLD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
YEREVAN. - The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA) will convene its annual general meeting in the capital Yerevan on Wednesday and Thursday.
On Wednesday, several NAS departments ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA DOES NOT BEG FOR YOUR VOTE - GAGIK TSARUKYAN
DILIJAN. - Head of Prosperous Armenia Gagik Tsarukyan said his party has little to say but much to do.
"We do not beg for your vote, we are people who have achieved everything," he said during the election ...HERITAGE PARTY CLAIMS TO BE FIRST BY PROPORTIONAL ELECTION SYSTEM
YEREVAN. - Parliament opposition Heritage party will be the first by proportional election system, Heritage MP Armen Martirosyan said at a press conference on Tuesday.
According to Martirosyan, voters ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY RESPONDS TO ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
DILIJAN. - There is no agreement on cooperation with off-parliament opposition Armenia's National Congress (ANC), ruling coalition member Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) head Gagik Tsarukyan said during ...WORLD-RENOWNED ARMENIAN MICRO SCULPTOR PASSES AWAY
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Honored Art Worker, great arts and craftsman, and unrivaled master of miniature sculpting Eduard Ghazaryan died on Monday at the age of 89, the Culture Ministry informs.
Ghazaryan ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION READY TO COOPERATE TO GET RID OF RULING REGIME
YEREVAN.- The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) bloc is ready to do everything to get rid of present authorities, ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan said.
"We are ready to cooperate with any political ...ARMENIAN-IRANIAN JOINT VENTURE WILL MANUFACTURE DEEP LIQUID-DRAINAGE PUMPS
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Armelectromash Company President Seyran Matevosyan and Iran's Khorasan Agricultural Industry Company Executive Director Hadi Abdollahian signed, in the Armenian capital Yerevan on ...ARMENIA'S STOCK EXCHANGE SEES NO FOREIGN CURRENCY TRADING
YEREVAN. - No foreign currency trading was conducted at NASDAQ OMX Armenia stock exchange on Tuesday. But, in general, the US dollar's exchange rate, against the Armenian dram (AMD), has a tendency to ...ARMENIA'S HERIATGE SAYS MEMBER OF COALITION AND OPPOSITION BLOC GETTING CLOSER
YEREVAN.- The process of rapprochement between Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP)and the opposition Armenian National Congress bloc is clear, says member of Heritage Party Armen Martirosyan.
Martirosyan recalled ...ARMENIA TO LIKEWISE MARK INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR MONUMENTS AND SITES
YEREVAN. - The International Day for Monuments and Sites and the 40th anniversary of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage will be jointly observed on Wednesday. ...ARMENIAN DEPUTY PARLIAMENT SPEAKER RESPONDS TO AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT
YEREVAN. - Azerbaijan must stop the arms race and the military rhetoric, Armenia's National Assembly Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov said, commenting on Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev's statement ...ARMENIAN COMMUNISTS HOLD ELECTION CAMPAIGN RALLY IN ETCHMIADZIN
YEREVAN.- The Communist Party of Armenia held an election campaign rally in Etchmiadzin town.
In his speech party's head Ruben Tovmasyan said that the overwhelming majority of the Republic lives in poverty ...KARABAKH PRESIDENT DISCUSSES ROAD CONSTRUCTION
STEPANAKERT.- President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan convened a working consultation on Tuesday to discuss the issues of road construction.
Corresponding reports were delivered by heads ...GALLUP PREDICTS VICTORY FOR ARMENIA'S RULING PARTY (COMPLETE REPORT)
If the parliamentary elections in Armenia were to take place next Sunday, 34 percent of the Armenian voters would vote for the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, a research conducted by the Gallup reads.1,018 ...ARMENIAN EDUCATION MINISTER DISMISSES LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY RECTOR
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan signed a decree on Tuesday to dismiss Yerevan State Linguistic University rector Suren Zolyan.
Earlier Zolyan received a severe reprimand ...RENOVATION OF ROADS PRIOR TO ELECTIONS IS A BRIBE - DEMOCRATIC PARTY
YEREVAN. - The parties should be ashamed of giving bribes, the head of Democratic Party of Armenia Aram Sargsyan said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Sargsyan considers that renovation of roads ahead ...PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA SIGNED NUMBER OF LAWS
YEREVAN. - President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has signed number of laws. The President has signed in particular law on changes in "State Registration of Legal Entities," changes and amendments in "Civil ...ARF DASHNAKTSUTYUN MEMBER QUITS RACE
YEREVAN. - Parliament opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun member Benik Hambardzumyan has withdrawn his candidacy, Central Electoral Committee spokesperson Hermine Harutyunyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
Hambardzumyan ...ARMENIAN TYPEWRITER OR ARMENIAN PHONETIC - WHICH KEYBOARD IS BETTER?
YEREVAN. - The government of Armenia held on Tuesday regular session on Information Technologies Development Support Council (ITDSC) headed by the PM Tigran Sargsyan.
The Council touched upon issues ...NEW GERMAN LANGUAGE CENTER OPENS IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - A new German Language Center opened in Yerevan on Tuesday which represents the Goethe Institute. Armenian Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan and the German delegation led by Minister ...ARMENIAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER MEETS REPRESENTATIVES OF POLITICAL FORCES
YEREVAN. - Armenian Human Rights Defender Karen Andreasyan continues his meetings with the leaders of political forces participating in the parliamentary elections scheduled on May 6, 2012.
As the press ...FOUR PARTIES HAVE REAL ELECTORATE IN ARMENIA - EXPERT
YEREVAN. - There are four parties, including ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), ruling coalition member Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), parliament opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun and opposition Armenian ...ARMENIAN SYUNIK REGION OF KEY IMPORTANCE - PRESIDENT (PHOTO)
YEREVAN. - Head of Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), President Serzh Sargsyan continued election campaign in the Syunik Region on Tuesday.
In Kapan, he visited geology museum, Vamaks Group company to ...ARMENIAN PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO UN RESPONDS TO BAKU
Talking about the propaganda letters which Azerbaijan continues to spread in the UN, Armenia's Permanent Representative to UN Garen Nazarian stated that by publishing senseless documents Baku is driven ...IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL TO VISIT ARMENIA
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano will visit Armenia on Wednesday and Thursday.Amano will meet with the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, the PM Tigran ...KARABAKH PRESIDENT MEETS WITH ARMENIA'S MILITARY PROSECUTOR
The President of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Republic Bako Sahakyan received Armenia's deputy Attorney-General Gevorg Kostanyan. Issues related to the activities of military prosecutor's office were ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1879 Death of Chamik Aramyan (publisher) in Constantinople. He was born in 1820.
- 1904 Birth of Hrant G. Pastrmajian. He died in 1954.
- 1922 Aram Yerkanian and Arshavir Shirakian executed Behaeddin Shakir, the leader of the "special forces" and Jemal Azmi, former Governor of Trabizond, in Berlin. Both were active in implementing the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
- 1957 Twinning of Kirovakan (Vanadzor) and Batumi (Georgia).
- 1990 An International Scholars' Meeting titled: "The Armenian Genocide: History, Theory, Political Responsibility" and devoted to 75th Anniversary of the Armenian's Genocide, takes place in Yerevan. It lasts to April 21.
- 1997 The Legislative Assembly of New South Wales (Australia) adopts a decision to commemorate April 24 as a Memorial Day of the Armenian Genocide. It suggests to the Federal Australian Government to adopt a similar decision.
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