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ARMENIAN OPPOSITION BLOC COORDINATOR MEETS WITH OSCE/ODIHR OBSERVATION MISSION CHIEF
- YEREVAN. - The opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (ANC) Central Office Coordinator Levon Zurabyan on Tuesday met with Radmila Šekerinska, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Observation Mission Chief, who is in Armenia in connection with the country's National Assembly elections to be held on Sunday.
The interlocutors discussed the course of elections, the Election Code violations, and the possibility of the latter's recording and prevention, the ANC Press Service informs.
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Headlines for May 01, 2012NEGOTIATIONS WITH AZERBAIJAN ARE HELD BEHIND SCENES - EXPERT
The statements of OSCE Minsk Group should be open and honest but negotiations with Azerbaijan are held behind scenes, political scientist Sergei Minasyan, the director of the Caucasus Institute, told ...I ALWAYS SET MYSELF HIGH AMBITIONS - KIM KARDASHIAN
Kim Kardashian told about her political views during the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on April 28.
She informed that she is a democrat while her parents are republicans.
"When it comes ...GENOCIDE PERFORMANCE IS STAGED IN DIYARBAKIR
DIYARBAKIR. - Amedi theatre festival started in Diyarbakir, Turkey, and will last until May 6, 2012. As the Turkish ETHA informs, during the first day the audience enjoyed a performance entitled Genocide ...ARMENIA ALONG WITH OTHER STATES TO CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS' DAY
YEREVAN. - Armenia will celebrate the International Workers' Day, May 1st, along with other states.
At the first period of the independence in Armenia under the rule of Levon Ter-Petrosyan the celebration ...PETROL PRICE WENT UP BY 15.3 PERCENT FOR ONE YEAR IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Petrol and diesel fuel prices went up by 5.8 and 2.3 percent respectively in April in Armenia, as compared to March, Armenian National Statistical Service reports. To note, the prices went ...IN AZERBAIJAN'S DOCTRINE ARMENIA IS ENEMY - EXPERT
The response of the international community to the events of April 25-27 occurring on the Armenian -Azerbaijani border will be only negative, the head of Russian Centre for Military Forecast Anatoly Tsyganok ...ARMENIAN OLIGARCH PAYS PEOPLE'S DEBTS OWED TO STORE - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - In order to help Armenia's National Assembly MP candidate Koryun Nahapetyan, the son-in-law of his sister, businessman and likewise MP candidate Samvel Aleksanyan (a.k.a. Lfik Samo) visited ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY LEADER IS RICHEST MP CANDIDATE - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The ruling coalition's Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) leader Gagik Tsarukyan is the richest among the leaders of the political parties running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, Hayots ...ARMENIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS ATTACKED - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Arman Veziryan from the Helsinki Association human rights organization was attacked in Armenia's capital Yerevan on Monday, Zhoghovurd daily writes.
"Activists from the [parliamentary] election ...PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION INTENTIONS IN ARMENIA - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The elite of the ruling coalition's senior partner, the Republican Party of Armenia, have planned on securing 77 MPs for themselves as a result of the upcoming parliamentary elections, 168 ...GOOGLE MARKS MAY DAY
The International Workers' Day, or Laborers' Day, or simply May Day, is a holiday which for a long time has symbolized revolution and irreconcilable class struggle. And Google likewise celebrates May ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION PARTY LEADER HOLDS MEETINGS IN BRUSSELS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenia's opposition Republic Party Chairman Aram Sargsyan confirmed to having headed to Brussels on a business trip, together with Fact-Finding Group's former representative Andranik Kocharyan, ...SEXUAL TERRORISM OVER PHONE IN YEREVAN - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The Free Students' Forum, which is established by the students at Yerevan State Linguistic University, is organizing a signature campaign with a demand to hold special elections for the University's ...OSCE REPRESENTATIVES ARE INFORMED ABOUT AZERBAIJAN'S FIRING AT KARABAKH AMBULANCE
Armenian MOD representative informed OSCE Chairman-in-Office field assistants Hristo Hristov and Irji Aberle about the Azerbaijani Armed Forces' firing at an ambulance (photos).
During the OSCE monitoring ...EXHIBITION ON ELECTION BRIBE TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - The Art Laboratory artists' group will organize a political exhibition-action in Armenian capital Yerevan's Tumanyan Museum on Wednesday.
The event is devoted to election bribe, which is widespread ...MINOR EARTHQUAKE HITS ARMENIA
YEREVAN.- A 2.2 magnitude earthquake was registered six kilometers to south-east from Armenia's Masis town on Tuesday morning.
The epicenter was at the depth of 5 km. The quake was felt in Artashat, ...ARMENIAN COMMUNISTS MARCH ON MAY 1
YEREVAN.- Armenian communists hold a march in Yerevan downtown on the occasion of May 1, the International Workers' Day.
The demonstrators are carrying posters and flags of the Soviet Union and Soviet ...ARMENIAN DIPLOMATS SHOULD NOT "WALK" AMONG ELITE CIRCLES - ARF DASHNAKTSUTYUN
YEREVAN. - The Armenian diplomats abroad should not "walk" among elite circles, but rather fight for the markets of exported Armenian goods. This was stated Tuesday by Armenia's opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun ...NAMES ARE NOT IMPORTANT - ARMENIA'S HERITAGE PARTY LEADER (PHOTOS)
"Names are not important, what's important is what our people want: to remain in the past, or to move toward the future?" This was stated by Armenia's opposition Heritage Party Chairman Raffi Hovannisian, ...ARF DASHNAKTSUTYUN WILL HARDLY FORM COALITION WITH ANC OR PROSPEROUS ARMENIA
YEREVAN.- ARF Dashnaktsutyun will hardly form a coalition with the opposition Armenian National Congress bloc and Prosperous Armenia in the parliament.
Cooperation in securing transparency during elections ...ARMENIA'S STATE DEBT IS 40.7% OF GDP
YEREVAN. - Armenia's state debt comprised 40.7 percent of the GDP, or US$ 4.13 billion, in the first quarter of 2012, Deputy Finance Minister and Chief Treasurer Atom Janjughazyan told news reporters. ...FREEDOM HOUSE CALLS ARMENIA A COUNTRY WITH NOT FREE PRESS
Armenia is ranked 149 in the Global Press Freedom Rankings issued by Freedom House. Armenia, which is given "not free" status, issandwiched between Pakistan and Angola.
"Not free" Azerbaijan and Russia ...AZERBAIJANI SIDE INCREASES NUMBER OF CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS EVERY YEAR - ARMENIAN MOD
YEREVAN.- Azerbaijan is increasing the number of ceasefire violations every year.
Representative of the Chief of Staff of Armenian Armed Forces, Colonel A. Mkrtumyan informed the field assistants of the ...ARMENIAN SIDE PROPOSES TO INCREASE OSCE MONITORING AT LINE OF CONTACT WITH AZERBAIJAN
The Armenian side considers it necessary to increase the OSCE monitoring being conducted at the line of contact with Azerbaijan.
Lieutenant Colonel Andranik Mkrtumyan—representative of the General ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT VISITS DOWNTOWN YEREVAN PARK
YEREVAN. - Armenia's President and the ruling coalition Republican Party of Armenia Chairman Serzh Sargsyan, along with capital Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan, on Tuesday visited Mashtots Park, an activist ...ARMENIA'S MOD REPRESENTATIVE AFFIRMS COUNTRY'S READINESS TO WITHDRAW SNIPERS
The Armenian side is prepared to pull out its snipers, if the Azerbaijani side likewise expresses such readiness. Colonel Andranik Mkrtumyan—representative of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed ...ANNUAL NEIGHBORHOOD FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT KICKS OFF IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - Armenian capital Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan was on hand at official "kick-off" of the annual neighborhood football tournament of the Malatia-Sebastia Administrative Region.
This tournament, ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT PROPOSES YEREVAN MAYOR TO DISASSEMBLE KIOSKS AT DOWNTOWN PARK (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
YEREVAN. - On his way to a meeting, Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan stopped over at capital Yerevan's Mashtots Park on Tuesday. He toured the Park and observed the newly-installed kiosks, the President's ...YEREVAN ZOO OFFICIALLY OPENS NEW SEASON
YEREVAN. - Armenian capital Yerevan's Mayor Taron Margaryan attended Tuesday the official opening of Yerevan Zoo's new season. On this occasion, and with the Mayor's instruction, the children's admission ...DE DONNEA TO HEAD OSCE PA ELECTION OBSERVERS IN ARMENIA
COPENHAGEN. -The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly observation mission to Armenia this week will include more than 70 participants. The delegation to observe the country's 6 May parliamentary elections will ...AZERBAIJANI DIVERSION ATTACK PRECEDED BY DRONE FLIGHTS - ARMENIA'S MOD
The Azerbaijani diversion group's penetration into Armenia's territory was presumably preceded by the flights of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). This was stated during the meeting between Armenian MOD ...GEORGIA SHOULD MAINTAIN UNITY AND CONSOLIDATION OF MULTINATIONAL SOCIETY
TBILISI. - The Javakhk Diaspora of Russia called on its compatriots in the Armenian inhabited parts of Georgia, in particular in Samtskhe-Javakhk, to vote for the party and candidate who will have concrete ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION BLOC COORDINATOR MEETS WITH OSCE/ODIHR OBSERVATION MISSION CHIEF
YEREVAN. - The opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (ANC) Central Office Coordinator Levon Zurabyan on Tuesday met with Radmila Šekerinska, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION LEADER ABSENT IN ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN ARAGATSOTN AND SHIRAK REGIONS
YEREVAN. - Head of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC), Armenia's First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan was absent at the meetings with the Aragatsotn and Shirak Regions' voters on Tuesday, ...HEWLETT-PACKARD SLATE 8 TO BECOME FIRST TABLET WITH WINDOWS 8
The Slate 8 released by the Hewlett-Packard Company will be the first Tablet running on Windows 8. The PC will be completely made of aluminum. The HP Slate 8 will measure in at 10.1 inches, with a width ..."I DON'T KNOW TIGRAN TER-PETROSYAN"- PARLIAMENT CANDIDATE
YEREVAN. - Opposition Armenian National Congress leader Levon Ter Petrosyan's nephew, [parliament candidate at the No. 12 precinct] Tigran Ter-Petrosyan's political activity starts and ends with making ...RULING PARTY MP SAYS ELECTION CAMPAIGN IS CALM
YEREVAN. - Ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP candidate in Yerevan's Avan district Ruben Hayrapetyan believes that the election campaign passed calmly. He does not share the thought that the ...YEREVAN MAYOR TO DECIDE ON DOWNTOWN KIOSKS ON MAY 2
YEREVAN. - Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan will decide on dismantling the kiosks in downtown Mashtots Park on Wednesday, the city hall statement reads.
"We have visited the Park together with the President ...CORPSE FOUND IN ARMENIA'S LAKE SEVAN
SEVAN. - The body of Hrant Guloyan, 72, a Sevan city resident, was found near the "Miami beach" in Armenia's Lake Sevan on Tuesday.
The Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations received the alarm at ...PARLIAMENT CANDIDATE'S CAMPAIGN PREVENTED IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Armenian opposition Heritage Party made a statement regarding Heritage candidate Styopa Safaryan's campaign prevention in election district number 1. "The pre-election headquarter of Heritage ...AZERBAIJANI CUTS EARS OF OFFENDER
In an Azerbaijani village Nisami Rustamov cut the ears of Seifeddin Ahmedov during an argument on Monday. As the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs informs Vesti.AZ, the perpetrator ...GOHAR VEZIRYAN TOO YOUNG TO HAVE VISUAL PROBLEMS - ARMENIAN OPPOSITION CANDIDATES' DISCORD
YEREVAN. - MP candidate, journalist Gohar Veziryan is not at an age as to have visual problems, opposition MP candidate at the No. 12 precinct Tigran Ter-Petrosyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am commenting ...VOTE IS BOUGHT BY AMD 10 IN ARMENIA - PARTY LEADER
Bying votes is incompatible with the honor of labor rights, Vahan Hovhanisyan, Armenian Revolutionary Federation MP announced at a pre-election meeting in Hrazdan city on Tuesday. As the correspondent ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1467 Jhanshah battles the Agh-koyoonloon tribesmen. He is killed at the age of 70.
- 1804 Russian forces, led by General Tshitshianov, start their first assault on Yerevan. It lasts till September.
- 1837 Opening of the Yerevan Consistory.
- 1843 The Mkhitarist Congregation publishes the "Bazmavep" monthly in Venice.
- 1868 The Armenian Church in Echmiadsin starts publishing (to 1918) the Holy See's official monthly: "Ararat".
- 1872 Death of Matatyan (Seyad), Eastern-Armenian writer and troubadour.
- 1891 The "Flag" newspaper (affiliated to the Dashnak party) starts publication.
- 1901 The Tsar publishes the law on land and agricultural reform in Transcaucasia.
- 1905 Civil unrest in Bitlis.
- 1920 Bolsheviks' first revolt in Armenia. The Armenian Government and Parliament take radical measures to quell the revolt.
- 1927 Death of Levon Sargsyan, the editor of "Moorch". He was a Bolshevik and later was made ambassador in Tehran.
- 1935 The first Armenian sound motion picture "Pepo" is shown.
- 1978 Death of Aram Khatshatooryan (composer). He was born in 1903.
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