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ARMENIA'S MINISTER OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT HAS NO COMMENTS ON RENOUNCING PARLIAMENTARY MANDATE
- YEREVAN. - Minister of Urban Development of Armenia, Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) member Vardan Vardanyan will explain his decision to reject an MP mandate in the near future, he told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
Asked whether his decision is conditioned by the demand of the PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan who said that he had not secured the necessary number of votes during the recent parliamentary elections, Vardanyan said it is his personal decision.
The Minister promised to explain the reason of his rejection in a couple of days and confirmed that he will stay with the party. He also added that has no problems with the leader. In addition, Vardanyan said he had no idea whether he would remain in the office.
As regards Health Minister Harutyun Kushkyan, his spokesperson Shushan Hunanyan conformed for Armenian News-NEWS.am that he had renounced his National Assembly seat.
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Headlines for May 12, 2012ARMENIAN BANKS MOSTLY LEND MONEY FOR TRADE
Trade continues to be the favorite area of lending credits for Armenian banks. According to the publications of Armenia's Central Bank, as of April 1, 2012, the total amount of credits totaled to AMD ...COORDINATION COUNCIL OF ARMENIAN ORGANIZATIONS IN FRANCE CONGRATULATES FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
The Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations in France congratulated President-Elect Francois Hollande and expressed hope that he will promote the interests of the country and the nation, Nouvelles ...CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT IN KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS - ADMINISTRATION
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STEPANAKERT. - Ceasefire Agreement in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone is one of the major achievements, spokesperson for the Karabakh President David Babayan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
To note, May ...ORDINARY DEVELOPMENT FOR KARABAKH IS UNACCEPTABLE - EXPERT
There are two real candidates for the post of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's President - the incumbent president Bako Sahakyan and former Minister of defense, famous military and political figure Vitaly ...ARMENIAN BANKS' NON-PERFORMING ASSETS GROW
YEREVAN. - The specific volume of the non-performing loans of Armenia's commercial banks increased in 2011 and reached 3.4 percent at the end of the year, the Central Bank report informs.
The specific ...AZERBAIJANIS' OPERATIONS WILL NOT YIELD THEM ANY BENEFIT - ARMENIAN MOD
YEREVAN. - In an interview with Armenian News-NEWS.am, Armenia's Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan corroborated that the three Armenian conscripts, who had received gunshot wounds at Armenia's Movses-Aygepar ...I HAVE BEEN EDUCATED ON ARMENIAN MUSIC - SERJ TANKIAN
Serj Tankian, the front-man of the world famous System of A Down, announced that while growing up he was educated on Armenian music and never heard metal or hard rock.
"The first type of music I was exposed ...CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENT ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS - EXPERT
YEREVAN. - The ceasefire agreement is a significant achievement in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, expert Masis Mayilyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
To note, May 12 this year marks the 18th anniversary ...NAGORNO-KARABAKH: 18 YEARS UNDER FLAWED CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT
May 12 marks the 18th anniversary of signing the Ceasefire Agreement on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The agreement was signed on a tree-sided format: on May 12, 1994, the chiefs of MODs of Nagorno-Karabakh, ...SOCHI ARMENIANS CORROBORATE TENSION WITH DAGESTANIS
YEREVAN. - Young Armenians of Sochi, Russia, were called in by the law enforcement agencies in connection with the killing of Yury Garanyan, an Armenian master of Taekwondo, Chairman Valery Torosyan of ...ARMENIA'S HERITAGE PARTY LEADER TO RENOUNCE PARLIAMENTARY MANDATE? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The proportional election list of Armenia's Heritage Party will undergo several changes, Yerkir daily writes.
"The Party leader Raffi Hovannisian will give up his [parliamentary] seat. [And] ...REPUBLICANS, PROSPEROUS ARMENIA TO FORM COALITION - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - A coalition will be formed after all between the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), and this will be announced in the coming days, Haykakan Zhamanak daily ...ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS GATHERS FACTS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The opposition bloc Armenian National Congress is still collecting and recapping the information received from the electoral precincts during the May 6 National Assembly elections, Chorrord ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION BLOC LEADER COMMENTS ON ALLIANCE MEMBER'S POSSIBLE LEAVING - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Haykakan Zhamanak daily asked Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (ANC) leader and Armenia's First President, to comment on ANC member Republic Party Chairman ...FEWER ARMENIAN JOURNALISTS BEATEN IN THESE ELECTIONS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Five cases of violation and freedom of speech curtailing against news reporters were recorded during Armenia's National Assembly elections held on May 6, 168 Zham daily writes.
"One of them ...DJIVAN GASPARYAN TO GIVE CONCERT IN KIEV
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Djivan Gasparyan is one of the most successful ethnic ...LITTLE AMBASSADORS OF ARMENIA AND RUSSIA DISCUSSED 67TH ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD WAR II
In the framework of the festival 'Little ambassador of big country' an open lesson entitled 'I remember and I am proud' dedicated to the 67th anniversary of the victory in World War II took place at the ...WE WILL FORM COALITION WITH THOSE WHO SUPPORT OUR PRESIDENT IN ARMENIA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS - REPUBLICAN PARTY MEMBER
YEREVAN. - We will form a coalition with those political forces which support our President (Serzh Sargsyan) in the presidential elections, Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) member Karine Achemyan said ...ARMENIA'S REPUBLICAN PARTY TO DISCUSS COALITION ISSUE NEXT WEEK
YEREVAN.- The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) consider forming a coalition and involvement of parties during the meetings of party's council.
Spokesperson for RPA Eduard Sharmazanov told Armenian News-NEWS.am ...ARMENIA'S FM RECEIVES MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS
YEREVAN. - Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on Saturday received the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Robert Bradtke, Igor Popov and Jacques Faure, and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, ...MERCEDES COLLIDES WITH TAXI IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - A Mercedes Benz and a VAZ 21074-model taxi crashed at an Armenian capital Yerevan intersection on Friday at 12:40pm.
As a result, the cab's driver and passenger sustained injuries and were ...YOUNG MAN BREAKS INTO HOME THROUGH WINDOW IN ARMENIA'S VANADZOR
YEREVAN. - Officers from Armenia's Police detained Gevorg M., 21, nearby a Vanadzor City building on Friday, on suspicion of burglary.
It was found out that, in December 2011, he had broken into ...FATAL ROAD ACCIDENT IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - A Corvette and a VAZ 21214 collided in Armenia's capital city Yerevan on Friday at 9am.
As a result, VAZ 21214's passenger Rafik Muradyan, 57, died at the scene. VAZ 21214's driver and other ...NO COMMENTS ON GIVING UP MANDATE - HERITAGE MEMBER
YEREVAN.- Member of Heritage party Zaruhi Postanjyan is not commenting on rumors about renouncing her National Assembly seat.
There are no reasons for not commenting on the rumors, she told Armenian News-NEWS.am, ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA DISCLOSES LIST OF MEMBER WHO WILL NOT ENTER PARLIAMENT
YEREVAN.- Members of Prosperous Armenia Party Vardan Vardanyan, minister of urban development, Harutyun Kushkyan, health minister, party member Aram Safaryan and spokesperson for party leader Khachik ...AZERBAIJAN VIOLATES CEASEFIRE 350 TIMES PAST WEEK
STEPANAKERT. - The adversary violated the ceasefire, at the line of contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces, around 350 times in the past week, during which more than 1,500 shots were ...YEREVAN HOSTS "LEAGUE OF ARAB STATES" MODEL-CONFERENCE
YEREVAN. - The "League of Arab States" model-conference was convened Saturday in Armenia's capital, Yerevan.
At the event, thirty students from Yerevan universities played the role of the Council of the ...ARMENIAN CELEBRITY MOVES PERMANENTLY TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH
YEREVAN. - Armenian celebrity, actor and showman Hrant Tokhatyan moves to a permanent residence in Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh], he told Armenian News-NEWS.am adding it is connected to his work.
The actor ...KARABERD COMMUNITY IN ARMENIA'S LORI LACKS ELEMENTARY LIFE STANDARDS (PHOTO)
VANADZOR. - Karaberd community in Armenia's Lori Region has nearly 200 residents, and overwhelming majority of them are old. At the same time, the village lacks elementary life standards, including school, ...DERSIM MASSACRE'S ARMENIAN SURVIVOR DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM TURKISH PARLIAMENT FOR HER SUFFERING
Fatma Yavuz, an 80-year-old Armenian survivor of the 1937-1938 Dersim (today's Tunceli, Turkey) Massacres, sent a letter to the Turkish parliament's subcommittee on the Dersim affair, wrote about the ...ARMENIA'S MINISTER OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT HAS NO COMMENTS ON RENOUNCING PARLIAMENTARY MANDATE
YEREVAN. - Minister of Urban Development of Armenia, Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) member Vardan Vardanyan will explain his decision to reject an MP mandate in the near future, he told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
Asked ...ARMENIAN CROSS-STONE OFFICIALLY OPENS IN ITALIAN CITY
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Ambassador to Italy, Ruben Karapetyan, visited the City of Pavia on Wednesday to attend the official opening of an Armenian cross-stone, at the city's 14th Century Castello Visconteo ...EXHIBITION ON 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF ART CRITIC HENRIK IGITYAN OPENS IN YEREVAN
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The exhibition titled "Sur-Collage" will present collages made by Armenuhi Igityan. The ...ARMENIA'S PRESIDENT DISCUSSES KARABAKH ISSUE WITH MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS
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In China a little girl fell out of the car at full-speed and stayed alive. The incident happened in Wenzhou, Japan. The video camera captured how the girl fell out at full-speed. The car coming after ...POTATO BEST PRODUCT FOR LOSING WEIGHT
People who want to lose weight should regularly eat potato. Due to the high content of fiber and minerals it will help keep the weight normal. American nutritionist came to that conclusion.
As Ru Fox ...WEATHER FORECAST FOR ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Brief rain and thunderstorms, with a chance of hail in separate regions, are expected for most parts of Armenia until May 15.
The winds will blow from the southwest and at a velocity of 2-7 ...ARMENIA HAS NEW AMBASSADOR IN JAPAN
YEREVAN. - With the decree of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Hrant Poghosyan is appointed Armenia's Ambassador to Japan. His diplomatic residence will be in Tokyo
And with another decree by the ...AUSTRALIAN LAWMAKER SAYS ARMENIANS FORCED OUT OF WESTERN ARMENIA
Member of Australia's NSW parliament John Ajaka formally acknowledged the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide in a speech on the floor of the NSW parliament this week.
He also declared that Armenians ...ARMENIA'S PRESIDENT BIDS FAREWELL TO IRAN'S OUTGOING AMBASSADOR
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The President thanked the Ambassador for his ...ARMENIANS RANK 2ND AND 3RD AT EUROVISION YOUNG MUSICIANS 2012
VIENNA. - Armenians ranked 2nd and 3rd at the Eurovision Young Musicians 2012 final round, head of Armenia's Eurovision delegation Gohar Gasparyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
According to her, Eivind ...YEREVAN CITY HALL HOSTS ARTSAKH LIBERATION WAR VETERANS (PHOTO)
YEREVAN. - Yerevan city Mayor Taron Margaryan hosted the Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] liberation war veterans on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Shushi city liberation.
"The Artsakh war has ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER RECEIVES HEAD OF OSCE/ODIHR OBSERVATION MISSION
YEREVAN. - Armenian Parliament Speaker Samvel Nikoyan received on Saturday the Head of the Election Observation Mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Radmila Šekerinska.
Nikoyan ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1815 The Lazaryan Academy is inaugurated in Moscow.
- 1847 Fort Orag beseiged by Beder Khan Bey.
- 1851 Zeytoon's princes write to the Catholicos at Echmiadsin to say that Sultan Abdul Megid called them to Constantinople to sign an agreement on taxes. The manifesto of Sultan Murad the Fourth was considered to be cancelled.
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- 1963 Khoren the First was anointed Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia.
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- 1994 The Ministers of Defense from Azerbaijan and Artsakh sign a cease-fire agreement.
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