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Headlines for May 26, 2012ARMENIAN CHURCH SURPRISES GUESTS WITH LUXURIOUS RENOVATION IN ISTANBUL (VIDEO, PHOTO)
ISTANBUL. - The Surb Vordvoc Vorotman Armenian Church in Istanbul opened its doors to the believers after 1.5 years of renovation works. It amazed visitors with its luxurious renovation works. 70 percent ...ONLINE TRADE VOLUMES GO UP IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Armenia has realized online trade amounting to AMD 1.1 billion for the first three months of this year, Central Bank of Armenia report reads.
In general, the online trade grew up in the world ...AZERBAIJAN: ABUNDANCE OF OIL AND LACK OF FREEDOM - LE MONDE
Armenian News-NEWS.am presents a piece of Guillaume Perrier's article published in Le Monde:
Azerbaijan, being a country of police dictatorship, is among the press freedom predator countries. Currently ...TRY ARMENIAN POTATO SALAD AND FORGET ABOUT MAYONNAISE - JIM HILLIBISH
Armenia is located on the crossroad between Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Wars made its nation spread throughout the Middle East, France, Russia and the United States of America, Jim Hillibish writes ...ARMENIA'S FORMER PM ON US DOLLAR'S GAINING VALUE
YEREVAN. - Sharp increase of the U.S. dollar exchange rate against Armenian national currency AMD is conditioned by cutting down the volumes of dollar and increasing the national currency, former PM, ...EURO TURNOVER REDUCES IN ARMENIA AGAIN
YEREVAN. - Banks in Armenia purchased €4.4 million and sold €11.1 million from Monday to Friday, Central Bank of Armenia informs. Hence, the 'euro stir,' which made over €150 million weekly, ...ARMENIA AHEAD OF CIS STATES ON STRUCTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INDICATORS - EBRD
YEREVAN. - Armenia yields only to the Baltic States among former Soviet republics on Structural and Institutional Change Indicators and is ahead of the CIS and Caucasus states, Central Bank of Armenia ...RUSSIA MUDDIED SITUATION IN SOUTH CAUCASUS SO BADLY THAT IS CANNOT BE WORSE - POLITICAL SCIENTIST
The results of the NATO summit in Chicago show that Georgia became closer to the alliance but it still has a long way to go, the President of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, ...KARABAKH CONFLICT IS LEVER FOR RUSSIA, US, EU - POLITICAL SCIENTIST
Russia, US, and European Union are interested so that the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) issue is not resolved, political scientist at the Eastern Studies Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander ...ARMENIA TO HAVE NEW HEALTH MINISTER - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Even though the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has not yet decided on the appointments of state officials, some posts are already decided upon, Hayatsk daily writes.
"As case in ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY CHAIRMAN'S PRESS SECRETARY IS LEFT WITHOUT MP MANDATE - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) leader Gagik Tsarukyan's spokesperson Khachik Galstyan, who is a passing fifteenth in the PAP proportional election list, submitted an MP-mandate-withdrawal petition; ...ARMENIA'S BREAD PRICES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The economists claim that vodka production, which is sizeable in Armenia, likewise causes an increase in the prices of bread and pasta in the country. That is to say, alcohol producers also ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY LEADER, SECOND PRESIDENT MEET IN BELARUS? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan will return to the country on May 28, Hraparak daily writes.
"[And] With a pleasant coincidence, [Armenia's second President] Robert ...ARMENIA'S LAWYERS ARE PREPARED TO TAKE DRASTIC MEASURES - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - A group of attorneys from the Chamber of Lawyers of Armenia, who are displeased by the actions of the Court of Appeals, are ready to take drastic measures, even a strike, lawyer Gevorg Gyozalyan ...ARMENIA'S POLICE WILL OVERSEE FACEBOOK? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The number of Armenian law enforcement members who are using Facebook has increased in recent periods. And it has become apparent that this is not a coincidence and it is done to keep an eye ...ARMENIA'S ORINATS YERKIR PARTY MEMBER TO BECOME PARLIAMENT DEPUTY SPEAKER? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Haykakan Zhamanak daily reflects on the matter of allotting to Armenia's Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law) Party (RLP) the National Assembly (NA) Deputy Speaker's post, which remained vacant from ...US SECRETARY OF STATE TO VISIT ARMENIA
WASHINGTON, DC - US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton will arrive in Armenia. She will visit Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey between May 31 and June 7, the US Department ...62 CARS ARE IMPOUNDED IN ARMENIA ON "LAST BELL"
YEREVAN. - A total of 62 vehicles were impounded in Armenia during Friday's "Last Bell" festivities—which herald the end of the school year—Police Press Service official Armen Malkhasyan told ...NARROW FITTING JEANS DANGEROUS FOR HEALTH
Narrow fitting pants are dangerous for health, especially in case of women, doctors claim. Narrow pants bring forth the Rot-Bernhardt syndrome known as Meralgia paraesthetica.
The illness may bring forth ...CAR HITS ROADSIDE PIPE IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - An Opel went off road, in Armenia's capital city Yerevan, and crashed into a roadside pipe, on Friday at around 10:10pm.
The driver sustained injuries and was taken to hospital, the Police ...US SENATE COMMITTEE CALLS FOR CONTINUED AID TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH
The Senate Appropriations Committee, in its version of the Fiscal Year 2013 foreign aid bill, called for continued aid to Nagorno-Karabakh, but failed to include specific dollar figures for aid to Armenia, ...ARMENIA'S POLICE DETAIN YOUNG WOMAN WANTED FOR CAUSING LIGHT DAMAGE TO HEALTH
YEREVAN. - Officers from Armenia's Police took under custody Knarik T., 25, in the capital city Yerevan, on Friday. She was wanted ever since the same day and on charges of deliberately causing light ...CHAIN VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - A Volkswagen Touareg hit a BMW 318 which, in its turn, crashed into a Renault, in Armenia's capital city Yerevan on Friday at around 7:30pm.
As a result, the BMW's passenger sustained injuries ...DRUNK MAN THREATENS DRIVERS AND TAKES AWAY CATTLE IN ARMENIA
ASHTARAK. - Ashtarak police received an alarm on Friday that an unknown drunk man stopped two vehicles on the road, attacked on drivers with cane, threatened and took away 18 cattles, which were in the ...ARMENIA'S PARLIAMENT CHAIRMAN, PM TO BE DETERMINED ON MAY 29-30
YEREVAN. - The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Executive Body session will be convened on May 29-30, RPA Press Secretary Eduard Sharmazanov told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
He noted that they will discuss ...STATE DEPARTMENT UNDERMINES PROSPECTS FOR NEGOTIATED SOLUTION TO KARABAKH CONFLICT - ANCA
The State Department, in its recently released annual report on human rights, undermined prospects for a negotiated settlement of the very status and security issues it is helping to mediate regarding ...ARMENIA'S EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE HELPS 5 PEOPLE DURING "LAST BELL" EVENTS
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Emergency Medical Assistance Service was not too busy in connection with Friday's "Last Bell" festivities—which herald the end of the school year—Service Director Taguhi ...ARMENIAN PM RECEIVES US NECO DELEGATION
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Premier Tigran Sargsyan received a delegation led by Chairman Nasser Kazeminy of the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) of the United States.
"The directions which ...ARMENIA'S URBAN DEVELOPMENT MINISTER WILL RESIGN, TOO
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Urban Development Minister Vardan Vardanyan—who is a passing third in the Prosperous Armenia Party's (PAP) proportional election list and who headed the PAP Campaign Headquarters ...AZERBAIJAN VIOLATES CEASEFIRE 250 TIMES PAST WEEK
STEPANAKERT. - The adversary violated the ceasefire, at the line of contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces, more than 250 times in the past week, during which over 1,300 shots were fired ...HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT IN NO WAY PREJUDGES OUTCOME OF KARABAKH NEGOTIATIONS - US EMBASSY
YEREVAN.- U.S. Embassy in Armenia responded to the remarks on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue included in State Department's 2011 Human Rights Report.
"The language describing Nagorno-Karabakh in the 2011 ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT BESTOWS STATE AWARDS, TITLES
YEREVAN. - By the decree of Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan, and in connection with the Republic Day, state awards and titles have been bestowed upon several representatives of the domains of science, ...GEORGIA MARKS INDEPENDENCE DAY
TBILISI. - Georgia celebrates its Independence Day on Saturday. It was on this day in 1918 that the Democratic Republic of Georgia was declared. And for the first time ever, the traditional military ...EXPLOSION AT GAS PUMPING STATION IN ARMENIA'S VANADZOR
VANADZOR. - A blast occurred at dawn on Saturday at a natural gas pumping station in Armenia's Vanadzor City.
The gas tank of a VAZ 21103, which belonged to Armen Simonyan, exploded at the pumping station, ...25 ARMENIAN YOUTH ENHANCE THEIR KNOWLEDGE IN "APPLIED POLITICAL SCIENCE"
YEREVAN. - The completion certificates of the participants in the "Applied Political Science" study course were officially presented in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, on Saturday. The course was organized ...ARMENIA TO ASSUME CHAIRMANSHIP OF COE MINISTERS' COMMITTEE NEXT YEAR
The 122nd regular session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) was convened in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday, during which UK transferred CoE chairmanship to Albania.
The ...
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Today in Armenian history- 451 Battle of Avarair (or Vardanants). Vartan Mamikonyan dies defending the Armenians right to their Christian faith against the attacking Zoroastrian Persians.
- 1857 Birth of Siranoosh (actress). She died in 1932.
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