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Headlines for June 06, 2012KARABAKH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO RETURN REPUBLIC TO NEGOTIATION TABLE
STEPANAKERT. - On the eve of presidential elections the domestic political situation in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) is peaceful, hero of Karabakh War, presidential candidate Vitaly Balasanyan told ...GOLD RUSH IN ARMENIA - PARTY LEADER ALSO SEARCHES FOR GOLD
YEREVAN. - Large scaled searches for gold are being conducted in Armenia. According to the official website of the Armenian Government, as of May 1 licenses have been issued for conducted gold mining ...DEAL ON SELLING MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO AZERBAIJAN DISCUSSED IN US - EURASIANET
Armenian News-NEWS.am presents excerpts of the article by Joshua Kutcher posted on EurasiaNet.org.The U.S. State Department is considering allowing a sale of military equipment to Azerbaijan, which is ...DOES ARMENIA BENEFIT WHEN CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATE GOES DOWN?
YEREVAN. - No one will get surprised by the exchange rate fluctuations in the Armenian financial market. But the tendencies of the last month exceed any expectations. After May 6 US dollar went up by ...ARMENIAN DIASPORA MINISTER'S ADVISER TO SUE NETHERLANDS RESIDENT FOR LIBEL
YEREVAN. - Reports that Armenian Diaspora Minister's adviser in the Netherlands Smbat Martirosyan collects 80 euro from participants of the Come Home project are false, the Ministry's secretary Tevos ...ANNIHILATION OF THREE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN OTTOMAN EMPIRE "HOMOGENIZING" PROCESS
Assyrian information agency AINA took an interview from the founder of the Gomidas Institute in London Ara Sarafian, who deals with promoting and disseminating research and scholarship on modern Armenian ...WILL ARMENIAN AMERICAN PEDOPHILE BUSINESSMAN APPLY TO EUROPEAN COURT?
Armenian American businessman Serob Ter-Poghosyan, who has been sentenced for 15 years imprisonment for pedophilia charges, had applied to the Court of Appeals but his appeal was rejected, Ter-Poghsoyan's ...ARMENIAN SOLDIER, WHO WAS KILLED BY AZERBAIJANIS, WAS TO RETURN HOME IN 5 DAYS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Zohrab Balabekyan—who was one of the three Armenian military servicemen who were killed as a result of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces' cease-fire violation and diversion operations on Monday ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION PARTY LEADER WILL HEAD TO BRUSSELS, US - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenia's opposition Republic Party leader Aram Sargsyan, who recently returned from Brussels, again will soon head for Brussels and US, where he will have several meetings with political circles, ...ARMENIAN PARTY LEADER MEDIATES FOR HIS DEPUTY FOR MINISTERIAL SPOT - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenia's National Unity (NU) Party Vice-Chairman Alexander Karapetyan is manifesting aspirations for the Urban Development Minister's job. Several months ago, he was appointed Deputy Minister ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY MEMBERS UNOFFICIALLY CONFIRM RESIGNATION OF PARTY LEADER'S SPOKESPERSON - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan's spokesperson Khachik Galstyan yet again went underground on Tuesday, Haykakan Zhamanak daily writes.
"The PAP members, who, until ...WIKILEAKS TO DISCLOSE NEW DOCUMENTS ON ARMENIA'S POLITICS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Zhamanak daily's Washington, DC correspondent, who has active contacts with US officials and public activists, was able to find out that WikiLeaks could soon disclose new documents on Armenia's ...ARMENIA'S NEW GOVERNMENT TO BE FORMED NEXT WEEK - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The new Government of Armenia will be completely formed next week, and, at that time, it also could introduce its program for the National Assembly's (NA) approval, Haykakan Zhamanak daily ...ARMENIAN-JAPANESE TIES HAVE GROWN
YEREVAN. - Armenia's FM Edward Nalbandian, who is in Tokyo as part of the delegation led by the President, on Wednesday met with Japan's Deputy PM Katsuya Okada.
The interlocutors highly assessed the ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY LEADER'S PRESS SECRETARY QUITS
YEREVAN. - Prosperous Armenia Party Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan's press secretary Khachik Galstyan has resigned.
"As of [Wednesday] June 6, I formally quit from my duties as spokesperson of Prosperous Armenia ...ARMENIA'S JANUARY-MAY BUDGET REVENUE SURPASSES LAST YEAR'S INDICATOR
YEREVAN. - In line with the first five months of 2012, Armenia's State Revenue Committee (SRC) has provided to the state budget taxes, duties and fees totaling AMD 322,756,000,000.
This surpasses last ...ARMENIAN CENTRAL BANK SAYS NATIONAL CURRENCY'S DEVALUATION IS DUE TO EUROPE'S DEBT PROBLEMS
YEREVAN. - The deepening uncertainties, with respect to the political solutions to European Union's key debt problems, have resulted in the US dollar's sharp increase against the currencies of Armenia's ...ARMENIA RULED BY SEMI-CONSOLIDATED AUTHORITARIAN REGIME - FREEDOM HOUSE
Armenia has semi-consolidated authoritarian regime, says newly released Freedom House's repot Nations in Transit 2012.
Nations in Transit is Freedom House's comprehensive, comparative study of democratic ...TURKEY REBUFFS US CALL ON NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA
Turkey rejected on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's calls for Ankara to normalize ties with Armenia, noting that a ruling by Armenia's Constitutional Court is the main obstacle to a thaw, Hurriyet ...ARMENIA'S HERITAGE PARTY TO HAVE OWN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
YEREVAN. - In all likelihood, Armenia's opposition Heritage Party will have its own nominee in the 2013 presidential elections, Heritage member and former MP Armen Martirosyan stated during a press conference ...HERITAGE IN GOOD RELATIONS WITH FREE DEMOCRATS PARTY
YEREVAN.- Heritage is in good relations with Free Democrats party, Heritage member Armen Maritorisyan told reporters on Wednesday.
As to advantaged and disadvantages of cooperation with Free Democrats, ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT VISITS JAPANESE PARLIAMENT
YEREVAN. - Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan, who is in Japan on an official visit, on Wednesday met with Speaker Takahiro Yokomichi of the Japanese House of Representatives.
The interlocutors congratulated ...ELECTIONS ARE CAUSE BEHIND ARMENIAN NATIONAL CURRENCY'S DEPRECIATION - EXPERT
YEREVAN. - Armenia's political processes affected the currency exchange rate in the country, former Central Bank Chairman Bagrat Asatryan said during a press conference on Wednesday.
In his words, cash ...IT IS NORMAL THAT ARMENIA'S PM IS REAPPOINTED, BUT… - FORMER CENTRAL BANK CHAIRMAN
YEREVAN. - Tigran Sargsyan's reappointment as Armenia's Premier will not have any substantial impact on the country's economic and political system, former Central Bank Chairman Bagrat Asatryan stated ...AZERBAIJAN FIRES SHOTS TOWARD ARMENIAN VILLAGE
YEREVAN. - Azerbaijan yet again violated the ceasefire, at the line of contact between the Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces, this time at the northeastern sector again and in the early morning hours ...THOSE WANTED IN RUSSIA ARE DETAINED IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Armenia's police officers took under custody Vladimir Hakobyan, 33, nearby a downtown Yerevan building, on Tuesday at 7:30pm. He was wanted by the law enforcement of the Russia's Moscow Oblast ...GYUMRI MAN PREPARES NARCOTIC FOR PERSONAL USE
YEREVAN. - Officers from Armenia's Police detained, near a Gyumri city building on Tuesday at 9:10, a 25-year-old man and on suspicion of possessing a narcotic. A syringe with a yellow liquid was found ...FIVE PEOPLE INJURED IN FIVE ACCIDENTS IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Mercedes vehicle ran over an old man on Aram Khachatryan and Papazyan crossroads in Yerevan on Tuesday.On the same day, Toyota ran over an old man in Ohanov Street in Yerevan, police informs.VAZ ...HILLARY CLINTON ARRIVES IN AZERBAIJAN
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Azerbaijan.
In the course of her visit Clinton will hold meetings with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and representatives of civil society. Secretary ...AZERBAIJANI DIVERSION OPERATION AT NKR BORDER
STEPANAKERT. - An Azerbaijani intelligence-diversion unit yet again attempted to infiltrate to a Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army military position stationed along the line of contact between ...ARMENIAN MFA SO FAR SILENT ON WHETHER EDWARD NALBANDIAN WILL PARTICIPATE IN ISTANBUL MEETING OF BSEC
YEREVAN.- Armenian Foreign Ministry neither confirmed nor refuted reports on likelihood of Minister Edward Nalbandian's participation in the upcoming meeting of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC).
"Armenia's ...WE HAVE SMALL CLASS OF WEALTHY, LARGE CLASS OF POOR - ARMENIAN PM
There is a small class of wealthy and a large class of poor in Armenia, Premier Tigran Sargsyan stated in Brussels while responding to the questions posed by foreign journalists.
"Whereas the engine ...OSCE CHAIRPERSON-IN-OFFICE TO VISIT ARMENIA
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore, will travel to Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan next week to meet government leaders, representatives ...WHAT LINK IS THERE BETWEEN FIGHTING CORRUPTION, ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS? - PREMIER SARGSYAN EXPLAINS
On the one hand, Armenia is under a blockade by Turkey and Azerbaijan, and, on the other hand, the international sanctions against Iran hinder the diversification of our economy, Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan ...WHO WILL BE PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY LEADER'S NEW PRESS SECRETARY?
YEREVAN. - Either Vahan Babayan or Tigran Ulikhanyan will be designated press secretary of Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan, informed sources told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
They ...REMITTANCES ARE ESSENTIAL FOR ARMENIA - PRIME MINISTER
Remittances are essential for Armenia, Premier Tigran Sargsyan stated in Brussels while responding to the questions posed by foreign journalists.
He noted that Armenia's population is three million, ...TURKEY TRAINS AZERBAIJANI SABOTEURS
YEREVAN. - Azerbaijani recent provocations coincided with the visits of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and high ranking military officials from Turkey, expert Artsrun Hovhannisyan said at a press ...TURKEY DOES NOT NEED TOURISTS FROM ISRAEL - ERDOGAN
Turkey does not need Israeli tourists. The number of tourists totaled 31 million last year.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said about it answering the question of the Israeli journalist of ...AZERBAIJAN LINKS BORDER INCIDENTS TO SENIOR OFFICIALS' VISITS - ARMENIAN ANALYST
YEREVAN. - Azerbaijan links the border incidents to high-level officials' visits, Caucasus Institute Deputy Director, political analyst Sergey Minasyan said during a press conference on Wednesday.
In ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT, JAPANESE PM POINT AT INTENSIFICATION OF POLITICAL DIALOGUE (PHOTO)
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda discussed possibility of development of bilateral relations and cooperation in different fields.
The sides stressed that since ...TURKISH MILITARY OFFICIALS' TRIP TO AZERBAIJAN CONDITIONED BY IRANIAN FACTOR - EXPERT
YEREVAN.- The visit of Turkey's military leadership to Baku is conditioned by Iranian rather than Armenian factor, Armenian political analyst Sergey Minasyan said.
"The visit of Turkish top military officials ...NATO NOT TO INTERVENE IN SYRIAN CONFLICT
NATO doesn't believe that military intervention in Syria is capable of resolving Syrian crisis. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said during the videoconference Moscow-Brussels organized by ...DOLLAR SEEMS "INVINCIBLE" IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - The US dollar's exchange rate is continuing its "triumphant campaign" in Armenia's financial market.
The dollar's average exchange rate against the Armenian dram (AMD) hit a new record, at ...HOLY SEE DISCUSSES PR IN CYBERSPACE
ETCHMIADZIN. - Holy See of Etchmiadzin launched on Wednesday the fifth congress, with the participation of representatives of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia and the Armenian Patriarch ...ARMENIAN NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL HEAD LEAVES FOR RUSSIA
YEREVAN. - Delegation led by the head of the Armenian National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan left for Russia to participate in the June 6-8 international conference for the high ranking officials ...ARMENIA FIND IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIONS WITH CHINA - ARMENIAN SPEAKER
YEREVAN. - Newly appointed Armenian Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan received on Wednesday Chinese Ambassador to Armenia Tian Changchun.
The Ambassador believes that bilateral relations with be more strengthened ...CLINTON HAS NOT TOUCHED UPON IRANIAN ISSUE IN YEREVAN - EXPERT
YEREVAN. - It is symbolic that the U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not touch upon the Iran issue in Yerevan, expert Sergey Minasyan told the journalists on Wednesday.
"It was quite clear that ...AZERBAIJAN BLACKMAILS ARMENIA, NO NEW WAR OVER KARABAKH POSSIBLE - EXPERT
YEREVAN. - No need to expect new war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Armenian expert Alexander Iskandaryan told the journalists on Wednesday.
"A country preparing to war is getting ready in other way, ...VIOLENCE IN FRONT LINE MUST BE STOPPED - HILLARY CLINTON
YEREVAN. - The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned incidents in the line of contact, APA agency reports.
"This violence must be stopped. In my meeting with the Azerbaijani President I said ...ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI FMS TO BE OFFERED NEW APPROACH TO SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH CONFLICT
During the coming meeting Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers will be offered new approach to the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Baku.
"We want ...TURKEY CONCERNED OVER TENSION IN RELATIONS BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN
Turkey expresses concern over the fact that tension in relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan may shift to the common border between the states.
Turkey is decisive to continue making efforts for full ...NO MILITARY SOLUTION TO KARABAKH CONFLICT - FRENCH MFA
France, as a co-chairing state of the OSCE Minsk Group, expressed its deep concern over the violent incidents on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan resulted in killings of eight soldiers over the ...ARMENIAN POLICE CHIEF RECEIVES HEAD OF CIS BUREAU AGAINST ORGANIZED CRIME
YEREVAN. - Armenian Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan received a delegation led by head of CIS bureau against organized crime Nikolay Ovchinnikov on Wednesday.
Nikolay Ovchinnikov reported about the work ...HILLARY CLINTON LEAVES BAKU
YEREVAN. - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Azerbaijan is over. As APA agency reports, the State Secretary has already left Baku.
Clinton conducted a regional visit to the South Caucasus. ...IRAN RE-ELECTS SPEAKER
Ali Larijani is re-elected Iran's Speaker, as majority of the MPs supported his candidacy in the Tuesday elections, Associated Press reports.The famous critic to the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received ...OMBUDSMAN OFFICE OPENS IN ARMENIAN VANADZOR (PHOTO)
VANADZOR. - For already two months a regional office of the Armenian Human Rights Defender is operating in Vanadzor city. The official opening ceremony of the office took place on Wednesday.The head of ...AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION MASTER RAY BRADBURY DIES
American science-fiction and fantasy master Ray Bradbury, 91, died in California, AP reports quoting his daughter's message.
Bradbury's first success was the Martian Chronicles short story collection. ...ARMENIA MUST RESPOND EQUIVALENTLY TO PREVENT AZERBAIJAN'S DREAMS - FORMER FM
YEREVAN. - The recent events on the Armenian - Azerbaijani border line are rather concerning, especially given the fact that the representative of one of the mediator countries on the Karabakh conflict ...YOUNG CHECHEN SENTENCED FOR KILLING ARMENIAN ATHLETE
Charges are brought against a young man for killing Armenian athlete Yuri Garanyan in Sochi, Russia. The article provides from 6 to 15 years in jail.
The defendant is a previously convicted Chechen 22-year-old ...IRAN DEMANDS COMPENSATION FOR FAILED DEAL ON S-300 MISSILES FROM RUSSIA
TEHRAN. - Iran demands Russia to compensate for the unfulfilled contract on the supplement of anti-aircraft missile systems S-300, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced.The amount of the contract ...KARL LAGERFELD'S CAT HAS NANNIES AND LEARNS TO USE IPAD
Karl Lagerfeld, the single and childless creative director of Chanel Fashion House continues to indulge his favorite Siamese cat named Choupette. He has hired nannies for the cat.Karl's favorite model ...CANNES AWARD WINNER TO PLAY HANNIBAL LECTER
NBC selected Cannes Festival award winning 'most dangerous murderer' Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen to play the role of Hannibal Lecter. This will be the Danish actor's debut on the US TV-channel.Mikkelsen ...US PRESIDENT INTERESTED IN RELATIVE STABILITY ON SOUTH CAUCASUS PRIOR TO ELECTIONS - WESTERN EXPERT
The key message of the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the South Caucasus visit was to prevent increase of tension in the region, Western expert Mark Meirowitz said in an interview with ...ARMENIAN PM RECEIVES RULING COALITION
YEREVAN. - Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan received the representatives of the parties participating in the ruling coalition: Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and Orinats Yerkir Party on Wednesday.As the ...ANOTHER DIVERSION OF AZERBAIJAN AGAINST ARMENIA CAUSES CASUALTIES TO OPPONENT
YEREVAN. - Azerbaijani side launched another diversion operation near Armenia's Jambarak region on the Armenian-Azerbaijani line of the contact at 5.00 p.m. on Wednesday.
The Armenian side adverse and ...YOUNG DRIVER IS MURDERED IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - A young driver of Yerevan public transportation number 5 route was murdered near a Star Supermarket in Yerevan's Avan District on Wednesday at around 8.30-9.00 p.m., sources informed Armenian ...KARABAKH PRESIDENT DISCUSSES CONTACT LINE SITUATION WITH OSCE ENVOY
STEPANAKERT. - Nagorno-Karabakh [Artsakh] President Bako Sahakyan received on Wednesday the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the Karabakh conflict, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.The ...CLINTON'S WORDS PROVE PREVIOUS APPROACHES ON KARABAKH WERE UNREALISTIC
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to the South Caucasus region stirred up the expert circles of the countries in the region, became the reason for a variety of assessments, opinions and commentaries, ...
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