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Published on July 10, 2012
ARMENIA'S DEFENSE MINISTER DISCUSSES BILATERAL MILITARY COOPERATION WITH UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR (PHOTO)
YEREVAN. - Armenian Minister of Defense, Seyran Ohanyan, on Tuesday received Ukrainian Ambassador Ivan Kukhta.
During the subsequent meeting the interlocutors discussed the current course of—and the prospects for—bilateral military cooperation, and regional security issues of mutual interest, MOD press service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.
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Headlines for July 10, 2012SOMEONE BENEFITS FROM INCIDENTS ON ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI BORDER - EXPERT
YEREVAN. - The OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier's visit to the South Caucasus region will bring no new principal results, former MP of the Nagorno-Karabakh Parliament, expert, general editor of ...ARMENIA TO INCREASE AGE REQUIREMENT FOR MARRIAGE
YEREVAN. - Men and women in Armenia must get married at the same age: 19 years old. Armenia's Ministry of Justice presented a bill on making changes in the Family Code to the Government.The bill will ...ARMENIA TO PRODUCE OWN MINING EXPLOSIVES INSTEAD OF TURKISH
YEREVAN. - Aparaj Mining Company applied for a license on producing explosives in Armenia.The issue is included on the agenda of the Government seating scheduled for Thursday. The license will be given ...NAÏVE DIASPORA ARMENIAN THINKS YEREVAN MAYOR WOULD HONOR HIS WORD - FRENCH-ARMENIAN BUSINESSWOMAN - NEWSPAPER
1YEREVAN. - Parisian Coffee Company's former owner, French-Armenian businesswoman Valerie-Ashkhen Gortzounian still awaits capital city Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan to keep his promise to the effect that ...ARMENIAN VILLAGE HEAD IS ELECTED WITH "CONSENT" OF CRIMINAL PERSONALITY IMPRISONED IN RUSSIA - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Although serving prefect and ruling Republican Party of Armenia member Rafik Stepanyan is reelected into office at Pshatavan village of the Armavir Region, the elections here were very heated, ...ARMENIAN RULING PARTY CENTRAL OFFICE IS UNDER RENOVATION - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Central Office has moved to Party's Central Community building, 168 Zham daily writes. "Party vice chairmen and all other persons in charge have moved ...DON'T MAKE A HERO OUT OF SUICIDE VICTIMS! - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The World Health Organization has designed special directions for the media coverage of suicides, Hayatsk daily writes, quoting psychologist, Associate Professor Karo Vardanyan, who is Armenia's ...OPPOSITION MP TO LEAD ARMENIA'S DELEGATION AT EURONEST? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Even though Armenian National Assembly's (NA) international delegations are formed and their leaders are decided, the matter of Euronest delegation's leader remains partly debatable, Irates ...ARMENIAN BUSINESSMAN MPS' SERVICE VEHICLES' OWNERS ARE FINED - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Police fined AMD 100,000 (approx. US$ 237), each, the owners of the two Rolls Royce registered under businessman MP Ruben Hayrapetyan's name and serving another businessman MP, Samvel ...MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS KICK OFF VISIT TO KARABAKH CONFLICT REGION
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Robert Bradtke (US), Igor Popov (Russia), and Jacques Faure (France) will pay a visit to the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) conflict zone between Tuesday and Thursday.This time the visit ...FIRE STARTS AT YEREVAN HOTEL
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Rescue Service received a call, on Tuesday at 7:56am, informing that a fire had started at the rooftop of capital city Yerevan's Prague Hotel. Two firefighting squads were dispatched ...GENOCIDE BILL TO BE INTRODUCED IN FRANCE THIS FALL
PARIS. - The French Government will "introduce in fall" the draft law which criminalizes Armenian Genocide's denial, Co-Chair Franck Papazian of the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations of France ...ARF DASHNAKTSUTYUN GOVERNING BODY'S NEW MEMBERS ARE ANNOUNCED
YEREVAN. - Armenian opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party Supreme Body's (SB) newly-elect members comprise ARF National Assembly Faction leader Armen Rustamyan, ARF MPs Artsvik Minasyan and Aghvan Vardanyan, ...TOM CRUISE AND KATIE HOLMES AGREE ON TERMS OF DIVORCE
Hollywood star couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have reached an initial agreement on the case of divorce and physical custody of a six-year daughter Suri. The sides are satisfied with the agreement. ...3 CANDIDATES TO RUN IN NKR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Three nominees will contend in the presidential elections to be held in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). Monday was the deadline for submitting presidential-candidacy-withdrawal petitions, and the ...ARMENIAN DESIGNER PRESENTS FALL-WINTER 2012 COLLECTION IN MOSCOW (PHOTOS)
The presentation of the 10th collection of Armenian designer Varduhi Nazaryan took place in Moscow. A number of celebrities attended the event. Varduhi's each dress clearly traced the distinctive features ...CLOSE TO 100 ARMENIAN PUBLIC SERVANTS UNDERWENT MEDICAL-INSURANCE-BASED HEART SURGERIES SINCE BEGINNING OF 2012
YEREVAN. - Ever since the beginning of 2012, around one-hundred Armenian public servants underwent heart surgeries along the lines of medical insurance, Armenian Civil Service Council Chairman Manvel ...ARMED SOLDIER TAKES HOSTAGES IN KINDERGARTEN IN FRANCE
An unknown person broke into a kindergarten after Charles Perro and took some hostages not far from Paris in Vitry-sur-Seine on Tuesday. The criminal took several children and elderly as hostage, but ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT LEADER WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH YEREVAN RESTAURANT INQUIRY
YEREVAN. - Armenia's National Assembly (NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan will not intervene in the operations conducted by the country's law enforcement. Abrahamyan responded to the letter—which was ...EIGHT ARMENIANS KILLED IN RUSSIA FLOOD
The number of Armenians killed in Russian flood has reached eight. The list issued by the administration of Krymsk region of Krasnodar Krai contains five Armenian names: Susanna Boghokiyan, Zaven Dovdyan ...STEPAN SAFARYAN TO RUN FOR MP SEAT IN HAYRAPETYAN'S PRECINCT
YEREVAN.- Member of Heritage party Stepan Safaryan will run for a parliamentary seat in #1 precinct, he told reporters on Tuesday. Safaryan said unless Republican Party member Ruben Hayrapetyan changes ...ARMENIAN COMPULSORY ENFORCEMENT SERVICE CONFISCATES MORE AMOUNTS - SERVICE CHIEF
YEREVAN. - Armenian Justice Ministry's Compulsory Enforcement Service of Judicial Orders seized AMD 7.1 billion (approx. US$ 16,824,820) in the first six months of 2012, Service Chief Mihran Poghosyan ...ARMENIA'S FORMER OPPOSITION MP CONSIDERS WAR'S RESUMPTION IMPROBABLE
YEREVAN. - The escalation of tension at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in June has created an imperative for the international community to keep the unsettled conflicts manageable, opposition Heritage ...ARMENIAN MP QUESTIONED IN CASE OF HARSNAQAR RESTAURANT INCIDENT
YEREVAN.- Armenian MP Ruben Hayrapetyan was questioned in the case of Harsnaqar Restaurant incident. General Department of Investigation division chief Arsen Ayvazyan said the argument broke out between ...HARSNAQAR INCIDENT SHOWS THAT ARMENIAN CITIZENS ARE UNPROTECTED - ARFD
YEREVAN. - The Harsnaqar restaurant incident is a link of a chain of events which exhausted patience of the Armenian society, member of ARF Dashnaktsutyun Armen Rustamyan told reporters on Tuesday. He ...ARMENIA'S DEFENSE MINISTER DISCUSSES BILATERAL MILITARY COOPERATION WITH UKRAINE'S AMBASSADOR (PHOTO)
YEREVAN. - Armenian Minister of Defense, Seyran Ohanyan, on Tuesday received Ukrainian Ambassador Ivan Kukhta. During the subsequent meeting the interlocutors discussed the current course of—and ...ARMENIA EXPORTS 8,430 TONS OF APRICOT SO FAR THIS YEAR
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetyan on Tuesday held a consultation, with representatives from the country's main fruit and vegetable exporting companies, to examine export-related ...NO PRESSURE CAN BE APPLIED ON AGENCY LOOKING INTO YEREVAN RESTAURANT INCIDENT - INVESTIGATOR
YEREVAN. - No pressure was and can be applied on the investigative agency looking into the Harsnaqar Restaurant incident, Armenia's Police General Department of Investigation division chief Arsen Ayvazyan ...6-YEAR-OLD HIT BY CAR IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN - Mercedes C 180 hit a 6-year-old boy on Gai Avenue in Yerevan on Monday at 3.30pm. The boy was injured and transferred to hospital by the driver. On the same day a car accident occurred on Yerevan's ...JOINT ANTI-CORRUPTION AWARENESS PROGRAM TO LAUNCH AT YEREVAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
YEREVAN. - US Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern and Deputy PM and Territorial Administration Minister Armen Gevorgyan on Thursday will formally launch the Anti-Corruption Awareness Program at the departure ...16-YEAR-OLD BOY DROWNS IN ARMENIA'S LAKE SEVAN
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Emergency Situations Ministry received information, on Tuesday at 2:15pm, that while on duty at Lake Sevan the special water-rescue squad noticed a person drowning near a beach. ...ARMENIA HOLDS TALKS WITH GAZPROM ON GAS PRICE
YEREVAN.- Armenia is holding talks with Russia's Gazprom on gas price supplied to the country. Spokesperson for Armenian Energy Minister Lusine Harutunyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am that additional information ...2-YEAR-OLD BOY IS POISONED IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Emergency Situations Ministry received a call from the emergency service hotline, on Tuesday at 2:16pm, informing that capital city Yerevan resident Levon Gevorgyan, 2, was taken ...DOLLAR SHARPLY FALLS IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - The US dollar's exchange rate began losing ground in Armenia's financial market, and it is weakening as quickly as it was gaining strength in the country. So, the US currency's average exchange ...ARMENIAN NATIONAL CARRIER PREFERS AIRBUS AND BOEING TO SUPERJET
Armenian national carrier Armavia said it plans to purchase Airbus and Boeing airliners. Representatives of Armavia met with counterparts from both producers during the Farnborough International Airshow ...AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENT RECEIVES MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS
BAKU. - Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday received OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Robert Bradtke (US), Igor Popov (Russia) and Jacques Faure (France), and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, ...ARMENIAN BRANDY TO BE BOTTLED IN BELARUS
MINSK. - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko launched the first line of bottling Armenian Brandy in Belarus. On Tuesday he participated in the solemn ceremony of launching the 'Armenian standard" ...OSCE HEAD TO VISIT ARMENIA
YEREVAN.- OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier will pay an official visit to Armenia at the invitation of Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian.During the visit scheduled for July 11-13, Zannier will hold ...MEETING OF ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTS NOT PLANNED
Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Igor Popov said the meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders had not been planned so far. According to him, after the OSCE MG co-chairs visit the region, the meeting ...ARMENIAN CITIZEN WINS CASE AGAINST STATE IN EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
YEREVAN. - On Tuesday the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made a verdict on the Grigoryan vs. Armenia case and satisfied the claim of Vahe Grigoryan's lawyer. The ECHR decided that by arresting ...ARMENIAN NEWSPAPER EDITOR SUES ‘VICTIM' FOR DEFAMATION
YEREVAN. - The editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) newspaper Hayk Gevorgyan has appealed the decision of the investigation officer to quash the criminal case filed against him. Earlier ...SCANDALOUS PRESIDENT OF ARMENIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION AND FORMER MP SUED BY NGO
YEREVAN. - The Court of First Jurisdiction of Yerevan City Center and Nork Marash Districts put into procedure the Sakunts vs. Hayrapetyan case. The lawsuit was filed because on May 26, 2012, scandalous ...ALLOWING MARRIAGE AT AGE OF 18 IN ARMENIA IS POSITIVE TREND - SEXOLOGIST
YEREVAN. - From a physiological point of view the bill stating marriage age for men and women in Armenia to be 18 is a rather positive tendency, sexologist Vrezh Shahramanyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am. Sexual ...RUSSIAN DIRECTOR DREAMS TO SHOOT FILM IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Russian film director Natalia Belyauskene , whose If all film was selected in the Panorama Armenia competition program of the Armenian Golden Apricot film festival, hopes to film her next movie ...PRESENTATION OF SERJ TANKIAN'S THIRD ALBUM TAKES PLACE IN BURBANK (VIDEO)
BURBANK. - The presentation of Serj Tankian's Harakiri third solo album took place in Burbank. The presentation took place at Records Boutique Store on Monday. During the presentation Tankian answered ...ARMENIAN POLICE CHIEF MEETS IRANIAN INTERIOR MINISTER
YEREVAN. - Armenian Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan received Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar on Tuesday. Najjar is in Armenia on an official visit. After welcoming his guest Vladimir ...
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