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ARMENIA'S NATIONAL CARRIER LAUNCHES SECOND WEEKLY FLIGHT TO SYRIA
YEREVAN. - Armavia Airline Company, which is Armenia's national carrier, formally announced that, with the assistance by Armenia's Government and Diaspora Ministry, it is ready to start a second weekly flight to and Syria.
The Company also informed that in this case the plane tickets will be virtually free of charge, just as it was during the events in Lebanon years ago.
Earlier, a group of activists from Armenia's civil initiatives held a protest Wednesday in front of Armavia Airline Company's—which is Armenia's national carrier—central office in the capital, Yerevan. The demonstrators were protesting against Armavia's increasing of the prices of the Aleppo-Yerevan and Yerevan-Aleppo flight tickets.
Syrian-Armenians also complained about high ticket prices.
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Headlines for July 26, 2012AMERICAN SENATOR CONSIDERS HISTORICAL DATA ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CLEAR AND UNDENIABLE - MACOMB DAILY
Armenian News-NEWS.am presents an article of Mitch Kehetian published in The Macomb Daily with some extractions. Many who served the public as elected officials, including leaders from the Democratic ...DIPLOMATIC CONFLICT TO BURST OUT BETWEEN ARMENIA AND ARGENTINA - LA NACION
BUENOS AYRES. - The visit of the Secretary of Domestic Trade of Argentina Guillermo Moreno to deepen trade relations with exotic states will be quite expensive for the local government. A new diplomatic ...KANYE WEST TO MAKE PROPOSAL TO KIM KARDASHIAN
Divorce process of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries lasted longer than she expected. But once she gets divorced she may be engaged and marry once again, HollywoodNews.com reports quoting RadarOnline. It ...FIRE CASES INCREASED IN ARMENIA'S LORI (PHOTO)
VANADZOR. - Total of 332 alarms of fire was registered during the first term of this year, as compared to 65 alarms at the same period last year. Only 315 cases, however, were fire alarms, while the rest ...CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES TO ENSUE ARMENIA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Following Armenia's presidential elections in 2013, they probably will set out to carry out constitutional changes and a referendum to replace presidential governance with parliamentary, Hraparak ...ARMENIA'S REPRESENTATIVE AT NEW WAVE SONG CONTEST IS CURRENTLY 8TH (PHOTOS)
Musician and singer Suren Arustamyan, who represents Armenia at the "New Wave 2012" Song Contest final being held in Jūrmala, Latvia, from Tuesday of Sunday, is in eighth place as a result of the first-day ...THERE ARE NO, AND HAVE NOT BEEN ANY, SEPARATIST SENTIMENTS IN SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETI - ARMENIA'S AMBASSADOR TO GEORGIA
TBILISI. - Armenia wishes to see Georgia's Armenian community as a unique bridge which unites and strengthens the two peoples' friendship, Armenia's Ambassador to Georgia, Hovhannes Manukyan, told News.ge. ...ARMENIAN IN ISTANBUL KILLS TURK FOR SEXUALLY HARASSING HIS GIRLFRIEND
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TBILISI. - Georgia's neutrality in the Karabakh conflict issue is the more effective position, Armenia's Ambassador to Georgia, Hovhannes Manukyan, told News.ge. He recalled that the OSCE Minsk Group ...HUGE CAR ACCIDENT ON YEREVAN-GYUMRI MOTORWAY
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Rescue Service received a call, on Thursday at 3:32am, informing that a traffic accident had occurred on the Yerevan-Gyumri Highway, and rescuers were needed. A firefighting squad ...RESIDENTS OF AZERBAIJANI BORDER VILLAGES ATTACK WITH STICKS THEIR OWN SNIPERS
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Over the last seven months the number Azerbaijan's violations of ceasefire with Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh is close to 11 thousand. The representative of the Chief Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, ...ARMENIAN VILLAGER WOUNDED BY AZERBAIJANI SNIPER IS RECOVERING
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YEREVAN.- An Azerbaijani serviceman crossed the border with Armenia last night and was captured by the Armenian side. Soldier of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, citizen of Azerbaijan Firuz Faragov crossed ...ARMENIA FACILITATES CITIZENSHIP PROCESS FOR SYRIAN, LEBANESE ARMENIANS
YEREVAN. - Upon the suggestion by Armenia's Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan, the country's Government adopted a decision Thursday toward facilitating the procedure for the foreign nationals' being ...8-9% GROWTH EXPECTED IN ARMENIA'S AGRICULTURE - MINISTER
YEREVAN. - An 8-9-percent agricultural growth is expected in Armenia by the year's end, Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetyan stated during a press conference on Thursday. Presenting the results for ...ARMENIAN VILLAGE DRAW OSCE REPRESENTATIVES' ATTENTION TO CONSTANT FIRE BY AZERBAIJANI SIDE
Constant fire by the Azerbaijani side complicates work in the fields for the residents of the Armenian border villages, heads of the local communities told the OSCE representatives. Personal Representative ...WHEN DO ARMENIA'S RESIDENTS CONSULT WITH SEXOLOGISTS?
YEREVAN. - There is considerable progress in Armenia in terms of sex education. In the case when solely city residents used to consult with sexologists ten years ago, now there are many from faraway regions, ...ARMENIA'S NATIONAL CARRIER LAUNCHES SECOND WEEKLY FLIGHT TO SYRIA
YEREVAN. - Armavia Airline Company, which is Armenia's national carrier, formally announced that, with the assistance by Armenia's Government and Diaspora Ministry, it is ready to start a second weekly ...ARMENIA HAS NEW MILITARY POLICE CHIEF (PHOTO)
YEREVAN. - Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on Thursday signed a decree, whereby Colonel Samvel Ghukasyan is appointed Military Police Chief of the Rep. of Armenia Ministry of Defense. With this order, ...ARMENIA'S NATIONAL AIRLINE CARRIER TRIES TO MAKE MONEY ON SYRIAN ARMENIANS' ACCOUNT?
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Diaspora Ministry is helping the Syrian Armenians who wish to return to and settle in the Motherland, Syrian-Armenian poet Dikran Kapoyan stated during a press conference on Thursday. He ...WHAT TO EAT IN SUMMER?
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YEREVAN. - The Government's conclusions on Prosperous Armenia Party MP Samvel Balasanyan's legislative proposals were publicized during Thursday's Cabinet meeting. The Deputy had submitted five bills, ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY TO NOMINATE MAYORAL CANDIDATE IN VANADZOR AS WELL
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YEREVAN. - Biometric-passport- and identification-card-issuance systems are installed in over ten Police passport divisions of Armenia, Polish PWPW Company's Executive Director Kszisztof Zharnotal told ...FORMER ARMENIAN POLICEMAN STARTED HUNGER STRIKE BUT SOON STOPPED IT
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YEREVAN. - A 29-year-old man was detained suspected in posting porn photos on social network in Armenia. Armenian News-NEWS.am managed to clarify that a young man named Arman has posted over 200 pornographic ...ARMENIAN-CHINESE COOPERATION HAS PROMISING PERSPECTIVES IN TRANSPORTATION - AMBASSADOR
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