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Published on September 14, 2012
NEW HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION IN YEREVAN WILL BE OVER NEXT YEAR
YEREVAN. - Construction of a new highway will be over next February in Yerevan, Yerevan's chief architect Narek Ayvazyan told the journalists on Friday adding that a 4-km-highway will link Isakov Avenue with Leningradyan Street.
Hence, capital city will have another road linking the southern and north-western districts.
To note, the road will pass by the Damla gardens, while the Noy district of newly built houses will be included in the area of the road and real estate prices may go up after the road is put into operation.
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Headlines for September 14, 2012US EMBASSY WARNING NOT DIRECTED AGAINST ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - The U.S. Embassy in Armenia's warning on possible threat against the U.S. citizens in the country is not directed against Armenia, a senior Armenian law enforcement source, who wished to remain ...KURDISH HISTORIAN ON 1915 ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
ANKARA. - Turkish Taraf newspaper correspondent took an interview from a Kurdish famous historian and writer Naci Kutlay. Armenian News-NEWS.am presents an extract from the interview, where Kutlay speaks ...MICROSOFT TO PRESENT NEW WINDOWS 8 SYSTEM IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - The Microsoft Company will present many innovations, including the new operational system Windows 8 in the DigiTec Expo-2012, which is scheduled for Oct. 5 to 7 in Yerevan, Microsoft Armenia ...US EMBASSY-ARMENIA CONCERN UNDERSTANDABLE BUT IMPROPER - EXPERT
YEREVAN. - Expert Arkadi Grigoryan does not believe that the U.S. Embassy's statement on raising security alert among the American citizens should be accepted as offend for Armenia, the expert told Armenian ...ARMENIAN ENTREPRENEUR LEARNS DETAILS OF DIAMOND BUSINESS IN AFRICA - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenian businessman Paylak Hayrapetyan left for Sierra Leone to get acquainted with the details of the well-known diamond business on location, Hayatsk daily reports. "According to his ...EMIGRATION FROM ARMENIA CONTINUES - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - In line with data publicized by the Armenian General Department of Civil Aviation, close to 59,000 airplane passengers have left from and not returned to Armenia in the first eight months of ...NKR PARLIAMENT SESSION TO DISCUSS NEW PM'S NOMINATION - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic National Assembly (NKR NA) will convene a special session Friday to discuss the matter of approving the nomination of the new Prime Minister, Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun ...ARMENIAN PARTY LEADER SUSPENDS HIS CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik Tsarukyan's press secretary Iveta Tonoyan on Thursday denied Zhamanak daily's information, according to which the PAP leader is substantially reducing ...ARMENIAN FM RECEIVED BY CYPRIOT PRESIDENT
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian's official visit to the Republic of Cyprus—which currently chairs the European Union—kicked off Thursday, MFA press service informed ...YEREVAN POLICE OFFICER COMMITS SUICIDE
YEREVAN. - A 27-year-old law enforcement officer ended his life on Friday in Armenia's capital city Yerevan, the Police press service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. Police officer K. Manukyan committed ...FATAL ROAD ACCIDENT IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - The driver of a VAZ 21104-model automobile ran over 45-year-old Eduard Ghazaryan, on an Armenian capital city Yerevan street, on Thursday at 8pm. As a result, Ghazaryan sustained injuries and ...EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION ON AZERBAIJANI MURDERER NOT EQUIVALENT ASSESSMENT - ARMENIAN MP
YEREVAN. - The resolution which the European Parliament adopted on Ramil Safarov's extradition is the first crack in the ice, or in the concrete barrier, and this will enable us to make an equivalent ...TEVAN POGHOSYAN TO REPLACE RAFFI HOVANNISIAN IN PARLIAMENT - HERITAGE
YEREVAN.- Leader of Heritage Party Raffi Hovannisian will be replaced in parliament by party's 6th number in the proportional list, independent candidate Tevan Poghosyan. Addressing reporters in the parliament, ...CANADIAN-ARMENIAN PIANIST HAS SOLO CONCERT IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - The "Days of Individual Performers" concert series was held in Armenia, between August 17 and Thursday, and along the lines of the Diaspora Ministry's "My Armenia" Festival. A wonderful opportunity ...ARMENIA AND NKR PARLIAMENTS TO HOLD ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
At the initiative of Armenia's ruling Republican Party, the inaugural roundtable discussion will be held Saturday, in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) capital city Stepanakert, among Armenia's and NKR's ...ORINATS YERKIR A SERIOUS POLITICAL FORCE
YEREVAN.- Orinats Yerkir Party is a serious political force, head of the parliamentary group told a briefing in parliament on Friday. Heghine Bisharyan recalled that during the upcoming 2013 elections ...ORGANIZER OF HRANT DINK MURDER MAY BE SET FREE
A Turkish criminal sentenced to life imprisonment for planning assassination of Armenian-Turkish chief editor of Agos daily Hrant Dink may be set free in 4 months. The Istanbul court where the Dink trial ...ARMENIA'S PRESIDENT EXTENDS CONDOLENCE TO OBAMA
YEREVAN. - Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan issued a message of condolence to US President Barack Obama, and in connection with the recent evil crime and the resultant human loss in Benghazi, Libya. ...PRESIDENT SARGSYAN CONGRATULATES RUSSIA'S MEDVEDEV ON HIS BIRTHDAY
YEREVAN. - Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan on Friday addressed a congratulatory message to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of the Russian Federation, and on the occasion of Medvedev's birth anniversary. ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA SEES NO GUARANTEE FOR COMPULSORY ACCUMULATED PENSION PLAN
YEREVAN.- The compulsory accumulated pension system must be introduced only when a country registers economic growth for several years, MP from Prosperous Armenia told reporters on Friday. In the coming ...ARMENIA'S EDUCATION MINISTER MEETS RUSSIAN COUNTERPART IN MOSCOW
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan met, in Moscow on Thursday, with the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Livanov. The ministers reconfirmed ...ARMENIAN CHURCH IN ALEPPO NOT AFFECTED BY CLASHES
Armenian St. Gregory Illuminator church in Aleppo was not affected by Thursday clashes, Armenian community representative in Aleppo Zhirayr Reisian told Armenian News-NEWS.am. The reports saying the church ...YEREVAN BALLOON BLAST HEARING ADJOURNED AGAIN
YEREVAN.- The court hearing on balloon explosion in Armenia's capital city Yerevan scheduled for Friday was adjourned again. The judge Gagik Poghosyan assigned a public defender to defend Serob Bozoyan, ...UK MINISTER FOR EUROPE TO VISIT ARMENIA
YEREVAN.- UK Foreign Office Minister for Europe David Lidington will pay an official visit to Yerevan on 18 -19 September.In Yerevan, the Minister will meet the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, Prime ...LOCAL ARMENIANS PREPARE FOR AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO PARIS
YEREVAN. - Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev will arrive in France on September 18. And, in this connection, a mass demonstration will be held in front of Azerbaijan's embassy in Paris. Not accepting ...ARMENIA'S PM ADDRESSES MESSAGE TO RUSSIAN COLLEAGUE
YEREVAN. - Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan issued a congratulatory message to Premier Dmitry Medvedev of the Russian Federation, and in connection with Medvedev's birthday. Dear Mr. Medvedev, ...ARMENIA'S AMBASSADOR TO UK MEETS WITH FOREIGN OFFICE MINISTER
Armenia's Ambassador to UK Karine Ghazinyan met on Tuesday with Foreign Office Minister for Europe David Lidington. They discussed the issues related to Minister's visit to Armenia scheduled for September ...NKR PARLIAMENT APPROVES PM'S NOMINATION
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic National Assembly (NKR NA) convened a special session Friday and unanimously approved Ara Harutyunyan's nomination to the office of NKR Prime Minister. All thirty NA MPs, who ...WE WISH TO RESTORE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA - HUNGARIAN FM
BUDAPEST. - Restoring relations with Armenia is a priority for Hungarian diplomacy, Hungary's Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi told reporters on Thursday. "What the Prime Minister decides is also a government ...ARMENIA'S AGRICULTURE MINISTER RECEIVES UN REPRESENTATIVES
YEREVAN. - Armenian Minister of Agriculture, Sergo Karapetyan, on Friday received a delegation from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), led by Matthew Kahane. The Minister expressed a satisfaction ...ARMENIA HOSTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPHTHALMOLOGY
YEREVAN.- The two-day 12th International Conference on Ophthalmology began September 14 in Yerevan, with the participation of representatives from the Government of Armenia, Ministry of Health, U.S. Embassy ...YEREVAN MUNICIPALITY TO RENOVATE NORTHERN AVENUE
YEREVAN.- The municipality of Yerevan plans to renovate Northern Avenue in the center of Armenia's capital, chief architect Narek Sargsyan told reporters on Friday. The avenue will be landscaped, concrete ...NEW HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION IN YEREVAN WILL BE OVER NEXT YEAR
YEREVAN. - Construction of a new highway will be over next February in Yerevan, Yerevan's chief architect Narek Ayvazyan told the journalists on Friday adding that a 4-km-highway will link Isakov Avenue ...NEW YORK COURT FINES ARMENIAN MP AND FORMER MINISTER
YEREVAN. - The New York Court made a decision on Sept. 6 to fine Armenia's former Minister of Nature Protection, ruling Republican Party influential MP Vardan Ayvazyan for $37,537,978.02 for benefit of ...GIVING HERO'S STATUS TO SENTENCED MURDERER IS UNACCEPTABLE - VENICE COMMISSION PRESIDENT
YEREVAN. - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Venice Commission President Gianni Buquicchio addressed a letter to Armenia's Constitutional Court President Gagik Harutyunyan, and noted ...NUMBER OF DEALS VIA BANKING CARDS INCREASES IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - The number of banking card deals increased by 78 percent in Armenia during the first six months of the year, head of the Union of Banks of Armenia Ashot Osipyan told the journalists on Friday. The ...GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES DEVOID ARMENIANS IN JAVAKHK TO PARTICIPATE IN ELECTORAL PROCESSES
TBILISI. - "Yerkir" Union of Public Organizations on repatriation and development released a statement in connection with the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for Oct. 1. The election process ...SAMARA-YEREVAN BUS CLASHES WITH TRACK
MOSCOW. - A bus heading from Samara, Russia, to Yerevan, Armenia crashed with a track. The accident occurred at 9.05 a.m. in Russia on Friday. The bus Neoplan, which was transporting passengers, crashed ...ARMENIA REGISTERS 1500 ACCIDENTS FROM EARLY 2012
YEREVAN. - Armenia registered 1,521 accidents during the eight months of this year, as a result, 176 people died, while 2,236 were injured. The number of accidents was 1,367 in the same period last year, ...KARABAKH PRESIDENT APPOINTS PRIME MINISTER
STEPANAKERT. - Under the Article 68 point 4 of the Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] Constitution, President Bako Sahakyan signed on Friday a decree appointing Ara Harutunyan as the Karabakh Prime Minister. According ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT TO HOST SESSION OF CSTO MEMBER-STATES' REPRESENTATIVES
YEREVAN. - Coordination council of heads of standing committees on defense and security of the CSTO member parliaments will start its work at Armenia's National Assembly on September 18. On the same day, ...ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS ON REPUBLIC SQUARE MAY TURN INTO HOTELS
YEREVAN. - Yerevan chief architect Narek Sargsyan does not mind turning Armenian government buildings on the central Republic Square into hotels, he told journalists on Friday. It mainly refers to the ...ARMENIANS OF HUNGARY REJECT EXPLANATIONS BY HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT ON AZERI MURDERER
BUDAPEST. - Armenian National Autonomy of Hungary released a statement on the Azeri murderer release after Hungarian government returned the murderer to Azerbaijan. "The Armenian National Autonomy of ...TATEV CABLEWAY SERVES 100000TH PASSENGER
YEREVAN. - The Wings of Tatev aerial cableway heading to the Tatev monastery in southern Armenia has served over 100,000 passengers (PHOTOS). The 100,000th passenger, resident of neighboring village Anahit ...ARMENIA TO LEARN LOT FROM CHINA - MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE
YEREVAN. - Armenian Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan met with the Chinese Ambassador to Armenia Tian Changchun by the latter's request. The Minister stated that Armenian-Chinese mutual relations ...ARMENIA AND ARTSAKH TO PARTICIPATE IN TOURISTIC EXPO IN FRANCE
YEREVAN. - National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia and Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] representatives along with the Armenian touristic companies will represent Armenia and Arstakh in the TopResa 2012 ...ARMENIAN RULING PARTY SATISFIED WITH EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION ON AZERI MURDERER
YEREVAN. - Ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP, head of the Armenian delegation to the PACE David Harutyunyan assesses the resolution on Azeri murderer named "Azerbaijan: the case of Ramil Safarov" ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1854 The allies check the advance in Crimea during the Crimean War.
- 1915 Start of the battle of Mount Moossa (Sooetia, Western Armenia). The battle lasted forty days and resulted in the defeat of the Turkish forces sent to carry out the Genocide of the Armenians living there. Franz Werfel's novel ("The Forty Days of Moossa Dagh") is based on this event.
- 1934 The Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Armenian SSR and the Council of the People's Committee create the People's Commissariat of Internal Trade.
- 1958 The Kotayk irrigation canal is operational.
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