
Headlines for April 14, 2008
GAZPROM DENIES OFFERING VICE PRESIDENT POST TO ROBERT KOCHARIAN
Gazprom denies offering Armenia’s ex-President Robert Kocharian the post of Vice President. “Robert Kocharian wasn’t offered a leading post in Gazprom,” the giant’s representative Sergei Kupriyanov told ...PACE SPRING SESSION OPENS IN STRASBOURG
Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner are among the leading personalities to address ...KARABAKH CAN BE EXAMPLE OF ARMISTICE MAINTENANCE
Armistice in the territory of all frozen conflicts should be maintained as it’s done in Nagorno Karabakh, without interference of peacekeepers, a Georgian political scientist said. “Armenians and Azerbaijanis ...SKINHEADS PLOTTING ASSAULTS ON “NOT RUSSIANS” ON APRIL 20
Russian human rights advocates call on the police to be vigilant on April 20. Radical nationalists are plotting various actions dated to the birthday of Adolph Hitler. Immigrants are too excited and ...CONSULTATIONS ON GOVERNMENT FORMATION HELD IN YEREVAN
Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan held consultations on government formation with the heads of parties that entered the quadripartite coalition, the President’s press office reported. The President ...SLAIN ARTHUR SARDARYAN FAMILY TO APPEAL TO EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Relatives of Arthur Sardaryan, an Armenia-native, who was killed in Moscow in May 2006, intend to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights based in Strasbourg. “We will issue a complaint within two ...CIS MEMBER STATES TO CONDUCT COMMAND AND STAFF TRAINING OF ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM
A command and staff training of the CIS joint anti-missile defense system will be conducted on April 22. “Some 110 jets and helicopters will be enabled. Over 20 various exercises in air borders defense ...AZERI SOLDIER DETAINED IN NKR
An Azeri soldier was detained by NKR Defense Army servicemen when crossing the border on April 11. The captive did not have any documents and introduced himself as Eybat Vyusal Shirsultan ogly, born ...THE MOSCOW POST: KOCHARIAN APPOINTMENT ON GAZPROM AGENDA
Appointment of Robert Kocharian Vice President of Gazprom has been already put on the Board’s agenda, The Moscow Post quoted a source in the gas giant. Meanwhile, Gazprom’s representative Sergei Kupriyanov ...NEW GOVERNMENT COMPOSITION TO BE KNOWN APRIL 15
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Composition of the new Armenian government will apparently be known on April 15. As a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter came to know from a source in the RA government, new chiefs of the National Security Service ...BAKU EYES U.S. POSITION ON UN KARABAKH RESOLUTION “ERRONEOUS”
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The U.S. did much for settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and we appreciate it, said the head of Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s press office. “However, Azerbaijan thinks the position of the U.S. ...DEATH TOLL IN YEREVAN MARCH 1 MELEE REACHES 10
29-year-old Samvel Harutyunyan, who was injured in the March 1 disorders, died in the resuscitation department of a medical center in Yerevan. As reported by the press office of the RA Ministry of Health, ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1828 Tsar Nicholas the First declares war against Turkey.
- 1860 Birth of the historian Leo (Arakel Babakhyan) in Shooshee. He died in 1932.
- 1864 Birth of Hovhannes Hovhannisyan (poet). He died in 1929.
- 1909 Sultan Abdul Hamid the Second is overthrown and power is seized by the Young Turks.
- 1921 Lenin sends his missive to the communists of Azerbajan, Georgia, Armenia, Daghstan, and the Republic of the Mountain Peoples.
- 1978 The Armenian SSR's Supreme Soviet confirms the Armenian constitution.
- 1990 The Russian Council adopts an announcement condemning the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1922.
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