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HURRIYET: ERDOGAN LEAVES FOR AZERBAIJAN WITH A PLAN IN EXCHANGE FOR OPENING OF BORDER WITH ARMENIA
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan left for Azerbaijan on Tuesday to reassure its leaders that Turkey's efforts to reconcile with Armenia would not undermine Baku's interests. The visit is aimed ...RUSSIAN PRESIDENT RATIFIES NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev has ratified the National Security Strategy to operate till 2020. The document was amended in the light of recent developments in the Russian-U.S. relations. It prioritizes ...ARMENIA ASPIRES TO SILICONE VALLEY
A regular meeting of the Armenian-American intergovernmental working group is being held in Yerevan under chairmanship of RA Minister of Economy Nerses Yeritsyan. “The Armenia-U.S. cooperation will allow ...TIGRAN SARGSYAN: ARMENIAN-ITALIAN COLLABORATION CAN SERVE AS A CATCHING EXAMPLE
RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan participated in the opening ceremony of Litokol Armenian-Italian Factory, RA Government Press Service reported. The company was founded in 2007 and is engaged in glue ...VUC JEREMIC INVITED EDWARD NALBANDIAN TO BELGRADE
119th meeting of Council of Europe Committee of Ministers has held on May 2 in Madrid. RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian participated in the meeting. RA Foreign Minister met his Slovenian, Lithuanian, ...RA MFA: KARABAKH CONFLICT RESOLUTION WAS POSSIBLE IN 2001
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian took part in the 119th meeting of Council of Europe Cabinet of Ministers in Madrid on May 12. In his address to the meeting participants, Minister Nalbandian ...YEREVAN TO HOST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CAUCASUS SECURITY
CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha will attend “Security and Cooperation in Caucasus” international conference to be held in Yerevan on May 14 and 15. The event participants are expected to focus ...MATHEW BRYZA PLAYS THE ROLE OF A SABOTEUR IN NEGOTIATIONS
“NKR conflict negotiation process has entered upon a new stage Armenian side is not ready for. Azerbaijan is to involve other international institutions, specifically, UNO in negotiation process,” Bryusov ...ARMENIA’S CENTRAL BANK REDUCED REFINANCING RATE BY 0.25 PERCENTAGE POINT TO 7.25 PER CENT
Yesterday Armenia’s Central Bank Council made a decision to reduce the refinancing interest rate by 0.25 percentage point to 7.25 per cent annually. As the CB press office reported, the council of ...“INACCURACY” OF BRYZA’S STATEMENT NOT ACCIDENTAL
Independent Armenian expert Harutyun Mesropyan thinks that inaccuracy of OSCE Minsk Group U.S. Co-chair Matthew Bryza was not conditioned by poor knowledge of the Russian language. “Bryza’s statement ...ITALY TO HOST FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CAUCASUS
The First International Conference on Caucasus is due in Rondina, Italy, on May 16-19. The event is organized by “Rondine-Citadella della Pace" Association in the frameworks of Le Piazze di Maggio “Le ...ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN HAVE EQUAL CHANCES TO PARTICIPATE IN NABUCCO PROJECT
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Nobucco Project plays an important role, as Turkey threatens the EU, using the conflict between Russia and West over energy resources supply. Armenia could turn the situation to its benefit, independent ...IMF TO PROVIDE MAXIMUM ASSISTANCE TO ARMENIA
Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan has received Ratna Sahay, IMF Assistant Director for Middle East and Central Asia Department, RA Government Press Service reports. The meeting wes also attended by IMF representative ...WORLEYPARSONS INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM WILL TAKE UP NEW POWER UNIT CONSTRUCTION IN ARMENIA
WorleyParsons International Consortium won a tender for new nuclear power unit construction in Armenia, announced on Feb. 23, 2009, RA State Purchases Department Press Service reported. WorleyParsons ...ARMENIA READY TO ASSIST SLOVAKIA AS COE CHAIRING STATE
During his visit to Madrid, FM Edward Nalbandyan met with Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zabogari. Mr. Nalbandyan congratulated his Slovenian colleague on his country’s becoming a CoE chairing state. ...HUNGARIAN PRESIDENT INVITES SERZH SARGSYAN TO BUDAPEST
During his visit to Madrid, Armenian FM Edqard Nalbandyan met with his Swiss colleague Michelin Kalmi Rey. The two diplomats discssed bilateral and regional issues. They also touched upon Armenian-Turkish ...RA PRESIDENT HAS GREAT EXPECTATIONS FROM BUSINESS CIRCLES
The country’s development is greatly dependent upon entrepreneurs’ work, President Serzh Sargsyan said in his speech during the V session of Armenian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. “I know ...SIDES OF NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT “ARE FORCED TO PEACE” BY OSCE MINSK GROUP
While Georgia was compelled to peace only by Russia, in the case of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Moscow obtained powerful allies: Washington and Paris. Certainly, compelling to peace will happen at ...ALEX GRIG – LEADING COMPANY ON BUTTER MARKET
The State Committee on Protection of Economic Competition has recongnized Alex Grig as leading company on butter market; Marnik company’s name was removed from business organizaion’s list, Committe Chair ...THE WEST DISCUSSES POSSIBILITY OF ARMENIA’S PARTICIPATION IN NABUCCO
Armenian-Turkish reconciliation and settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict are linked to implementation of the Nabucco project, told a political scientist Suren Zolian a news conference in Yerevan. ...ARMENIA INTENDS TO BRISK UP THE INFORMATION FIELD
By the initiative of the Center of information and public relation of Armenia’s President administration “Hot line” will be opened in Armenia. The service is aimed at searching disinformation and falsifications ...RA FINANCIAL OMBUDSMAN SUBMITTED REPORT FOR APRIL 2009
In April 2009, RA Financial Ombudsman’s Office received claims from 35 citizens complaining about financial organizations’ activity. According to the report, 21 claims were not subject to consideration ...WB TO PROVIDE ARMENIA USD 25 MILLION TO DEVELOP EDUCATION SPHERE
The World Bank Board of Directors today approved a US$25 million credit for the Armenia Second Education Quality and Relevance Project, WB press office in Armenia reports. This is the second phase of ...BAKU FEARS LEST ARMENIA AND TURKEY SHOULD REACH AGREEMENT
Turkey always seeked to satisfy Azerbaijan, and PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent statement in Baku fully fits the logic of such policy, Turkologist Artak Shakaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent. ...CCAF FRANCE: ARMENIA TURKEY DECLARATION IS UNACCEPTABLE
The member associations of the CCAF (Co-ordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France) express their deep concern about the joint statement of the foreign affairs ministers of Armenia, Turkey ...PRESENTATION OF MEDICAL INTERNET PORTAL DRUGS.AM TOOK PLACE IN YEREVAN
Presentation of the new health and medical Internet portal drugs.am took place in Yerevan. The portal is very dynamic and divided into three main spheres: news, consultations and “Sharp corner”. In the ...RA PARLIAMENT SPEAKER RECEIVED EMI SECRETARY GENERAL
RA Parliament Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan has today received Heinrich Croner, Secretary General of European Movement International. During the meeting, the Speaker introduced Armenian legislators’ activities ...ERDOGAN: ANKARA WILL ACHIEVE PEACE IN THE REGION
Last-year war between Georgia and Russia in August showed the fragility of the situation in the region and the significance of securing the stability in the Caucasus. In this connection Ankara suggested ...ADC ANNOUNCES REDUCTION OF MONTHLY FEES FOR INTERNET OFFICE MINI SERVICES
Armenian Datacom Company (ADC) announces a Special Offer of reduced of monthly payment for Internet office mini to all companies. By signing one-year contract within May 13- June 12 the customer will ...PREMIER INTRODUCED NEW MINISTERS
PM Tigran Sarsgyan has today visited Ministries of Education and Science, Labor and Social Issues and Agriculture to introduce the newly appointed ministers (Armen Ashotyan, Gevorg Petrosyan and Gerasim ...WHEN WILL BAKU START SEARCHING FOR “ARMENIAN TRACE” IN ALLEGED TERRORIST ACT IN MOSCOW?
On the day of the Eurovision contest’s first semfinal, FSB agents managed to avert a terrorist act plotted by unknown gunmen. Not far from “Olympic” sport complex, security officials found a polyethelene ...AN ARMENIAN COUPLE PLAN TO MARRY AMONG TITANIC'S ARTIFACTS
An Armenian couple with a special connection to the Titanic plan to marry among the ship's artifacts at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Melissa Vartanian, 28, and Vache Mikaelian, 31, will wed on May 15 ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1889 Vardan Goloshyan and Hovhannes Agripasyan, the first combatants for Armenian emancipation, are killed near Chukh, in Van (Western Armenia).
- 1898 Death of Friedrich Mueller, a German Armenologist. He made important scholarly contributions. He was born on 1834 02 21.
- 1907 The first hydro-electric power station is put on line in Yerevan.
- 1913 The special commission of the National Assembly of Constantinople presents a memorandum to the Turkish government on the situation in the Armenian provinces.
- 1916 The Viceroy of the Caucasus orders the disbanding of the Armenian volunteer groups.
- 1958 Death of writer Zaroohee Pahree. She was born in 1880.
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