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Headlines for May 22, 2009
NAIRIT PLANT PRESS OFFICE DENIES REPORTS ON FIRE
Nairit plant press office has denied reports on fire today. “There is no threat of a new blast in the plant,” it said. Yesterday, fire burst out in Nairit-2, situated near the rubber plant. As a PanARMENIAN.Net ...MEDVEDEV WARNS EU NOT TO TURN EASTERN PARTNERSHIP AGAINST RUSSIA
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned the European Union not to turn a proposed partnership with former Soviet countries against Russia. "We would not want the Eastern Partnership to turn into ...ARMENIA CONTRIBUTES $49 THOUSAND TO UN BUDGET
The United Nations regular budget for 2008-2009 is facing a USD 1.5 billion gap, most of which is caused by nine countries, including the United States, Britain, China and Germany, in arrears, a top official ...RA POLICE CALLS FOR CAUTION ON SCHOOL GRADUATION DAY
The Armenian Police called for caution on school graduation day celebrated on May 23 this year. “We must protect our children from car accidents on this day,” said Hayk Sargsyan, head of planning and ...CIS HEADS OF GOVERNMENT HOLD MEETING IN ASTANA
Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Independent States are meeting in Astana today, May 22, to discuss CIS economic strategy, reported the press office of the CIS executive committee. Consideration ...MTS CLOSED DOWN 7 REGIONAL BRANCHES
“Mobile TeleSystems” OJSC has closed 7 regional branches in St. Petersburg, Maritime and Krasnodar Territories, as well as Nizhny Novgorod and Samara. The company operates a regional-market management ...ARMENIA HOLDS ITS POSITIONS FIRM IN NEGOTIATIONS
Armenia holds its positions firms in Karabakh settlement talks, President Serzh Sargsyan said during the meeting with his Croatian colleague Stefan Mesich. The most important thing, according to the President, ...CROATIAN PRESIDENT HONORS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS MEMORY
Visiting Croatian President Stjepan Mesic honored the memory of victims of the Armenian Genocide. He laid a wreath to the Memorial and attended Armenian Genocide Museum Institute, where he left the following ...TURKEY MUST PROVE THAT IT’S A CIVILIZED STATE
“Conflict settlement requires big efforts. I have never been optimistic about Armenian-Turkish ties normalization process, but I am not a great pessimist either,” RA President Serzh Sargsyan told today ...NAZARBAEV CALLED ON CIS STATES TO OPEN MARKETS
Khazakstan’s President Norsultan Nazabaev called on CIS countries to open markets and adopt loyal attitude to migrants as a possible way of combating crisis. He also called for a joint struggle against ...ARMENIA AND CROATIA AGREED ON COOPERATION
Armenia pays special attention to further development of relationship with Croatia in economy, culture and political spheres, told Armenia’s president Serzh Sargsyan a joint news conference in Yerevan. ...AZERI PARLIAMENT IS PROTESTING AGAINST MG OSCE STATEMENT
Azerbaijani members of parliament protested against recent statements by the OSCE Minsk Group. "French co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Bernard Fassier's statement claiming that NKR conflict settlement has ...NKR PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES ARKADY TER-TADEVOSYAN WITH HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY
On 22 May Artsakh’s Hero, major-general Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (Komandos) became 70. As NKR President’s Central Information Department reported, in connection with his 70th birthday legendary hero was ...EC TO DISCUSS MESKHETIAN TURKS ISSUE
On June 9’s meeting of EC an issue of returning Meskhetian Turks to the place of their permanent residence will be discussed. According Meskhetian Turks Society representative in Azerbaijan, “Vatan” ...AGRICULTURE IS THE MOST RISKY INDUSTRY OF ARMENIA’S ECONOMY
Agriculture is the most risky sphere in Armenia, told Gagik Minasyan, chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Finance-Credit, Budget and Economic Affairs and deputy from RPA. “Risky spheres are financed ...RPA CALLS ON POLITICAL PARTIES TO GO TO ELECTIONS WITH COMMON SLOGAN “IN THE NAME OF YEREVAN”
Representative of a ruling Republican Party Of Armenia Araik Hovhannisyan , speaking of the forthcoming elections to the Elders’ Council of Yerevan, particularly mentioned that local elections are at ...BY THE END OF THE YEAR ARMENIA’S ECONOMY TO START REHABILITATE
By the end of this year Armenia’s economy to start stabilizing, told a news conference Gagik Minasyan, chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Finance-Credit, Budget and Economic Affairs and deputy from ...MASIS NIKOYAN, WHO GOT GUNSHOT WOUNDS, IS UNABLE TO GIVE TESTIMONY
On May 21, at 12:20 a.m., Masis Nikoyan, age 40, Martuni resident, was delivered to Yerevan Hospital N 3 with gunshot wounds to the head, chest and abdomen. Upon arriving to the crime site, operative ...CROATIA PRESIDENT WAS GRANTED YSU HONORABLE DOCTOR TITLE
On May 22, within the framework of his visit to Armenia, Croatia President Stjepan Mesic met students and professors of Yerevan State University. Welcoming high ranking guest, Head of YSU Aram Simonyan ...NAGORNO KARABAKH REPUBLIC IMPROVES ITS LEGISLATURE
On 22 May President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan signed the law on Honorary Titles of the NKR, laws on introducing changes and amendments to the laws on the Statute of the National Assembly, ...ART VOICES WAN GRAND PRIX AT BUCHAREST MUSIC FESTIVAL
Art Voices Armenian Ethno Jazz Band wan Grand Prix at Bucharest Music Festival held from May 6-24. Art Voices, as well as Israeli, Hungarian and German bands made it to Festival finals. “Thanks to participation ...THE FIRST CONTEST FOR YOUNG JAZZ PERFORMERS WAS HELD IN YEREVAN
The first contest for Young Jazz Performers, “Debut” was held in Yerevan. Young jazz performers from 13 to 30 qualified for participation. The contest aimed to discover young talents and help them ...NOT NUMEROUS PIQUET WAS HELD AT RA MFA
New Armenia NGO headed by its leader Eleonora Manandyan, organized a piquet at RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Eleonora Manandyan and her colleague Gayane Yesayan explained scarce number of participants ...”OPTIMISTIC FORECAST: STABILITY AND PEACE IN THE CAUCASUS WILL COME IN FORTHCOMING THREE- FIVE YEARS,” SAYS TURKISH DIPLOMAT.”
There is a stirring within the Minsk process, and all three co-chairpersons from France, Russia and the United States have been exerting intense efforts in reaching a resolution regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh ...IFC GIVES ARMENIA A GOOD MARK FOR ATTRACTING FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Armenia has received a good mark for its efforts aimed at attracting foreign investment. That was an outcome of a new report of the International Financial Corporation (IFC). The survey conducted by IFC ...NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES CALLS ON SPEAKER PELOSI TO ACT FOR ADOPTION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
The National Council of the Churches of Christ, a broad-based coalition representing over 100,000 congregations, has called on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to work for passage of the Armenian Genocide ...ARMENIA INTENDS TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN EASTERN PARTNERSHIP
Armenia’s foreign minister Edward Nalbandian met with Mathias Yorsh, Chairman of the parliamentary committee on European issues of Hungary on May 22. Armenia’s foreign minister mentioned, that cooperation ...ARMENIA CELEBRATES 85TH ANNIVERSARY OF CHARLES AZNAVOUR
World known chansonier Charles Aznavour celebrated his 85th birthday on April 22. Aznavour's jubilee was celebrated in Armenia with “For you, Armenia” concerts, with the participation of Lis Saryan and ...TURKS HAD LEARNED HOW TO BECOME A NATION FROM AZERBAIJAN?
“Can Turkey's policy concerning Armenia, which stands like a knife between Turkey and Azerbaijan, change? Can Turkey come closer to Armenia by turning a blind eye to Azerbaijan's interests? Let us focus ...A MEETING IN MEMORY OF PONTIAN GREEKS WAS HELD IN MOSCOW
Union of Russian Armenians supported Greek Community in Russia and commemorated the victims of Greek Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. A meeting in memory of Pontian Greeks Genocide was held in Moscow Triumphal ...ARMENIA’S CB REDUCES REFINANCING RATE TO 6.25 PER CENT
Today Armenia’s Central Bank Council made a decision to reduce the refinancing interest rate by one percentage point to 6.25 per cent annually. As the CB official web-site reports, the Council of the ...MUSA DAGH PHOTO COLLECTION TO BE PART OF AGMA
Rare and historically significant photographs of the Armenians of Musa Dagh will be among the Genocide-era images featured in the Armenian Genocide Museum of America (AGMA), thanks to the generosity of ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1864 Turkish forces attack Sassoon (Western Armenia), but retreat because of Armenian resistance.
- 1907 Birth of composer Goorgen Alemshah. He died in 1947.
- 1918 Start of the four-day battle of Sardarapat at the end of which the Armenian forces defeated the Turkish Army.
- 1919 The Publication of Constantinople's Extraordinary Military Tribunal's decision on the perpetrators of the deportation of Trabizond's Armenians.
- 1924 Birth of Charles Aznavour (singer).
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