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Published on November 16, 2009
YOUNG ARMENIAN CHESS PLAYERS SCORE 11 VICTORIES IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 4TH ROUND
- Young Armenian chess players scored 11 victories in the 4th round of the World Youth Chess Championship going on in Kemer, Turkey. Armenian boys scored 8 victories; girls won 3 games. Armenia is represented by 16 boys and 8 girls.
Headlines for November 16, 2009
YEREVAN HOSTS NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS FUND BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING
Chairman of National Competitiveness Fund Board of Trustees, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan addressed the 13th session of the Board to briefed on the outcomes of RA government’s anti-crisis efforts ...TURKISH LEADERS TENDING TO ISLAMIC WORLD
With hopes to become a full-fledged member of the European Union frustrating, Turkey tends to the Islamic world, according to Alexander Tsinker, director of East European States & CIS Institute, member ...ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION PROCESS INTENSIFIED IN ISRAEL
A large number of political observers suppose that tensions between Israel and Turkey can lead to recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Tel Aviv. “The issue has acquired quite a different coloring ...BAKU’S MEMBERSHIP IN COE MAY BE QUESTIONED
Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr Thorbjorn Jagland slammed arrest of two bloggers in Azerbaijan. “I have followed the developments in Azerbaijan for quite a long time and therefore I could ...AVETIS ARMENIAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN POLAND
The pioneer edition of Avetis Armenian newspaper was published in Poland on October 17, 2009. Avetis will cover social and cultural life of the Armenian community of Poland, Analitika.at.ua reported.YEREVAN TO HOST ROCK FEST DATED TO INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS' DAY
A Rock Fest will be held Monday in Yerevan Puppet Theater. The event is dated to International Students' Day celebrated on November 17. Dorians, Stryfe, Hunters, Another Story and Road Movie rock bands ...YOUNG ARMENIAN CHESS PLAYERS SCORE 11 VICTORIES IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 4TH ROUND
Young Armenian chess players scored 11 victories in the 4th round of the World Youth Chess Championship going on in Kemer, Turkey. Armenian boys scored 8 victories; girls won 3 games. Armenia is represented ...SCPEC INQUIRING ABOUT RISE IN PRICES FOR MEDICINE
The State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition will launch administrative proceedings in medicine market on occasion of rise in prices for some medicine. “Rise in prices and deficit ...WORLD BLITZ CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP KICKS OFF IN MOSCOW
World Blitz Chess Championship kicked off in Moscow on November 16 in the framework of Mikhail Tal Memorial. Guest players Anatoly Karpov, Lenier Dominquez, Alexander Grischuk and Alexandra Kosteniuk ...MARTIROS SARYAN’S 130TH ANNIVERSARY TO BE CELEBRATED IN TRETYAKOVSKAYA GALLERY IN 2010
A number of events in celebration of acclaimed painter Martiros Saryan’s 130th anniversary are planned in 2010. On February 28, Martiros Saryan’s Museum in Yerevan will host an exhibition of the master’s ...NKR: “HAYASTAN FUND" COMMISSIONED 16 KM. OF NEW WATER PIPELINE
New 16 km-long pipe line commissioned In Azokh and Taghlar communities of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), to serve 2 thousand 300 people from both communities. The line was built in the framework of ...ARMENIAN YOUTH TEAM TO MEET WITH THE IRISH NOVEMBER 17
Armenian youth team in the qualifying round of European Championship 2011 to play with the youth national team of Ireland on November 17. According to the coach of the youth team of Armenia Fleming Seritslev, ...IGOR MURADYAN: NEITHER ARMENIA NOR TURKEY PREPARED TO CONTINUE RECONCILIATION PROCESS
The U.S. can't guarantee continuation of reconciliation process between Armenia and Turkey, according to an Armenian expert. “Neither Armenia nor Turkey are prepared to continue. The protocols were signed ...ELECTIONS OF CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF HOLY NAZARETH HELD IN CALCUTTA NOV. 15
November 15 in the office of the Armenian Church of Holy Nazareth in Calcutta the under the chairmanship of father Khoren Hovhannisyan, head of the Armenian Humanitarian Seminary elections of the Church ...ANKARA WAS NEVER INTERESTED IN KARABAKH ISSUE
, according to political scientist Igor Muradyan. “The process of normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey is being protracted and Karabakh is just a pretext,” he said, adding that Washington, ...GEORGIAN SECURITY COUNCIL DECIDES TO OPEN UPPER LARS CHECKPOINT
The Georgian authorities have decided to open Upper Lars checkpoint at the border with Russia. However, they threaten to close it again “if Moscow re-launched information attacks,” Kommersant reported. ...MOSCOW, WASHINGTON INTERESTED IN SUPPRESSING TURKISH EXPANSION
Moscow and Washington are interested in suppressing Turkish expansion, according to political scientist Igor Muradyan. “The scenario of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations meant to restrain ...WINE-MAKING DEVELOPMENT IN ARMENIA NEEDS AROUND EURO 150 MILLION INVESTMENTS
, Avag Harutyunyan, head of Armenian wine makers union told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. “Outdated technologies are being used in Armenia for wine production,” he said. In this context, wine makers union ...YEREVAN TO HOST ILON WIKLAND’S “KARLSSON ON THE ROOF IS FLYING AGAIN” ILLUSTRATION EXHIBIT
Karlsson on the Roof is Flying Again , the first exhibition devoted exclusively to the drawings of Ilon Wikland, will be on view at the Children’s Art Gallery of Armenia from November 19 through December ...YEREVAN TO HOST FORUM "CONTROLLING QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN ARMENIA"
November 17 Yerevan to host "Controlling quality and quantity of pesticide residues in Armenia forum. The forum is aimed to discuss the problems associated with controlling the quality of pesticides ...BOOKS ON BRONZE AGE ARMENIAN MILITARY ART PUBLISHED IN YEREVAN
On the afternoon of November 17, RA Defense Ministry’s administrative complex will host Armenian Genocide Museum Director Hayk Demoyan’s “Bronze Age military art in Armenia” and “Military art and wars ...ARMENIA NEEDS $600 MILLION TO PROTECT VINEYARDS FROM PHYLLOXERA
Armenia needs $600 million to combat phylloxera and preserve vineyards, Head of wine-makers’ Union Avag Harutyunyan told today a news conference in Yerevan. At that he noted that one of vineyards in Armenia ...140 ANNIVERSARY OF KOMITAS CELEBRATED IN ATHENS
140th anniversary of the great Komitas was marked in Athens. The evening dedicated to the Armenian composer, ethnographer, gathered a large number of admirers of the Armenian culture in the sports and ...ARMENIAN CHURCH TO BE BUILT ON JORDAN RIVERSIDE
An Armenian Church will be built on Jordan riverside. Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, laid the cornerstone for new church, which will be named St. Karapet Church.EXCAVATION UNDERWAY, PROVING DEVELOPED WINEMAKING IN ANCIENT ARMENIA
Excavations proving the development of the ancient wine-making on the territory of modern Armenia, continue, ethnographer Suren Pogosyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. According to him, excavations ...ISRAEL READY TO COMPLETE UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES’ DELIVERY TO TURKEY
Israel is ready to complete the delivery of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, to Turkey, Israeli Army Radio reported. Turkey agreed with Israeli Aerospace Industry (IAI) and Elbit, one of Israel's largest ...ARMENIA FACING MORE AND MORE CHALLENGES DUE TO LEADERSHIP’S POLICY
Armenia is facing more and more challenges due to the policy its leadership pursues, according to Vahan Shirhanyan, member of the board of Hnchak Social Democratic Party. “To resist challenges, the nation ...MATERIALS ON AZERBAIJAN’S CRIMES IN NKR ADDED TO RA PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE ARCHIVES
Armenia’s public prosecutors office addressed their NKR colleagues with a request to provide information on criminal cases instigated in connection with crimes against humanity committed in the beginning ...WINE-GROWING STRATEGY NECESSARY IN CASE OF ARMENIA-TURKEY BORDER OPENING
Collaboration strategy with Turkey in wine-growing sphere should be developed in RA in case of Armenia-Turkey rapprochement, Avag Harutyunyan, head of Armenian wine makers union believes. According to ...VARDAN KHACHATRYAN:TURKISH PRESS GOES BEYOND ALL PERMISSIBLE LIMITS
Turkish press and officials have already gone beyond all permissible limits with their statements concerning Karabakh conflict settlement. But we must make them realize that we can’t have similar approach ...A/H1N1 VIRUS CARRIERS’ NUMBER REACHES 15 IN ARMENIA
A/H1N1 virus swine flu carriers’ number reached 15 in Armenia, RA Healthcare Ministry press service reports. At present, 6 out of 8 patients are discharged from Nork’s infectious diseases hospital. The ...WINEMAKING TO REDUCE BY SOME 40 PER CENT ON AN AVERAGE IN ARMENIA
In conditions of global financial and economic crisis, wine production will reduce by 40 per cent on average Avag Harutyunyan, chairman of the union of winemakers told a press conference in Yerevan today. ...ARMENIA'S ECONOMY NOT TO BENEFIT FROM OPEN ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER
Position of the Gnchak Social Democratic Party of Armenia on normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations is clear, “we oppose any restoration of relations with Turkey until it recognizes the Armenian ...SOCIETY TREATS ART AS SOMETHING USELESS, VAHE ARSEN
Each author needs advertising, and awards and bonuses are a specific kind of advertisement. But it is necessary to bear in mind that awards are also means for encouraging a writer, Professor, Doctor of ...ARMENIA TO TAKE PART IN UN FOOD ORGANIZATION’S SUMMIT IN ITALY
Armenian delegation led by Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has left for Italy to take part in UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Summit, Government’s press service reports. Among delegation members ...VAHAN SHIRKHANYAN: DASHNAKTSUTYUN IS NOT OPPOSITION WHILE ANC HAS NO IDEOLOGY
Had opposition turned to people on September 1-2 and kept them in streets for a couple of days, Armenian-Turkish Protocols wouldn’t have been signed, member of Social-Democratic Hnchakyan Party Vahan ...ARMENIA, GERMANY TO EXTEND COOPERATION
Secretary of National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan received November 16 Hans-Jochen Schmidt, newly appointed German Ambassador to Armenia. During the meeting, parties discussed issues concerning ...DOсANDO FULL CONTACT KARATE CUP LAUNCHES IN ARMENIA
On November 21, Armenia will host Kata championship, followed bы November 22 Doсando committee championship, Gor Vardanyan’s sports school director Karen Karapetyan told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. ...IRAN’S NUCLEAR POWER PLANT NOT TO BE LAUNCHED IN 2009
The Nuclear Power Plant of Bushehr, Iran, will not be launched in 2009, said RF Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko. “We anticipate serious results by year end, however, plant is not expected to be launched ...SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER CALLS ON ERDOGAN TO PREVENT SPREAD OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN TURKEY
Organization Simon Wiesenthal Center send a huge number of appeals to the office of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the central committee of the ruling Justice and Development Party ...ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION TO BE INITIATED ON MARIAM SUKHUDYAN CASE
Additional investigation will be initiated on “S.O.S Teghut” movement activist Mariam Sukhudyan’s case. Investigator Vigen Mesropyan, responsible for case-related investigative actions, was put in charge ...BINYAMIN NETANYAHU: TURKISH PRIME MINISTER DID NOT STRENGTHEN PERCEPTION OF HONEST MEDIATOR
France is Israel's preferred broker for peace negotiations with Damascus, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the cabinet on Sunday as he rejected Syria's call for Turkey to hold such talks. "Israel ...ISTANBUL HOSTED SEMINAR ON 1909 ARMENIAN MASSACRES IN ADANA
On November 6-9, Istanbul hosted conference titled Adana - 1909: History, Memory, and Identity from a Hundred Year Perspective. Discussions brought together scholars from United States, Canada, Great ...ARMENIA’S REVIEWING COURT CANCELS ADMINISTRATIVE COURT’S TEGHOUT CASE RESOLUTION
Armenia’s reviewing court cancelled Administrative court’s Teghout case resolution, Ecolur reported, citing Human Rights Protection and Democratization Institute president Arpine Galafyan. In summer ...TURKISH JOURNALIST CALLED KARABAKH ARMENIAN LAND
Turkish Akçam's journalist Nagahen Alçı's statement about Nagorno Karabakh mounted a new anti-Armenian hysteria in Azerbaijan. Turkish journalist was recently on a visit to Stepanakert where she ...STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES DISCUSSED SOCIAL INTEGRATION ISSUES WITH VIVACELL-MTC REPRESENTATIVES
Within the frameworks “International Week of Education” and International Month of Disabled People, VivaCell-MTC representatives have today received 50 university students with special needs. Meeting ...TWO ARMENIAN GRANDMASTERS TO TAKE PART WORLD CUP-2009 CHESS TOURNAMENT
World cup chess-2009 will be held from November 20 to December 14 in Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia), 128 players from different countries will take part in the cup. Olympic champions Gabriel Sargsyan (2676) ...4TH TRADITIONAL MEMORIAL OF VACHIK MKRTCHYAN FINISHED
4th Traditional Memorial, dedicated to the memory of an international master of sports in boxing Vachik Mkrtchyan, finished. The tournament was attended by 122 boxers of 16-17 years from all regions of ...ARONYAN HOLDS FIRM POSITION IN QUICK CHESS GAME TOURNAMENT
Moscow hosts Fourth Tal Memorial Championship from November 4 to 18. Fourth robin tournament of XXI category has already came to end. The second round – world quick game championship – will last from ...UNIBANK DOUBLES TIME DEPOSITS’ VOLUME
As of the end of October 2009, Unibank’s time deposit volume increased almost twice, exceeding AMD 76,26 billion, the bank’s press service reported. Within the period indicated, individual deposits’ volume ...
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