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Headlines for February 10, 2012
PUTIN ELECTION FUND NEARS $13 MILLION
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received over 378 million rubles ($12.7 million) as contributions to his election fund, the Central Election Commission said on Friday, Feb 10.
The document, published ...ARMENIANS IN TURKEY CALL FOR PROTECTION OF SHRINES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
Malatya Municipality's recent demolition of a Final Prayer chapel at an Armenian cemetery has spurred Turkish Armenians into action about other at-risk sites all around the country, Hürriyet Daily ...RUSSIA OFFERS U.S. TO SIGN EXTRADITION TREATY
Russia proposes that the United States sign a bilateral extradition treaty or join existing international conventions, Russian Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov said on Friday, Feb 10.
"The Justice ...OIL PRICES BELOW $100 AMID ENCOURAGING NEWS ON U.S. ECONOMY
Oil prices hovered below $100 a barrel Friday, Feb 10, in Asia as encouraging news about the U.S. economy was tempered by European demands for Greece to make further spending cuts before getting a new ...HOSPITALIZED S. OSSETIAN OPPOSITION LEADER SUSPECTED OF COUP ATTEMPT
South Ossetian opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva, who suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized during police questioning late on Thursday, is suspected of a 2011 coup attempt, according to the republic's ...LA POLICE AFTER MAN THREATENING TO KILL MADONNA
Police are asking for the public's help in locating a man who was convicted of threatening to kill Madonna and walked away from a Los Angeles-area mental hospital last week. Robert Hoskins, 54, is ...IRANIAN DISSIDENT CARTOONIST VOWS TO FIGHT REGIME
Iranian dissident cartoonist Mana Neyestani says drawing has been his salvation and a weapon to combat his own personal demons as well as Tehran's hardline Islamist regime. Neyestani's autobiographical ...ISTANBUL HOSTS VAN GOGH ALIVE EXHIBIT
Van Gogh Alive, an international traveling exhibition that presents the life and work of the 19th-century Dutch artist in a novel perspective, opened in Istanbul on Feb 9. According to Today's Zaman, ...CHRISTIE'S ANNOUNCES THIRD ANNUAL GREEN AUCTION
Christie's International announced the third annual Green Auction: BID to Save the Earth, to be hosted by Christie's at Rockefeller Center on April 11, 2012, just two weeks before Earth Day, Art Daily ...FBI RELEASES FILES OF STEVE JOBS, WHOSE MORALITY "QUESTIONED"
The FBI files of Steve Jobs have been released, showing a man who commanded respect as an innovator but was questioned on his honesty and morality, BBC reports.
The file was prepared on the Apple founder ...CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER, FRANK LANGELLA TO STAR IN MUHAMMAD ALI FILM
Christopher Plummer, who could walk away with the first Oscar of his long career in just a few weeks, has closed a deal to star in HBO Films' Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, which is being directed by ...AUSTRALIA TAKES 2-0 LEAD OVER CHINA IN DAVIS CUP TIE
Straight sets wins for Lleyton Hewitt and Bernard Tomic on Friday, Feb 10, gave Australia a 2-0 lead over China in their best-of-five Davis Cup tie, AFP reported. Veteran two-time grand slam winner Hewitt ...ARMENIA'S ZVARTNOTS AIRPORT CANCELS ALL FLIGHTS
Armenia's Zvartnots International Airport has canceled all flights due to bad weather conditions.
"All takeoffs and landings have been canceled," Nelly Cherchinyan, a spokesperson for the General Department ...VIDEO GAME SALES DOWN IN JANUARY
Video game sales plummeted in January, in part because few new games were released during the month, USA Today reported. Total sales of games, game systems and accessories dropped 34% for the month, ...
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Today in Armenian history- 440 Death of Mesrop Mashtots, the creator of the Armenian alphabet.
- 1828 Signature of the agreement proposed by the Persian Monarch. It was concluded at Turkmenchay. According to this agreement, the Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828 was terminated. Yerevan and Nakhijevan, as well as the whole of Transcaucasia, were joined to Russia.
- 1918 The Transcaucasian Seim opens in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1935 Birth of Zori Balayan (physician, Artsakh movement activist).
- 1939 Death of Archbishop Torgom Gooshakian of Jerusalem. He was a literary figure and philologist .
- 1950 Death of Armen Tigranyan (composer) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1879.
- 1960 Completion of the Karadak-Kazakh-Yerevan gas pipeline. The torch at Yerevan's Lenin square is lit.
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