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Headlines for January 30, 2012ATTENTION: BERD-CHAMBARAK ROAD IMPASSABLE
Roads are passable in Armenia as of January 30, 08:00, according to the Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations. Berd-Chambarak road and Selim Mountain Pass are impassable.BAN KI-MOON URGES RESPECT FOR GAY RIGHTS
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged African leaders to respect gay rights, BBC reported. Discrimination based on sexual orientation had been ignored or even sanctioned by many states ...HITLER PAINTING SOLD FOR €32,000 AT SLOVAK AUCTION
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A Slovak online auction has just proved that art by the world's most vicious dictator is still considered valuable by some people. On Sunday Hitler's painting 'Maritime Nocturno' fetched €32,000 ...ARMENIA ATTENDS EUROVISION YOUNG MUSICIANS CONTEST
This year Armenia will attend for the first time "Eurovision Young Musicians" international contests, which will take place in Vienne, Armenian Public TV reported. Austria, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, ...SPECIAL COMMISSION TO CHOSE ARMENIA'S CONTESTANT AT EUROVISION 2012
Armenia will choose the contestant and the song to be performed at Eurovision 2012 by March 18, Armenian Public TV reported. Armenian Public TV will choose the contestant by a special commission to be ...WORLD RENOWNED VIOLINIST NIKOLAY MADOYAN TO PERFORM CONCERT IN YEREVAN
The Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a concert with world renowned violinist Nikolay Madoyan at Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall on February 11. The concert will be conducted by Walter John ...FIERCE FIGHTING REPORTED IN DAMASCUS: AL MISSION LEAVES COUNTRY
Syrian troops backed by tanks have reportedly launched an offensive on the outskirts of Damascus, in order to regain control of the area. Activists say over 60 people have been killed - just over a day ...HIS HOLINESS KAREKIN II TRAVELS TO FRANCE, ENGLAND
His Holiness Karekin II Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians has left for a Patriarchal Visit to France and England where he will meet with benefactors of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin ...CONCRETE BALLS COMBAT 'TRAIN SURFING' IN INDONESIA
Railway staff in Indonesia have started hanging concrete balls above train tracks to try to prevent commuters from riding on carriage roofs, according to BBC. The first balls were installed just above ...E. NALBANDIAN: IF TURKEY COMMITTED TO HELP, IT SHOULD KEEP FAR AWAY
If Turkey is sincerely committed to help this process, then it would be better to keep as far as possible, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian said in an interview with Armenian TV channels. Turkish FM Davutoglu ...DJOKOVIC OUTLASTS NADAL IN RECORD-SETTING AUSTRALIAN OPEN FINAL
It took nearly six hours but Novak Djokovic was finally able to beat Rafael Nadal in Sunday's Australian Open Final, according to AHN Sports. In the longest Grand Slam singles final ever, Djokovic prevailed ...SOLDIER OF ARMENIAN ARMY HITS NEW RECORD
On the occasion of 20th anniversary of creation of Armenian Armed Forces, soldier Rubik Mikayelyan has hit a new record doing 7550 press-up in 4 hours and 35 minutes. The record has been logged by a commission ...KRAMNIK SIGNS FRIENDLY MATCH CONTRACT WITH ARONIAN
Vladimir Kramnik announced he has signed a contract for a six-game match in classical chess against Levon Aronian. The match is scheduled on April 21-29. Though a 'friendly' match, it is also a serious ...LEVON ARONIAN WINS TATA STEEL CHESS
Levon Aronian drew with Azerbaijan's Teimour Radjabov in the last, 13th round of Tournament A, Tata Steel Chess in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, and won the tournament. Aronian has twice won the chess tournament ...ARMENIAN FM: TURKEY NOT COMMITTED TO PRACTICAL STEPS
"No secret or open negotiations are being held with Turkey today. It will be possible to hold negotiations when Turkey is committed to practical steps," Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian said in an interview ...VASSILY IVANCHUK: I WAS VERY UPSET THAT I DIDN'T WIN
Ukraine's Vassily Ivanchuk drew with Sergey Karjakin in the last round of Tata Steel Chess in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. "I was very upset that I didn't win the tournament," Ivanchuk said in an interview ...FORMER ITALIAN PRESIDENT OSCAR LUIGI SCALFARO DIES AT 93
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, a long-time Italian politician who served as the European nation's president for much of the 1990s, has died, according to CNN. He was 93. Pope Benedict XVI described Scalfaro as ...NALBANDIAN ASSESSES SOCHI MEETING AS IMPORTANT, EFFICIENT
Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian has assessed the tripartite meeting of Armenia's, Russia's and Azerbaijan's Presidents in Sochi as very important and efficient. "It has been expressed by the joint statement ...EGEMEN BAĞIŞ: I DENY ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, COME AND ARREST ME
Turkey's EU affairs minister has challenged France's genocide denial bill in Switzerland, saying such efforts have no chance of survival, according to Today's Zaman. Egemen Bağış told reporters in Zurich ...FRANCE'S SECOND SLAP AGAINST TURKS
While Turkey is busy with threatening Paris, flags of France are being burned in Azerbaijan, the French have slapped Turks' face second time. PACE has discussed on January 27 the fate of sub-committee ...SOLDIER SHOT DEAD IN ARMY: A SUSPECT ARRESTED
Paylak Shahnazaryan, a soldier of NKR military unit, was shot dead on January 27 at 03:05, Defense Ministry press service informed Panorama.am. A criminal case has been launched and investigation got ...HEAD OF IRAN-AZERBAIJAN FRIENDSHIP UNION DISSATISFIED WITH AZERBAIJAN
Chairman of "Iran-Azerbaijan friendship union" Mir Ghasem Moumeni told Iranian "FARS" news agency the attitude of Azerbaijan's Government was disturbing. The Iranian official said Azerbaijan's state and ...BLOOMBERG: TURKEY EVENTUALLY WILL HAVE TO RECONCILE WITH ARMENIA OVER THE GENOCIDE, ON ITS OWN
Nicolas Sarkozy of France is getting ready to sign a bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian Genocide, "Bloomberg" writes.
"As President Nicolas Sarkozy's own party proposed the legislation, we suspect ...CAROLINA KOSTNER OF ITALY WINS FOURTH EUROPEAN TITLE
Italy's Carolina Kostner continued her stellar season in Sheffield at the 2012 ISU European Figure Skating Championships, taking her fourth title, goldenskate.com reported. Overall, the 24-year-old accumulated ...ARMAN YEREMYAN QUALIFIES FOR OLYMPIC GAMES
Arman Yeremyan has become the first Armenian taekwondo athlete to compete in the Olympic Games by winning the gold medal in Men's under 80kg weight category at the European Qualification Tournament for ...ARMENIAN EDUCATION MINISTRY DONATES TEXTBOOKS TO GEORGIA
The Armenian Ministry of Education and Science has sent textbooks and educational-methodical literature to Armenian schools of Georgia, according to the cooperation agreement between the Education Ministries ...ARMENIAN NATIONAL GALLERY TO HOST IRANIAN MODERN APPLIED ART EXHIBITION
Armenian National Gallery hosts on February 1 Iranian contemporary applied art exhibition which will last till February 7. The exhibition is called "For the Sake of God" and is devoted to the 33rd anniversary ...AIR TEMPERATURE TO GO UP BY 5-8 DEGREES
The weather in Armenia will be conditioned by Western mass influence over the region. Tonight, in separate regions, on the 31st of January, in the whole territory precipitations are expected. Meteo-tv ...UEFA DISQUALIFIES RYBKA FOR TWO YEARS
UEFA has disqualified Oleksandr Rybka, the goalkeeper of the Ukraine national football team and of the Shakhtar Donetsk football club for two years, reads a statement made by the press service of FC Shakhtar ...OSKANIAN: TALK ABOUT MY INVOLVEMENT WITH PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY NOT WITHOUT BASIS
Below we present a statement by former Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian on the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
"I firmly believe that it is of utmost importance that Armenia hold free ...
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Today in Armenian history- 410 Birth of Movses Khorenatsi (historian).
- 1799 Birth of Edward Hyoormoozyan of the Mkhitarist Congregation (Armenian Roman Catholic Order) in Constantinople. He died in 1876 in Rome.
- 1901 Birth of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of Armenia's Communist Party, Aghassee Khanjyan. He was one of the many murdered by Lavrentee Beria in July, 1936 in Tbilisi, where he was invited for consultations.
- 1915 According to statistical data, from the end of 1914 to the beginning of 1915, about 49800 Armenians emigrated from Western Armenia, Persia and the bordering regions of Turkey, to the ten provinces of Yerevan and Tbilisi.
- 1927 First Graduation Ceremony of Yerevan State University students at the Culture House of Yerevan.
- 1975 Opening of the Yeghisheh Charents Museum in Yerevan.
- 2001 French President Jacques Chirac signs the law recognizing the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. From now on, no one in France has the right to deny the fact of the Armenian Genocide.
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