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Published on February 18, 2012
PM DISCUSSES RPA ELECTORAL PROGRAM IN ASHTARAK
- Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has paid a visit on Saturday to Aragatsotn region. Panorama.am correspondent tells RPA activists and local people are discussing the party's electoral program. The participants of the discussion have received special leaflets where they can write their suggestions, opinions on country's domestic and foreign policy, economy, education and other fields. Republican MP Gagik Minasyan, Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasyan and Economy Minister Tigran Davtyan are accompanying the PM.
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Headlines for February 18, 2012SNOWSTORM HITS SOME REGIONS OF ARMENIA
Roads and mountain passes are mainly passable in Armenia as of 09:00, the Ministry of Transport and Communication reported. Berd-Chambarak road and Selim Mountain Pass are impassable. A heavy snowstorm ...SYRIAN TROOPS SHELL HOMS
Syrian troops intensively shelled rebel-held neighborhoods in the restive central city of Homs Friday and killed at least 13 people, activists said, as Britain and France sought more international support ...WHITNEY HOUSTON'S FUNERAL TODAY
Pop star Whitney Houston will be laid to rest on Saturday after an invitation-only memorial service at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, where Houston groomed her voice singing in the ...IRANIAN NAVAL SHIPS ENTER MEDITERRANEAN
Two Iranian naval ships have sailed through Egypt's Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, in a move likely to be keenly watched by Israel, Reuters reported. "Two Iranian ships crossed through the Suez ...PM DISCUSSES RPA ELECTORAL PROGRAM IN ASHTARAK
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has paid a visit on Saturday to Aragatsotn region. Panorama.am correspondent tells RPA activists and local people are discussing the party's electoral program. The participants ...UGANDA BECOMES 88TH STATE TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO
Uganda has officially recognized the independence of Kosovo, ITAR-TASS reported. The news was announced at a press conference, where Deputy Prime Minister Behgjet Pacolli announced that Uganda has recognized ...S. TARASOV: MYTHS ABOUT KARABAKH CONFLICT
"Myths about Karabakh conflict" book by Stanislav Tarasov has been published, "Regnum" news agency reported. The book includes collection of stories authored by Tarasov. The book unveils frauds formed ...ZHOGHOVURD: ARAM MANUKYAN INTERROGATED
Zhoghovurd daily writes that the Special Investigation Service invited Board Chairman of Armenian National Movement Aram Manukyan for interrogation Friday. "In Hrazdan mayoral elections Aram Manukyan, ...168 ZHAM: DALLAKYAN HASN'T DECIDED YET ON ELECTIONS
MP Viktor Dallakyan (elected in electoral district No.30 in Vanadzor) told 168 Zham daily that he has not yet finally decided on the forthcoming parliamentary elections. He also refused to comment on ...YVU CONGRESS KICKED OFF
Yerkrapah Volunteer Union's 9th congress kicked off in sport&concert complex after K. Demirchyan. Before the Union started its main activities, the flags of the Republic of Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh ...HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: VIKTOR SOGHOMONYAN NOT TO BE ON PAP LIST
Spokesman for the Prosperous Armenia Party Khachik Galstyan refuted media reports that spokesman for second President of Armenia Viktor Soghomonyan will be third on the PAP proportional list. Galstyan ...CLINTON: USA COOPERATES WITH OSCE MG TO RESOLVE NK CONFLICT
"USA cooperates with OSCE Minsk Group partners to resolve the conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh," APA news agency quotes US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as saying. According to the source Hillary Clinton ...ZHOGHOVURD: GAGIK KHACHATRYAN'S SON-IN-LAW TO HEAD CIVIL AVIATION?
According to Zhoghovurd daily, head of the Civil Aviation of Armenia Artyom Movsisyan has been fired from his job. Daily's sources say that the son-in-law of head of the State Revenue Committee Gagik ...CORRESPONDENTS OF IRANIAN FARS AND SAHAR ARRESTED IN AZERBAIJAN
Journalists of Iranian "FARS" news agency and "Sahar" TV station have been arrested, Iranian "FARS" news agency reported. Azerbaijan's national security ministry officers have arrested a correspondent ...HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: PROSECUTOR PERFORMS POLE DANCE
Prosecutor of Armavir region David Baroyan was fired on Friday for improper conduct at a night club. Haykakan Zhamanak writes that Baroyan stripped and performed a pole dance at the club, then he made ...MANVEL GRIGORYAN ELECTED YVU CHAIRMAN
Yerkrapah Volunteer Union elected Manvel Grigoryan as the union's chairman, Panorama.am correspondent told as YVU is having its 9th congress in sport&concert complex.RPA STILL DISCUSSES PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION
"The Republican Party of Armenia is still discussing proportional representation in the elections; the media reports are not true," RPA spokesperson Eduard Sharmazanov told a Panorama.am reporter, commenting ...ARTSAKH PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES VAHAGN HOVNANIAN ON 80TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan sent a congratulatory letter to famous entrepreneur and philanthropist, President of Hovnanian International Ltd Vahagn Hovnanian, presidential press office said. ...FENERBAHCE PRESIDENT: IF THEY CAN PROVE THESE ALLEGATIONS, I WILL JUMP OFF A BRIDGE
Fenerbahce president Aziz Yildirim has threatened to throw himself from a bridge, should the prosecution be able to prove match-fixing allegations against him, Goal.com reported. Yildirim is currently ...SERZH SARGSYAN: TO SUCCEED, WE HAVE TO BELIEVE
President Serzh Sargsyan participated today at the 9th Convention of the Volunteer Homeland Defenders Union which took place at the Karen Demirjian Sport and Concert Complex. At the Convention, the President ...PROCESSION TO MARK 8TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN OFFICER GURGEN MARGARYAN'S MURDER
Yerablur will host a procession on Monday to mark the 8th anniversary of murder of Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan, Chairman of the Young Union of Yerevan State University Alumni Gevorg Melkonyan told ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1853 Birth of Christapor Kara Murza (composer and conductor) in Gharazubazar (Crimea, Ukraine) . He died in 1902.
- 1856 After the Crimean War, Sultan Abdul Mejid of Turkey signed an Edict on the security of life for the non-Muslim peoples of the Ottoman Empire. This Proclamation, the goal of which was to prevent possible Russian intervention, did not change the Armenians' situation at all.
- 1856 Sultan Abdul Megid publishes the "Hatti Hoomayoon" reform plan as the second statement of the "Tanzimat". No reforms took place.
- 1877 Birth of academician and author, Derenik Demirtjian. He died in 1956.
- 1879 Creation of the "Cilician Society" benevolent organization. Its purpose was the spread of national education in Cilicia. The founders were Minas Sheraz, Karapet Karakyan, Hrant Asatoor, Hakob Nazaryan, and others.
- 1918 Andranik's small force arrives in Erzroom (Western Armenia). It could not repel the attack of the 25 000-strong Turkish Army. It fought a rear-guard action and managed to save many refugees by bringing them to the Caucasus.
- 1920 Foundation of the Armenian Government Red Cross.
- 1921 Revolt against the Bolshevik government in Armenia.
- 1921 The anti-Bolshevik February Rebellion in Armenia ended in victory for the people.
- 1963 Death of Catholicos Zareh the First of the Cilician See.
- 1977 The monument of Commander Gai (Haik Bjshkiants) is inaugurated in Yerevan.
- 1994 Artsakh forces regain control of the Omar Pass having lost it three months earlier.
- 1994 The Moscow Communique is issued following negotiations among the defense ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Artsakh.
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