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Headlines for March 17, 2012US NAMES AFGHAN KILLINGS SUSPECT
The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a massacre that has undermined relations with Kabul has been named as Staff Sgt Robert Bales, BBC reported. Senior US officials told the BBC the ...ANNAN SEEKS SYRIA MONITOR MISSION
The UN and Arab League envoy on Syria, Kofi Annan, says he is sending a team to Damascus to discuss setting up a new international monitoring mission, according to BBC. After briefing the Security Council ...CHAVEZ RETURNS HOME AFTER SURGERY
President Hugo Chavez returned to Venezuela on Friday after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba, CNN reported. He stepped from the plane, embracing many who had gathered to greet him, smiling and shaking ...TIGRAN TOROSYAN NOT TO RUN FOR PARLIAMENT
Former Speaker of Parliament Tigran Torosyan has not been invited to attend the Prosperous Armenia Party congress, Haykakan Zhamanak reports. Torosyan told the daily he will not run in the elections either ...HOW MUCH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS WILL COST?
The upcoming parliamentary elections will cost the state budget AMD 977 552 500, CEC Chief of Staff Levon Grigoryan told Zhamanak daily.TOKHMAKHI MHER RESISTS BEING PHOTOGRAPHED
Former prefect of Erebuni administrative district Mher Sedrakyan (Tokhmakhi Mher) was indignant at being photographed by Haykakan Zhamanak daily's photographer in front of RPA central office yesterday, ...KOCHARYAN ARRANGES PUTIN'S SPEECH
According to Hraparak daily, second Armenian President Robert Kocharyan is currently in Moscow. The exact purpose of the visit is not known, however, taking into consideration the fact that Vladimir Putin ...DISAGREEMENTS BETWEEN ORINATS YERKIR FEMALE CANDIDATES
Disagreements have broken out between female candidates in Orinats Yerkir Party, Yerkir reports. The first female candidate on the party list is Heghine Bisharyan, and a quarrel broke out over the second ...ROADS MAINLY PASSABLE IN ARMENIA
All the roads of inter-state and republican significances and mountain passes are mainly passable in Armenia as of March 17, 08:30. Ministry of Emergency Situations reported Berd-Chambarak road and Selim ...WIKILEAKS ASSANGE TO RUN FOR SEAT IN AUSTRALIAN SENATE
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate in elections due late next year despite being under virtual house arrest in England and facing criminal charges in Sweden, ...9 THOUSAND ENVOYS INVITED TO PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY CONVENTION
The 6th early convention of Prosperous Armenia Party will kick off in sport & concert complex after K. Demirchyan. Currently PA members and envoys are arriving at the meeting place. Naira Zohrabyan, ...GEORGE CLOONEY RELEASED FROM JAIL
George Clooney, his father, Nick, and other activists who were arrested at the Sudanese embassy in Washington on Friday were released from jail the same afternoon, msnbc.com reported. He went on to say, ...AZERBAIJANI ARMY INTENSIVELY VIOLATES CEASEFIRE MARCH 13,14
The Azerbaijani army violated ceasefire regime at the line of contact between Karabakh and Azerbaijani troops around 350 times over the past week, firing more than 2300 shots towards Armenian defensive ...BIN LADEN PLOTTED TO KILL OBAMA
Osama bin Laden pushed his organization to develop plans to kill President Obama in the belief that the United States would tumble into chaos, Washington Post reported. The al-Qaeda chief's analysis of ...PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN TO VISIT MOSCOW
President Serzh Sargsyan will pay a working visit to Moscow on March 19 to attend the EurAsEC Interstate Council meeting. The EurAsEC Interstate Council meeting will be attended by heads of EurAsEC member ...BORIS GRIZLOV'S ADDRESS INTRODUCED IN PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY CONVENTION
Prosperous Armenia Party's 6th convention kicked off in sport & concert complex after K. Demirchyan. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan is attending the convention. Head of RPA faction Galust Sahakyan, ...IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA: ARMENIA'S ROLE IN REGIONAL STABILITY IS PIVOTAL
Religious coloring for the conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh is unacceptable, Iranian news agency IRAS quotes Iran's Ambassador to Armenia Seyyed Ali Saghaia as saying in an interview with Regnum. Asked how ...STAGE OF STATE ACADEMIC OPERA AND BALLET THEATRE TO BE REPAIRED
Austrian experts arrive in Armenia next week to repair the stage of State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Armenia after A. Spendiaryan. The renovation work will resume in April-May, head of the theatre ...HAK SAYS ALLIANCE LIST TO BE REVEALED SOON
Armenian National Congress (HAK) will soon release the proportional list of the alliance, Arman Musinyan, spokesman for HAK leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan, told Panorama.am. Asked to comment on rumors that ...ARTSAKH PRESIDENT SIGNS SERIES OF LAWS
Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan signed laws on making amendments and addenda to the NKR laws "Regulations of the National Assembly," "On Legal Acts," on making an amendment to the law "On State ...TWIN BOMBINGS IN DAMASCUS KILL AT LEAST 27
Twin explosions have shaken the Syrian capital, killing at least 27 people and injuring up to 100, Syrian TV says, quoting the country's health minister. Syrian media has dubbed the blasts "terrorist ...BAKO SAHAKYAN MEETS WITH ARMENIAN MINISTER OF EDUCATION ARMEN ASHOTYAN
Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan met with a delegation led by Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia Armen Ashotyan.
At the meeting, the sides discussed development of ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1863 The Sultan confirms the shortened version of the National Constitution of Western Armenians.
- 1863 Turkish government approves the 1860 05 24 "National Constitution" with severe restrictions and censorship.
- 1865 Birth of Manuk Abeghyan (linguist) in Astapat, Nakhichevan (Armenia). He died in 1944.
- 1872 Birth of Nathan Amirkhanian (Knyazev), composer, conductor, organist and teacher. He was a Director of the Odessa Opera and also organized Armenian Choirs in Baku.
- 1898 Russia's committee of Ministries decides to give Armenian school properties to the state authorities.
- 1922 Birth in Alexandropol (Gyoomree) of Sergey Hambardzoomian, mechanics scholar and academician. He was Vice-President of the Armenian Academy of Science, and Rector of Yerevan State University.
- 1962 Khojivank's Cemetery of Tbilisi, which had long since become a park by this time, was now to be called the Armenian Pantheon of Culture. Thirty four remains (Toomanian, Aghayan, Mooratsan, Jivany, Akhverdian, Oganezashvily and others) lie here. The first to be interred was the Great Komitas, who had died in a Paris asylum - after losing his mind on receivng the news of the 1915 Genocide.
- 1963 Sixth Election of the Armenian SSR's Supreme Soviet.
- 1975 Birth of Alexander Jivelegov, in New Nakhitshevan (Rostov, Russia). He was a historian, art and literature critic, translator, and corresponding member of the Armenian Academy of Science.
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