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Headlines for November 25, 2011OCCUPY PROTESTERS CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING
In San Francisco, 400 occupiers at a plaza in the financial district were served traditional Thanksgiving fixings sent by the renowned Glide Memorial Church to volunteers and supporters of the movement ...$12.2 M PLEDGED AT ALL-ARMENIAN FUND'S TELETHON
A sum of USD 12,286,478 was pledged at Hayastan All-Armenian Fund's 14th telethon aired on November 24 on Thanksgiving Day. The show simulcast across the globe through cable, satellite and the Internet ...EGYPT PREPARES FOR NEW PROTEST
Egyptians are preparing to hold another mass rally on Friday to demand that the country's military rulers step aside. According to BBC News, Protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square are demanding that parliamentary ...YEREVAN MUNICIPALITY TO DEAL WITH DISABLE PEOPLE'S MOBILITY PROBLEM
People with special needs constitute 6% of Armenia's population. This figure seems to be strange, as people with special needs constitute 10% of the population on average worldwide, but Armenia suffered ...EPP OBSERVERS NOT QUITE SATISFIED WITH ARMENIA?
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is leaving for Marseilles, France to attend the European People's Party's (EPP) 20th session scheduled for December 6-8, the local daily Zhoghovurd reported. "The ...REPUBLICAN PARTY RESPONDS TO HERITAGE LEADER
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has responded to the opposition Heritage party leader, Raffi Hovhannisyan's recent call on the president to ensure free and fair elections in Armenia. In ...ARMENIAN FM HOLDS MEETINGS IN DENMARK
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Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian, who arrived on an official visit to Denmark Nov. 24, held a meeting with his Danish counterpart Villy Søvndal. The Danish FM congratulated his Armenian counterpart ...ARMENIA SIGNS COOPERATION PLAN WITH CSTO
The secretary of Armenia's National Security Council, Artur Baghdasryan, has concluded a cooperation plan with CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha. The document signed on the bases of previously ...NO REGIONAL PROJECT WITHOUT AZERBAIJAN, SAYS OFFICIAL
Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Mnister Araz Azimov has ruled out the possibility of implementing any projects in the South Caucasus region without his country's involvement. "Azerbaijan is as good as ...ARMENIAN COMMUNITIES IN GEORGIA NEED ATTENTION - MP
In allocating money from Armenia's state budget, as well as from various funds, the Armenian community in Georgia, 75 villages with a population reaching 500,000, should be considered. At his meeting ...BAKO SAHAKYAN MEETS ARMENIAN VETERANS IN US
President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR, Artsakh) Bako Sahakyan met on Thursday with several members of the US Armenian Veterans Association in Los Angeles. According to a press release by the ...NAGORNO-KARABAKH PRESIDENT MEETS WITH US ARMENIAN VETERANS ASSOCIATION MEMBERS
Nov. 23, President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Bako Sahakyan held a meeting in Los Angeles, USA, with members of the US Armenian Veterans Association. The sides discussed the development of ...SOLUTION TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT MUST BE DEBATED BY ARMENIAN, AZERI PUBLIC - GÖRAN LENNMARKER
In an interview with the Azerbaijan-based APA News Agency, the former president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Chairman of the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation Göran Lennmarker stated the following ...ELECTORAL PROCESSES NOT TO FRUSTRATE KARABAKH PEACE DEAL - AZERI OFFICIAL
The scheduled elections in the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries, as well as in Armenia and Azerbaijan, cannot impede the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement process, according to Araz Azimov, the ...EARTHQUAKE IN ARMENIA'S SOUTH
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake rocked Armenia's southern province at 11:54 Yerevan time. According to the Emergency Situations Ministry's Seismic Protection Service, the strongest jolts were registered 33 ...ARMENIAN DEPUTY FM MEETS WITH CSTO SEC GEN
Armenian Deputy FM Shavarsh Kocharyan held a meeting Nov. 25 with Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolay Bordyuzha. The sides discussed the preparations for a ...BEAUTIFUL PROJECT'S MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERED AT TELETHON 2011 (VIDEO)
The Beautified Project's music video of the song Kilikia was premiered live during the Hayastan All-Armenian Funds 2011's Telethon yesterday night. The music video was shot in Armenia's Akhatala Monastery ...AUSTRALIA APPROVES $11.5 BN BREWERY DEAL
Australia's government approved on Friday SABMiller's A$11.5 billion ($11.2 billion) deal to acquire Foster's Group Ltd under foreign acquisitions laws, but imposed conditions requiring the company to ...ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS PRESENTS FOREIGN POLICY AGENDA
The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) considers settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and Armenian-Turkish reconciliation to be Armenia's foreign policy priorities, the ANC Vladimir Karapetyan ...REPUBLICAN MP ELABORATES ON ARMENIA'S FOREIGN POLICY TRENDS
Armenia's foreign policy is aimed at maintaining balance and peaceful co-existence through the involvement of foreign policy tools and socio-economic resources, according to Artak Zakaryn, a lawmaker ...THAILAND WARNS FACEBOOKERS NOT TO 'LIKE' OFFENSIVE POSTS
A government minister in Thailand has warned Facebook users that anyone pressing the "like" button on posts that might be offensive to the monarchy could be prosecuted under the country's strict ...HOLLAND MULLS INVITING GUL TO 400TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
Holland is considering inviting Turkish president Abdullah Gul for the 400th anniversary of relations between Holland and Turkey, According to the Assyrian International News Agency. At a parliamentary ...ARMENIA'S HERITAGE PARTY VS MADRID PRINCIPLES
The Heritage party's position on Armenian-Turkish relations is similar to that of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D): Armenia must reject the Armenian-Turkish protocols as they ...SYRIA UNREST: ARAB LEAGUE OBSERVER ULTIMATUM PASSES
An Arab League deadline for Syria to allow an observer mission or face sanctions has passed with no response from Damascus to the ultimatum, BBC News reported.
The deadline was set for 11:00 GMT. Earlier, ...OPPOSITION ADOPTS DECLARATION, DEMANDING PRESIDENT TO RESIGN
Opposition alliance Armenian National Congress (or HAK) adopted a declaration during its rally late on Friday with which it demands the resignation of the incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan.
Reporting ...TIME FOR NEW TACTICS IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS
An interlude in trilateral meetings related to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process can now be observed. However, this does not mean that no further meetings should be expected or that Russia will not ...ARMENIAN COLUMNIST FOR REFORMS 'AT ANY COST'
One of President Serzh Sargsyan's "political managers" said the other day that the president and his team plan a revolution. "But it was a lie," the columnist Tigran Paskevichyan ...NEXT YEAR MUST BE YEAR OF REAL REFORMS IN ARMENIA - OPPOSITIONIST
Over the recent four years, the ruling regime has proved it is unable to resolve the country's problems. Emigration is growing, while the authorities are busy reproducing themselves, Chairman of the ...RULING REGIME IS WEAK AND SET FOR DESTRUCTION, SAYS LEVON TER-PETROSYAN
Recent reshufflings and firings of high-level officials attest that the incumbent regime is weak, leader of the opposition alliance Armenian National Congress Levon Ter-Petrosyan said at a rally on Liberty ...RUSSIA TO OFFER DOMESTIC GAS PRICE TO BELARUS BY 2014
Belarus will start paying the same gas price as Russian consumers, benefitting from an integration discount, by 2014, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday after a meeting with Belarus' ...ARMENIA'S BUDGET PROVES THE COUNTRY IS IN DEEP CRISIS - VAHAGN KHACHATRYAN
Armenia's 2012 budget proves that the country is in a deep crisis and that it is not a social budget at all, activist of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) Vahagn Khachatryan has said.
Speaking ...DRUGMAKER MERCK CHALLENGES FACEBOOK AFTER 'LOSING' PAGE
The German drugmaker Merck KGaA has begun legal action against Facebook after discovering what its lawyer described as the "the apparent takeover of its Facebook page".
According to BBC News, ...ARMENIA'S ARONIAN LOSES MIKHAIL TAL MEMORIAL CUP TO CARLSEN
Armenia's chess grandmaster Levon Aronian has played draw with Ian Nepomniachtchi at the Mikhail Tal Memorial World Chess Championship and with his 5.5 points shares the first place with Magnus Carlsen. ...PUTIN COMPLAINS OF 'DIFFICULT AND NASTY' WORK
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, widely seen as the winner in next year's presidential elections, said on Friday his work was "difficult and nasty," RIA Novosti reported.
At a meeting ...TURKEY 'READY FOR ACTION' AS SYRIA DEADLINE EXPIRES
Turkey said it could tolerate no more bloodshed in Syria and it was ready to take action with Arab powers if President Bashar al-Assad failed to take steps towards ending the crackdown on pro-democracy ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1814 The English-Persian treaty was signed in Teheran. England promises to do everything to have the Treaty of Gyulistan (between Russia and Persia) reconsidered.
- 1815 Birth of Mkrtich Emin (armenologist) in New Jugha (Armenia). He died in 1890 in Moscow.
- 1895 Birth of Anastas Mikoyan (Bolshevik politician) in Sanahin near Alaverdi. He died in 1978.
- 1936 Stalin's Constitution is proclaimed.
- 1945 Inauguration of "Victory" bridge in Yerevan.
- 1962 Death of Goorgen Mkheetarian, writer and publicist. He was born in 1890.
- 1963 Meeting of the History Institute of the Armenian SSR's Academy of Sciences (devoted to the friendship of Transcaucasian peoples) with parallel bodies in the Georgian SSR and Azerbaijan SSR under the aegis of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1980 Inauguration of Yerevan's Alexander Miasnikyan monument.
- 1989 Gorbachov imposes martial law in Yerevan and Baku.
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