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Headlines for December 10, 2011TURKEY WARNS SYRIA NOT TO PROVOKE REGIONAL CRISIS
Turkey warned Syria on Friday it would act to protect itself if a Syrian government crackdown on protesters threatened regional security and unleashed a tide of refugees on its borders, Reuters reported. ...ARMENIAN ACTIVISTS TO PROTEST OUTSIDE RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN YEREVAN
Armenian activists have created a group in the social networking website Facebook, saying they will hold a protest in support of the Russian oppositionists outside the Russian embassy in Yerevan at midday ...PROTESTS AGAINST ELECTION FRAUD KICK OFF IN RUSSIA'S FAR EAST
Some 150 people took to the streets in Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok on Saturday to protest against the alleged fraud in Sunday's parliamentary vote, local police said. According to RIA novosti, ...CHIEF OF MILITARY POLICE SACKED
The chief of the Defense Ministry's Military Police, Aram Ter-Sahakyan, was sacked yesterday evening, the local daily Hraparak reported, citing its sources. Ter-Sahakyan. who was appointed to the post ...UN CLIMATE TALKS HEADING TO DEAL
Nations at the UN climate talks appear to be edging their way to agreeing that a process towards a new carbon-cutting deal should start in the New Year, BBC News reported. A draft text circulated by ...THREE COALITION MEMBERS VOTE DOWN ARF-D'S NO CONFIDENCE BID
The local newspaper Zhoghovurd says it has learned from sources that three lawmakers from the ruling coalition have abstained in the vote of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun's (ARF-D) ...ROME PARCEL BOMB INJURES EQUITALIA TAX OFFICIAL
A parcel bomb has exploded at a tax collection office in the Italian capital Rome, injuring the director, BBC News reported. Officials at the Equitalia agency said the blast shattered a glass desktop, ...SOUTH-OSSETIA'S PRESIDENT-ELECT RESIGNS
The winner of South Ossetia's presidential run-off, Alla Jioeva, has said President elect Edward Kokoiti has agreed to resign from post. According to the Georgian news website Aspny.ge, Kookoity and ...RUSSIAN ELECTION: MOSCOW BRACED FOR FRESH PROTESTS
Moscow is braced for what the opposition claims will be the biggest demonstration in Russia for 20 years, according to BBC News. Tens of thousands are expected to gather in a square south of the Kremlin, ...DECEMBER 10 ANNIVERSARY OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
The United Nations Universal Declaration for Human Rights was adopted 63 years ago on this day. The document arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global ...DECEMBER 10 TRIPLE HOLIDAY FOR NAGORNO-KARABAKH
The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) celebrates three holidays today: the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and two national holidays - the independence referendum anniversary and ...COURT RULES TO DETAIN PRESIDENT OF NAREKATSI ART UNION FOR 2 MONTHS
A Yerevan court has ruled to use arrest as a measure of restraint in relation to Narek Hartunyan, President of Narekatsi Art Union. The Court of First Instance of Nork-Marash administrative district ...OPPOSITION ALLIANCE TO HOLD PROCESSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) is planning to hold a procession later today to celebrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights anniversary. It's the fourth year the activists of ...FULL LUNAR ECLIPSE TO SUPERSIZE MOON ON SATURDAY
A total lunar eclipse will occur early Saturday morning, Dec10, casting the moon into shadow and making it appear bright red and supersized, Fox News reported. In North America, skywatchers located in ...POLICE IDENTIFY STUDENTS FIGHTING AND FIRING IN SLAVONIC UNIVERSITY
Investigators have identified the students who were involved near the Armenian-Russian (Slavonic) University. The university's fire inspector told the police that he saw how sophomores Arthur S. and ...TALIBAN DEPUTY COMMANDER CONFIRMS TALKS WITH AFGHANISTAN
The deputy commander of the Pakistan Taliban, who have been waging a four-year war against the government in Islamabad, confirmed the two sides were in peace talks, Tribune reported. "Our talks are going ...JODIE FOSTER'S FATHER SENTENCED GETS 5 YEARS IN PRISON
Jodie Foster's estranged father has been sentenced to five years in prison for a 100,000-dollar property scam, The Times of India reported. Lucius Foster was sentenced in a Los Angeles courtroom after ...TODAY MARKS WORLD SOCCER DAY
The World Soccer Day is celebrated every year on Daecember 10 by the decision of the United Nations. The first records on football trace back to ancient China. They describe a practice known as cuju, ...PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE HOSTS FAREWELL FOR LEBANESE LEADER
President Serzh Sargsyan hosted today a farewell reception for his Lebanese counterpart, Michel Sleiman, who was in Armenia on an official visit. According to a press release by the presidential office, ...A JUST RUSSIA NOMINATES PRO-KREMLIN MIRONOV FOR PRESIDENT
The center-left A Just Russia party decided to nominate its leader Sergei Mironov as a candidate for the presidency, the party's Duma faction leader Nikolay Levichev said on Saturday, RIA Novosti reported. ...KVANT COLLEGE OPENS RESEARCH CENTER IN YEREVAN
Yerevan-based Kvant College, which is well-known in the city, has opened a research center. The college has seen significant support by Armenian Youth Foundation (AYF) with the renovation, as well as ...CROWDS GATHERING FOR MOSCOW PROTESTS (LIVE STREAM)
Thousands of protesters have gathered in Moscow in a show of anger over disputed parliamentary polls. The opposition says the protest - on an island just south of the Kremlin - could become the largest ...ARMENIA TO SEE A NEW WAVE OF UPRISING IN FEBRUARY, SAYS OPPOSITIONIST
Armenia will see a new wave of protests in February next year, an activist of the opposition alliance of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) has said. Nikol Pashinyan made the statement on Liberty Square ...ARMENIA'S MOST URGENT RIGHTS ISSUE IS LACK OF FAIR TRIAL - OMBUDSMAN
The most urgent human rights problem in Armenia since independence has been lack of fair trial, Armenia's human rights defender has said at an expo dedicated to the Human Rights Day in Yerevan. Karen ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1827 Russian officers premiere - in Yerevan's Sardar Palace - Griboedov's (Russian Ambassador in Persia) comedy "Grief of the Mind".
- 1864 The Senate exiles Meekael Nalbandyan (author and political activist) to Kamish.
- 1901 Start of the Armenian Students' Congress in Riga (Latvia). Stepan Shahoomyan heads the revolutionary social-democrat block at the ten-day meeting.
- 1903 Birth of Goorgen Janibekyan (actor). He died in 1956.
- 1917 The Caucasian Army's Second Assembly opens in Tbilissi. Decisions are taken on Soviet governance in the Caucasus.
- 1920 The Revolutionary Committee of the Armenian SSR nationalizes banks.
- 1922 Opening of the First Council of the Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Transcaucasus. The next congresses took place in 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1931, and 1935.
- 1991 Artsakh holds a referendum on independence in the presence of foreign observers subject to the Soviet laws in legal effect at the time. 82% of the electorate (as determined by the latest available census of January 1989) voted 99.7% in favor of secession according to the 1990 04 03 Soviet law that was valid and internationally recognized at that time. Based on the results, independence is declared by the Supreme Council on 1992 01 06.
- 1998 Death of Manouk Atoyan (engineer) in Javakhk (Georgia). He was born in 1925.
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