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Headlines for December 22, 2011RUSSIA TO BE A TOP COUNTRY FOR BUSINESS IN 10 YRS - PUTIN
Russia will become one of the best countries for business within the next ten years, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. "We need to outline a quite clear goal - to become one of the world's ...IRAQI PM URGES KURDS TO HAND OVER FUGITIVE VICE
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has urged the Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq to hand over fugitive Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi, BBC News reported. An arrest warrant was issued for Iraq's ...STEVE JOB'S STATUE UNVEILED IN BUDAPEST
A bronze statue of Steve Jobs has been unveiled in the Hungarian capital to honor the Apple co-founder who died on October 5, NDTV reported. The statue is located outside the headquarters of software ...SOUTH CAUCASUS WOULD PROSPEROUS IF NOT REGIONAL CONFLICTS - GEORGIAN VICE SPEAKER
The South Caucasus would among the world's most prosperous regions if not the current conflicts, the first vice speaker of the Georgian Parliament has said. The Georgian news website Aspny.ge has quoted ...TWO TYPES OF CAMERAS TO FOLLOW DRIVERS ON ROADWAYS
Most of the video cameras expected to fix violations of traffic rules in capital Yerevan have been already been installed on the roadways. As the Traffic Police told Tert.am, two types of cameras will ...ICRC REPS VISIT ARMENIAN CAPTIVES IN AZERBAIJAN
Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have visited the Armenian captives in Azerbaijan. The APA News Agency reports that the ICRC representatives visited three Armenian ...GLENDALE POLICE STOP ARMENIAN MEN FOR PETTY THEFT FROM DONATION BOX
A 21-year-old Armenian man who was stopped by the Glendale Police Department to pay a parking ticket ended up leaving with a citation for petty theft after he took a Jenga game from a toy donation box ...YOUTH ACTIVISTS NAME 'LOST SPRING' FILM OF YEAR
The Armenian youth initiative No Silence has named Lost Spring, a documentary telling about the March 2008 post-electoral turmoil in capital Yerevan, the Film of Year. The film, produced by director ...SARCOZY COMMITTING POLITICAL BLUNDER - TURKISH PREMIER
By not responding to Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu's calls, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is committing a political blunder, Turkish Premier Recep Erdogan told journalist. Turkey is planning a number ...STEVE JOBS TO BE HONORED WITH GRAMMY AWARD POSTHUMOUSLY
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will be posthumously honoured with a Grammy award for his contribution to music technology, The Economic Times reported, citing The Recording Academy. Jobs, who died Oct 5 ...BRAZILIAN BABY BORN WITH TWO HEADS
A Brazilian woman who has given birth to a baby with two heads, admitted she had initially expected twins, The Daily Mail reported. Maria de Nazare, gave birth by caesarean at a hospital in Anajas, in ...CONFLAGRATION IN ARMENIA'S TAVUSH
On Dec. 21, a conflagration was reported in grassland near in Tavush, Armenia. The fire destroyed 1,700 hectares of grassland and 300 hectares forest land.SECRET BEHIND DEADLY 'BIRD FLU' OUT?
A super-strain of bird flu that could infect and wipe out millions will not be published by the virologist developers, according to The Daily Mail. Dutch scientists who created the dangerous virus have ...ARMENIA'S PUBLIC TV TO MARK 55TH ANNIVERSARY
On Dec. 24, Armenia's Public Television will mark its 55th anniversary and Public radio its 85th anniversary. Armen Amiryan, Executive Director of Armenia' Public TV, told reporters Dec. 22 that songs ...FRENCH PARLIAMENT HOLDS DEBATE OVER GENOCIDE DENIAL CRIMINALIZATION BILL (VIDEO)
The French National Assembly has started its scheduled debate over the bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide. The draft, authored by lawmaker Valeria Boyer, was recently approved by ...TURKS PROTEST OUTSIDE FRENCH PARLIAMENT AHEAD OF GENOCIDE DENIAL BILL VOTE
Several thousand Franco-Turks demonstrated in central Paris Thursday ahead of a parliamentary vote on a bill that would make it a crime to deny the 1915 mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks was ...ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS OPEN - REP
The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) will remain alone in the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia. The Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) will "snatch" a right to independent ...PASSAGE OF GENOCIDE DENIAL BILL TO HARM AZERBAIJANI-TURKISH RELATIONS - AZERI OFFICIAL
The French National Assembly's possible decision to pass the bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide may negatively affect the Turkish-Azerbaijani relations, a senior official of the Azerbaijan's ...ARMENIAN EDUCATIONIST PRAISES AUTHORITIES
Armenia only benefits from "frozen" relations with Turkey. The relations will remain "frozen" as long as Turkey does not realize it should not consider settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh ...ARMENIAN PREMIER VISITS MODERNIZED YEREVAN TPP
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visited the Yerevan combined-cycle thermal power station. The station generated a total of 1.6bn kwh of energy this Jan-Dec. In 2010, the station generated a total ...FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL CRIMINALIZATION BILL
The bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide has received the the French National Assembly's approval.
Under the legal act proposed by lawmaker Valerie Voyer, anyone on the territory of ...FM NALBANDYAN: FRANCE REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO HUMAN VALUES
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan has issued a statement praising the French parliament's efforts to abide by its commitment to human values by the approval of the Armenian Genocide criminalization ...NO POLITICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN ARMENIA - POLITICIAN
Armenia cannot be proud of political accomplishments this year. "Of importance is, however, the fact that all the parties know about our model of establishing perfect democracy, which has been approved ...BANK OF AMERICA PAYS $335M DAMAGES FOR DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MINORITY HOMEBUYERS
Bank of America has agreed to pay a record $335million to settle civil charges that it discriminated against minority homebuyers, The Daily Mail reported. The banking giant agreed to the payout following ...ARMENIA'S MINISTER OF ENERGY SUMS UP 2011
Armenia's Minister of Energy Armen Movsisyan summed up this year Dec. 22. Before his press conference, Minister Movsisyan awarded diplomas to a number of powermen. The minister said that Armenia's energy ...TURKEY RECALLS AMBASSADOR FROM FRANCE
Turkey is recalling its ambassador to France in retaliation for a vote in French Parliament making it a crime to deny the WWI-era mass killings of Armenians amounts to genocide, The San Fransisco Chronicle ...NO OFFICIAL INFORMATION ON GAS PRICE RISE FOR ARMENIA
At his Dec. 22 meeting with journalists, Armenia's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Armen Movsisyan commented on reports on a rise in gas prices. "Various forecasts have been made. I cannot ...AT LEAST 63 KILLED IN CO-ORDINATED BAGHDAD ATTACKS
A wave of apparently co-ordinated bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 63 people and injured around 185, BBC News reported. The interior ministry told the BBC 14 blasts hit ...ADOPTION OF GENOCIDE BILL WAS ALSO IN FRANCE'S INTEREST, SAYS TURKOLOGIST
French parliament's move to adopt the bill that criminalizes the Armenian Genocide is a new change in genocide's international recognition, a Turkologist has said. Speaking to Tert.am Artak Shakaryan ...FRANCE APPROVES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL: OTHER EU MEMBER-STATES MAY FOLLOW SUIT
Approval of the bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide by the French National Assembly will consolidate Armenian-French relations, Giro Manoyan, Head of the Hay Dat office, Armenian Revolutionary ...US ADMITS MISTAKES OVER KILLINGS OF PAKISTAN TROOPS
The US military has admitted it bears significant responsibility for last month's air strike on the Afghan border that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, BBC News reported. A statement said US and Afghan ...FRANCE-APPROVED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL MOMENTOUS EVENT - ARMENIAN EXPERT
Approval of the bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide is one more proof that France is playing a special role in democracy and human rights protection, Karen Bekaryan, Chairman of the European ...OUTGOING MEDVEDEV PROPOSES SWEEPING POLITICAL REFORMS
Outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev proposed on Thursday a sweeping reform of Russia's political system, including direct elections for regional governors, RIA Novosti reported. "I propose a comprehensive ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION PARTY LASHES OUT AT GOVERNMENT OVER MINING POLICY
Opposition Armenian party Heritage has criticized a government decision to use the cooper-rich area, including five villages, in the southern province of Syunik for mining purposes. In a statement released ...PAKISTAN PLOT TO OVERTHROW GOVERNMENT, SAYS PM GILANI
Conspirators are plotting to bring down Pakistan's civilian government, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said, according to BBC News. Without specifically blaming the military, he said it was accountable ...SAMVEL BABAYAN HAS NOT RETURNED FROM RUSSIA YET - SOURCE
Former Defense Minister of Nagorno Karabakh Samvel Babayan who is said to be in Russia has not returned to Yerevan, sources close to him told Tert.am. "Samvel Babayan has not returned to Yerevan yet. ...TURKEY RETALIATES OVER FRENCH 'GENOCIDE' BILL
The Turkish prime minister has announced measures against France after MPs passed a bill criminalising denial of the 1915-16 Armenian Genocide, BBC News reported. Ankara is recalling its ambassador and ...GENOCIDE BILL ATTESTS TO FRANCE'S MORAL AND POLITICAL POSITION - OPINION
The adoption of the bill that criminalizes the denial of the Armenian Genocide is suggestive of France's political and moral position, an Armenian political analyst has said.
Speaking to Tert.am, Alexander ...MOSCOW BLASTS BAN KI-MOON'S DEFENSE OF LIBYA ACTION
Moscow criticized UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for defending the Nato operation in Libya and ignoring data on civilian casualties collected by a number of UN member states, RIA Novosti reported. ...AZERI OFFICIAL QUESTIONS FRANCES CREDIBILITY AS OSCE MINSK GROUP STATE
Deputy Chairperson of Azerbaijan's National Assembly has questioned Frances impartiality as co-chair country of the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe that spearheads ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1904 Lenin publishes the first number of the "Vperyod" (Forward) newspaper in Geneva (Switzerland).
- 1931 Creation of the Radio Broadcasting Committee in Armenia.
- 1972 Death of Mkrtich Armen. He was born in 1906.
- 1986 The International Court of Justice decides on the Case Concerning the Frontier Dispute between Burkina Faso and Mali (554, 566-567). Certain aspects of this document may be significant in the resolution of the Artsakh crisis.
- 1993 The Azerbaijani army launches attacks along the length of its whole border with Artsakh. All attacks are repulsed with devastating losses for the aggressors. The aggression is abandoned in May 1994.
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