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Headlines for January 20, 2012HUMAN RIGHTS WATTCH: TURKISH COURT PROTECTS DINK KILLERS
A Turkish court's verdict on January 17, 2012, that there was no state involvement or organized plot behind the 2007 shooting of the Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is a travesty of justice, according ...IRAN SAYS NUKE SCIENTISTS KILLED MAY HAVE USED UN SOURCES
Iran charged on Thursday that assassins who killed an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran last week may have used information obtained from the United Nations, Reuters reported. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, ...THOUSANDS IN TURKEY PROTEST DINK MURDER ON FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
On the 5th anniversary of journalist Hrant Dink's death, more than 30,000 people including friends, supporters and political figures gather in Istanbul to protest to mark the day. According to Hurriyet ...QUAKE HITS NORTHEAST IRAN; 100 REPORTED INJURED
About 100 people were injured when an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit northeastern Iran on Thursday, Reuters reported, citing the Iranian state television. The epicenter of the quake, ...BBC TO AIR DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PUTIN
On Thursday, BBC-2 will start broadcasting a TV documentary series about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin titled "Putin, Russia and the West", The Voice of Russia reported. The first of the four ...GEORGIA, TURKEY TO SIGN ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY AGREEMENT
Georgia and Turkey are expected to sign an electric power supply agreement later today. Citing the Georgian Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, the Azerbaijani news agency Trend reported that the ...ARMENIA PARTLY FREE COUNTRY, ACCORDING TO FREEDOM HOUSE
The international human rights watchdog Freedom House has published its Freedom in the World 2012 report, rating Armenia as a partly free country. According to Eurasianet, the document suggests the existence ...TURKISH VANDALS DESECRATE ARMENIAN GRAVES AGAIN
Robbers from Turkey's eastern region of Genci (Bingol province) are desecrating Armenian graves in an attempt to dig out gold, Asbarez reported, citing the Turkish media. The residents of Surekli village ...EU AGREES TO SANCTION IRAN'S CENTRAL BANK
EU nations Thursday agreed to sanction Iran's central bank, freezing assets used to finance its nuclear drive, but have yet to clinch an oil embargo deal that could penalise debt-hit Greece, AFP reported.
"The ...ARMENIA, BELARUS SIGN PRELIMINARY ACCORD TO HOLD FRIENDLY MATCH
The football federations of Armenia and Belarus have reached a preliminary agreement to hold a friendly match in Yerevan, the local sports website Armsport.am reported. The two sides were last year ...PROPROTIONAL RELECTION SYSTEM MEETS AUTHORITIES' INTERESTS - ARMENIAN POLITICIAN
Armenia's authorities and opposition forces have no fundamental disagreements over a switchover to the proportional representation system. They can find common ground, Armen Rustamyan, a member of the ...MEMORIAL PLAQUE TO COMMEMORATE DINK PLACED OUTSIDE HIS OFFICE
A memorial plaque to commemorate Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of the Armenian-Turkish weekly Agos, was placed outside his office two days before the anniversary of his tragic death. Located on the ...FACEBOOK LAUNCHES 60 TIMELINE APPS
Facebook has launched 60 new 'timeline' apps - applications that post updates in real time about what people are doing, and also add updates to people's Timeline, The Daily Mail reported.
Facebook claims ...SARKOZY ASKS ERDOGAN NOT TO HAMPER GENOCIDE DENIAL CRIMINALIZATION EFFORTS
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sent a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, asking him to refrain from excessive steps towards hampering the Senate's efforts to debate the Armenian ...ELECTION FRAUDS NOT LINKED WITH VOTING SYSTEM - REPUBLICAN LAWMAKER
Adopting a 100% proportional representation system is not a method to combat election frauds, according to Gagik Minasyan, a member of the ruling Republican Party faction in parliament. At a news conference ...CANADA EXPELS RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS
Ottawa has expelled four Russian embassy staff in connection with a Canadian naval officer accused of passing secrets to a foreign power, Winnipeg Free Press reported.
Although the reports say the claim ...ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK TO GET US $30M LOAN FROM IFC
ACBA-Credit Agricole Bank is to receive a US $30m loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The bank plans to lend the funds to micro- small and medium businesses, including agricultural ...STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS DID NOT MEET ANCA REPS IN US - MANOYAN
Kiro Manoyan, the director of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaksutyun's (ARF-D) Office for Hay Dat and Political Affairs, dismisses the allegations that officials from the US Department of ...AUSTRALIAN BIKINI PIONEER NAMED LEGEND
The woman who introduced the bikini to Australian beaches has officially become a "legend", ABC News reported. Paula Stafford, 91, was awarded the Gold Coast City Council's "Legend Award" ...AZERI OFFICIAL ACCUSES ARMENIA SIDE OF IMPEDING NAGORNO-KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS
The Armenian side is the only party responsible for the thwarted Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, Novruz Mammadov, Head of the Foreign Relations Department, Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan. ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES JUDICIAL REFORMS PROGRAM
The Jan. 20 discussions of the legal and judicial reforms program for 2011-2016 in Armenia's parliament focused on the judicial system's independence. With this end in view, the participants proposed ...NUMBER OF LIFE-TERMERS HIGH IN ARMENIA - MINISTER
One of the problems in Armenia's judicial system is a high number of life-termers per capita, Armenia's Minister of Justice Hrair Tovmasyan stated at discussions of judicial reforms in Armenia's parliament. ...ARMENIA'S POLITICAL FORCES SEEK TO PREVENT ‘VIOLENCE AGAINST POPULAR WILL'
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnakstutyun (ARF-D), in cooperation with the Heritage party, held a congress at the Erebuni Plaza hotel in Yerevan, Jan. 20. The congress discussed a switch-over ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1780 The Armenian colony of New Nakhichevan (Rostov, Russia) is founded.
- 1921 Publication in Brussels of Abbot Matern Muret's memoirs. He witnessed the Genocide of the Marash Armenians by the Turks from January 20 to February 11, 1920 as a result of French perfidy. He called the killing of 20000 Armenians during that time enough to make any human insane.
- 1933 Opening of the Spendiaryan State Opera Building in Yerevan.
- 1989 The Supreme Soviet of the USSR establishes a special authority headed by Volsky in Artsakh. This authority is directly subject to the USSR Government rather than to Soviet Azerbaijan. In the summer, a National Council was formed which represented all strata of Artsakhs population.
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