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Headlines for January 27, 2012CLINTON TERMS GENOCIDE RECOGNITION ‘DANGEROUS DOOR'
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the US ''opens a door that is a very dangerous one to go through,'' Asbarez.com reported.
Responding ...US TO CUT MILITARY SPENDING
The US will cut almost 100,000 troops as part of its plans for a "smaller, leaner" military, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has announced. Unveiling a restructure of the armed forces, Panetta ...JANUARY 27 INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
In 2005 the UN General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, ...TURKEY TO DEPORT ARMENIAN WORKERS AFTER FRENCH VOTE?
Turkey is set to amend a law that aims to rid the country of illegal workers. According to the Armenian Weekly, many view the move as retaliation against Armenians, in light of the new bill criminalizing ...ANCA CONDEMNS CLINTON'S COMPLICITY IN TURKEY'S GENOCIDE DENIAL
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) sharply criticized remarks by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who todaydismissed the murder of 1.5 million Armenians as a "historical debate," ...ARMENIAN POET HOVHANNES TUMANYAN'S HOUSE HAS BUYER
Photo by Yerkir Media TV Legendary Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan's native house in Tbilisi already has a buyer. At a working discussion at Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan's office, the poet's grand ...SARDARAPAT MOVEMENT NOT TO RUN FOR PARLIAMENT - ACTIVIST
The Yerevan based Sardarapat Movement is not going to run for the May 6 parliamentary polls, according to an activist. Zhirayr Sefilyan, the founder of the Sardarapat, has said on a Facebook page that ...TWITTER TO CENSOR TWEETS
Twitter said Thursday that it has made changes to its network that will allow it to remove tweets in a specific country if required to do so by law.
It has, however, assured users that it will try hard ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA LEADER LIKELY TO BUY TUMANYAN'S HOUSE
The leader of Prosperous Armenia party, Gagik Tsarukyan, is very likely purchase Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan's house in Tbilisi, a reliable source has told Tert.am. Earlier the poet's grand granddaughter, ...TSVETANA PASKALEVA HAPPY TO BE ARMENIAN CITIZEN
Tsvetana Paskaleva, journalist and documentary film author, who widely covered the Nagorno-Karabakh war, does not object to acquiring Armenia's citizenship. At her Friday meeting with journalists, she ...WITNESS IN MARGAR OHANYAN CASE CHANGES EVIDENCE
Colonel Yeghishe Yengibaryan, one of the witnesses in the Margar Ohanyan case, has changed his previous evidence. In answer to the judge's question about the reason, he said that he had written what ...IRAQI ANALYST THANKS FRANCE FOR FAIR APPROACH TO GENOCIDE DENIAL
An Iraqi analyst contributing articles to the Arab language website Sotaliraq.com has addressed the Armenian Genocide denial penalization bill, expressing his gratitude to French lawmakers for taking ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT AWARDS MEDALS TO SERVICEMEN, FREEDOM-FIGHTERS
Armenian President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief Serzh Sargsyan signed decrees awarding medals and orders of the Republic of Armenia to a group of the RA Army servicemen and freedom fighters. The president ...BOMB ATTACK KILLS DOZENS IN IRAQI CAPITAL
A suicide car bomber has killed at least 28 people and injured at least 60 in a predominantly Shia Muslim district of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. According to BBC News, the bomb went off in a market place ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA UNDER PRESSURE - REP
Vardan Bostanjyan, a member of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), held a meeting with journalists on Friday. A journalist asked him about the incident involving the former head of the PAP Ararat office ...FRENCH SENATORS GIVEN TIME TO APPEAL ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL?
The French Constitutional Council has allowed time for French senators and parliamentarians to collect enough signatures to appeal the recently approved bill on the 1915 killings of Armenians, Hurriyet ...PORN STARS TO FACE OFF IN MAYORAL RACE
Two porn stars are set to get voters' pulses racing when they face off in a mayoral race.
Amandha Fox and Luana Borgia are both vying to become the civic leader in Taranto, Italy. According to The Sun, ...WINNERS OF PAN-ARMENIAN ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCED
Armenia's leading mobile operator, VivaCell-MTS, has summed up the results of the Pan-Armenian online film festival WebApricot. According to a press release by the company, the six films were awarded ...TSVETANA PASKALEVA'S ‘WOUNDS OF KARABAKH' TO GO ON WORLD TOUR
Tsvetana Paskaleva, journalist and documentary film author, intends to start a world tour and demonstrate her 7-part series "Wounds of Karabakh" for the purpose of presenting the true story of the Nagorno-Karabakh ...ARMENIA'S VICE-PREMIER RECEIVES DIRECTOR OF USAID MISSION TO ARMENIA
Armenian Vice-Premier, Minister of Territorial Administration Armen Gevorgyan received on Friday Ms. Jatinder K. Cheema, Director of the USAID mission to Armenia. The sides discussed USAID programs ...ANONYMOUS HACKER GROUP THREATENS TURKEY
Since Turkey refuses to admit the Armenian Genocide, the Anonymous international hacker group has put a video on YouTube. Below is a statement made by the group (with minor corrections): "In 1915, ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES US DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received on Friday Mr. Eric Rubin, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. The sides discussed Armenia-US relations and ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1899 Birth of philologist, academician, and noted scholar Ararat Ghareebyan in Aygezart, Ararat Province.
- 1923 The First Prize for the creation the Coat of Arms of the Transcaucasian Confederacy is awarded to Martiros Saryan and Hakob Kojoyan.
- 1924 Meeting of workers on Lenin Square in Yerevan on the laying of the foundation to Lenin's statue.
- 1939 Birth of composer Tigran Mansooryan in Beirut (Lebanon).
- 1973 In Santa Barbara (California) Goorgen Yanikyan, an engineer and industrialist, killed two Turkish diplomats to focus public attention on the denial of the Armenian Genocide by the Turkish government.
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