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Headlines for March 01, 2012ARMENIAN WINS CANADA IN FRIENDLY MATCH (VIDEO)
The Armenian national football beat Canada 3-1 in a friendly match in Limasol, Cyprus on Wednesday. Armenia ranked the 41st in FIFA's recent ranking. Canada's football team was the 71st.DAVUTOGLU: TURKEY READY TO SHARE PAIN WITH ARMENIA
Turkey is ready to share the pain of Armenians as they prepare to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1915 killings, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said following a French court's rejection ...US WELCOMES N. KOREA'S NUCLEAR FREEZE
North Korea's pledge to suspend uranium enrichment, as well as nuclear and long-range missile tests, has received a cautious international welcome, according to BBC News.
A White House spokesman called ...FRENCH SOCIALIST CANDIDATE PLEDGES TO BRING BACK GENOCIDE BILL
France's Socialist Party presidential candidate Francois Hollande pledged to bring back the government-backed law criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide, after that country's Constitutional ...PARENTS OF MARCH 1 TRAGEDY VICTIMS CONSIDER CASE RESOLVED
Failing to resolve the murders within four years, the authorities actually proved that they had killed our children, says the mother of Tigran Khachatryan, one of the victims of the March 1 post-electoral ...AT LEAST 12 KILLED AS TORNADOES STRIKE US MIDWEST
Powerful storms that spawned tornadoes ripped through the U.S. Midwest on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people, including six in Illinois who were crushed when a house was lifted up and fell on them, ...CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL'S RULING MARKS END OF MEMORY LAWS, SAYS EX CHIEF
The French Constitutional Council's ruling to declare genocide denial criminalization bill unconstitutional actually puts a end to the memory laws in France, the ex chief of the Council has said. In ...EACH PERSON'S POLITICAL DESTINY IN HIS HANDS - ARMENIAN MINISTER
Each person's political destiny is in his or her hands. It is desirable that this destiny be on their mind as well, Armenian Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan told Tert.am as he commented ...SCHIFF PRESSES CLINTON ON MISREPRESENTING GENOCIDE
In response to a question by US Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) regarding her recent statements misrepresenting the Armenian Genocide as a 'historical debate,' Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday ...FREE DEMOCRATS REP ON PROSPEROUS ARMENIA'S ALLIANCE WITH UWP
The United Workers Party's (UWP) statement on an alliance with the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) is not an alliance, but an instance of one party absorbing another. "Experience shows that such alliances ...FLOODS FORCE MASS EVACUATION IN AUSTRALIA
North-eastern Australia's worst flooding in decades is continuing to cause chaos across the region, BBC News reported. About 1,000 people in Queensland have been evacuated, including the entire population ...TWINNING PROJECT ENTERS NEW PHASE IN ARMENIA
The submission of projects and proposals under the Twinning project has entered the next phase at Armenia's Ministry of Economy. At a meeting with journalists, Armenia's Deputy Minister of Economy Garegin ...OPPOSITIONIST: MARCH 1 NOT DAY FOR DEBATING STATE OF EMERGENCY LAW
Bringing the State of Emergency law to the parliament's vote on the anniversary of the March 1 political turmoil is like sacrilege, according to Alexander Arzumanyan, a fromer member of the opposition ...15 OSCAR STATUES SOLD AT AUCTION
A collection of 15 Oscar statues were sold for more than $3 million dollars at an auction in Los Angeles, just two days after the Academy Awards, Reuters reported. The iconic gold trophies went under ...ARMENIA'S CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRATIC UNION LEADER TO COOPERATE WITH RULING PARTY
Khosrov Harutyunyan, Chairman of the Christian-Democratic Party of Armenia, decided to cooperate with Armenia's ruling party, Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) because his party's ideology is basically ...PARLIAMENT PASSES STATE OF EMERGENCY LAW
The National Assembly has passed the law on the Legal Regime of State of Emergency. The bill was adopted with a vote of 67 in favor and 1 against. The parliamentary opposition did not take part in ...ARMENIA'S SECURITY COUNCIL SEC MEETS WITH UNHCR REP
Secretary of Armenia's National Security Council Artur Baghdasaryan received on Thursday Mr. Damtew Dessalegne, Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Armenia. ...WINDOWS 8 ALREADY AVAILABLE TO MILLIONS
Millions of consumers are already trying out Microsoft's new Windows 8 Beta operating system unveiled at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona overnight, The Australian reported. Microsoft is letting ...SWITZERLAND CLOSES EMBASSY IN DAMASCUS
The Swiss government said on Thursday it had formally closed its embassy in Damascus, three weeks after shutting it temporarily, after urging Swiss citizens to leave the country and recalling its ambassador ...EU READY TO ASSIST IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT, SAYS COMMISSIONER
The EU is ready to assist in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, the EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule has said. "The EU is ready to strengthen its ...ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR TO CANADA MEETS WITH HOUSE OF COMMONS SPEAKER
Armenian Ambassador to Canada Armen Yeganyan held a meeting on Tuesday with Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada Andrew Scheer. The sides thoroughly discussed bilateral relations, cooperation between ...ARMENIAN BUSINESSWOMAN KILLED IN MOSCOW
An Armenian businesswoman has been shot to death in Moscow. According to the Russian newspaper Izvestia, the owner of the Japanese restaurant Tanuki, Irina Ziroyan, was killed in the aftermath of an ...ITALIAN STAR SINGER LUCIO DALLA DIES AT 68
Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla has died while he was on tour in Switzerland, .Monstersandcritics.com reported, citing his Swiss concert managers Act Entertainment .
According to Italian media, ...EMERGENCY BILL WOULD HAVE PREVENTED MARCH 1 TRAGEDY IN ARMENIA
If a law on legal regime of emergency situations had been in effect in 2008, the tragic events on March 1 2008 would not have happened, Lernik Alexanyan, a member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) ...ANC RALLY KICKS OFF IN ARMENIA'S CAPITAL
The opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) has started its rally in Yerevan's Freedom Square. Quite a few people are present, holding Armenian national flags and the pictures of the ten victims ...ARMENIA-BASED HERITAGE PARTY ISSUES STATEMENT ON MARCH 1 TRAGEDY
The Armenia-base Heritage party has issued a statement on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of the tragic events in Yerevan. The statement says that the pain of the victim's relatives remains unhealed, ...ARMENIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan chaired a meeting of the National Security Council of Armenia on Thursday. The meeting discussed draft measures to ensure the implementation of the Armenia-EU program ...ARMENIA'S LEADERS MUST BE CALLED TO ACCOUNT - OPPOSITIONIST
At a Thursday rally of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC), Editor of the Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) newspaper Nikol Pashinyan named the persons he considers guilty of the March 1, ...MARCH 1 INAUGURATES NEW POLITICAL YEAR IN ARMENIA - OPPOSITIONIST
Aram Manukyan, Board Chairman, Armenian National Movement (ANM), considers March 1 both a commemoration day and the beginning of a new year. At a Thursday rally of the opposition Armenian National Congress ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITIONIST CALLS FOR ‘HOLY WAR'
Four years ago this day Armenia's authorities committed a grave crime: they stole votes and victory from the opposition, gave it a day of political spring, while stealing a calendar spring from it, Levon ...PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS MUST BE TURNED INTO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS - ARMENIAN OPPOSITIONIST
Aram Sargsyan, Chairman of the Republic Party, proposes turning the forthcoming parliamentary elections into presidential elections. "The coming parliamentary elections are presidential elections," he ...ANC RALLY FOLLOWED BY PROCESSION IN ARMENIA'S CAPITAL
The rally of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) in Freedom Square in Yerevan was followed by a procession to Grigor Lusavorich Str. Before the procession, Nikol Pashinyan, Editor of the ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 World Civil Defense day.
- 1856 Birth of the cleric, historian, ethnologist, teacher and translator, Gyoot Aghanyan (Harootyoon Ter - Arakelian) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He translated literary classics and re-wrote Yeghisheh's "Vardanants Story" in modern Armenian. He wrote textbooks on religion and library science. He was the first in Eastern Armenia to publish a wall-calendar.
- 1857 Opening of the school at Varaga Monastery (western Armenia) for the education of "orphan and homeless" children.
- 1865 Birth in Tbilisi of Teegran Hovhannisian, translator and lawyer. He translated the novels "Harootyoon" (Resurrection) written by Lev Tolstoy and "Arants Davananki" (Without Faith) written by Henry Senkeveech.
- 1867 Birth of the writer Nar-Dos (Meekael Hovhannisyan) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He died in 1933.
- 1901 Birth of the poet Sarmen (Armenak Sargsian) in Pakhvants (Western Armenia). Many popular songs have been written using his poems as lyrics.
- 1915 The First Meeting of Armenian immigrants took place in Echmiadsin. The meeting tried to integrate the work of the many benevolent unions that were created to help the survivors of the 1915 Genocide.
- 1920 Azeri Turks perpetrate the Genocide of Shooshee. Some 20 000 Armenians are killed.
- 1920 The Government allots 50 million rubles for agricultural development. Agricultural tractors are brought to Armenia for the first time.
- 1930 The Sardarapat tractor plant starts production.
- 1934 Death in Yerevan of Toros Toramanyan (architecture historian).
- 1960 Martiros Saryan is awarded the title "People's Painter of the USSR".
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