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Headlines for March 06, 2012HUNDREDS HELD IN RUSSIA PROTEST
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Police in Russia have made 550 arrests after protests against Vladimir Putin's election as president, with protest leader Alexey Navalny among those held. According to BBC News, ...IRAN TO HOLD RUN-OFF PARLIAMENT POLL
Iran will hold run-off elections for 65 parliamentary seats after loyalists to the paramount clerical leader won a dominating majority at the expense of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Reuters reported. ...APPLE'S NEXT TABLET TO BE IPAD HD
Apple's next tablet will be called the iPad HD instead of the iPad 3, CNET reported.
A developer who's previously provided reliable information with respect to things Apple and otherwise tells us the ...SENIOR RPA REP ON STRUCTURAL REFORMS
The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) is going to convene an executive board meeting in the near future to discuss structural reforms in its supreme body, a senior representative of the ruling political ...WEYMOUTH GENOCIDE SURVIVOR CELEBRATES 102ND BIRTHDAY
A Weymouth based Armenian Genocide survivor, Asdghig "Starrie" Alemian, has celebrated her 102nd birthday, Weymouth.com reported.
At age 21, she had already experienced far more heartache and challenges ...TURKEY TO KEEP SANCTIONS ON FRANCE
Turkey has decided to keep sanctions on France it imposed after French assembly endorsed a bill making it a crime to deny World War I-era mass killings of Armenians constituted a genocide, government ...ARMENIA'S NATIONAL AIR CARRIER ON STRIKE
The Armenia's national airline, Armavia, has gone on an open-ended strike. The airline demands that the Armenia International Airports company, which is serving the Zvartnots international airport, reduce ...ARMENIAN GM LEADS CAPELLE-LA-GRANDE OPEN
Armenia's 2012 chess champion, Tigran Petrosyan, has made a brilliant start at 28th International Open Cappelle-la- Grande tournament in France. After victories in the first four rounds, he now shares ...ARMENIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS DENIES ARMAVIA'S CLAIMS
Armenia International Airports has issued a statement dismissing the reports that it has imposed high prices on Armavia. It comes after the national air carrier said earlier today that it is declaring ...FACEBOOK EMBRACES TURKISH CENSORSHIP
A recently leaked document reveals that in addition to censoring sexually explicit, violent, and hate-inciting materials, the social networking site Facebook has special rules for content deemed unacceptable ...CROP FORECASTS POSSIBLE IN ARMENIA
Crop forecasts are from now on possible in Armenia, Deputy Minister of Ahgriculture Armen Poghosyan told reporters. "The Ministry of Agriculture is implementing seven international cooperation programs. ...CONSUMER PRICES DROP FALL AFTER A SURGE IN JANUARY
Armenia's consumer market saw a 0.9% price fall in February, after a 3.6% surge during the previous months, according to the National Statistical Service (NSS). At a news conference on Tuesday, Gurgen ...ARMENIAN VENEROLOGIST ON SIDE EFFECTS OF PREMATURE SEX
Venerologist Karen Vardanyan recommends young people refrain from having sex until they are 24. At a news conference on Tuesday, the doctor explained that the human organism undergoes maturity processes ...WRC TO SUBMIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BILL TO ARMENIA'S GOVERNMENT
The Women's Rights Center (WRC) drafted a bill on domestic violence and intends to submit it to Armenia's government soon. At a meeting with journalists on Tuesday, Satenik Gevorgyan, WRC lawyer, expressed ...ASUE, ARMENIA'S STATE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT SIGN COOPERATION AGREEMENT
Rector of the Armenian State University of Economics (ASUE) Koryun Atoyan and Head of State Property Management Department, Government of Armenia, Arman Sahakyan, signed a cooperation agreement on Tuesday. ...REPUBLICANS PROMISE NO SURPRISE, SAYS MEMBER
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) does not expect new domestic political developments in the country in the visible future. At a news conference on Tuesday, Hakob Hakobyan, a member of the ...IRAN TO ALLOW IAEA'S VISIT TO PARCHIN MILITARY SITE
Iran said it will give the UN nuclear watchdog access to its Parchin military complex, Reuters reported, citing ISNA news agency. Tehran is believed to have pursued high explosives research relevant ...DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES UP IN ARMENIA
At her Tuesday meeting with journalists, Diana Sargsyan, expert for the Women's Rights Center (WRC), that the center's round-the-clock hotline received 2,032 calls last year, with 1,678 of them being ...OPPOSITION PARTIES DISSATISFIED WITH ANC'S TACTICS AND STRATEGY
The political parties that recently withdrew from the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) are dissatisfied with the alliance, an activist has said. Samvel Harutyunyan, a member of the Armenian ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT MEETS NATO SECRETARY GENERAL IN BRUSSELS
As part of his working visit to Brussels, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met on Tuesday with the Nato secretary0general, Anders Fogh Ramussen. According to a press release by the Presidential Office, ...MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS PROPOSE STEPS TOWARDS REACHING PEACE ACCORD
After their recent visit to the South Caucasus region, the co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group have issued a statement, presenting the outcomes of their meetings with the Armenian, Russian and Azerbaijani presidents. ...ARMENIAN EXPERTS ON RUSSIA'S FURTHER POLICY
Russia is unlikely change its policy toward the other members of the Commonwealth of Independnent States (CIS), particularly Armenia, because no serious cabinet reshuffle is expected, Alexander Iskandaryan, ...PRISON AUTHORITIES PREVENT LIFE-TERMERS' ESCAPE
A police task force at the Nubarashen penitentiary managed to prevent five life-termers' attempted escape on Tuesday afternoon. The prison authorities have assigned an internal investigation into the ...HERITAGE NOT TO BOYCOTT ARMENIA'S FIRST-PAST-THE-POST VOTING SYSTEM
Vardan Aivazyan, a member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), will be on the RPA list. At a Tuesday press conference, Mr Aivazyan had a debate with Armen Martirosyan, a Heritage party member. ...REBIRTH OF GYUMRI'S IT PARK (VIDEO)
A video featuring the design of Gyumri's IT park has aroused special interests among the Facebook users in the second largest city. In a statement on its official website, Shirak Center says that despite ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT DELIVERS SPEECH AT NATO HEADQUARTERS
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, who is on a working visit to Belgium, held a meeting on Tuesday with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Following the meeting the Armenian leader and the ...FOREST MONITORING PROGRAM TO BE LAUNCHED IN ARMENIA
Armenian Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan intends to submit the a draft program of forest monitoring for 2012-2014 to Armenia's government, http://www.ecolur.org reports. The program envisages ...ARMENIAN PREMIER VISITS REAL ESTATE CADASTER OFFICES
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visisted on Tuesday the Yerevan City Department and the Arabkir community office of the State Committee of Real Estate Cadastre. Accompanied by Chairman of the ...AFGHANISTAN AVALANCHE KILLS 39 IN BADAKHSHAN
At least 39 people and many are missing after an avalanche in Afghanistan's north-eastern Badakhshan province, BBC reports. The provincial governor's office said another six people were injured when ...ANTI-ARMENIAN BANNERS DURING KHOJALU RALLY WORK OF ‘RAVING RACISTS' - TURKISH PM
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said anti-Armenian banners unfurled during an Istanbul rally held on Feb. 26 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Khojaly Massacre reflect the feeling of some "raving ...PRISONER REMAINS IN JAIL FOR SINGING KURDISH SONG
Authorities have refused to release a political prisoner despite the completion of her seven-year sentence at a prison in the northwestern province of Kocaeli on the grounds that she sang a song in Kurdish, ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1857 Death of Rooben Papazian, linguist, teacher, literary and public figure. He was born in 1806, in Constantinople.
- 1894 Birth of one of the founders of the Armenian national ballet school, Ilia Arbatov (Yeghia Yaghoobian) in Tbilissi.
- 1905 Death of composer Makar Yekmalian. He was born in 1856.
- 1916 Signature of the Sykes-Picot Secret Pact between Great Britain and France. It dealt with the allocation of the Asian regions of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1921 Creation of the "Ararat" trust in Yerevan.
- 1924 Foundation of the Armenian State Central Archives by decree of Armenia's Central Committee. Now there are 3 million documents in our archive. The oldest document dates from 1630.
- 1926 Foundation of the first Sewing Factory in Yerevan.
- 1945 Lieutenant-colonel of the Guard, Nelson Stepanyan is awarded his second "Gold Star" medal. Because he is a two-time "Hero of the USSR" his bronze bust is to be placed before his residence.
- 1955 Fourth election of the Armenian SSR Supreme Council.
- 1974 During a meeting of the UN Human Rights Sub-Committee, the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians was recognized as the first Genocide fo the 20th century.
- 1992 Azeri Turk forces occupy Karanchi (Martakert, Artsakh).
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