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Headlines for April 17, 2012HRAPARAK: THE MODEL OF FUTURE PARLIAMENT ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORITIES' PROGRAM
The daily Hraparak referred today to the results of a social opinion poll, saying it would not refer to it at all considering it as regular fake social poll unless the acquired information that it is ...ZHOGHOVURD: LEADER OF HERITAGE PARTY MEETS WITH PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN
Citing its well-informed sources the daily Zhoghovurd claims that leader of the Heritage Party Raffi Hovhannissyan met with Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan. The paper says it has learnt that the ...HAYATSK: BEHAVIOUR OF ASHOTYAN HARMS HIS PARTY, SUREN ZOLYAN CLAIMS
The daily Hayatsk says rector of the Yerevan Brusov State Linguistic University Suren Zolyan does not want to give a political context to the conflict he has with the Education and Science Minister Armen ...ZHOGHOVURD: SERZH SARGSYAN CARRIES OUT RPA'S CAMPAIGN ALONE, WITHOUT TIGRAN SARGSYAN AND HOVIK ABRAHAMYAN
The daily Zhoghovurd writes that during these days Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan is conducting the election campaign of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) alone, not accompanied either by Hovik ...ZHOGHOVURD: ALIK SARGSYAN VISITS GEGHARKUNIK TO SUPPORT PAP CANDIDATE
The daily Zhoghovurd says it has learnt that former chief of the Armenian police, member of the Republican Party Alik Sargsyan visited on March 30 Armenia's Gegharkunik region - Tsovaghyugh village. ...STRONG QUAKE SHAKES CHILE, NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE
A powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Chile's eastern coastal port of Valparaiso early on Tuesday, shaking buildings as far away as the capital Santiago, but there were no immediate reports ...TERT.AM LAUNCHES NEW DESIGN
Being online more than for years, Tert.am has four the first time launched the redesigned version of its website.
The attempt to win the reader's sympathy within a short period may seem risky at first ...AUSTRALIA TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN IN 2013
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says Australia will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan earlier than planned. Ms Gillard made the announcement in a speech in Canberra, and ahead of a key Nato conference ...SUDAN PARLIAMENT NAMES SOUTH SUDAN GOVERNMENT ‘ENEMY'
Sudan's parliament has branded the government of South Sudan an enemy after southern troops invaded the north's main oilfield, as the United States condemned the bombing of a UN base in the south, AFP ...DIFFERENT FORMATS COMPLEMENT AND NOT HARM ONE ANOTHER
Five out of nine political forces running for parlimanetary elections on May 6 - the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Armenia's Democratic Party, Armenia's Communist Party, Prosperous Armenia Party ...REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE INVITES CONTESTANT TO FOOTBALL VEIWING
Samvel Farmanyan, who is running for parliament as a majority candidate of the Republican Party of Armenia, has invited his contender, Vladimir Karapetyan of the opposition Armenian National Congress ...CALIFORNIA SCHOOLBOY CREATES COMPUTER GAME FOR THE BLIND
A 10-year-old Californian schoolboy has created a computer game for his blind grandmother so they can play together, The Daily Mail reported.
Dylan Viale, a fifth-grader at Hidden Valley Elementary in ...AZERBAIJAN CONTINUES ACQUIRING WEAPONRY, BUT HOPES FOR PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH CONFLICT - ALIYEV
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Azerbaijan is strengthening its military opportunities, at the same time hoping for peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev stated. In his words, Azerbaijan ...ISRAEL HAS NO COMMITEMENT TO RESTRAIN FROM ATTACKING THE NUCLEAR INSTITUTIONS OF IRAN DURING NEGOTIATION PERIOD - EHUD BARAK
Israel has not assumed a commitement to restrain from attacking the nuclear institutions of Iran during the period of negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the West, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud ...ARMENIA'S PRESIDENT VISITS KAPAN'S GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Within the framework of the working visit to Armenia's Syunik region, President Serzh Sargsyan visited today the renovated Geological Museum of Kapan. Speaking to reporters, director of the museum Grisha ...OMBUDSMAN CALLS FOR ‘DECENT' PROTEST AGAINST AZERBAIJANI FILM FESTIVAL
Armenia's human rights defender has condemned the initiative to organize an Azerbaijani film festival in Armenia, criticizing in the meantime yesterday's attack against several rights defenders of the ...'LEGAL EMERGENCY' TO REVEAL ELECTION FRAUDS
Ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections "Civil Society Institute" NGO is carrying out legal initiative "Elections 2012" to protect human rights at the election process. According to the press release ...PUTIN SEEKS TO INTEGRATE FORMER SOVIET STATES? - THE NATIONAL INTEREST
Nikolas K. Gvosdev In his last major address as Russia's prime minister before retaking the presidency, Vladimir Putin outlined "five priorities" for his third presidential term. His fifth ...ACADEMICS LAUNCH INQUIRY INTO TURKEY MINORITY SCHOOLS
A group of academics, spearheaded by the History Foundation, have launched an initiative to investigate the problems faced by 23 minority schools across Istanbul, Hurriyet Daily News reported.
While 15 ...ANC IS RUNNING FROM DOOR TO DOOR STATING THE HERITAGE IS CORRUPT
Associates of the Heritage party voice an alarm that certain parties have made a target of the Heritage, MP of the party's parliamentary faction Armen Martirosyan, nominated in #6 election constituency ...MINING COMPANY GUARDS BEAT PEOPLE IN TEGHUT
Several security guards of the Armenian Copper Program (ACP), a closed joint stock company engaged in the exploitation of the copper molybdenum deposit of Teghut (Lori region), have beaten three people ...ARMENIA'S PRESIDENT GETS ACQUAINTED WITH PROGRAMS OF ‘VAMAX' AND ‘MARILA' COMPANIES IN SYUNIK
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan, who is in Syunik for a working visit, familiarized himself with the process of activity of 'Vamax' and 'Marila' companies dealing with meat and dairy products' production. ...NEW TREATMENT FOR PROSTATE CANCER GIVES 'PERFECT RESULTS'
A new treatment for prostate cancer can rid the disease from nine in ten men without debilitating side effects, a study has found, leading to new hope for tens of thousands of men, The Telegraph reports. ...EXHIBITION OF JORGE LUIS BORGE'S PHOTOS TO OPEN IN ARMENIA'S CAPITAL
At the invitation of the State Organizing Committee of Yerevan World Book Capital 2012, a collection of photos of Jorge Luis Borge, an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, is to ...EX LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT ON KARABAKH ISSUE
In a recent interview with the Azerbaijani news website 1new.az, Lithuania's former president, Vytautas Landsbergis, addressed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, calling for every possible measure to avoid ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA, ANC TO FORM COALITION?
Armen Martirosyan, an MP of the Heritage party, who is running for parliament in election district #6 says the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress (ANC) and Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) are obviously ...TEGHUT RESIDENTS BLOCK WAY TO MINING PLANT
A crowd of people from Teghut village (Lori region) have gathered on the way leading to the Armenian Copper Program (APC) CJSC's plant to voice their protest against a recent incident between several ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT VISITS GORIS
Armenia's President, Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Serzh Sargsyan held a public meeting in Goris, Syunik region, Armenia, as part of the parliamentary election campaign. Armenia ...PM SARGSYAN MEETS BELARUSIAN FM
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received on Tuesday the foreign minister of Belarus, Sergey Martinov.
Greeting the guest, the premier praised the high-level friendly and political relations ...GLENDALE HOSTS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION EVENT
Hundreds of people on Sunday commemorated the 97th anniversary of the Armenian genocide through art, dance and music outside St. Mary's Apostolic Church, Glendalte News-Press reported.
Verginie Touloumian, ...JACQUE CHIRAC TO VOTE FOR SOCIALIST CANDIDATE
France's former centre-right president, Jacques Chirac, will vote for Socialist Francois Hollande in first round of presidential elections on Sunday, BBC News reported, citing a close aide says.
Writer ...FEWER APPLICANTS TO ARMENIA'S HIGHER SCHOOLS
Overall, 18,129 young people have applied to Armenia's higher schools this academic year - 473 fewer than in 2010, Gayane Manukyan, Spokesperson for the Assessment and Testing Center, told journalists ...ARMENIAN OPTIMISTS LIKELY TO VOTE FOR RULING PARTIES - GALLUP EUROPE
Optimist voters in Armenia are prone to cast their ballot in favor of the riling coalition parties, as opposed to pessimists who give preference to the opposition forces, according to recent polls by ...ARMENIA-BASED HERITAGE PARTY REMAINS MEMBER OF JOINT CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
The Heritage party has not officially withdrawn its signature from the declaration on joint campaign headquarters. So it will remain signatory to the declaration irrespective of whether it is going to ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENTS VISITS CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN GORIS
During his working visit to the Syunik region, Armenia, President Serzh Sargsyan visited the construction project in Goris under the Social House project, co-financed by the Swiss Agency for Development ...RECTOR OF ARMENIA'S LEADING LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY RELIEVED
Armenia's Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan signed an order relieving Professor Souren Zolyan of the post of Rector of Yerevan State Linguistic University (YSLU). Tert.am tried to get ...NO ALTERNATIVE TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH'S INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION - ARMENIAN NA VICE-SPEAKER
Eduard Sharmazanov, Vice-Speaker of Armenia's parliament, commented on a statement Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made at the Azeri cabinet's meeting in Baku, on Monday. The international recognition ...IAEA DELEGATION TO VISIT ARMENIA
A delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headed by Director General Yukiya Amano is to arrive in Armenia on April 18. The IAEA director general is to hold meetings with Armenian ...ARMENIA'S OMBUDSMAN HOLDS MEETINGS WITH CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS HEADS
Armenia's Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Karen Andreasyan continues his meetings with the heads of campaign headquarters of Armenia's political forces running for parliament. On Tuesday, the Armenian ...GALLUP POLL RESULTS BEYOND DOUBT, ARMENIAN JOURNALIST SAYS
It is natural that, on the threshold of parliamentary elections in Armenia, the ArmNews TV company ordered polls from Gallup, Artak Alexanyan, ArmNews Executive Director, told Tert.am. It is international ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT VISITS SISIAN
On Tuesday, Armenia's President, Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), held a public meeting in Sisian and presented the RPA election program to them. "We must not forget that differences ...BRIDE'S BROTHER RECEIVES LIFE SENTENCE FOR KILLING NEWLYWEDS
Gönay Öğmen has been given an aggravated life sentence by the İstanbul 1st Criminal High Court on Monday for killing his sister, Sonay Vural, and brother-in-law, Zekeriya Vural, Today's Zaman ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1879 Death of Chamik Aramyan (publisher) in Constantinople. He was born in 1820.
- 1904 Birth of Hrant G. Pastrmajian. He died in 1954.
- 1922 Aram Yerkanian and Arshavir Shirakian executed Behaeddin Shakir, the leader of the "special forces" and Jemal Azmi, former Governor of Trabizond, in Berlin. Both were active in implementing the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
- 1957 Twinning of Kirovakan (Vanadzor) and Batumi (Georgia).
- 1990 An International Scholars' Meeting titled: "The Armenian Genocide: History, Theory, Political Responsibility" and devoted to 75th Anniversary of the Armenian's Genocide, takes place in Yerevan. It lasts to April 21.
- 1997 The Legislative Assembly of New South Wales (Australia) adopts a decision to commemorate April 24 as a Memorial Day of the Armenian Genocide. It suggests to the Federal Australian Government to adopt a similar decision.
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