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Headlines for April 18, 2012YERKIR: HEADS OF COALITION FORCES HELD ANOTHER UNOFFICIAL MEETING
The daily Yerkir writes about the unofficial meeting that took place between the heads of the coalition forces. According to the daily, the parties agreed and clarified the mechanisms of distributing ...HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: IN CASE OF FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS THE PARLIAMENT TO BECOME SERIOUS COUNTERBALANCE, RUSTAMYAN SAYS
Representative of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation's (ARF) Supreme Body Armen Rustamyan expressed conviction to the daily Haykakan Zhamanak that in case of free and fair elections the authorities ...HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY'S PROSPERING LEADER
Over the past year, Chairman of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Gagik Tsarukyan's incomes totaled AMD 21.433bn, $60.081m and €40m. The figures are indicated in his income statement and property ...TWO FACES OF TURKEY: VENEER OF GENTILITY MASKING RUTHLESSNESS
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier When Turkey's Foreign Minister met secretly with a group of Armenians in Washington last month, he wooed them with his sly smile and sugar-coated ...STATE LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY NOT TO BE DISSOLVED; RECTOR'S REMOVAL HAS NO POLITICAL CONTEXT - MINISTER
Armenia's Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan left a comment on his facebook page after signing the order relieving rector of the Yerevan State Linguistic University Suren Zolyan of his duties. ...CHORRORD INKNISHKHANUTYUN: RAFFI HOVHANISSYAN CONDUCTS A SECRET SESSION, URGES NOT TO SAY BITTER WORD TO THE RPA
The daily Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun claims that the Heritage party headed by Raffi Hovhanissyan, secretly from "Free Democrats", conducted a closed session. The paper says during it Hovhannissyan urged ...‘BEST OF' TURKEY'S MOST RENOWNED SEX THERAPIST PACKAGED IN SUPPLEMENT
A Turkish daily distributed a supplement yesterday that brought together the "best of" Haydar Dümen, Turkey's most renowned and popular sex therapist, Hurriyet Daily News reports. The supplement ...YERKIR: ARMENIA'S PM TIGRAN SARGSYAN IS BEHIND ASHOTYAN-ZOLYAN CONFLICT
The daily Yerkir writes that though Armenia's Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan relieved Suren Zolyan, rector of the Yerevan State Linguistic University, of his duties the latter is not ...HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: ARMENIA'S DEFENSE MINISTRY WANTS TO ACQUIRE 20% OF SHARES OF "AVTOMATIKA" COMPANY
Daily Haykakan Zhamanak writes Armenian Defense Ministry is planning to acquire 20% of shares of "Avtomatika" company. The Ministry is planning to come forth with the draft decision at the coming cabinet ...ARAS OZBILIS GIVES START TO STUNNING VICTORY
Armenia's football team player Aras Ozbilis partook at the "Ajax" youth team game with "De Graafschap". The active start of the Armenian football player led the way to stunning victory of the Amsterdam ...AUSTRIAN VILLAGE F---ING TO VOTE ON NAME CHANGE
The 104 residents of the village will cast their votes later this week on whether to alter the name, The Telegraph reports. "People are now willing to discuss changes to the spelling of the name," Franz ...ZHOGHOVURD: NEW DETAILS OF HOVANNISIAN-SARGSYAN MEETING
In its April 17 issue, the newspaper commented on a secret meeting between Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Chairman of the Heritage party Raffi Hovannisian, mediated by the British embassy in Armenia. ...BLOOD TEST LOOKS PROMISING IN DIAGNOSING DEPRESSION
A preliminary study finds certain biological markers in the blood of teens with depression that are absent in healthy counterparts. It could lead to the first diagnostic testing for depression, The Los ...ANCA-OC TO SCREEN ‘BOLIS' AT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION EVENT
The Armenian National Committee of America-Orange County will be hosting an Armenian Genocide Commemoration event featuring a screening of "Bolis" by award-winning director Eric Nazarian. The event ...STATE AND PRIVATE BUSINESS SHOULD RENEW COOPERATION - ARMENIAN PREMIER
New accents should be put in Armenia's economic policy, and this will be the creation of new platform of state-private business cooperation which will raise economic competitiveness, Prime Minister of ...ANGRY NORTH KOREA THREATENS RETALIATION, NUCLEAR TEST EXPECTED
A bristling North Korea on Wednesday said it was ready to retaliate in the face of international condemnation over its failed rocket launch, increasing the likelihood the hermit state will push ahead ...245 EXTREMELY ENDANGERED MONUMENTS EXIST IN ARMENIA
About . In case of allocation of financial means it will be possible to partially restore them, Serzhik Aarakelyan, head of Historical and Cultural Monuments Protection Agency of Armenia's Ministry of ...GREAT ARMENIAN PHILANTHROPIST ALEKSANDER MANTASHEV'S SON VISITS ARMENIA
Aleksandr Mantashian Junior, son of Aleksandr Mantashev, a prominent Armenian oil magnate, industrialist, financier, and a philanthropist, is on a visit to Armenia. Mantashian Junior is accompanied ...ANAHIT BAKHSHYAN PROMISES MONEY AWARD FOR ELECTION BRIBE FIXING PHOTO
As compared with previous elections there are positive changes especially in respect of equal coverage by television, member of the Heritage party Anahit Bakhshyan, nominated in # 12 election constituency ...ARMENIA'S POLITICAL FORCES INTRODUCE REPS TO JOINT HEADQUARTERS
The Heritage party has not so far sent its representative to the joint campaign headquarters to take part in regular discussions. The party formally remains a joint campaign headquarters member. Heritage ...ARMENIA'S PRESIDENT VISITS CONSTRUCTION SITE OF HYDROPATHIC ESTABLISHMENT IN JERMUK
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan is in Vayots Dzor for a working visit. In Jermuk resort-town the President visited the construction site of hotel-hydropathic establishment. The construction of the ...ANC-PAP COOPERATION IN PRE-ELECTORAL PHASE ILLOGICAL - ARTAK ZAKARYAN
Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP Artak Zakaryan considers the cooperation between the Armenian National Congress (ANC) and Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) illogical in this phase. 'I consider the ...PROSPEROUS ARMENIA LEADER ARMED AT PUBLIC MEETINGS - PAP REP
Armenia's ex-minister of foreign affairs Vartan Oskanian, who is now running for parliament from the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), believes PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan arrived at his meeting with voters ...ARMENIA'S FM RECEIVES IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL
Armenia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian received today Yukiya Amano, Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). According to the MFA press release, Nalbandian said ...EXPERT ON PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS
This election campaign is most interesting in Armenia, Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute, said at the Yerevan-Moscow spacebridge "Armenia parliamentary elections: forecasts and ...PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS SEEM TO BE "CASTING" FOR PRESIDENTIAL ONES, POLITICAL ENGINEER SAYS
All the parties are carrying out the election campaign for the upcoming parliamentary elections alone. The coming elections seem to be the "casting" for the future presidential elections, political engineer ...ARMENIAN EXPERT EXPECTS ‘REAL COALITION' AFTER ELECTIONS
This year's election campaign is a vigorous one, Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute, said at the Yerevan-Moscow spacebridge "Armenia parliamentary elections: forecasts and comments." ...ARMENIAN PEOPLE CHERISH HOPES CONNECTED WITH THE UPCOMING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS - PARUYR HAYRIKYAN
Chairman of the 'National Self-Determination Union' (NSDU) Paruyr Hayrikyan said today the Armenian society cherishes great hopes connected with the upcoming parliamentary elections. "What I see in ...GLENDALE AUTHORITIES RESPOND TO KARASHIAN'S MAYORAL AMBITIONS
In a clip for an upcoming episode for her sister's show "Khloe & Lamar," Kim Kardashian has revealed her newfound political ambitions: "I decided I'm going to run for the mayor of Glendale." Representatives ...NOTHING WILL HINDER ARMENIA'S DEVELOPMENT - SERZH SARGSYAN
Armenia's President, leader of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Serzh Sargsyan met today within the framework of pre-electoral campaign with the residents of Vayk town of Armenia's Vayots Dzor region. ...YSLU STUDENTS PROTEST MINISTERIAL DECREE ON SACKING RECTOR
A crowd of students from the Yerevan State Linguistic University (YSLU) gathered outside the Ministry of Education and Science earlier on Wednesday to protest the decree to sack the University's rector, ...SUDAN, SOUTH SUDAN CLASH ON NEW FRONT
Sudan and South Sudan accused each other of launching attacks on a new front near their contested border, stoking fears of a return to all-out war in the oil-producing region. The reports of the fresh ...GEORGIAN FM TO MEET HILLARY CLINTON IN BRUSSELS
Georgia's foreign minister, Grigol Vashadze, is scheduled to meet with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Brussels.
According to the Georgian news website Ghn.ge, Vashadze is in the Belgian capital ...EUROPEAN CHANNEL'S BROADCAST ON KARABAKH MOUNTS BAKU'S HYSTERIA
Azerbaijan has seen a new hysteria after ARTE TV Channel decsribed Karabakh as an Armenian land in a recent broadcast devoted to the country.
Speaking to 1news.az, a representative of the Azerbaijani ...EDUCATION MINSTER PROMISES TO RESPOND TO PROTESTING STUDENTS
Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan has promised to visit the Yerevan State Linguistic University (YSLU) on Thursday to respond to the students' questions regarding the dismissal of the University's ...EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN
The European Parliament has adopted resolutions on Armenia and Azerbaijan at its plenary session in Strasburg.
One of the documents concerns the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement; the other addresses ...SERZH SARGSYAN: WE ARE READY TO RESPOND TO ILL-WILLING PEOPLE
At his meeting with the residents of Yeghegnadzor town (Vayots Dzor province) earlier today, President Serzh Sargsyan, who is also the chairman Republican Party of Armenia, expressed the ruling party's ...ALEXANDER MANTASHEV'S STATUE UNVEILED IN YEREVAN
Yerevan saw today the solemn opening of the statue to Alexander Mantashev, a great Armenian oil magnate, industrialist and philanthropist who gained the recognition of one of the world's wealthiest men ...ARMENIAN PM RECEIVES IAEA DIRECTOR
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received on Wednesday the general director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukia Amano.
According to a press release by the Government, the premier expressed ...YEREVAN TO HOST GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION CONCERT
Ahead of the 97th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the Nayiri String quartet is planning a commemoration concert at the Yerevan State Chamber Theatre.
The program entitled 100 Concerts Dedicated ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1862 Birth of H.F.B. Lynch in London of Irish parentage. Besides his study of law, he became noted as a writer, a geographer, a politician, and a traveller, with a keen interest in Armenia. His two-volume book on his Armenia travels is a classic and describes life in Armenia at the end of the 19th century. In 1906, he was elected to serve as a member of the British Parliament. (He died in London on 1913 11 24).
- 1877 The Yerevan detachment of the Russian forces, headed by General Ter-Ghukasov, occupies Bayazet for 12 days with the help of Armenian home guards.
- 1933 Death of Avetik Sahakian (Father Abraham), the Parliamentary President of the First Armenian Republic.
- 1953 The administrative districts of Yerevan, Kirovakan, and Leninakan are dissolved.
- 1958 Inauguration of the Armenian SSR's Art Institute.
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