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2011-01-11
Areg Mikayelyan – Armenia among the world leaders in the sphere of virtual astronomy
YEREVAN, JANUARY 11, ARMENPRESS: Armenia, becoming one of the 17 members of the International Alliance of Virtual Observatories, is currently one of the leaders in the sphere of virtual astronomy in the world, head of the Armenia’s Virtual Observatory program, member of the Executive Committee of the International Alliance of Virtual Observatories Areg Mikayelyan told Armenpress, at the same time informing that the Alliance includes such scientifically and economically powerful states as the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, etc.

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2011-01-20 Oil reserves of Azerbaijan doomed to disappear in 2011-2019
YEREVAN, JANUARY 20, ARMENPRESS: The Caspian oil boom since 2005 has strengthened Azerbaijan. However, this advantage is doomed to disappear in 2011-2019 with the dwindling of Azerbaijan’s oil reserves. This was written in an article entitled “Azerbaijan's Chances in the Karabakh Conflict Commensurate with the End of Oil Boom” by Alec Rasizade, presently a Senior Associate at the Historical Research Center in Washington, D.C. He was a lecturer at many universities including Stanford University and Columbia University. Prior to that he worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C.

2011-01-19 Number of Armenian churches in Georgia reduces
YEREVAN, JANUARY 19, ARMENPRESS: From over the 650 churches, monasteries and chapels built in the Armenian-populated territories of Georgia only some of them remained. An official from the CIS department of the Armenian Diaspora Ministry told Armenpress that currently 44 churches are standing in Georgia of which just 38 are functioning.

2011-01-18 Ruben Safrastyan: ‘The Armenian Nation Does Not Want to Come under the Ottoman Influence’
YEREVAN, JANUARY 18, ARMENPRESS: Turkey tends to strengthen its position in the region by using the neo-Ottoman ideology, according to Ruben Safrastyan, Turkologist, director of the RA NAS institute of Oriental studies. He added that the expansion of the influence on Near East is based on Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoghlu’s thesis of ‘strategic depth’.

2011-01-12 No cases of mushroom poisoning and botulism registered this year
YEREVAN, JANUARY 12, ARMENPRESS: This year the cases of mushroom poisoning and botulism have not been registered. Head of the Health Ministry’s food and food security department Margarita Babayan told Armenpress that the risk increases especially on holidays and it is very good that this year such cases have not been registered. On holidays a shift was established in the ministry consisting of staff employees and state hygienic and anti-epidemic inspection employees.

2011-01-11 Areg Mikayelyan – Armenia among the world leaders in the sphere of virtual astronomy

2011-01-11 Activeness by foreign citizens toward .am domain is big
YEREVAN, JANUARY 11, ARMENPRESS: Thirteen thousand 930 websites are registered in .am domains. An official from the registration center of “ABCDomain” domains said in an interview with Armenpress that the half of the websites registered in .am domain, do not trust in companies providing Armenian hosting and obtain it from foreign companies, the services of which are comparatively cheaper.

2010-12-23 Karine Nalchajyan: Marriage contract is a culture that must gradually be adopted among us
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 23, ARMENPRESS: The marriage contract is a way to regulate property relations between the married couples. The culture of signing marriage contracts has come from England. In Armenia the law on marriage contracts has been fixed from 2004 in parallel to the law about marriage but is not applied in Armenia.

2010-12-22 Vladimir Putin: “Armenia is our reliable partner”
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 22, ARMENPRESS: In St. Petersburg, at the residence of Russian Prime Minister, meeting of the Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin took place. The Russian prime minister described Armenia as Russia’s reliable partner and highlighted bilateral cooperation in different directions, including in political and military spheres.

2010-12-21 Number of illegal tree cutting decreased
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS: The number of illegal tree cutting has decreased in Armenia. According to the official data, the number of the illegal tree cutting registered this year is 2 064, in 2009 – 2 287. This number is 30 times smaller than the index registered in 2000 – 61 219.

2010-12-21 Loud noise can result in death
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS: The Republic of Armenia does not have a law on regulation of noise; this issue is regulated in our country through several sub-legislative acts, Head of the Ecological Right Center at Yerevan State University Aida Iskoyan told Armenpress, adding that there is an approach on noise in a number of laws which prevents its spread.

2010-12-21 Nearly 20% of cars registered in Armenian insured
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS: Nearly the 20% of cars registered in Armenia is insured today, Public Relations Manager of the Car Insurance Bureau of Armenia Armine Hakobyan told Armenpress. She noted that the index is quite low, but it is mainly conditioned by the trait of character typical of Armenians – to leave the work for the last day. “I think these 10 days will be quite overloaded,” she noted, saying that all the insurance companies will work till the last day.

2010-12-20 Next Misinformation on NKR Defense Army by Propaganda Machine of Baku
STEPANAKERT, DECEMBER 20, ARMENPRESS: Since early morning on December 20 the Azerbaijani party has shot the Artsakhi front posts 50 times from its military posts, located in the southeastern, eastern and northeastern parts of the contact line of the Artsakhi-Azerbaijani forces.

2010-12-17 Participants of 12th session of CIS Council of Heads of State News Agencies visit Tsitsernakaberd
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 17, ARMENPRESS: The participants of the 12th session of CIS Council of Heads of State News Agencies visited today Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex to pay tribute of honor to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide. The heads of state news agencies walked around in the Armenian Genocide-Museum, got acquainted with the exhibits, and made notes in the Commemoration Book.

2010-12-10 Thirty five members of ARP’s faction are potential candidates in the elections of Yerevan mayor
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 10, ARMENPRESS: At the extraordinary session of the Yerevan Council of Elders the faction of the Armenian Republican party will propose the day of conduction of elections of mayor taking into consideration the opinion of the members of the “Prosperous Armenia” faction. Head of the ARP’s faction at the Yerevan Council of Elders Derenik Dumanyan said at a separate session the faction will decide the possible candidates after which will publicize their names. Dumanyan said the 35 members of the ARP faction are potential candidates.

2010-12-09 There is still no expert or authoritative body dealing with ideology of despair and death
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS: Both psychologists and state bodies have started speaking of “emo” subculture, which has struck roots into Armenian reality quite lately. The followers of this “emo-tional” ideology are divided into two groups – true and false. In the first group are involved those who have made an attempt of suicide at least once, and in the second group – those who strive to reach suchlike victory over the idea of death. According to analysts the second group of emos is larger and more dangerous, as the latter have an issue of self-realization.

2010-12-02 For some Reasons Restoration of Armenia-Russia Gas Pipe-Line Delayed in Georgia
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 2, ARMENPRESS: Starting from November 24, the volume of the gas, provided to Armenia through the territory of Georgia, was reduced. The Georgian side stated that the main gas pipe with a diameter of 1200 mm is being restored.

2010-11-29 Mass media discusses the materials placed in Wikileaks
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 29, ARMENPRESS: German “Spiegel” magazine has gathered a group of experts to study the secret documents appeared in Wikileaks site. Blogger, expert Karen Vrtanesyan told Armenpress that the materials can hardly be disinformation, taking into consideration the circumstance that the main suspect of spreading of the news – Bradily Manning, has already been arrested. The latter declared this July that there are always diplomatic scandals where there is the American party.

2010-11-29 Crematory needed because of lack of lands of graveyards
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 29, ARMENPRESS: The necessity of expanding corresponding areas for graveyards is becoming strained, and the lands of the town are not unlimited. Chief engineer of “Special Service of Population” of Yerevan municipality Razmik Harutyunyan noted in a conversation with Armenpress that the most convenient solution for this issue is the construction of the crematory, for implementation of which the discussions in the Armenian government have started still from 2008 September.

2010-11-26 The positions of the USA and France on NK conflict regulation have not changed
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 26, ARMENPRESS: In the 35th point of the concluding declaration of the NATO summit in Lisbon the summit notes that NATO supports in territorial integrity, independence and self-government of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova, and that the alliance will continue to support in peaceful regulation of conflicts in these regions, based on the above mentioned principles.

2010-11-26 Davit Harutyunyan says Armenia will work as planned if a committee on NK affairs is set up in PACE
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 26, ARMENPRESS: If a subcommittee on Nagorno Karabakh is set up in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), then the Armenian delegation will work as planned, Head of the Armenian delegation to PACE Davit Harutyunyan, said today at a press conference, referring to the statement of Chairman of PACE Mevlut Chavushoglu, according to which they attach importance to establishment of subcommittee on NK issue in PACE. According to Mr. Harutyunyan, Armenia considers this step wrong and our country has not changed its position on it.

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