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Monthly Archives: March 2012
March, 2012
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12 March
Baku Homeowners Evicted to Make Room for Eurovision Venue
Homeowners in Baku say they were summarily evicted and offered poor compensation in land clearance for 2012 Eurovision Song Contest venue. -
12 March
Republican Party of Armenia Makes Clear Intention to Retain Parliamentary Control
Though the Republican Party of Armenia's list of candidates in the May 6 parliamentary election weren't made public at the party's 13th convention on Saturday... -
12 March
Fire at Istanbul Building Site Camp Kills 14
A fire engulfed a tent used as a dormitory for workers at an Istanbul construction site late Sunday, killing 14 people, a local official said. -
9 March
VIDEO: Women Occupy Kiosks in Mashtots Park
On Mar. 8, a group of female activists broke through the barricades surrounding kiosks in a downtown Yerevan park and occupied one... -
8 March
PHOTOS: Women Occupy Mashtots Park (Live Blog)
Women environmental and civic activists less than an hour ago occupied the partially constructed kiosks in Mashtots Park to mark International Women's Day. -
8 March
Mother of Killed Soldier Again Receives Court Summons Too Late
Lena Sarukhanyan, mother of Torgom Sarukhanyan, 22, who died of gunshot wounds in a Khojaly, Nagorno-Karabakh military unit on Feb. 12... -
8 March
Estonia Teachers Strike Biggest Since WWII
Teachers in Estonia have staged what commentators are calling the biggest strike in the country since World War Two. They are calling for a 20 percent pay rise... -
8 March
Hillary Clinton Continues to Characterize Armenian Genocide as Conflict Instead of Crime: ANCA
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton refrained from again mischaracterizing the Armenian Genocide as a “matter for historical debate,” but stopped far short of... -
8 March
The Forgotten Faces of Armenian Women in History
Abgar [whose real name was Anahit Aghabek (Aghabekyan)] was born in 1859 in Burma of Armenian parents from Persia (Iran) and grew up in India. -
8 March
MP Candidate’s Foundation Offers Women Free Hair Dry on March 8: Hraparak
The Artak Sargsyan Charitable Foundation belonging to the owner of the same name of major supermarket chain SAS reached an agreement with...