Lilit Mkrtchyan scores regular victory at Individual Chess Championship for women

Lilit Mkrtchyan scores regular victory at Individual Chess Championship for women

March 12, 2009 - 13:04 AMT  12:38 GMT
Armenia's champion Lilit Galoyan sustained defeat from Russia's Elina Balayan.
RA Foreign Minister hails France's efforts for establishment of peace in Caucasus

RA Foreign Minister hails France's efforts for establishment of peace in Caucasus

March 12, 2009 - 10:52 AMT  12:38 GMT
Armenian Foreign Minister met in Paris with advisor to French President.
Nalbanidan invites Kouchner to Armenia

Nalbanidan invites Kouchner to Armenia

March 12, 2009 - 10:19 AMT  12:38 GMT
Armenian and French Foreign Ministers discussed the Karabakh process.
Bordyuzha: NATO is not ready to talk with CSTO

Bordyuzha: NATO is not ready to talk with CSTO

March 12, 2009 - 01:27 AMT  12:38 GMT
NATO and Collective Security Treaty Organization should work together to form a new security system in Europe, the head of CSTO said.
Turkish towns terminated twinning with 12 Bulgarian municipalities

Turkish towns terminated twinning with 12 Bulgarian municipalities

March 12, 2009 - 00:18 AMT  12:38 GMT
Three Turkish towns terminated twinning after it became clear their Bulgarian twin towns recognized Armenian Genocide.

Ankara plays rather a safe game in the issue of the Armenian Genocide

March 10, 2009 - 22:52 AMT  12:38 GMT
A month before the 94th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire The New York Times published an interesting article by Sabrina Tavernise. According to a long-hidden document that belonged to the Interior Minister of the Ottoman Empire, 972.000 Ottoman Armenians disappeared from official population records from 1915 through 1916. The numbers are published by Murat Bardakci, the Turkish author and columnist, in a book that is a collection of documents and records that once belonged to Mehmed Talat, known as Talat Pasha, the primary architect of the Armenian deportations.

World financial crisis blighted the Armenian job market

February 23, 2009 - 19:54 AMT  12:38 GMT
The impact of the world financial crisis on the Armenian economy and social state of people has already become perceptible, especially in the population employment sector. The alarm has already sounded for a number of employment agencies: employers' offers are decreasing in ratio with the increasing labor supply.

In 2008 the major event in the region was the visit of Turkish President to Yerevan

December 25, 2008 - 19:56 AMT  12:38 GMT
The year of 2008 was also a time of reformatting the South Caucasus Region. After the «five-day» war of Georgia against South Ossetia it became clear that new division lines were to be outlined in the region. No doubt unwilling to do it himself, President of Georgia made a «regal» present to RF that had long been waiting for an opportunity to gain revenge against the USA for the too profound an interference it had in the solution of Caucasus problems. The result was a much more chaotic bedlam in which even the most «skillful» states were unable to "catch a fish".
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