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Armenian travel - 'Discipline CIA bosses over 9/11'

2005-08-26T10:00:00.000-07:00

'Discipline CIA bosses over 9/11'
Scotsman - 23 minutes ago The CIA's independent watchdog has recommended disciplinary reviews for current and former officials who were involved in failed intelligence efforts before the attacks of September 11, 2001. CIA Director

Day 2: She said, they said
Provo Daily Herald - 11 hours ago The defense and prosecution painted contrasting portraits of the then-17-year-old female accuser in a rape case against two former BYU student athletes. Prosecutors told the jury the now-18-year-old Salt Lake County resident was brutally gang raped Aug.

FBI Cyber Unit Hunts Down Zotob Makers
TechWeb - 27 minutes ago Two men have been arrested by local authorities in Turkey and Morocco, and charged with creating and distributing the Zotob and Mytob worms, as well as Rbot bot worm, the FBI announced Friday in a conference call with news media.

Armenian travel - Republic of Ingushetia

2005-08-26T09:00:00.001-07:00

Republic of Ingushetia
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 tribes known as the Nakhcho, who are first mentioned in Armenian sources dating from The Ingushes have a rich and varied folklore of traditions, legends, epics

Reality Reinterpreted
New York Sun (subscription), NY - Aug 4, 2005 imagination," Edmund Burke's term for the source of all our civilizing traditions. dogma to gay marriage to President Bush's rhetoric to Armenian nationalism.

Omsk Region
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 who are maintaining and developing their national traditions and cultures live the Ingermanland Finnish cultural center, and the Luis Armenian cultural center.

Donetsk Jewish Community at National Cuisine Festival
Federation of Jewish Communitites of CIS, Russia - Aug 25, 2005 from the Jewish community, the event also involved the Greek, Armenian, Georgian, German Sunday, is helping to draw positive attention to the traditions of the

Armenian entertainment - Republic of Ingushetia

2005-08-26T09:00:00.000-07:00

Republic of Ingushetia
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 tribes known as the Nakhcho, who are first mentioned in Armenian sources dating from The Ingushes have a rich and varied folklore of traditions, legends, epics

Omsk Region
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 who are maintaining and developing their national traditions and cultures live the Ingermanland Finnish cultural center, and the Luis Armenian cultural center.

Cossacks: Guardians or oppressors?
Kansas City Star, MO - Aug 9, 2005 we revive Cossack traditions, because we deeply respect these traditions.". Ingush, Dagestanis, Kabardinians, Cherkessk, Meskhetian Turks, Armenian Kurds, as

Air Transport 2002-2004
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 a co-owner of Armavia Airlines founded by a group of Armenian businessmen using between the parties is proceeding in the finest traditions of shareholders' wars

ARCHBISHOP VAZGEN MIRZAKHANYAN SANCTIFIES CHURCH OF HOLY BLESSED
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 3, 2005 blessed the flock, congratulated them on this occasion, and called on them to keep devotion to the Armenian Apostolic Church and to the traditions of their

New artistic director settles in with Bolshoi
Philadelphia Daily News, PA - Jul 29, 2005 yet surely there's a touch of political expression in the Armenian-born Khachaturian's vital for me to visit other cities and to absorb different traditions.

Midwest traveler
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - Jul 31, 2005 Jamestown Arts Center, a celebration of folk and ethnic traditions, is set artists working in a variety of cultural styles, including Armenian, Bosnian, East

Roots of Islamic Terrorism: How Communists Helped Fundamentalists
PeaceJournalism.com, Nepal - Aug 23, 2005 Muslims" (or rather, "Islamists", as they care little of traditions and their and PKK were rumoured to have been brainchildren of a Soviet Armenian KGB officer

Donetsk Jewish Community at National Cuisine Festival
Federation of Jewish Communitites of CIS, Russia - Aug 25, 2005 from the Jewish community, the event also involved the Greek, Armenian, Georgian, German Sunday, is helping to draw positive attention to the traditions of the

Reality Reinterpreted
New York Sun (subscription), NY - Aug 4, 2005 imagination," Edmund Burke's term for the source of all our civilizing traditions. dogma to gay marriage to President Bush's rhetoric to Armenian nationalism.

Artnet News
Artnet, NY - Aug 4, 2005 Of Armenian descent, Steve was long attracted to the life and traditions of the Middle East, writing about Shi ite culture for Harper s magazine and many

Armenian rojak, S'pore style
Electric New Paper, Singapore - Aug 16, 2005 diaspora. The Armenian Singaporean community numbers about 20 and the group is finding it hard to keep traditions alive. A major

Bulletin Board
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East - Jul 25, 2005 and ensembles on Arabic music and dance from the classical and folk traditions. A special benefit concert of Arabic and Armenian music will be presented July

Arab World Festival
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Aug 10, 2005 countries. The group performs instrumental and vocal pieces from Arabic, Egyptian, Turkish and Armenian traditions, among others. The

Cookbooks, cookbooks, cookbooks!
Long Beach Press-Telegram, CA - Jul 26, 2005 Sky, In the Garden, At the Seashore, Alfresco Sunset and Tailgate Traditions. which was inspired by her favorite family recipes reflecting her Armenian heritage

COVER STORY: Colour of quiet melancholy
New Straits Times, Malaysia - Aug 8, 2005 foreign culture is not something unusual for Achedjian, whose Armenian grandparents had the underbelly of America, from kitsch to vanishing traditions, to show

Grand Old Ladies
iAfrica.com, South Africa - Aug 5, 2005 in the Orient, Raffles was first opened in the 1880s by four Armenian brothers and being just laid-back enough to put the stuffiest old-world traditions to rest

Yerevan - Where Indian eggs go for a Siberian toss

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Where Indian eggs go for a Siberian toss
Delhi Newsline, India - Aug 20, 2005 Russians in Delhi want to go home they don t have to travel far. Says Artem, chief of the counsellor section of the Armenian embassy, Bline is special.

First Direct Commercial Flight Lands in Breakaway Northern Cyprus
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - Jul 27, 2005 In order to travel abroad, Turkish Cypriots need to acquire internationally a partnership agreement between Greece's Intrakom and an Armenian provider that

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - Aug 24, 2005 it features an exhibit called "Monks, Merchants and Missionaries: The Bible in the Armenian Tradition." There "People with sick relatives would travel miles to

Book Review | Debut collection paints picture of regular African
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Aug 24, 2005 Aryan," one of the best stories in the collection, offers up the conversation between a Ghanaian musician and an Armenian taxi driver as they travel to Brooklyn

The man who would be king
The Observer, UK - Aug 20, 2005 'Travel across the country, meet people, tell them what's right, what's wrong. The fact that he was half-Armenian and half-Jewish would not play well with

Faith, hope and parity
Financial Times, UK - 3 hours ago a small entourage fussing around him and carrying briefcases and his travel bags The Orthodox community in Turkey has three main components: Armenian, Greek and

Tough Ukrainian trip for Hibs
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 4 hours ago The only other chance is on September 11 when they travel to face Vorska. They reached the first round proper by beating Armenian side Banants 8-2 on aggregate

PACE President Tours South Caucasus
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 19, 2005 on August 20 from Armenian capital Yerevan as a part of his South Caucasian tour. After visiting Georgia the PACE President will also travel to Azerbaijan.

TURKMENISTAN: Focus on ethnic minorities
IRINnews.org, NY - Aug 18, 2005 have reported a further tightening of restrictions on travel, opposition members and He added that since 1991, Kazakh, Uzbek and Armenian language schools have

One on one with the Fire's John Thorrington
Chicago Daily Southtown, IL - Aug 24, 2005 get to see different parts of the world and what have you, but it's definitely not leisure travel. My mom's Armenian, born in Greece and grew up in South Africa

Habitat for Humanity brings more than new homes to India
Bremerton Sun, United States - Aug 15, 2005 Armenian sociology student Karen Tataryan, 21, pointed proudly at Michel and Vivitha's house as he listed the The sons' travel was funded with borrowed money.

Anthropology student Yektan Turkyilmaz released
IFEX, Canada - Aug 22, 2005 to stay in Armenia until 30 August and will from then on be free to travel to and for his own research as well as to build up a library of Armenian books that

Darchinyan wants flyweight world domination
SecondsOut - Aug 16, 2005 Now an Australian citizen, Darchinyan calls himself an "Armenian Aussie" and is gathering After the fight with Jimenez, he will travel back to Armenia for the

SWITZERLAND DETAINS TURKISH POLITICIAN FOR DENYING THE ARMENIAN
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Jul 28, 2005 minute, Dr. Halacoglu had second thoughts and decided not to travel to Switzerland a Swiss Court for having questioned the veracity of the Armenian Genocide in

Money spent by the Armenian Lobby in US
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 16, 2005 They provide travel opportunities to Washington DC for young Armenian Americans to teach them the ins and outs of lobbying. They

Darchinyan stops Jimenez in five
SecondsOut - Aug 24, 2005 The 29 year-old Armenian born Australian citizen was more patient than in While he is prepared to continue to travel overseas to fight, Darchinyan asked for

Colony Capital To Buy Raffles, Swissotel Hotel Brands
Business Travel News, NY - Aug 15, 2005 In a move that could and most likely will affect business travel to Asia That legacy began when four Armenian brothers from the Sarkies family founded the

Abkhazian futures
Open Democracy, UK - Aug 23, 2005 is possible only if they can gain the necessary approval to travel on one of Tbilisi s control and there is growing discontent among the Armenian minority in

Papadopoulos says he would not snub a social meeting with
Kathimerini, Greece - Aug 9, 2005 There are 11 bus lines in Athens which passengers can use to travel to and from Police found the body of a 53-year-old Armenian woman yesterday in an apartment

Here at last
ic Teesside.co.uk, UK - Aug 12, 2005 An Armenian folklore dance troupe travelled for six days by coach to attend a Teesside have the correct visa to enter the UK and they all had to travel over as

Armenian traditions - Colony Capital To Buy Raffles, Swissotel Hotel Brands

2005-08-26T07:00:00.001-07:00

Colony Capital To Buy Raffles, Swissotel Hotel Brands
Business Travel News, NY - Aug 15, 2005 In a move that could and most likely will affect business travel to Asia That legacy began when four Armenian brothers from the Sarkies family founded the

Here at last
ic Teesside.co.uk, UK - Aug 12, 2005 An Armenian folklore dance troupe travelled for six days by coach to attend a Teesside have the correct visa to enter the UK and they all had to travel over as

Azerbaijan Embraces Northern Cyprus
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Jul 28, 2005 The opening of air travel by our has not been debated because of sensitivity over the issue of Nagorny Karabakh, the unrecognised Armenian-controlled republic

Darchinyan stops Jimenez in five
SecondsOut - Aug 24, 2005 The 29 year-old Armenian born Australian citizen was more patient than in While he is prepared to continue to travel overseas to fight, Darchinyan asked for

Tough Ukrainian trip for Hibs
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 3 hours ago The only other chance is on September 11 when they travel to face Vorska. They reached the first round proper by beating Armenian side Banants 8-2 on aggregate

Habitat for Humanity brings more than new homes to India
Bremerton Sun, United States - Aug 15, 2005 Armenian sociology student Karen Tataryan, 21, pointed proudly at Michel and Vivitha's house as he listed the The sons' travel was funded with borrowed money.

The man who would be king
The Observer, UK - Aug 20, 2005 'Travel across the country, meet people, tell them what's right, what's wrong. The fact that he was half-Armenian and half-Jewish would not play well with

Money spent by the Armenian Lobby in US
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 16, 2005 They provide travel opportunities to Washington DC for young Armenian Americans to teach them the ins and outs of lobbying. They

Faith, hope and parity
Financial Times, UK - 2 hours ago a small entourage fussing around him and carrying briefcases and his travel bags The Orthodox community in Turkey has three main components: Armenian, Greek and

TURKMENISTAN: Focus on ethnic minorities
IRINnews.org, NY - Aug 18, 2005 have reported a further tightening of restrictions on travel, opposition members and He added that since 1991, Kazakh, Uzbek and Armenian language schools have

First Direct Commercial Flight Lands in Breakaway Northern Cyprus
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - Jul 27, 2005 In order to travel abroad, Turkish Cypriots need to acquire internationally a partnership agreement between Greece's Intrakom and an Armenian provider that

Abkhazian futures
Open Democracy, UK - Aug 23, 2005 is possible only if they can gain the necessary approval to travel on one of Tbilisi s control and there is growing discontent among the Armenian minority in

Where Indian eggs go for a Siberian toss
Delhi Newsline, India - Aug 20, 2005 Russians in Delhi want to go home they don t have to travel far. Says Artem, chief of the counsellor section of the Armenian embassy, Bline is special.

PACE President Tours South Caucasus
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 19, 2005 on August 20 from Armenian capital Yerevan as a part of his South Caucasian tour. After visiting Georgia the PACE President will also travel to Azerbaijan.

One on one with the Fire's John Thorrington
Chicago Daily Southtown, IL - Aug 24, 2005 get to see different parts of the world and what have you, but it's definitely not leisure travel. My mom's Armenian, born in Greece and grew up in South Africa

Yerevan - New artistic director settles in with Bolshoi

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New artistic director settles in with Bolshoi
Philadelphia Daily News, PA - Jul 29, 2005 yet surely there's a touch of political expression in the Armenian-born Khachaturian's vital for me to visit other cities and to absorb different traditions.

Roots of Islamic Terrorism: How Communists Helped Fundamentalists
PeaceJournalism.com, Nepal - Aug 23, 2005 Muslims" (or rather, "Islamists", as they care little of traditions and their and PKK were rumoured to have been brainchildren of a Soviet Armenian KGB officer

Midwest traveler
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - Jul 31, 2005 Jamestown Arts Center, a celebration of folk and ethnic traditions, is set artists working in a variety of cultural styles, including Armenian, Bosnian, East

Republic of Ingushetia
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 tribes known as the Nakhcho, who are first mentioned in Armenian sources dating from The Ingushes have a rich and varied folklore of traditions, legends, epics

Cossacks: Guardians or oppressors?
Kansas City Star, MO - Aug 9, 2005 we revive Cossack traditions, because we deeply respect these traditions.". Ingush, Dagestanis, Kabardinians, Cherkessk, Meskhetian Turks, Armenian Kurds, as

Air Transport 2002-2004
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 a co-owner of Armavia Airlines founded by a group of Armenian businessmen using between the parties is proceeding in the finest traditions of shareholders' wars

Arab World Festival
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Aug 10, 2005 countries. The group performs instrumental and vocal pieces from Arabic, Egyptian, Turkish and Armenian traditions, among others. The

Donetsk Jewish Community at National Cuisine Festival
Federation of Jewish Communitites of CIS, Russia - Aug 25, 2005 from the Jewish community, the event also involved the Greek, Armenian, Georgian, German Sunday, is helping to draw positive attention to the traditions of the

COVER STORY: Colour of quiet melancholy
New Straits Times, Malaysia - Aug 8, 2005 foreign culture is not something unusual for Achedjian, whose Armenian grandparents had the underbelly of America, from kitsch to vanishing traditions, to show

Bulletin Board
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East - Jul 25, 2005 and ensembles on Arabic music and dance from the classical and folk traditions. A special benefit concert of Arabic and Armenian music will be presented July

Hayeren - Moscow Says Concerns over Russo-Armenian Ties Groundless

2005-08-26T06:00:00.001-07:00

Moscow Says Concerns over Russo-Armenian Ties Groundless
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - 9 hours ago The Russia-Armenia relations are considered defense union ties and Azerbaijan should know this , said director of the CIS Institute, MP Konstantin Zatulin

Lights, Camera, Auction
The Moscow Times, Russia - 21 hours ago Armenia privatizes a historic film studio. Will it help revive the rich cinema tradition of the Caucasus? By Tom Birchenough. As

ARDSHININVESTBANK (ARMENIA) HOLDS "CHILDREN'S SUMMER" CHARITABLE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 The Ardshininvestbank (Armenia) held the "Children's Summer" charitable action at the Yerevan "Zatik" children's home, press-service of the bank reported ARKA

Police: Girl made up abduction story
St. Petersburg Times, FL - Aug 24, 2005 The 12-year-old from Saturday's incident told Tampa police that the man bothered her and her friends inside the skating rink at 5121 N Armenia Avenue, so she

Hibs face Ukrainians in Uefa Cup
BBC Sport, UK - 4 hours ago the Uefa Cup. Dnipro advanced from the second qualifying round with an 8-2 aggregate victory over Banants of Armenia. They topped

Azerbaijan, Armenia to discuss Nagorny Karabakh conflict
RIA Novosti, Russia - Aug 23, 2005 MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) - The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia are set to discuss the resolution of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict Wednesday

Russia Refuses Armenia Plan to Re-export Rough
Diamonds.net, NY - Aug 24, 2005 By Jeff Miller. (Rapaport August 24, 2005) Press reports from Armenia say that Russia's finance ministry declined a proposal from Armenia to re-export 15

Armenia has released Azerbaijani serviceman it previously captured
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - Aug 25, 2005 22-year-old warrant officer Ramin Khudaverdiyev was handed over to Azerbaijan in the Gazakh district with the mediation of the International Committee of the

Czechs welcome back midfield pair
CNN International - Aug 25, 2005 Marek Jankulovski and Tomas Rosicky returned to the Czech Republic national team ahead of next month's World Cup qualifiers against Romania and Armenia.

Nedved not on Czech soccer team roster for Czech-Romania match
Prague Daily Monitor, Czech Republic - 10 hours ago return to the Czech national team was recently speculated about, is not on the Czech roster for the World Cup qualifiers against Romania and Armenia which the

The CIS and Baltic press on Russia
RIA Novosti, Russia - 2 hours ago Recent and frequent top level contacts between Armenia and Georgia disclose theories that Mikhail Saakashvili is persuading Robert Kocharyan to turn westward.

Giovanni van Bronckhorst returns to Dutch squad for World Cup
Canada.com, Canada - 49 minutes ago van Bronckhorst returned to the Dutch squad as coach Marco van Basten named his team Friday for upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Armenia and Andorra.

Russian MP Expects No Progress from Forthcoming Meeting of Azeri
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - 11 hours ago that generally there is a need in meetings and different problems have occurred at organization of meetings between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the different

Reform process in South Caucasus needed to be boosted PACE
ITAR-TASS, Russia - 11 hours ago PARIS, August 25 (Itar-Tass) - The constitutional reform in Armenia, the forthcoming elections in Azerbaijan and reforms in Georgia were the main issues

Global Gold Corp buys gold producer in Armenia
Reuters - Aug 25, 2005 Global Gold Corp (GBGD.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) (GBGD.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) has bought gold producing plant Tukhmanuk in central Armenia for $3.5

AUSTRIA INTENDS TO SUPPORT ARMENIA IN SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 /ARKA/. Austria intends to support Armenia in small and medium business development, RA Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtyan told

Armenia Not Scared Of Azeri Oil Money
Vanadzor.net, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 Armenia dismissed over the weekend Azerbaijan s stated plans to use multimillion-dollar proceeds from its soaring oil exports for a massive military buildup

ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTION IS CHALLENGE FOR ARMENIA
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 22, 2005 While Armenia has undertaken certain commitments on making constitutional reforms and if we fail to meet them, it may have negative impact on the relations

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - Aug 24, 2005 24, 2005. WATERTOWN, Mass. --Armenia has been conquered by the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Ottoman Turks and Russians. Before gaining

Congressmen make bid to include Armenia in railway project
Turkish Daily News, Turkey - Aug 25, 2005 in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the United States object to a Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railway project because the scheme excludes Armenia.

Armenian entertainment - PLAY BY DIASPORA ARMENIAN STAGED AT YEREVAN CHAMBER THEATRE

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PLAY BY DIASPORA ARMENIAN STAGED AT YEREVAN CHAMBER THEATRE
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Jul 26, 2005 The Yerevan Chamber Theatre represented a new performance staged on "Beetle" play by Ara Artsruni, honored artist of RA. The play

Lokomotivi Tbilisi 0-2 Banants Yerevan
GeorgianSoccer.com, UK - Aug 3, 2005 Lokomotivi Tbilisi lost their home game of the UEFA Cup first round after beating Banants in Yerevan. The 3-2 win in Armenia was

COOPERATION AGREEMENT SIGNED IN YEREVAN BETWEEN SIL INSURANCE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 12, 2005 YEREVAN, August 12. /ARKA/. Agreement on cooperation between Sil Insurance, Armenian insurance company, and Kazakh Eurasia Insurance

RESULTS OF PROGRAMMERS' CONTEST SUMMED UP IN YEREVAN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 10, 2005 YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. The results of the programmers' contest have been summed up in Yerevan. Director of the "Enterprises

Kazakh giant opens first Tbilisi branch
Messenger.ge, Georgia - 6 hours ago fully privatized in 1997. The opening of the bank's Yerevan office happened a day earlier on August 22. TuranAlem officials say

Yerevan - Los Angeles: Sister Cities
National Assembly of RA (press release), Armenia - Aug 20, 2005 He arrived in Armenia on the initiative of declaring Yerevan and Los Angeles sister cities. It is envisaged to sign an agreement

ARDSHININVESTBANK (ARMENIA) HOLDS "CHILDREN'S SUMMER" CHARITABLE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 YEREVAN, August 24. /ARKA/. The Ardshininvestbank (Armenia) held the "Children's Summer" charitable action at the Yerevan "Zatik

CONSTRUCTION AT YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 The construction of the Yerevan State University s new compound will be completed in less than two months. Sargis Shahazizian, pro

Azeri Soldier Kept in Jail in Yerevan
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - Aug 21, 2005 Ramil Ilyas oglu Hudaverdiyev, an Azerbaijani soldier, detained in the beginning of August, is kept in a Yerevan jail, the State Commission on work with the

Trial Of Arrested Scholar Opens In Yerevan
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 10, 2005 A Turkish scholar who researched Ottoman history in Armenia s state archives went on trial in Yerevan on Tuesday nearly two months after his controversial

Kazakh Bank Opens Branch Office in Tbilisi
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 25, 2005 The Silk Road Group is BTA s major partner in Georgia. BTA has already set up branches in Moscow, Kiev, Yerevan and Shanghai.

Is Yerevan Scared of History?
Zaman Online, Turkey - Aug 17, 2005 soon after he embarked the plane to return to Turkey after having completing his research in the Armenian national archives on his fourth visit to Yerevan.

A match made in Yerevan
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jul 27, 2005 For decades, all the distillers had to sell whatever they made to the Yerevan Brandy Co., which marketed under the brand name Ararat.

BTA INVEST BANK PRESENTATION HELD IN YEREVAN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 22, 2005 YEREVAN, August 22. /ARKA/. BTA Invest Bank presentation took place in Yerevan on Monday. Rasul Kosanov, Chair of the BTA Invest

Rise In Yerevan Bus Fares Annulled Amid Popular Discontent
Vanadzor.net, Armenia - Aug 16, 2005 Facing mounting public discontent, Yerevan s government-appointed mayor has rescinded a 30 percent increase in the key public transportation fares that was

HIBS HANDED DNIPRO DRAW
Sportinglife.com, UK - 5 hours ago The Ukraine team have not enjoyed the best start to the domestic season, sitting third-bottom of the table, but overcame Banants Yerevan 8-2 on aggregate to

Lights, Camera, Auction
The Moscow Times, Russia - 21 hours ago Yerevan's historic Armenfilm, founded in 1923 and long part of the rich film tradition of the Caucasus, passed into the hands of the well-connected local media

Profitability of State bonds
Arka News Agency, Armenia - 3 hours ago YEREVAN, August 26. /ARKA/. On August 26 presentation of the second and third volumes of the monograph of the Doctor of Technical

Armenian travel - TURKEY: NEW DATE SET FOR CONTROVERSIAL ARMENIAN CONFERENCE

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TURKEY: NEW DATE SET FOR CONTROVERSIAL ARMENIAN CONFERENCE
AKI, Italy - Aug 24, 2005 held view in Turkey that the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians was due to epidemics and other hardships suffered when Armenian militants, who joined

System's fiery songs `Mezmerize' metal fans
Boston Herald, United States - 11 hours ago ``I write about my life.''. Though all four members of System are of Armenian descent, they claim the Armenian connection is coincidence.

EBRD funding for Armenian project
International Water Power and Dam Construction, UK - Aug 24, 2005 The electricity will be sold to the Armenian government, under guarantees lasting until 2016, at prices negotiated once a year.

Good Day To Be Green Day
Gigwise, UK - 5 hours ago Scooping the Best Live Band and Best Band On The Planet awards, the veterans of pop-punk were up against thrashy Armenian nutters System of a Down with five

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - Aug 24, 2005 "It is a rough and bloody history," said Gary Lind-Sinanian, curator of the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown.

Postponed Armenian conference on again
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 22, 2005 The participants in the Armenian conference will include professors from Bosphorus and Sabanci Universities, as well as Turkish academics who work at

Watertown High continues to enhance Armenian language program
Watertown TAB & Press, MA - 11 hours ago After meeting with representatives of the local Armenian-American community this past summer, the superintendent of schools and principal of Watertown Public

Progress in talks provides no guarantees for peace accord
AzerNews, Azerbaijan - Aug 25, 2005 Oghuz district on Thursday. Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents are due to meet in Kazan, Russia August 26. President Aliyev said

Duke student released by Armenian court after detention
Yes! Weekly, NC - Aug 23, 2005 He was there to conduct research for his dissertation on nationalist conflicts between the Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish communities in the region of eastern

Armenian-Austrian Relations at the New Stage of Development
National Assembly of RA (press release), Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 meeting. During the meeting the problems of deepening the Armenian-Austrian political and economic r elations were discussed. Mr

Turkish press yesterday
Turkish Daily News, Turkey - 6 hours ago Turkish newspapers wrote yesterday about a businessman who was kidnapped but managed to escape; an international Armenian conference slated for September in

Armenian food - PRESS SERVICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN

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PRESS SERVICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN
AzerTag, Azerbaijan - 23 hours ago Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice stated that she attaches great attention to the negotiations between the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia related to

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - Aug 24, 2005 24, 2005. WATERTOWN, Mass. --Armenia has been conquered by the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Ottoman Turks and Russians. Before gaining

Global Gold Corp buys gold producer in Armenia
Reuters - Aug 25, 2005 Global Gold Corp (GBGD.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) (GBGD.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) has bought gold producing plant Tukhmanuk in central Armenia for $3.5

Armenia has released Azerbaijani serviceman it previously captured
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - Aug 25, 2005 22-year-old warrant officer Ramin Khudaverdiyev was handed over to Azerbaijan in the Gazakh district with the mediation of the International Committee of the

Police: Girl made up abduction story
St. Petersburg Times, FL - Aug 24, 2005 The 12-year-old from Saturday's incident told Tampa police that the man bothered her and her friends inside the skating rink at 5121 N Armenia Avenue, so she

AUSTRIA INTENDS TO SUPPORT ARMENIA IN SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 /ARKA/. Austria intends to support Armenia in small and medium business development, RA Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtyan told

Reform process in South Caucasus needed to be boosted PACE
ITAR-TASS, Russia - 10 hours ago PARIS, August 25 (Itar-Tass) - The constitutional reform in Armenia, the forthcoming elections in Azerbaijan and reforms in Georgia were the main issues

Moscow Says Concerns over Russo-Armenian Ties Groundless
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - 8 hours ago The Russia-Armenia relations are considered defense union ties and Azerbaijan should know this , said director of the CIS Institute, MP Konstantin Zatulin

Armenia Not Scared Of Azeri Oil Money
Vanadzor.net, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 Armenia dismissed over the weekend Azerbaijan s stated plans to use multimillion-dollar proceeds from its soaring oil exports for a massive military buildup

Foreign Minister: Breakthrough in Store if Armenia Accepts All
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - Aug 25, 2005 Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has said that progress will be achieved in talks on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement if Armenia accepts the

Russia Refuses Armenia Plan to Re-export Rough
Diamonds.net, NY - Aug 24, 2005 By Jeff Miller. (Rapaport August 24, 2005) Press reports from Armenia say that Russia's finance ministry declined a proposal from Armenia to re-export 15

Lights, Camera, Auction
The Moscow Times, Russia - 20 hours ago Armenia privatizes a historic film studio. Will it help revive the rich cinema tradition of the Caucasus? By Tom Birchenough. As

Czechs welcome back midfield pair
CNN International - Aug 25, 2005 Marek Jankulovski and Tomas Rosicky returned to the Czech Republic national team ahead of next month's World Cup qualifiers against Romania and Armenia.

The CIS and Baltic press on Russia
RIA Novosti, Russia - 1 hour ago Recent and frequent top level contacts between Armenia and Georgia disclose theories that Mikhail Saakashvili is persuading Robert Kocharyan to turn westward.

Hibs face Ukrainians in Uefa Cup
BBC Sport, UK - 3 hours ago the Uefa Cup. Dnipro advanced from the second qualifying round with an 8-2 aggregate victory over Banants of Armenia. They topped

Azerbaijan, Armenia to discuss Nagorny Karabakh conflict
RIA Novosti, Russia - Aug 23, 2005 MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) - The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia are set to discuss the resolution of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict Wednesday

Hayastan - 'We speak of real life'

2005-08-26T04:00:00.001-07:00

'We speak of real life'
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Aug 4, 2005 three Armenian-Americans and one Lebanese-American, who combine nu-metal ferocity and prog-rock complexity with elements of punk, goth, Armenian music and more

Bulletin Board
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East - Jul 25, 2005 1-4 at the DeKoven Center in Racine, Wisconsin. A special benefit concert of Arabic and Armenian music will be presented July 31 at DeKoven s Great Hall.

COVER STORY: Not just child s play
New Straits Times, Malaysia - 15 hours ago the West or we will never grow to have our own contemporary forms of music from the was a lot of crowing and cheering in a little park in Armenian Street in

In Today's Feuilletons
Signandsight.com, Germany - Aug 23, 2005 This is how the Armenian court poets must have railed against Rome in the first around on the podium and fidgets with the partitions on the first music stands.

In new Iraq, shaken faith
Newsday, NY - 13 hours ago evening to play dominoes, where families danced or listened to live music on holidays was better," said Lyon, 40, a member of the city's small Armenian community

Juliette Lewis took charge of the presenting duties in London's
hellomagazine.com, UK - 3 hours ago And although the music industry's most controversial singer isn't much give to smiling, he might have been forgiven a smirk or two after being honoured with

'Choir' preaches
Newark Star Ledger, NJ - Aug 18, 2005 While the band likes to keep its albums short, myriad sounds and influences go into each song, even bringing in Armenian folk music from time to time.

System of Down on the upswing
NorthJersey.com, NJ - Aug 19, 2005 Indeed, the Los Angeles quartet, all of Armenian descent, would seem an unlikely And their music is confrontational and unrelenting in a time of "American Idol

Young Dancers Dream of Ballet Renaissance
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic - Aug 12, 2005 we prefer classical music. But that doesn't mean that we only listen to Bach, Rakhmaninov, or Beethoven. We also go to the disco.". "Our Armenian boys are

MONSTER-IN-LAW
JoBlo.com, Canada - Aug 23, 2005 Ruby s Make-Up Bag: A silly music video starring Wanda Sykes as Ruby and two half-naked men He seems like a good guy, and by the way, is he Armenian or not?

Rockers on a roll.
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 7 hours ago and Lebanon, but they all attended the same Armenian private school in LA). "You pray a lot to get closer to God. For me, my religion is what I do with music.

Political ideas aside, System aims for mesmerizing music
Newsday, NY - Aug 23, 2005 this, despite the band's decidedly bizarre mix of hardcore, heavy metal, opera and Middle Eastern music. (All four of the band's members are of Armenian descent

Armenian Night Set
South Bay News, NY - Aug 16, 2005 Nassau County Parks' very popular International Music Nights Summer Concert Series at Eisenhower Park's Lakeside Theatre will host Armenian American Night on

'Bat Boy' wings it to Bellingham
Boston Globe, United States - Jul 28, 2005 After years playing jazz and Armenian music separately, in 1996 he finally merged his two musical passions for a one-time concert.

Down, up; Mars, out there
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Aug 8, 2005 System of a Down, with its adventurous blend of metal, alternative and Armenian music, gave its moshing audience quite an aerobic workout by playing 27 songs

Simply Dvin
Riverfront Times, MO - Aug 24, 2005 what the two women who work there -- the sole employees of this Armenian-Greek-Russian She'll also turn on some music, something Europoppy or this one blowzy

Project Save and MIT take teens back to the future
Watertown TAB & Press, MA - Aug 19, 2005 In July, eight Armenian students attended a two-week workshop during which multiple forms of media, including photographs, voice recordings, music, video and

New entertainment centre to boost arts scene in Bugis, Bras Basah
Channel News Asia, Singapore - Aug 25, 2005 Rally speech. Live music became a priority when new management took over Timbre Bistro at Armenian Street six weeks ago. Local bands

Music: Caucasus' orchestra for peace
International Herald Tribune, France - 16 hours ago each country, he discovered that not everyone agreed that music should transcend It would be inconceivable to place them alongside Armenian musicians, he wrote

System of a Down carves a distinct path
San Jose Mercury News, United States - Aug 17, 2005 And while their music isn't filled with Armenian instruments, their shared ethnic history undoubtedly unites them - and shapes their distinct world view and

Armenian entertainment - MONSTER-IN-LAW

2005-08-26T04:00:00.000-07:00

MONSTER-IN-LAW
JoBlo.com, Canada - Aug 23, 2005 Ruby s Make-Up Bag: A silly music video starring Wanda Sykes as Ruby and two half-naked men He seems like a good guy, and by the way, is he Armenian or not?

Armenian Night Set
South Bay News, NY - Aug 16, 2005 Nassau County Parks' very popular International Music Nights Summer Concert Series at Eisenhower Park's Lakeside Theatre will host Armenian American Night on

Juliette Lewis took charge of the presenting duties in London's
hellomagazine.com, UK - 3 hours ago And although the music industry's most controversial singer isn't much give to smiling, he might have been forgiven a smirk or two after being honoured with

Music: Caucasus' orchestra for peace
International Herald Tribune, France - 16 hours ago each country, he discovered that not everyone agreed that music should transcend It would be inconceivable to place them alongside Armenian musicians, he wrote

Young Dancers Dream of Ballet Renaissance
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic - Aug 12, 2005 we prefer classical music. But that doesn't mean that we only listen to Bach, Rakhmaninov, or Beethoven. We also go to the disco.". "Our Armenian boys are

Down, up; Mars, out there
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Aug 8, 2005 System of a Down, with its adventurous blend of metal, alternative and Armenian music, gave its moshing audience quite an aerobic workout by playing 27 songs

System of Down on the upswing
NorthJersey.com, NJ - Aug 19, 2005 Indeed, the Los Angeles quartet, all of Armenian descent, would seem an unlikely And their music is confrontational and unrelenting in a time of "American Idol

'We speak of real life'
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Aug 4, 2005 three Armenian-Americans and one Lebanese-American, who combine nu-metal ferocity and prog-rock complexity with elements of punk, goth, Armenian music and more

Rockers on a roll.
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 7 hours ago and Lebanon, but they all attended the same Armenian private school in LA). "You pray a lot to get closer to God. For me, my religion is what I do with music.

In new Iraq, shaken faith
Newsday, NY - 13 hours ago evening to play dominoes, where families danced or listened to live music on holidays was better," said Lyon, 40, a member of the city's small Armenian community

COVER STORY: Not just child s play
New Straits Times, Malaysia - 15 hours ago the West or we will never grow to have our own contemporary forms of music from the was a lot of crowing and cheering in a little park in Armenian Street in

System of a Down carves a distinct path
San Jose Mercury News, United States - Aug 17, 2005 And while their music isn't filled with Armenian instruments, their shared ethnic history undoubtedly unites them - and shapes their distinct world view and

In Today's Feuilletons
Signandsight.com, Germany - Aug 23, 2005 This is how the Armenian court poets must have railed against Rome in the first around on the podium and fidgets with the partitions on the first music stands.

Simply Dvin
Riverfront Times, MO - Aug 24, 2005 what the two women who work there -- the sole employees of this Armenian-Greek-Russian She'll also turn on some music, something Europoppy or this one blowzy

Bulletin Board
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East - Jul 25, 2005 1-4 at the DeKoven Center in Racine, Wisconsin. A special benefit concert of Arabic and Armenian music will be presented July 31 at DeKoven s Great Hall.

Project Save and MIT take teens back to the future
Watertown TAB & Press, MA - Aug 19, 2005 In July, eight Armenian students attended a two-week workshop during which multiple forms of media, including photographs, voice recordings, music, video and

'Choir' preaches
Newark Star Ledger, NJ - Aug 18, 2005 While the band likes to keep its albums short, myriad sounds and influences go into each song, even bringing in Armenian folk music from time to time.

Political ideas aside, System aims for mesmerizing music
Newsday, NY - Aug 23, 2005 this, despite the band's decidedly bizarre mix of hardcore, heavy metal, opera and Middle Eastern music. (All four of the band's members are of Armenian descent

New entertainment centre to boost arts scene in Bugis, Bras Basah
Channel News Asia, Singapore - Aug 25, 2005 Rally speech. Live music became a priority when new management took over Timbre Bistro at Armenian Street six weeks ago. Local bands

Armenian traditions - Azerbaijan, Armenia to discuss Nagorny Karabakh conflict

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Azerbaijan, Armenia to discuss Nagorny Karabakh conflict
RIA Novosti, Russia - Aug 23, 2005 MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) - The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia are set to discuss the resolution of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict Wednesday

Armenian - CONSTRUCTION AT YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY

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CONSTRUCTION AT YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 The construction of the Yerevan State University s new compound will be completed in less than two months. Sargis Shahazizian, pro

A match made in Yerevan
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jul 27, 2005 For decades, all the distillers had to sell whatever they made to the Yerevan Brandy Co., which marketed under the brand name Ararat.

Rise In Yerevan Bus Fares Annulled Amid Popular Discontent
Vanadzor.net, Armenia - Aug 16, 2005 Facing mounting public discontent, Yerevan s government-appointed mayor has rescinded a 30 percent increase in the key public transportation fares that was

Is Yerevan Scared of History?
Zaman Online, Turkey - Aug 17, 2005 soon after he embarked the plane to return to Turkey after having completing his research in the Armenian national archives on his fourth visit to Yerevan.

PLAY BY DIASPORA ARMENIAN STAGED AT YEREVAN CHAMBER THEATRE
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Jul 26, 2005 The Yerevan Chamber Theatre represented a new performance staged on "Beetle" play by Ara Artsruni, honored artist of RA. The play

Azeri Soldier Kept in Jail in Yerevan
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - Aug 21, 2005 Ramil Ilyas oglu Hudaverdiyev, an Azerbaijani soldier, detained in the beginning of August, is kept in a Yerevan jail, the State Commission on work with the

Lights, Camera, Auction
The Moscow Times, Russia - 18 hours ago Yerevan's historic Armenfilm, founded in 1923 and long part of the rich film tradition of the Caucasus, passed into the hands of the well-connected local media

Yerevan - Los Angeles: Sister Cities
National Assembly of RA (press release), Armenia - Aug 20, 2005 He arrived in Armenia on the initiative of declaring Yerevan and Los Angeles sister cities. It is envisaged to sign an agreement

RESULTS OF PROGRAMMERS' CONTEST SUMMED UP IN YEREVAN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 10, 2005 YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. The results of the programmers' contest have been summed up in Yerevan. Director of the "Enterprises

BTA to open its affiliates in Armenia and Georgia
Kazinform, Kazakhstan - Aug 24, 2005 ALMATY. August 24. KAZINFORM. /Zhan Buldekbayev/ Kazakhstan Bank TuranAlem has opened its affiliates in Yerevan (Armenia) and Tbilisi (Georgia) early this week

Profitability of State bonds
Arka News Agency, Armenia - 13 minutes ago YEREVAN, August 26. /ARKA/. On August 26 presentation of the second and third volumes of the monograph of the Doctor of Technical

Learn about Turkish-Armenian reconciliation at NAASR
Belmont Citizen-Herald, MA - 22 hours ago Dr. Moorad Mooradian of Yerevan State University in Armenia will present "A New Look at TARC (Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission)" in a free lecture at

COOPERATION AGREEMENT SIGNED IN YEREVAN BETWEEN SIL INSURANCE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 12, 2005 YEREVAN, August 12. /ARKA/. Agreement on cooperation between Sil Insurance, Armenian insurance company, and Kazakh Eurasia Insurance

Trial Of Arrested Scholar Opens In Yerevan
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 10, 2005 A Turkish scholar who researched Ottoman history in Armenia s state archives went on trial in Yerevan on Tuesday nearly two months after his controversial

HIBS HANDED DNIPRO DRAW
Sportinglife.com, UK - 2 hours ago The Ukraine team have not enjoyed the best start to the domestic season, sitting third-bottom of the table, but overcame Banants Yerevan 8-2 on aggregate to

BTA INVEST BANK PRESENTATION HELD IN YEREVAN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 22, 2005 YEREVAN, August 22. /ARKA/. BTA Invest Bank presentation took place in Yerevan on Monday. Rasul Kosanov, Chair of the BTA Invest

Kazakh Bank Opens Branch Office in Tbilisi
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 25, 2005 The Silk Road Group is BTA s major partner in Georgia. BTA has already set up branches in Moscow, Kiev, Yerevan and Shanghai.

Lokomotivi Tbilisi 0-2 Banants Yerevan
GeorgianSoccer.com, UK - Aug 3, 2005 Lokomotivi Tbilisi lost their home game of the UEFA Cup first round after beating Banants in Yerevan. The 3-2 win in Armenia was

Hayastan - Nedved not on Czech soccer team roster for Czech-Romania match

2005-08-26T02:00:00.001-07:00

Nedved not on Czech soccer team roster for Czech-Romania match
Prague Daily Monitor, Czech Republic - 6 hours ago return to the Czech national team was recently speculated about, is not on the Czech roster for the World Cup qualifiers against Romania and Armenia which the

Czechs welcome back midfield pair
CNN International - Aug 25, 2005 Marek Jankulovski and Tomas Rosicky returned to the Czech Republic national team ahead of next month's World Cup qualifiers against Romania and Armenia.

Police: Girl made up abduction story
St. Petersburg Times, FL - Aug 24, 2005 The 12-year-old from Saturday's incident told Tampa police that the man bothered her and her friends inside the skating rink at 5121 N Armenia Avenue, so she

ARDSHININVESTBANK (ARMENIA) HOLDS "CHILDREN'S SUMMER" CHARITABLE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 The Ardshininvestbank (Armenia) held the "Children's Summer" charitable action at the Yerevan "Zatik" children's home, press-service of the bank reported ARKA

Russia Refuses Armenia Plan to Re-export Rough
Diamonds.net, NY - Aug 24, 2005 By Jeff Miller. (Rapaport August 24, 2005) Press reports from Armenia say that Russia's finance ministry declined a proposal from Armenia to re-export 15

Global Gold Corp buys gold producer in Armenia
Reuters - 21 hours ago Global Gold Corp (GBGD.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) (GBGD.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) has bought gold producing plant Tukhmanuk in central Armenia for $3.5

TALKS ON PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN CONFLICT
AzerTag, Azerbaijan - Aug 24, 2005 bilateral negotiations between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Vardan Oskanyan with

Armenian language - Bulletin Board

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Bulletin Board
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East - Jul 25, 2005 1-4 at the DeKoven Center in Racine, Wisconsin. A special benefit concert of Arabic and Armenian music will be presented July 31 at DeKoven s Great Hall.

COVER STORY: Not just child s play
New Straits Times, Malaysia - 13 hours ago the West or we will never grow to have our own contemporary forms of music from the was a lot of crowing and cheering in a little park in Armenian Street in

Hayeren - Azerbaijan broadcaster launches Armenian-language programs

2005-08-26T01:00:00.000-07:00

Azerbaijan broadcaster launches Armenian-language programs
International Journalist's Network - Aug 21, 2005 Public TV and Radio (PTR), the new public broadcaster in Azerbaijan, has announced plans to broadcast Armenian-language programs, BakuToday.net reported.

Russia expects progress at Moscow talks on Nagorny Karabakh
RIA Novosti, Russia - Aug 24, 2005 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian President Robert Kocharyan with the Armenian foreign minister. "I hope we will find a common language," he said.

TURKMENISTAN: Focus on ethnic minorities
IRINnews.org, NY - Aug 18, 2005 He added that since 1991, Kazakh, Uzbek and Armenian language schools have been closed, while instruction in Russian has diminished greatly.

New Era for Glendale Armenians
Los Angeles Times, CA - Aug 8, 2005 In addition to Central Avenue's bustling shopping district, Glendale is home to at least half a dozen Armenian-language newspapers, and local cable TV outlets

Armenian films - 'People were more afraid of the poetry'

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'People were more afraid of the poetry'
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Jul 28, 2005 Often she has been accompanied by Allen or Abkarian, a Paris-based Armenian actor from Beirut whom Potter met "I've always travelled with the films because I

Armenian current events - BTA to open its affiliates in Armenia and Georgia

2005-08-25T23:00:00.001-07:00

BTA to open its affiliates in Armenia and Georgia
Kazinform, Kazakhstan - Aug 24, 2005 ALMATY. August 24. KAZINFORM. /Zhan Buldekbayev/ Kazakhstan Bank TuranAlem has opened its affiliates in Yerevan (Armenia) and Tbilisi (Georgia) early this week

Moscow Says Concerns over Russo-Armenian Ties Groundless
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - 2 hours ago The Russia-Armenia relations are considered defense union ties and Azerbaijan should know this , said director of the CIS Institute, MP Konstantin Zatulin

Russian MP Expects No Progress from Forthcoming Meeting of Azeri
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - 4 hours ago that generally there is a need in meetings and different problems have occurred at organization of meetings between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the different

Czechs welcome back midfield pair
CNN International - 22 hours ago Marek Jankulovski and Tomas Rosicky returned to the Czech Republic national team ahead of next month's World Cup qualifiers against Romania and Armenia.

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - Aug 24, 2005 24, 2005. WATERTOWN, Mass. --Armenia has been conquered by the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Ottoman Turks and Russians. Before gaining

Russia continues contributing to Afghan stability
RIA Novosti, Russia - Aug 24, 2005 and creating new anti-drug safety belts favored by the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which includes Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

ARDSHININVESTBANK (ARMENIA) HOLDS "CHILDREN'S SUMMER" CHARITABLE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 The Ardshininvestbank (Armenia) held the "Children's Summer" charitable action at the Yerevan "Zatik" children's home, press-service of the bank reported ARKA

PRESS SERVICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN
AzerTag, Azerbaijan - 17 hours ago Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice stated that she attaches great attention to the negotiations between the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia related to

Global Gold Corp buys gold producer in Armenia
Reuters - 18 hours ago Global Gold Corp (GBGD.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) (GBGD.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) has bought gold producing plant Tukhmanuk in central Armenia for $3.5

Nedved not on Czech soccer team roster for Czech-Romania match
Prague Daily Monitor, Czech Republic - 3 hours ago return to the Czech national team was recently speculated about, is not on the Czech roster for the World Cup qualifiers against Romania and Armenia which the

'Nothing Stops The VMAs -- Ever' MTV Exec Says As TD 12 Nears
Click10.com, FL - Aug 24, 2005 coast does. "Nothing stops the Video Music Awards, ever," said MTV Vice President of Marketing and Promotions Joe Armenia. "In Miami

Police: Girl made up abduction story
St. Petersburg Times, FL - Aug 24, 2005 The 12-year-old from Saturday's incident told Tampa police that the man bothered her and her friends inside the skating rink at 5121 N Armenia Avenue, so she

Russia Refuses Armenia Plan to Re-export Rough
Diamonds.net, NY - Aug 24, 2005 By Jeff Miller. (Rapaport August 24, 2005) Press reports from Armenia say that Russia's finance ministry declined a proposal from Armenia to re-export 15

Hayastan - Darchinyan stops Jimenez in five

2005-08-25T23:00:00.000-07:00

Darchinyan stops Jimenez in five
SecondsOut - Aug 24, 2005 The 29 year-old Armenian born Australian citizen was more patient than in While he is prepared to continue to travel overseas to fight, Darchinyan asked for

Papadopoulos says he would not snub a social meeting with
Kathimerini, Greece - Aug 9, 2005 There are 11 bus lines in Athens which passengers can use to travel to and from Police found the body of a 53-year-old Armenian woman yesterday in an apartment

Abkhazian futures
Open Democracy, UK - Aug 23, 2005 is possible only if they can gain the necessary approval to travel on one of Tbilisi s control and there is growing discontent among the Armenian minority in

First Direct Commercial Flight Lands in Breakaway Northern Cyprus
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - Jul 27, 2005 In order to travel abroad, Turkish Cypriots need to acquire internationally a partnership agreement between Greece's Intrakom and an Armenian provider that

One on one with the Fire's John Thorrington
Chicago Daily Southtown, IL - Aug 24, 2005 get to see different parts of the world and what have you, but it's definitely not leisure travel. My mom's Armenian, born in Greece and grew up in South Africa

Here at last
ic Teesside.co.uk, UK - Aug 12, 2005 An Armenian folklore dance troupe travelled for six days by coach to attend a Teesside have the correct visa to enter the UK and they all had to travel over as

TURKMENISTAN: Focus on ethnic minorities
IRINnews.org, NY - Aug 18, 2005 have reported a further tightening of restrictions on travel, opposition members and He added that since 1991, Kazakh, Uzbek and Armenian language schools have

Darchinyan wants flyweight world domination
SecondsOut - Aug 16, 2005 Now an Australian citizen, Darchinyan calls himself an "Armenian Aussie" and is gathering After the fight with Jimenez, he will travel back to Armenia for the

Habitat for Humanity brings more than new homes to India
Bremerton Sun, United States - Aug 15, 2005 Armenian sociology student Karen Tataryan, 21, pointed proudly at Michel and Vivitha's house as he listed the The sons' travel was funded with borrowed money.

The man who would be king
The Observer, UK - Aug 20, 2005 'Travel across the country, meet people, tell them what's right, what's wrong. The fact that he was half-Armenian and half-Jewish would not play well with

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - Aug 24, 2005 it features an exhibit called "Monks, Merchants and Missionaries: The Bible in the Armenian Tradition." There "People with sick relatives would travel miles to

Anthropology student Yektan Turkyilmaz released
IFEX, Canada - Aug 22, 2005 to stay in Armenia until 30 August and will from then on be free to travel to and for his own research as well as to build up a library of Armenian books that

Where Indian eggs go for a Siberian toss
Delhi Newsline, India - Aug 20, 2005 Russians in Delhi want to go home they don t have to travel far. Says Artem, chief of the counsellor section of the Armenian embassy, Bline is special.

Money spent by the Armenian Lobby in US
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 16, 2005 They provide travel opportunities to Washington DC for young Armenian Americans to teach them the ins and outs of lobbying. They

Colony Capital To Buy Raffles, Swissotel Hotel Brands
Business Travel News, NY - Aug 15, 2005 In a move that could and most likely will affect business travel to Asia That legacy began when four Armenian brothers from the Sarkies family founded the

PACE President Tours South Caucasus
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 19, 2005 on August 20 from Armenian capital Yerevan as a part of his South Caucasian tour. After visiting Georgia the PACE President will also travel to Azerbaijan.

Newspaper Editors Shoot Back At Kristof's Darfur Complaint
Editor & Publisher - Jul 26, 2005 t even covering the Darfur genocide as well as we covered the Armenian genocide in paper had in even getting a visa for reporter Rick Hampson to travel there.

Book Review | Debut collection paints picture of regular African
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Aug 24, 2005 Aryan," one of the best stories in the collection, offers up the conversation between a Ghanaian musician and an Armenian taxi driver as they travel to Brooklyn

SWITZERLAND DETAINS TURKISH POLITICIAN FOR DENYING THE ARMENIAN
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Jul 28, 2005 minute, Dr. Halacoglu had second thoughts and decided not to travel to Switzerland a Swiss Court for having questioned the veracity of the Armenian Genocide in

Azerbaijan Embraces Northern Cyprus
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Jul 28, 2005 The opening of air travel by our has not been debated because of sensitivity over the issue of Nagorny Karabakh, the unrecognised Armenian-controlled republic

Yerevan - Ukraine, Georgia fuming over planned Russian sex film

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Ukraine, Georgia fuming over planned Russian sex film
Globe and Mail, Canada - Aug 15, 2005 known for his extreme nationalist politics than his prowess as an author of sex films. Mr. Saakashvili, 37, who will be played by an unnamed Armenian actor, or

ARMANI S 'SOFA' IN AMERICAN COLLECTION
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Jul 26, 2005 plays in 25 cities in English, French, Russian, Arabian, Italian and Armenian. The Labyrinth," "The Last Station," "The Seven Day Deadline," "New Eva" films.

Joan Allen: Why I had to say yes
Independent, UK - Aug 11, 2005 women of a certain age, Allen is working almost constantly - five films in the to the burnished intensity of co-star Simon Abkarian, an Armenian-Lebanese actor

Armenian travel - Down, up; Mars, out there

2005-08-25T21:00:00.001-07:00

Down, up; Mars, out there
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Aug 8, 2005 System of a Down, with its adventurous blend of metal, alternative and Armenian music, gave its moshing audience quite an aerobic workout by playing 27 songs

'Choir' preaches
Newark Star Ledger, NJ - Aug 18, 2005 While the band likes to keep its albums short, myriad sounds and influences go into each song, even bringing in Armenian folk music from time to time.

COVER STORY: Not just child s play
New Straits Times, Malaysia - 8 hours ago the West or we will never grow to have our own contemporary forms of music from the was a lot of crowing and cheering in a little park in Armenian Street in

Project Save and MIT take teens back to the future
Watertown TAB & Press, MA - Aug 19, 2005 In July, eight Armenian students attended a two-week workshop during which multiple forms of media, including photographs, voice recordings, music, video and

System of Down on the upswing
NorthJersey.com, NJ - Aug 19, 2005 Indeed, the Los Angeles quartet, all of Armenian descent, would seem an unlikely And their music is confrontational and unrelenting in a time of "American Idol

'Bat Boy' wings it to Bellingham
Boston Globe, United States - Jul 28, 2005 After years playing jazz and Armenian music separately, in 1996 he finally merged his two musical passions for a one-time concert.

West treats crowd to 'Late Registration'
DetNews.com, MI - Aug 18, 2005 "I want people to hear the music!". But if he were to lose, "I'd be happy to lose to System of a Down," he said of the Armenian-American metal maniacs, whose

Armenian Night Set
South Bay News, NY - Aug 16, 2005 Nassau County Parks' very popular International Music Nights Summer Concert Series at Eisenhower Park's Lakeside Theatre will host Armenian American Night on

Music: Caucasus' orchestra for peace
International Herald Tribune, France - 9 hours ago each country, he discovered that not everyone agreed that music should transcend It would be inconceivable to place them alongside Armenian musicians, he wrote

'We speak of real life'
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Aug 4, 2005 three Armenian-Americans and one Lebanese-American, who combine nu-metal ferocity and prog-rock complexity with elements of punk, goth, Armenian music and more

Sharing the art and beauty of undulating
Hub - Red Bank, NJ - Aug 18, 2005 her great-grandmother, grew up with as a child in an Armenian family living The album covers of the Middle Eastern music associated with belly dancing that she

Rockers on a roll.
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 52 minutes ago and Lebanon, but they all attended the same Armenian private school in LA). "You pray a lot to get closer to God. For me, my religion is what I do with music.

Young Dancers Dream of Ballet Renaissance
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic - Aug 12, 2005 we prefer classical music. But that doesn't mean that we only listen to Bach, Rakhmaninov, or Beethoven. We also go to the disco.". "Our Armenian boys are

In Today's Feuilletons
Signandsight.com, Germany - Aug 23, 2005 This is how the Armenian court poets must have railed against Rome in the first around on the podium and fidgets with the partitions on the first music stands.

Simply Dvin
Riverfront Times, MO - Aug 24, 2005 what the two women who work there -- the sole employees of this Armenian-Greek-Russian She'll also turn on some music, something Europoppy or this one blowzy

MONSTER-IN-LAW
JoBlo.com, Canada - Aug 23, 2005 Ruby s Make-Up Bag: A silly music video starring Wanda Sykes as Ruby and two half-naked men He seems like a good guy, and by the way, is he Armenian or not?

In new Iraq, shaken faith
Newsday, NY - 6 hours ago evening to play dominoes, where families danced or listened to live music on holidays was better," said Lyon, 40, a member of the city's small Armenian community

New entertainment centre to boost arts scene in Bugis, Bras Basah
Channel News Asia, Singapore - 20 hours ago Rally speech. Live music became a priority when new management took over Timbre Bistro at Armenian Street six weeks ago. Local bands

Political ideas aside, System aims for mesmerizing music
Newsday, NY - Aug 23, 2005 this, despite the band's decidedly bizarre mix of hardcore, heavy metal, opera and Middle Eastern music. (All four of the band's members are of Armenian descent

Bulletin Board
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East - Jul 25, 2005 1-4 at the DeKoven Center in Racine, Wisconsin. A special benefit concert of Arabic and Armenian music will be presented July 31 at DeKoven s Great Hall.

Armenia - Joan Allen: Why I had to say yes

2005-08-25T21:00:00.000-07:00

Joan Allen: Why I had to say yes
Independent, UK - Aug 11, 2005 women of a certain age, Allen is working almost constantly - five films in the to the burnished intensity of co-star Simon Abkarian, an Armenian-Lebanese actor

FAST CHAT: Dick Cavett
Newsday, NY - Aug 19, 2005 therapy; and perhaps most recognizably, "Himself" in countless films and TV around in the Village between shows and there was an Armenian-Hungarian restaurant

Downtown Is History
LA City Beat, CA - Aug 3, 2005 Seats, which opens one historic theater each spring for the screening of classic films. They make a mean Armenian coffee, the best on the block, but the

Lights, Camera, Auction
The Moscow Times, Russia - 12 hours ago is working alongside philanthropist Gerard Cafesjian, a US citizen of Armenian descent who opened it has promised to support four new local feature films a year

Winning isn't everything
San Antonio Current, TX - Jul 27, 2005 words, for Billy Bob Thornton's Buttermaker to mistakenly call an Armenian kid an All the ingredients of these films are present here (there's even a dwarf at

Armenian music - Coastal Monmouth Calendar

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Coastal Monmouth Calendar
Asbury Park Press, NJ - Aug 10, 2005 Rides, games, contests, entertainment, petting zoo, food and fireworks at 9 Stepanos Armenian Church will hold the annual picnic, featuring Armenian delicacies

'Bat Boy' wings it to Bellingham
Boston Globe, United States - Jul 28, 2005 to Bellingham's new Steps Off Broadway Theater for a little entertainment this weekend. ARMENIAN SALSA DANCING -- When members of Black Sea Salsa say they're

Humor -- and a dose of skepticism -- about isms
Los Angeles Times, CA - Aug 1, 2005 roundly disregarded by the Zongo Street locals apart from its entertainment value, is not In "The True Aryan," an Armenian New York City cabby, stung by his

FAST CHAT: Dick Cavett
Newsday, NY - Aug 19, 2005 around in the Village between shows and there was an Armenian-Hungarian restaurant was going from Austria to Hungary and I put "entertainment business." That

Darchinyan's title defence against Jimenez rescheduled for August
Doghouse Boxing, Canada - Jul 30, 2005 card will now go ahead on August 24th at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in to his natural weight class to face the power punching Armenian-born Australian.

Darchinyan wants flyweight world domination
SecondsOut - Aug 16, 2005 Colombian Jair Jimenez on August 24 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Now an Australian citizen, Darchinyan calls himself an "Armenian Aussie" and is

New entertainment centre to boost arts scene in Bugis, Bras Basah
Channel News Asia, Singapore - 19 hours ago became a priority when new management took over Timbre Bistro at Armenian Street six A new 16-storey Urban Entertainment Centre will be built in Bugis, which

Midwest traveler
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - Jul 31, 2005 Arts, crafts, food vendors, a quilt show, entertainment and more are set for artists working in a variety of cultural styles, including Armenian, Bosnian, East

Privatized theatre celebrates new life
Messenger.ge, Georgia - Aug 17, 2005 he expects 100,000 Armenians to vacation in Georgia and encouraged Armenian investors to We had no places for entertainment here except bars and restaurants.

Darchinyan retains flyweight title, looks to unify
Doghouse Boxing, Canada - 17 hours ago 5th round stoppage of Columbian Jair Jimenez at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on more and more one-sided, with the 29-year-old Armenian-born Australian

The Rhythms of the World Festival Announces its Program for the
CCNMatthews (press release), Canada - Aug 17, 2005 Arapyan Trio who brings forth jazz music with an Armenian flavour. a day full of surprises involving cultural activities, musical entertainment, art workshops

Armenian travel - Arab World Festival

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Arab World Festival
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Aug 10, 2005 countries. The group performs instrumental and vocal pieces from Arabic, Egyptian, Turkish and Armenian traditions, among others. The

Artnet News
Artnet, NY - Aug 4, 2005 Of Armenian descent, Steve was long attracted to the life and traditions of the Middle East, writing about Shi ite culture for Harper s magazine and many

Donetsk Jewish Community at National Cuisine Festival
Federation of Jewish Communitites of CIS, Russia - 16 hours ago from the Jewish community, the event also involved the Greek, Armenian, Georgian, German Sunday, is helping to draw positive attention to the traditions of the

Republic of Ingushetia
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 tribes known as the Nakhcho, who are first mentioned in Armenian sources dating from The Ingushes have a rich and varied folklore of traditions, legends, epics

Omsk Region
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 who are maintaining and developing their national traditions and cultures live the Ingermanland Finnish cultural center, and the Luis Armenian cultural center.

Grand Old Ladies
iAfrica.com, South Africa - Aug 5, 2005 in the Orient, Raffles was first opened in the 1880s by four Armenian brothers and being just laid-back enough to put the stuffiest old-world traditions to rest

Midwest traveler
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - Jul 31, 2005 Jamestown Arts Center, a celebration of folk and ethnic traditions, is set artists working in a variety of cultural styles, including Armenian, Bosnian, East

Air Transport 2002-2004
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 a co-owner of Armavia Airlines founded by a group of Armenian businessmen using between the parties is proceeding in the finest traditions of shareholders' wars

COVER STORY: Colour of quiet melancholy
New Straits Times, Malaysia - Aug 8, 2005 foreign culture is not something unusual for Achedjian, whose Armenian grandparents had the underbelly of America, from kitsch to vanishing traditions, to show

Cookbooks, cookbooks, cookbooks!
Long Beach Press-Telegram, CA - Jul 26, 2005 Sky, In the Garden, At the Seashore, Alfresco Sunset and Tailgate Traditions. which was inspired by her favorite family recipes reflecting her Armenian heritage

Cossacks: Guardians or oppressors?
Kansas City Star, MO - Aug 9, 2005 we revive Cossack traditions, because we deeply respect these traditions.". Ingush, Dagestanis, Kabardinians, Cherkessk, Meskhetian Turks, Armenian Kurds, as

Roots of Islamic Terrorism: How Communists Helped Fundamentalists
PeaceJournalism.com, Nepal - Aug 23, 2005 Muslims" (or rather, "Islamists", as they care little of traditions and their and PKK were rumoured to have been brainchildren of a Soviet Armenian KGB officer

New artistic director settles in with Bolshoi
Philadelphia Daily News, PA - Jul 29, 2005 yet surely there's a touch of political expression in the Armenian-born Khachaturian's vital for me to visit other cities and to absorb different traditions.

ARCHBISHOP VAZGEN MIRZAKHANYAN SANCTIFIES CHURCH OF HOLY BLESSED
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 3, 2005 blessed the flock, congratulated them on this occasion, and called on them to keep devotion to the Armenian Apostolic Church and to the traditions of their

Armenian - Intel Unveils Chips for Media PCs

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Intel Unveils Chips for Media PCs
Los Angeles Times - 22 hours ago The VIIV line is designed for music, TV, photos and home videos. The firm could help computer makers move into the living room. By Terril Yue Jones, Times Staff Writer. SAN FRANCISCO Hoping to speed acceptance

Hopes fade for deal on Iraqi Constitution
Mail & Guardian Online - 42 minutes ago Iraq's leaders missed another deadline for a new Constitution on Thursday night when the ruling Shia and Kurdish coalition failed to win Sunni Arab support for the proposed draft. A one-day extension was announced

Crude prices ease in Asian trade as hurricane skirts oil rigs
Forbes - 1 hour ago SINGAPORE (AFX) - Oil prices pulled back from recent record highs in Asian trading on indications Hurricane Katrina would spare offshore oil rigs in the US Gulf Coast, dealers said. Oil prices however remained

Earth's Core Spins Faster Than the Rest of the Planet
New York Times - 8 hours ago Confirming assertions first made in 1996, a team of geophysicists are presenting data in the journal Science today showing that the earth's inner core, a ball of solid iron larger than the moon, spins faster than the rest of the planet.

Google's Latest Is All Talk
Wired News - 20 hours ago After several months of feverish speculation about a mysterious new service under development, Google unveiled its latest tool Wednesday: Google Talk, a text-chat and voice-communication program that looks nice, but has no obvious advantage over

US dismisses Tehran's questions about EU-3
IranMania News - 1 hour ago LONDON, August 26 (IranMania) - The US State Department dismissed Tehran's challenge of the legitimacy of the role of three European countries, Britain, France, and Germany, who have been negotiating with Iran for two years about its nuclear program.

17 African Immigrants Die in Paris Apartment Fire
New York Times - 1 hour ago PARIS, Friday, Aug. 26 - A fire swept through a dilapidated apartment building in southern Paris early on Friday, killing at least 17 African immigrants and injuring 22, fire officials said. The dead included at least four children.

La Russa reaches milestone in Cards win
TSN.ca - 2 hours ago PITTSBURGH (AP) - Tony La Russa got the first of what could be several champagne showers this season. He can only hope the next one comes in very late October. La Russa passed Sparky Anderson to move into third place on the manager wins list in the St.

A Blast of Rain but Little Damage as Hurricane Hits South Florida
New York Times - 3 hours ago MIAMI, Aug. 25 - Hurricane Katrina pushed ashore north of here as darkness fell today, laden with heavy rain but not packing much of a wallop. Nicholas R. Von Staden/South Florida Sun-Sentinel, via Associated Press.

Hospital's history turns a page
USA Today - 50 minutes ago By Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY. WASHINGTON For almost 100 years, Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been the healer of Army privates, American presidents and international pooh-bahs. By Mark Wilson, Getty Images.

Partisan fighting heats up over Roberts' nomination
Houston Chronicle - Aug 24, 2005 By BENNETT ROTH. WASHINGTON - Partisan skirmishing over Supreme Court nominee John Roberts intensified Wednesday as a leading liberal group, People for the American Way, announced its opposition to his confirmation

PA decries 'Israeli crime' in Tulkarm
Jerusalem Post - 2 hours ago The Palestinian Authority on Thursday condemned the killing of five Palestinians by the IDF in Tulkarm late on Wednesday night, saying Israel would have to bear the consequences of the operation. Several armed

This ''Brothers Grimm'' is no fairy tale
Virginian Pilot - 52 minutes ago By MAL VINCENT, The Virginian-Pilot. ''No curse we can t reverse. No spell we can t break. No demon we can t exterminate.'' The traveling Grimm brothers sales pitch. HOLLYWOOD This is a story

There She Goes, Miss America
New York Times - 3 hours ago By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN. After more than 80 years on the very boardwalk that she helped make famous, Miss America is taking her tiara and ducking out of Atlantic City, pageant executives announced yesterday. The

Six Flags wants off this ride
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour ago In a move that could affect the future of the Six Flags Enchanted Village theme park south of Seattle, Oklahoma City-based Six Flags Inc. put itself on the market yesterday. The decision came a week after

From The Right-A false idol
Barnstable Patriot - 48 minutes ago By Steve Tefft. Cindy Sheehan would be a more sympathetic figure if she weren t such a crackpot. Sorry to criticize the Angry Left s latest Joan of Arc, but truth is truth. The Gold Star mother from California

Armenian food - Darchinyan wants flyweight world domination

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Darchinyan wants flyweight world domination
SecondsOut - Aug 16, 2005 Colombian Jair Jimenez on August 24 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Now an Australian citizen, Darchinyan calls himself an "Armenian Aussie" and is

Humor -- and a dose of skepticism -- about isms
Los Angeles Times, CA - Aug 1, 2005 roundly disregarded by the Zongo Street locals apart from its entertainment value, is not In "The True Aryan," an Armenian New York City cabby, stung by his

Armenian travel - System of Down on the upswing

2005-08-25T18:00:00.000-07:00

System of Down on the upswing
NorthJersey.com, NJ - Aug 19, 2005 Indeed, the Los Angeles quartet, all of Armenian descent, would seem an unlikely And their music is confrontational and unrelenting in a time of "American Idol

In new Iraq, shaken faith
Newsday, NY - 3 hours ago evening to play dominoes, where families danced or listened to live music on holidays was better," said Lyon, 40, a member of the city's small Armenian community

Up the System: Band leavens heavy metal sound with Armenian folk
Newark Star Ledger, NJ - 23 hours ago Their songs often blended the raw power of heavy metal with melodies borrowed from Armenian folk music (all four members are Armenian-Americans).

Simply Dvin
Riverfront Times, MO - Aug 24, 2005 what the two women who work there -- the sole employees of this Armenian-Greek-Russian She'll also turn on some music, something Europoppy or this one blowzy

In Today's Feuilletons
Signandsight.com, Germany - Aug 23, 2005 This is how the Armenian court poets must have railed against Rome in the first around on the podium and fidgets with the partitions on the first music stands.

Young Dancers Dream of Ballet Renaissance
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic - Aug 12, 2005 we prefer classical music. But that doesn't mean that we only listen to Bach, Rakhmaninov, or Beethoven. We also go to the disco.". "Our Armenian boys are

West treats crowd to 'Late Registration'
DetNews.com, MI - Aug 18, 2005 "I want people to hear the music!". But if he were to lose, "I'd be happy to lose to System of a Down," he said of the Armenian-American metal maniacs, whose

'Choir' preaches
Newark Star Ledger, NJ - Aug 18, 2005 While the band likes to keep its albums short, myriad sounds and influences go into each song, even bringing in Armenian folk music from time to time.

Project Save and MIT take teens back to the future
Watertown TAB & Press, MA - Aug 19, 2005 In July, eight Armenian students attended a two-week workshop during which multiple forms of media, including photographs, voice recordings, music, video and

Armenian Night Set
South Bay News, NY - Aug 16, 2005 Nassau County Parks' very popular International Music Nights Summer Concert Series at Eisenhower Park's Lakeside Theatre will host Armenian American Night on

Down, up; Mars, out there
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Aug 8, 2005 System of a Down, with its adventurous blend of metal, alternative and Armenian music, gave its moshing audience quite an aerobic workout by playing 27 songs

MONSTER-IN-LAW
JoBlo.com, Canada - Aug 23, 2005 Ruby s Make-Up Bag: A silly music video starring Wanda Sykes as Ruby and two half-naked men He seems like a good guy, and by the way, is he Armenian or not?

New entertainment centre to boost arts scene in Bugis, Bras Basah
Channel News Asia, Singapore - 17 hours ago Rally speech. Live music became a priority when new management took over Timbre Bistro at Armenian Street six weeks ago. Local bands

Bulletin Board
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East - Jul 25, 2005 1-4 at the DeKoven Center in Racine, Wisconsin. A special benefit concert of Arabic and Armenian music will be presented July 31 at DeKoven s Great Hall.

Music: Caucasus' orchestra for peace
International Herald Tribune, France - 6 hours ago each country, he discovered that not everyone agreed that music should transcend It would be inconceivable to place them alongside Armenian musicians, he wrote

COVER STORY: Not just child s play
New Straits Times, Malaysia - 5 hours ago the West or we will never grow to have our own contemporary forms of music from the was a lot of crowing and cheering in a little park in Armenian Street in

'Bat Boy' wings it to Bellingham
Boston Globe, United States - Jul 28, 2005 After years playing jazz and Armenian music separately, in 1996 he finally merged his two musical passions for a one-time concert.

Sharing the art and beauty of undulating
Hub - Red Bank, NJ - Aug 18, 2005 her great-grandmother, grew up with as a child in an Armenian family living The album covers of the Middle Eastern music associated with belly dancing that she

System of a Down: Band plays by its own rules
Virginian Pilot, VA - Aug 17, 2005 System s music is often described as a brilliant, frenzied heap with influences ranging from Armenian folk to rock to R&B. (All

'We speak of real life'
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Aug 4, 2005 three Armenian-Americans and one Lebanese-American, who combine nu-metal ferocity and prog-rock complexity with elements of punk, goth, Armenian music and more

Armenian food - Where Indian eggs go for a Siberian toss

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Where Indian eggs go for a Siberian toss
Delhi Newsline, India - Aug 20, 2005 Russians in Delhi want to go home they don t have to travel far. Says Artem, chief of the counsellor section of the Armenian embassy, Bline is special.

TURKMENISTAN: Focus on ethnic minorities
IRINnews.org, NY - Aug 18, 2005 have reported a further tightening of restrictions on travel, opposition members and He added that since 1991, Kazakh, Uzbek and Armenian language schools have

Colony Capital To Buy Raffles, Swissotel Hotel Brands
Business Travel News, NY - Aug 15, 2005 In a move that could and most likely will affect business travel to Asia That legacy began when four Armenian brothers from the Sarkies family founded the

Papadopoulos says he would not snub a social meeting with
Kathimerini, Greece - Aug 9, 2005 There are 11 bus lines in Athens which passengers can use to travel to and from Police found the body of a 53-year-old Armenian woman yesterday in an apartment

Armenian entertainment - The CIS and Baltic press on Russia

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The CIS and Baltic press on Russia
RIA Novosti, Russia - Aug 12, 2005 Estonian media are still showing interest in the events in the "The current decision to Russia is accused of stressing the Armenian ethnicity of V. Arutyunov

Starring: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson
2TheAdvocate, LA - 56 minutes ago Simon Abkarian, an Armenian actor based in Paris, plays the The chronology of the events, too, is not strictly love story, albeit complicated by current affairs

PEOPLE OF AZERBAIJAN CAN BELIEVE ON RELIABLE PROTECTION OF STATE
AzerTag, Azerbaijan - Aug 16, 2005 back to those years, analyzing the events and adopted increased by 76 percent and current year makes Sooner or later, the Armenian leadership should understand

Classic Balkanalysis: An Improbable War and Turkey's New
Balkanalysis.com, AZ - Aug 23, 2005 Such ugly events go a long way toward explaining a long time already, but the current proposal would the 90th anniversary of an alleged Armenian genocide at

Political ideas aside, System aims for mesmerizing music
Newsday, NY - Aug 23, 2005 four of the band's members are of Armenian descent Tankian says he keeps up with current affairs while find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words

Turkish press yesterday
Turkish Daily News, Turkey - Aug 23, 2005 Turkey hosting important sports events such as One and Universiade 2005; the current situation in concerning the Kurdish problem. Armenian conference in

The Kurdish factor in the Middle East equation
Daily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 7 hours ago a single ethnicity, whether that be Arab, Kurdish or Armenian. a negative reaction to the events in Qamashli on those people, not the current opposition figures

Global Gold Corporation Acquires Tukhmanuk Mine in Armenia and
PrimeZone (press release), CA - Aug 1, 2005 Lead investors include current shareholders Firebird Global Master Fund is held by the Armenian company Mego of the Company's development, events conditioned on

Uzbekistan and America's Future Conflicts
Global Politician, NY - Jul 31, 2005 So far, events have accumulated in Central Asia rather states, but the strength of their current pro-Western at the plan's inclusion of Armenian soldiers.

Armenian current events - The Cindy Sheehan effect

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The Cindy Sheehan effect
MSNBC - 4 hours ago By Carl Quintanilla. Cindy Sheehan is back in Crawford, Texas, resuming her demands to see President Bush, who himself is facing declining poll numbers. Are attitudes toward the war reaching what Americans like to call a tipping point ?

Leaders battle to win Sunni backing
Financial Times - 36 minutes ago By Steve Negus in Baghdad. Amid procedural confusion, Iraqi leaders worked yesterday to win Sunni Arab approval for a constitution largely shaped by Shia and Kurds, while calling for calm as clashes between two rival Shia militias entered their second day.

Is Google Talk a Skype Killer?
Red Herring - 6 hours ago Google s new voice-chat offering is viewed by some as a challenge to Skype s VoIP service. When Google Talk launched this week, its voice-chat feature drew comparisons not just to other instant messaging

'Grimm' and bear it
Christian Science Monitor - 5 hours ago By Peter Rainer | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor. Scurvy wolverines, ghouls, horses that gobble little children, wicked queens whose facial skin falls away like loose plaster - is there any doubt we are deep in Terry Gilliam country?

Scientists put new spin on Earth's core
Times Online - 5 hours ago By Mark Henderson, Science Correspondent. THE Earth s inner core is rotating faster than the rest of the planet, scientists have found. An ingenious comparison of earthquakes has revealed that the solid ball

Fears grow over arrival of bird flu in UK
Scotsman - 3 hours ago BRITAIN'S public health experts are losing sleep over the threat posed by bird flu to Britain's health and economy, one of them revealed yesterday. Professor Hugh Pennington said the threat to Britain was

IAEA to meet Iran nuclear broker
BBC News - 2 hours ago UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei is to meet Iran's new chief negotiator Ali Larijani on Friday. It comes amid an impasse between Iran and the EU over efforts to dissuade Iran from pursuing a nuclear programme.

Panel Votes to Merge Military Medical Centers
New York Times - 48 minutes ago By DAVID S. CLOUD. WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 - The independent commission reviewing the Pentagon's plan to close or reorient hundreds of military bases decided Thursday to create a major new medical center for troops

RPT - Oil deeper into uncharted waters; natural gas sinks
Forbes - 1 hour ago SAN FRANCISCO (AFX) - Crude futures dug deeper into uncharted territory Thursday to mark record overnight, intraday and closing prices, taking their cue from a 2 pct climb in unleaded gasoline prices. Meanwhile

Dwight Gooden turns himself in
New York Daily News - 5 hours ago BY MIKE LUPICA and MICHAEL O'KEEFFE. After more than three days on the lam, Dwight Gooden turned himself in to Tampa police at 4:40 today, according to Joe Durkin, spokesman for the Tampa police department.

China-EU trade officials hold consultations on textiles
People's Daily Online - 1 hour ago Chinese and European Union (EU) trade officials were seeking ways to resolve the issue of Chinese textile exports at their technical-level consultations in Beijing on August25, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said.

Intel to unveil label for digital-entertainment PCs
San Francisco Chronicle - 14 hours ago Riding on the branding success of its Centrino notebook chips, Intel Corp. on Wednesday announced a new label that will be used for PCs designed for digital entertainment. Starting next year, the new Intel

Miss America leaves Atlantic City after 85 Years
Reuters - 3 hours ago By Jon Hurdle. After 85 years, the annual Miss America beauty pageant, which was dropped by ABC earlier this year, is leaving the beach town of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The location of next year's pageant

Stocks: Acquisitions bring out the bargain hunters
International Herald Tribune - 5 hours ago NEW YORK Stocks rose modestly Thursday as investors saw a series of corporate acquisitions and a reorganization at Eastman Kodak as a chance to pick up bargains in a market made difficult by concerns over high oil prices.

After Gaza, Sharon's next aim is do nothing
Guardian Unlimited - 1 hour ago The answer, whether the question is asked of the left or right, militarists or peaceniks, almost always boils down to one word: nothing. Even before Ariel Sharon finished prising 8,000 Jewish settlers from

Fool Me Once, Lance, Shame on You
New York Times - 52 minutes ago By SELENA ROBERTS. ONE athlete has inspired cancer patients to live strong, and the other once prompted guilt-ridden divorced parents to feel normal. One man overcame father abandonment and escaped poverty

Curtis and Lewis share Buick lead
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 3 hours ago Cromwell, CT (Sports Network) - Former British Open champion Ben Curtis and JL Lewis each fired rounds of six-under-par 64 on Thursday to share the first-round lead of the Buick Championship. Michael Putnam

Issues of Past Not Off Limits in TV Return, Stewart Says
New York Times - 1 hour ago Martha Stewart had not one but two new television shows to promote at a news conference yesterday, so she was quite willing to show a little leg. The famous leg, that is, the one with the ankle encased in an electronic monitoring bracelet.

Armenian entertainment - 7 Days in The Arts

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7 Days in The Arts
The Jewish Journal of greater L.A, CA - Aug 18, 2005 The open-air cinema experience will feature various short films, including Tel Aviv The Christian Armenian, Arab and Israeli musicians that make up The Yuval

Plenty of treats in store with typically diverse EIFF programme.
EdinburghGuide.com, UK - Aug 5, 2005 In a similar vein is Armenian filmmaker Harutyun Khachatryan's Documentarist where he successfully carved out a horror niche with its edgier, late night films.

Joan Allen: Why I had to say yes
Independent, UK - Aug 11, 2005 women of a certain age, Allen is working almost constantly - five films in the to the burnished intensity of co-star Simon Abkarian, an Armenian-Lebanese actor

Winning isn't everything
San Antonio Current, TX - Jul 27, 2005 words, for Billy Bob Thornton's Buttermaker to mistakenly call an Armenian kid an All the ingredients of these films are present here (there's even a dwarf at

'People were more afraid of the poetry'
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Jul 28, 2005 Often she has been accompanied by Allen or Abkarian, a Paris-based Armenian actor from Beirut whom Potter met "I've always travelled with the films because I

Armenian - The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet Monday

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The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet Monday
Pravda, Russia - Aug 22, 2005 Presidents Ilham Aliev of Azerbaijan and Robert Kocharian of Armenia were slated to meet on Friday in Kazan on the sidelines of a meeting of leaders from

Turkey eyes Azerbaijani-Armenian top meetings for opening to
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 ANKARA - The Turkish government is awaiting the results of upcoming high-level Azerbaijani-Armenian talks for its plans for a diplomatic opening to Armenia.

Lights, Camera, Auction
The Moscow Times, Russia - 6 hours ago Armenia privatizes a historic film studio. Will it help revive the rich cinema tradition of the Caucasus? By Tom Birchenough. As

AUSTRIA INTENDS TO SUPPORT ARMENIA IN SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 /ARKA/. Austria intends to support Armenia in small and medium business development, RA Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtyan told

ARDSHININVESTBANK (ARMENIA) HOLDS "CHILDREN'S SUMMER" CHARITABLE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 The Ardshininvestbank (Armenia) held the "Children's Summer" charitable action at the Yerevan "Zatik" children's home, press-service of the bank reported ARKA

Unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan' Position in Talks was Always Unchanged
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 president Ilham Aliyev in his talk with the journalists when expressing his attitude to the upcoming Kazan meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Iran Makes Aid to Armenia
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 ANKARA - Iran Islamic Republic makes grants to two Christian countries of the region, Armenia and Georgia. Armenia has occupied

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - Aug 24, 2005 24, 2005. WATERTOWN, Mass. --Armenia has been conquered by the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Ottoman Turks and Russians. Before gaining

ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTION IS CHALLENGE FOR ARMENIA
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 22, 2005 While Armenia has undertaken certain commitments on making constitutional reforms and if we fail to meet them, it may have negative impact on the relations

Yerevan - Kazakh Bank Opens Branch Office in Tbilisi

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Kazakh Bank Opens Branch Office in Tbilisi
Civil Georgia, Georgia - 15 hours ago The Silk Road Group is BTA s major partner in Georgia. BTA has already set up branches in Moscow, Kiev, Yerevan and Shanghai.

Hayastan - Is Yerevan Scared of History?

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Is Yerevan Scared of History?
Zaman Online, Turkey - Aug 17, 2005 soon after he embarked the plane to return to Turkey after having completing his research in the Armenian national archives on his fourth visit to Yerevan.

A match made in Yerevan
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jul 27, 2005 For decades, all the distillers had to sell whatever they made to the Yerevan Brandy Co., which marketed under the brand name Ararat.

BTA to open its affiliates in Armenia and Georgia
Kazinform, Kazakhstan - Aug 24, 2005 ALMATY. August 24. KAZINFORM. /Zhan Buldekbayev/ Kazakhstan Bank TuranAlem has opened its affiliates in Yerevan (Armenia) and Tbilisi (Georgia) early this week

RESULTS OF PROGRAMMERS' CONTEST SUMMED UP IN YEREVAN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 10, 2005 YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. The results of the programmers' contest have been summed up in Yerevan. Director of the "Enterprises

ARDSHININVESTBANK (ARMENIA) HOLDS "CHILDREN'S SUMMER" CHARITABLE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 YEREVAN, August 24. /ARKA/. The Ardshininvestbank (Armenia) held the "Children's Summer" charitable action at the Yerevan "Zatik

Profitability of State bonds
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 YEREVAN, August 24. /ARKA/. On August 26 presentation of the second and third volumes of the monograph of the Doctor of Technical

Yerevan - Los Angeles: Sister Cities
National Assembly of RA (press release), Armenia - Aug 20, 2005 He arrived in Armenia on the initiative of declaring Yerevan and Los Angeles sister cities. It is envisaged to sign an agreement

Lights, Camera, Auction
The Moscow Times, Russia - 4 hours ago Yerevan's historic Armenfilm, founded in 1923 and long part of the rich film tradition of the Caucasus, passed into the hands of the well-connected local media

Lokomotivi Tbilisi 0-2 Banants Yerevan
GeorgianSoccer.com, UK - Aug 3, 2005 Lokomotivi Tbilisi lost their home game of the UEFA Cup first round after beating Banants in Yerevan. The 3-2 win in Armenia was

BTA INVEST BANK PRESENTATION HELD IN YEREVAN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 22, 2005 YEREVAN, August 22. /ARKA/. BTA Invest Bank presentation took place in Yerevan on Monday. Rasul Kosanov, Chair of the BTA Invest

Rise In Yerevan Bus Fares Annulled Amid Popular Discontent
Vanadzor.net, Armenia - Aug 16, 2005 Facing mounting public discontent, Yerevan s government-appointed mayor has rescinded a 30 percent increase in the key public transportation fares that was

COOPERATION AGREEMENT SIGNED IN YEREVAN BETWEEN SIL INSURANCE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 12, 2005 YEREVAN, August 12. /ARKA/. Agreement on cooperation between Sil Insurance, Armenian insurance company, and Kazakh Eurasia Insurance

PLAY BY DIASPORA ARMENIAN STAGED AT YEREVAN CHAMBER THEATRE
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Jul 26, 2005 The Yerevan Chamber Theatre represented a new performance staged on "Beetle" play by Ara Artsruni, honored artist of RA. The play

Armenia hopes for "common denominators" in Karabakh solution
ITAR-TASS, Russia - Aug 24, 2005 MOSCOW, August 24 (Itar-Tass) - Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan said Yerevan and Baku can hopefully find "common denominators" in resolving the

Learn about Turkish-Armenian reconciliation at NAASR
Belmont Citizen-Herald, MA - 8 hours ago Dr. Moorad Mooradian of Yerevan State University in Armenia will present "A New Look at TARC (Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission)" in a free lecture at

CONSTRUCTION AT YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 The construction of the Yerevan State University s new compound will be completed in less than two months. Sargis Shahazizian, pro

Azeri Soldier Kept in Jail in Yerevan
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - Aug 21, 2005 Ramil Ilyas oglu Hudaverdiyev, an Azerbaijani soldier, detained in the beginning of August, is kept in a Yerevan jail, the State Commission on work with the

Trial Of Arrested Scholar Opens In Yerevan
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 10, 2005 A Turkish scholar who researched Ottoman history in Armenia s state archives went on trial in Yerevan on Tuesday nearly two months after his controversial

Armenian - Armenian Night Set

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Armenian Night Set
South Bay News, NY - Aug 16, 2005 Nassau County Parks' very popular International Music Nights Summer Concert Series at Eisenhower Park's Lakeside Theatre will host Armenian American Night on

Up the System: Band leavens heavy metal sound with Armenian folk
Newark Star Ledger, NJ - 18 hours ago Their songs often blended the raw power of heavy metal with melodies borrowed from Armenian folk music (all four members are Armenian-Americans).

MONSTER-IN-LAW
JoBlo.com, Canada - Aug 23, 2005 Ruby s Make-Up Bag: A silly music video starring Wanda Sykes as Ruby and two half-naked men He seems like a good guy, and by the way, is he Armenian or not?

System of Down on the upswing
NorthJersey.com, NJ - Aug 19, 2005 Indeed, the Los Angeles quartet, all of Armenian descent, would seem an unlikely And their music is confrontational and unrelenting in a time of "American Idol

Bulletin Board
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East - Jul 25, 2005 1-4 at the DeKoven Center in Racine, Wisconsin. A special benefit concert of Arabic and Armenian music will be presented July 31 at DeKoven s Great Hall.

System of a Down: Band plays by its own rules
Virginian Pilot, VA - Aug 17, 2005 System s music is often described as a brilliant, frenzied heap with influences ranging from Armenian folk to rock to R&B. (All

Armenia - Critics, supporters battle over Roberts

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Critics, supporters battle over Roberts
CNN - 19 hours ago Rights activist Linda Chavez, left, and writer Mary Ellen Bork at a "Women for Roberts" event Wednesday. LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- As critics and supporters of John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court sparred Wednesday, Sen.

Bush ranch protesters plan road trip to Washington
Reuters - 1 hour ago By Adam Entous. CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - With a small group of supporters at her side near President George W. Bush's Texas ranch, anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan said on Thursday she planned to take her

Panel Approves Plan to Close Walter Reed Army Hospital
New York Times - 4 hours ago By DAVID S. CLOUD. ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 25 - The independent commission reviewing a Defense Department plan to shut or shrink hundreds of military bases nationwide voted this morning to close the historic Walter

US Stock-Index Futures Rise as Oil Prices Fall; Ford Drops
Bloomberg - 8 hours ago Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- US stock-index futures rose after the price of oil declined from a record on forecasts showing Tropical Storm Katrina will probably miss US fields in the Gulf of Mexico. ``The big driver

Six Flags to pursue possible sale of the company
Reuters - 2 hours ago By Jui Chakravorty. NEW YORK, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Six Flags Inc. (PKS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said it put itself up for sale and invited Washington Redskins owner and dissident investor Daniel

Halo Goes Hollywood
E! Online - 1 hour ago by Josh Grossberg. Microsoft Corp. has sealed a deal with Universal and 20th Century Fox that will see the studios pay the software giant $5 million for the rights to turn its mega-hit sci-fi videogame Halo

Hayeren - Turkish women in Germany

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Turkish women in Germany
Toytown Munich, Germany - Aug 21, 2005 with Turks, my mother is French Canadian and my father is an Armenian, a country And it's not just books, I've come across films and documentaries on TV about

Downtown Is History
LA City Beat, CA - Aug 3, 2005 Seats, which opens one historic theater each spring for the screening of classic films. They make a mean Armenian coffee, the best on the block, but the

2005 Arpa International Film Festival Announces Dates and
Persian Mirror - Aug 17, 2005 that will present over 50 features, documentaries, shorts and animated films from 18 created as a non-profit organization in 1997 to give Armenian filmmakers a

7 Days in The Arts
The Jewish Journal of greater L.A, CA - Aug 18, 2005 The open-air cinema experience will feature various short films, including Tel Aviv The Christian Armenian, Arab and Israeli musicians that make up The Yuval

Winning isn't everything
San Antonio Current, TX - Jul 27, 2005 words, for Billy Bob Thornton's Buttermaker to mistakenly call an Armenian kid an All the ingredients of these films are present here (there's even a dwarf at

'People were more afraid of the poetry'
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Jul 28, 2005 Often she has been accompanied by Allen or Abkarian, a Paris-based Armenian actor from Beirut whom Potter met "I've always travelled with the films because I

Ukraine, Georgia fuming over planned Russian sex film
Globe and Mail, Canada - Aug 15, 2005 known for his extreme nationalist politics than his prowess as an author of sex films. Mr. Saakashvili, 37, who will be played by an unnamed Armenian actor, or

Joan Allen: Why I had to say yes
Independent, UK - Aug 11, 2005 women of a certain age, Allen is working almost constantly - five films in the to the burnished intensity of co-star Simon Abkarian, an Armenian-Lebanese actor

FAST CHAT: Dick Cavett
Newsday, NY - Aug 19, 2005 therapy; and perhaps most recognizably, "Himself" in countless films and TV around in the Village between shows and there was an Armenian-Hungarian restaurant

Lights, Camera, Auction
The Moscow Times, Russia - 2 hours ago is working alongside philanthropist Gerard Cafesjian, a US citizen of Armenian descent who opened it has promised to support four new local feature films a year

ARMANI S 'SOFA' IN AMERICAN COLLECTION
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Jul 26, 2005 plays in 25 cities in English, French, Russian, Arabian, Italian and Armenian. The Labyrinth," "The Last Station," "The Seven Day Deadline," "New Eva" films.

Plenty of treats in store with typically diverse EIFF programme.
EdinburghGuide.com, UK - Aug 5, 2005 In a similar vein is Armenian filmmaker Harutyun Khachatryan's Documentarist where he successfully carved out a horror niche with its edgier, late night films.

Armenian - Duke student breaks Armenian book law, gets 2-year suspended

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Duke student breaks Armenian book law, gets 2-year suspended
Winston-Salem Journal, NC - Aug 17, 2005 a two-year suspended sentence to a Turkish historian from Duke University who tried to leave the country with centuries-old books, in violation of Armenian law

Finally Armenian Officials Free Duke Scolar
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 19, 2005 Turkyilmaz visited Armenia to make research on Armenian and Turkish history. Armenian archives are open but just to the pro-Government Armenians.

Armenian officials free Duke student
Chicago Tribune, United States - Aug 18, 2005 "I was, I am and I will remain a friend of the Armenians," Turkyilmaz was quoted as saying in the Armenian media as he announced plans to continue studying the

Armenian language - Armenian-Austrian Relations at the New Stage of Development

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Armenian-Austrian Relations at the New Stage of Development
National Assembly of RA (press release), Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 meeting. During the meeting the problems of deepening the Armenian-Austrian political and economic r elations were discussed. Mr

Finally Armenian Officials Free Duke Scolar
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 19, 2005 Turkyilmaz visited Armenia to make research on Armenian and Turkish history. Armenian archives are open but just to the pro-Government Armenians.

The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America s Response
Israel Hasbara Committee (subscription), NY - Aug 22, 2005 at length with US government involvement (or the insufficiency thereof, depending on one s point of view) in supporting fellow-Christian Armenian victims.

Duke student breaks Armenian book law, gets 2-year suspended
Winston-Salem Journal, NC - Aug 17, 2005 a two-year suspended sentence to a Turkish historian from Duke University who tried to leave the country with centuries-old books, in violation of Armenian law

Up the System: Band leavens heavy metal sound with Armenian folk
Newark Star Ledger, NJ - 15 hours ago Their songs often blended the raw power of heavy metal with melodies borrowed from Armenian folk music (all four members are Armenian-Americans).

G l welcomes controversial conference on Armenian issue
Turkish Daily News, Turkey - 12 hours ago We don't have any hesitations nor do we have a complex within this context, says Foreign Minister G l concerning the Armenian allegations.

Azerbaijan broadcaster launches Armenian-language programs
International Journalist's Network - Aug 21, 2005 Public TV and Radio (PTR), the new public broadcaster in Azerbaijan, has announced plans to broadcast Armenian-language programs, BakuToday.net reported.

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - Aug 24, 2005 "It is a rough and bloody history," said Gary Lind-Sinanian, curator of the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown.

Russia declines Armenian Proposal to re-export raw diamonds
Caucaz.com, Georgia - Aug 24, 2005 economic development ministry department dealing with jewelry and goldsmith industry, said Russian finance ministry has declined an Armenian proposal asking

Postponed Armenian conference back on
Turks.US - Aug 23, 2005 The participants in the Armenian conference will include professors from Bosphorus and Sabanci Universities, as well as Turkish academics who work at

Hayastan - Foreign Minister: Breakthrough in Store if Armenia Accepts All

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Foreign Minister: Breakthrough in Store if Armenia Accepts All
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - 7 hours ago Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has said that progress will be achieved in talks on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement if Armenia accepts the

ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTION IS CHALLENGE FOR ARMENIA
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 22, 2005 While Armenia has undertaken certain commitments on making constitutional reforms and if we fail to meet them, it may have negative impact on the relations

ARDSHININVESTBANK (ARMENIA) HOLDS "CHILDREN'S SUMMER" CHARITABLE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 The Ardshininvestbank (Armenia) held the "Children's Summer" charitable action at the Yerevan "Zatik" children's home, press-service of the bank reported ARKA

BTA to open its affiliates in Armenia and Georgia
Kazinform, Kazakhstan - Aug 24, 2005 ALMATY. August 24. KAZINFORM. /Zhan Buldekbayev/ Kazakhstan Bank TuranAlem has opened its affiliates in Yerevan (Armenia) and Tbilisi (Georgia) early this week

Russia continues contributing to Afghan stability
RIA Novosti, Russia - Aug 24, 2005 and creating new anti-drug safety belts favored by the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which includes Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

Turkey eyes Azerbaijani-Armenian top meetings for opening to
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 ANKARA - The Turkish government is awaiting the results of upcoming high-level Azerbaijani-Armenian talks for its plans for a diplomatic opening to Armenia.

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - Aug 24, 2005 24, 2005. WATERTOWN, Mass. --Armenia has been conquered by the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Ottoman Turks and Russians. Before gaining

Iran Makes Aid to Armenia
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 ANKARA - Iran Islamic Republic makes grants to two Christian countries of the region, Armenia and Georgia. Armenia has occupied

Russia Refuses Armenia Plan to Re-export Rough
Diamonds.net, NY - Aug 24, 2005 By Jeff Miller. (Rapaport August 24, 2005) Press reports from Armenia say that Russia's finance ministry declined a proposal from Armenia to re-export 15

Girl says she lied about attempted abduction
St. Petersburg Times, FL - 14 hours ago In Saturday's incident, the 12-year-old told Tampa police the man bothered her and her friends inside the skating rink at 5121 N Armenia Ave., so she went to

Unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan' Position in Talks was Always Unchanged
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 president Ilham Aliyev in his talk with the journalists when expressing his attitude to the upcoming Kazan meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Czechs welcome back midfield pair
CNN International - 8 hours ago Marek Jankulovski and Tomas Rosicky returned to the Czech Republic national team ahead of next month's World Cup qualifiers against Romania and Armenia.

Saakashvili: No Political Problems with Armenia
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 23, 2005 President Saakashvili paid a two-day informal visit to Armenia on August 21-22 and met with Robert Kocharian at the latter s summer residence on the shore of

Armenian travel - Unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan' Position in Talks was Always Unchanged

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Unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan' Position in Talks was Always Unchanged
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 president Ilham Aliyev in his talk with the journalists when expressing his attitude to the upcoming Kazan meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Foreign Minister: Breakthrough in Store if Armenia Accepts All
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - 7 hours ago Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has said that progress will be achieved in talks on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement if Armenia accepts the

'Nothing Stops The VMAs -- Ever' MTV Exec Says As TD 12 Nears
Click10.com, FL - Aug 24, 2005 coast does. "Nothing stops the Video Music Awards, ever," said MTV Vice President of Marketing and Promotions Joe Armenia. "In Miami

Reform process in South-Caucasus needs to be boosted, says PACE
noticias.info (press release), Spain - 6 hours ago Strasbourg, 25.08.2005 Constitutional reform in Armenia, the forthcoming elections in Azerbaijan and reforms in Georgia were the main issues discussed

Girl says she lied about attempted abduction
St. Petersburg Times, FL - 14 hours ago In Saturday's incident, the 12-year-old told Tampa police the man bothered her and her friends inside the skating rink at 5121 N Armenia Ave., so she went to

BTA to open its affiliates in Armenia and Georgia
Kazinform, Kazakhstan - Aug 24, 2005 ALMATY. August 24. KAZINFORM. /Zhan Buldekbayev/ Kazakhstan Bank TuranAlem has opened its affiliates in Yerevan (Armenia) and Tbilisi (Georgia) early this week

Russia continues contributing to Afghan stability
RIA Novosti, Russia - Aug 24, 2005 and creating new anti-drug safety belts favored by the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which includes Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

Global Gold Corp buys gold producer in Armenia
Reuters - 4 hours ago Global Gold Corp (GBGD.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) (GBGD.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) has bought gold producing plant Tukhmanuk in central Armenia for $3.5

Congressmen make bid to include Armenia in railway project
Turkish Daily News, Turkey - 11 hours ago in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the United States object to a Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railway project because the scheme excludes Armenia.

Russia Refuses Armenia Plan to Re-export Rough
Diamonds.net, NY - Aug 24, 2005 By Jeff Miller. (Rapaport August 24, 2005) Press reports from Armenia say that Russia's finance ministry declined a proposal from Armenia to re-export 15

The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet Monday
Pravda, Russia - Aug 22, 2005 Presidents Ilham Aliev of Azerbaijan and Robert Kocharian of Armenia were slated to meet on Friday in Kazan on the sidelines of a meeting of leaders from

Czechs welcome back midfield pair
CNN International - 8 hours ago Marek Jankulovski and Tomas Rosicky returned to the Czech Republic national team ahead of next month's World Cup qualifiers against Romania and Armenia.

Turkey eyes Azerbaijani-Armenian top meetings for opening to
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 ANKARA - The Turkish government is awaiting the results of upcoming high-level Azerbaijani-Armenian talks for its plans for a diplomatic opening to Armenia.

AUSTRIA INTENDS TO SUPPORT ARMENIA IN SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 /ARKA/. Austria intends to support Armenia in small and medium business development, RA Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtyan told

ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTION IS CHALLENGE FOR ARMENIA
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 22, 2005 While Armenia has undertaken certain commitments on making constitutional reforms and if we fail to meet them, it may have negative impact on the relations

Iran Makes Aid to Armenia
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 ANKARA - Iran Islamic Republic makes grants to two Christian countries of the region, Armenia and Georgia. Armenia has occupied

ARDSHININVESTBANK (ARMENIA) HOLDS "CHILDREN'S SUMMER" CHARITABLE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 24, 2005 The Ardshininvestbank (Armenia) held the "Children's Summer" charitable action at the Yerevan "Zatik" children's home, press-service of the bank reported ARKA

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - Aug 24, 2005 24, 2005. WATERTOWN, Mass. --Armenia has been conquered by the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Ottoman Turks and Russians. Before gaining

Saakashvili: No Political Problems with Armenia
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 23, 2005 President Saakashvili paid a two-day informal visit to Armenia on August 21-22 and met with Robert Kocharian at the latter s summer residence on the shore of

Armenia has released Azerbaijani serviceman it previously captured
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - 8 hours ago 22-year-old warrant officer Ramin Khudaverdiyev was handed over to Azerbaijan in the Gazakh district with the mediation of the International Committee of the

Armenian food - EU split over bird flu threat

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EU split over bird flu threat
Bangkok Post - 43 minutes ago Brussels _ European experts meeting in Brussels yesterday were divided over how to deal with the spread of avian flu, yet stressed there is no cause for alarm over the virus, a version of which has killed more than 60 people in Asia.

UPDATE 3-Six Flags to pursue possible sale of the company
Reuters - 1 hour ago By Jui Chakravorty. NEW YORK, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Six Flags Inc. (PKS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said it put itself up for sale and invited Washington Redskins owner and dissident investor Daniel

Crude Oil, Gas Fall From Records as Storm May Miss Gulf Fields
Bloomberg - 2 hours ago Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil and natural gas fell from records in New York on forecasts that Tropical Storm Katrina will probably miss oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico. ``Prices rose on concern

War Mom vs. Peace Mom
Washington Post - 2 hours ago By Dan Froomkin. Stung by the ability of one grieving mother to inspire a growing antiwar movement, the White House has found a mom to call its own. An obviously delighted President Bush introduced her to a

Gerrard: Quality displays will silence sceptics
Ireland Online - 26 minutes ago Steven Gerrard will use Liverpool s two Champions League matches against Chelsea to dispel any lingering doubts about where his loyalties lie after the two English clubs were drawn together in the group stage of the tournament.

Retaliation shatters calm of West Bank
Financial Times - 1 hour ago By Harvey Morris in Jerusalem. The relative calm that accompanied the Israeli evacuation of the Gaza Strip outlasted the operation by barely 48 hours, as militants on Thursday fired a rocket into southern Israel

Scientists Present Rare Woodpecker Audio
Washington Post - 1 hour ago SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Scientists publicly presented recordings of the ivory-billed woodpecker, noting that the tape suggests there might be more than one of the rare bird in an eastern Arkansas swamp. A

The Brothers Grimm
Newsday - 1 hour ago BY GENE SEYMOUR. (PG-13). The fairy-tale masters (Matt Damon, Heath Ledger) are transformed by screenwriting magic into con men forced to battle witchcraft, wolves and Napoleon's army. The movie engulfs your

Microsoft signs film deal for "Halo" video games
Reuters - 22 hours ago SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has signed a deal with two film studios to make a movie based on its popular space-based video game series "Halo," a spokesman for Universal Pictures said on Wednesday.

Panel Approves Plan to Close Walter Reed Army Hospital
New York Times - 1 hour ago By DAVID S. CLOUD. ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 25 - The independent commission reviewing a Defense Department plan to shut or shrink hundreds of military bases nationwide voted this morning to close the historic Walter

Ford/GM ratings cuts shrugged off
Financial Times - 27 minutes ago By Ivar Simensen. Bond markets on Thursday shrugged off a downgrade by Moody s Investors Service of the credit rating of Ford and General Motors to speculative grade status. Mounting pension and healthcare

'Peace mom': Protest won't end when she goes home
Houston Chronicle - 57 minutes ago By ANGELA K. BROWN. CRAWFORD A fallen soldier's mother said today that the an anti-war vigil she started nearly three weeks ago near President Bush's ranch won't end when she and other protesters pack up the camp next week.

Blue Jays-Yankees Preview
USA Today - 2 hours ago The 27-year-old right-hander will look to turn in yet another outstanding start when he takes the ball for the Yankees in the finale of their four-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays. Acquired July 28 from

Sen. Feinstein looks to press Roberts on abortion
USA Today - 16 hours ago By Martin Kasindorf and Mark Memmott, USA TODAY. A prominent Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that she'll press Supreme Court nominee John Roberts for his views on abortion rights and

Federer firm favourite
News24 - 3 hours ago New York - They've changed the colour of the courts at the US Open for this year's tournament which starts at Flushing Meadows on Monday, but if form prevails Roger Federer will once again be crowned men's champion.

Clashes erupt over charter
Bangkok Post - 43 minutes ago Baghdad _ Several Iraqis died overnight in Shi'ite clashes in the south, apparently triggered by differences over a constitution draft that parliament was meant to back yesterday. Supporters of Shi'ite cleric

Google's Latest Is All Talk
Wired News - 9 hours ago After several months of feverish speculation about a mysterious new service under development, Google unveiled its latest tool Wednesday: Google Talk, a text-chat and voice-communication program that looks nice, but has no obvious advantage over

Actress Scout Taylor-Compton Found After Two-Week Disappearance
MTV.com - 1 hour ago Sixteen-year-old actress Scout Taylor-Compton, who recently vanished from her family, friends and the media for nearly two weeks, has been found. year's feature film "Sleepover," had gone missing from her

Otellini's Intel Unveils Fun-Lovers' Viiv Tech
Forbes - 1 hour ago So says Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ), which introduced Viiv, its new tech platform created specifically for entertainment computing. Bearing a postmodern quasi-Finnish spelling and rhyming with "five

Florida Prepares for Katrina as Storm Strengthens (Update2)
Bloomberg - 49 minutes ago Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Tropical Storm Katrina headed toward the southeastern Florida coast today and may intensify into a hurricane before coming ashore tomorrow morning. Katrina's center was located about

Armenian food - Azerbaijan broadcaster launches Armenian-language programs

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Armenian travel - Roots of Islamic Terrorism: How Communists Helped Fundamentalists

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Roots of Islamic Terrorism: How Communists Helped Fundamentalists
PeaceJournalism.com, Nepal - Aug 23, 2005 regarding ritual purity, food prescriptions, etc.) with similar but not identical PKK were rumoured to have been brainchildren of a Soviet Armenian KGB officer

Local notes
Woburn Advocate, MA - Aug 17, 2005 19-21 at the Armenian Cultural Center, 47 Nichols Ave. Representatives from CMARC recently dropped by the Woburn Council of Social Concern's Food Pantry to

Where to Eat Now Patio Dining
LA Weekly, CA - 14 hours ago You go to Raffi s for its enormous, affordable plates of Persian Armenian food, but you also get canaries singing in the trees, a heated brick patio, quick

The Rhythms of the World Festival Announces its Program
Jazz-Quad, Russia - Aug 17, 2005 Bellegarde Invitation Series presents an ensemble of European Jazz in the food court at Arden Arapyan Trio who brings forth jazz music with an Armenian flavour

'Oil for Food' Program Turns into Quagmire of Corruption
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 11, 2005 for Food" program during the embargoes on Iraq are being investigated. The former head of the program Benon Sevan, a citizen of South Cyprus of Armenian-origin

Religion digest
Worcester Telegram (subscription), MA - Aug 20, 2005 during the 9:30 am Divine Liturgy tomorrow at the Armenian Church of include fun activities, carnival games, a moonwalk, bake sale, food concession, soak

Samtskhe-Javakheti to Supply Food for Armed Forces
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 10, 2005 of the Russian military base from the predominately Armenian-populated town of which will disseminate information about the amount of food-stuffs needed in the

Cyprus unlikely to extradite oil-for-food official
Reuters - Aug 10, 2005 oil-for-food program to face allegations of receiving bribes, a senior government official said on Wednesday. Benon Sevan, a Cypriot of Armenian descent known

Nation/World
Birmingham Post Herald, USA - Aug 16, 2005 Armenian sociology student Karen Tataryan, 21, pointed proudly at Michel and Vivitha's house as he rhyme that tells of a baby asking its mother for more food.

The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America s Response
Israel Hasbara Committee (subscription), NY - Aug 22, 2005 Armenians, all of them as food for the dogs Mother, I am safe and sound. Father, we made war on the Armenian unbelievers. Through

Oil-for-food official unlikely to be extradited
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Aug 10, 2005 of the UN oil-for-food programme to face allegations of receiving bribes, a senior government official said. Benon Sevan, a Cypriot of Armenian descent known

Armenian music - Hibs await fate after big riddle

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Hibs await fate after big riddle
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 5 hours ago v Krylia Sovetov; Besiktas v FC Vaduz; Carmarthen v FC Copenhagen; Cork v Djurgardens IF; Crvena Zvezda v Inter Zapresic; Dnipro v Banants Yerevan; Domzale v

Yerevan - Los Angeles: Sister Cities
National Assembly of RA (press release), Armenia - Aug 20, 2005 He arrived in Armenia on the initiative of declaring Yerevan and Los Angeles sister cities. It is envisaged to sign an agreement

PLAY BY DIASPORA ARMENIAN STAGED AT YEREVAN CHAMBER THEATRE
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Jul 26, 2005 The Yerevan Chamber Theatre represented a new performance staged on "Beetle" play by Ara Artsruni, honored artist of RA. The play

RESULTS OF PROGRAMMERS' CONTEST SUMMED UP IN YEREVAN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 10, 2005 YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. The results of the programmers' contest have been summed up in Yerevan. Director of the "Enterprises

BTA INVEST BANK PRESENTATION HELD IN YEREVAN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 22, 2005 YEREVAN, August 22. /ARKA/. BTA Invest Bank presentation took place in Yerevan on Monday. Rasul Kosanov, Chair of the BTA Invest

CONSTRUCTION AT YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - 23 hours ago The construction of the Yerevan State University s new compound will be completed in less than two months. Sargis Shahazizian, pro

Armenia hopes for "common denominators" in Karabakh solution
ITAR-TASS, Russia - Aug 24, 2005 MOSCOW, August 24 (Itar-Tass) - Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan said Yerevan and Baku can hopefully find "common denominators" in resolving the

Rise In Yerevan Bus Fares Annulled Amid Popular Discontent
Vanadzor.net, Armenia - Aug 16, 2005 Facing mounting public discontent, Yerevan s government-appointed mayor has rescinded a 30 percent increase in the key public transportation fares that was

Learn about Turkish-Armenian reconciliation at NAASR
Belmont Citizen-Herald, MA - 2 hours ago Dr. Moorad Mooradian of Yerevan State University in Armenia will present "A New Look at TARC (Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission)" in a free lecture at

'PEOPLE ARE WELL AWARE OF OUR POLITICAL FIGURES', ARTUR
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 They inquired from Mr. Baghdasarian about the order of electing the mayor of Yerevan, as well. They expressed the idea that the elections should be direct.

Kazakh Bank Opens Branch Office in Tbilisi
Civil Georgia, Georgia - 8 hours ago The Silk Road Group is BTA s major partner in Georgia. BTA has already set up branches in Moscow, Kiev, Yerevan and Shanghai.

COOPERATION AGREEMENT SIGNED IN YEREVAN BETWEEN SIL INSURANCE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 12, 2005 YEREVAN, August 12. /ARKA/. Agreement on cooperation between Sil Insurance, Armenian insurance company, and Kazakh Eurasia Insurance

Armenian language - Azerbaijan broadcaster launches Armenian-language programs

2005-08-25T06:00:00.001-07:00

Azerbaijan broadcaster launches Armenian-language programs
International Journalist's Network - Aug 21, 2005 Public TV and Radio (PTR), the new public broadcaster in Azerbaijan, has announced plans to broadcast Armenian-language programs, BakuToday.net reported.

Home buying tips today in Armenian
Los Angeles Daily News, CA - Aug 20, 2005 daunting enough in the current housing market, but when the buyer has a language barrier, the hurdle can be that much higher. So to help Armenian-speaking first

'DOING OUR PART TO HELP'
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 19, 2005 Since February 2005, Mrs. Rodriguez, working with the Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR and foreign languages, including English as a second language, French and

TURKMENISTAN: Focus on ethnic minorities
IRINnews.org, NY - Aug 18, 2005 He added that since 1991, Kazakh, Uzbek and Armenian language schools have been closed, while instruction in Russian has diminished greatly.

Learn about Turkish-Armenian reconciliation at NAASR
Belmont Citizen-Herald, MA - 1 hour ago Mooradian's writings on Armenian political and historical issues are widely read on a weekly basis in English-language Armenian newspapers, and he is also the

Hayeren - 'Bat Boy' wings it to Bellingham

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'Bat Boy' wings it to Bellingham
Boston Globe, United States - Jul 28, 2005 to Bellingham's new Steps Off Broadway Theater for a little entertainment this weekend. ARMENIAN SALSA DANCING -- When members of Black Sea Salsa say they're

Darchinyan retains flyweight title, looks to unify
Doghouse Boxing, Canada - 3 hours ago 5th round stoppage of Columbian Jair Jimenez at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on more and more one-sided, with the 29-year-old Armenian-born Australian

Coastal Monmouth Calendar
Asbury Park Press, NJ - Aug 10, 2005 Rides, games, contests, entertainment, petting zoo, food and fireworks at 9 Stepanos Armenian Church will hold the annual picnic, featuring Armenian delicacies

Darchinyan's title defence against Jimenez rescheduled for August
Doghouse Boxing, Canada - Jul 30, 2005 card will now go ahead on August 24th at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in to his natural weight class to face the power punching Armenian-born Australian.

New entertainment centre to boost arts scene in Bugis, Bras Basah
Channel News Asia, Singapore - 5 hours ago became a priority when new management took over Timbre Bistro at Armenian Street six A new 16-storey Urban Entertainment Centre will be built in Bugis, which

Armenian entertainment - Plenty of treats in store with typically diverse EIFF programme.

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Plenty of treats in store with typically diverse EIFF programme.
EdinburghGuide.com, UK - Aug 5, 2005 In a similar vein is Armenian filmmaker Harutyun Khachatryan's Documentarist where he successfully carved out a horror niche with its edgier, late night films.

Ukraine, Georgia fuming over planned Russian sex film
Bremerton Sun, United States - Aug 17, 2005 for his extreme nationalist politics than his prowess as an author of sex films. to demean Saakashvili, 37, who will be played by an unnamed Armenian actor, or

2005 Arpa International Film Festival Announces Dates and
Persian Mirror - Aug 17, 2005 that will present over 50 features, documentaries, shorts and animated films from 18 created as a non-profit organization in 1997 to give Armenian filmmakers a

FAST CHAT: Dick Cavett
Newsday, NY - Aug 19, 2005 therapy; and perhaps most recognizably, "Himself" in countless films and TV around in the Village between shows and there was an Armenian-Hungarian restaurant

'People were more afraid of the poetry'
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Jul 28, 2005 Often she has been accompanied by Allen or Abkarian, a Paris-based Armenian actor from Beirut whom Potter met "I've always travelled with the films because I

ARMANI S 'SOFA' IN AMERICAN COLLECTION
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Jul 26, 2005 plays in 25 cities in English, French, Russian, Arabian, Italian and Armenian. The Labyrinth," "The Last Station," "The Seven Day Deadline," "New Eva" films.

Joan Allen: Why I had to say yes
Independent, UK - Aug 11, 2005 women of a certain age, Allen is working almost constantly - five films in the to the burnished intensity of co-star Simon Abkarian, an Armenian-Lebanese actor

Turkish women in Germany
Toytown Munich, Germany - Aug 21, 2005 with Turks, my mother is French Canadian and my father is an Armenian, a country And it's not just books, I've come across films and documentaries on TV about

Downtown Is History
LA City Beat, CA - Aug 3, 2005 Seats, which opens one historic theater each spring for the screening of classic films. They make a mean Armenian coffee, the best on the block, but the

Armenia - WFU Secrest season opens with Finckel and Han duo

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WFU Secrest season opens with Finckel and Han duo
Wake Forest University News Service, NC - Aug 17, 2005 15, Ensemble Kaboul, performing the traditional music of Afghanistan and featuring March 30, Isabel Bayrakdarian, renowned Armenian-Canadian soprano, 7:30 pm

System of a Down: Band plays by its own rules
Virginian Pilot, VA - Aug 17, 2005 System s music is often described as a brilliant, frenzied heap with influences ranging from Armenian folk to rock to R&B. (All

Armenian Night Set
South Bay News, NY - Aug 16, 2005 Nassau County Parks' very popular International Music Nights Summer Concert Series at Eisenhower Park's Lakeside Theatre will host Armenian American Night on

New entertainment centre to boost arts scene in Bugis, Bras Basah
Channel News Asia, Singapore - 4 hours ago Rally speech. Live music became a priority when new management took over Timbre Bistro at Armenian Street six weeks ago. Local bands

In Today's Feuilletons
Signandsight.com, Germany - Aug 23, 2005 This is how the Armenian court poets must have railed against Rome in the first around on the podium and fidgets with the partitions on the first music stands.

'Choir' preaches
Newark Star Ledger, NJ - Aug 18, 2005 While the band likes to keep its albums short, myriad sounds and influences go into each song, even bringing in Armenian folk music from time to time.

Project Save and MIT take teens back to the future
Watertown TAB & Press, MA - Aug 19, 2005 In July, eight Armenian students attended a two-week workshop during which multiple forms of media, including photographs, voice recordings, music, video and

'We speak of real life'
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Aug 4, 2005 three Armenian-Americans and one Lebanese-American, who combine nu-metal ferocity and prog-rock complexity with elements of punk, goth, Armenian music and more

'Bat Boy' wings it to Bellingham
Boston Globe, United States - Jul 28, 2005 After years playing jazz and Armenian music separately, in 1996 he finally merged his two musical passions for a one-time concert.

Sharing the art and beauty of undulating
Hub - Red Bank, NJ - Aug 18, 2005 her great-grandmother, grew up with as a child in an Armenian family living The album covers of the Middle Eastern music associated with belly dancing that she

Young Dancers Dream of Ballet Renaissance
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic - Aug 12, 2005 we prefer classical music. But that doesn't mean that we only listen to Bach, Rakhmaninov, or Beethoven. We also go to the disco.". "Our Armenian boys are

MONSTER-IN-LAW
JoBlo.com, Canada - Aug 23, 2005 Ruby s Make-Up Bag: A silly music video starring Wanda Sykes as Ruby and two half-naked men He seems like a good guy, and by the way, is he Armenian or not?

Down, up; Mars, out there
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Aug 8, 2005 System of a Down, with its adventurous blend of metal, alternative and Armenian music, gave its moshing audience quite an aerobic workout by playing 27 songs

Up the System: Band leavens heavy metal sound with Armenian folk
Newark Star Ledger, NJ - 10 hours ago Their songs often blended the raw power of heavy metal with melodies borrowed from Armenian folk music (all four members are Armenian-Americans).

Bulletin Board
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East - Jul 25, 2005 1-4 at the DeKoven Center in Racine, Wisconsin. A special benefit concert of Arabic and Armenian music will be presented July 31 at DeKoven s Great Hall.

Armenian current events - TURKMENISTAN: Focus on ethnic minorities

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TURKMENISTAN: Focus on ethnic minorities
IRINnews.org, NY - Aug 18, 2005 He added that since 1991, Kazakh, Uzbek and Armenian language schools have been closed, while instruction in Russian has diminished greatly.

New Era for Glendale Armenians
Los Angeles Times, CA - Aug 8, 2005 In addition to Central Avenue's bustling shopping district, Glendale is home to at least half a dozen Armenian-language newspapers, and local cable TV outlets

Russia expects progress at Moscow talks on Nagorny Karabakh
RIA Novosti, Russia - Aug 24, 2005 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian President Robert Kocharyan with the Armenian foreign minister. "I hope we will find a common language," he said.

The "Color" Democracies are
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 23, 2005 March in Yerevan during his joint press conference with Armenian President Robert on the world practice." In translation from the diplomatic language, it means

Cracking the Case: An Interview With Sibel Edmonds
Antiwar.com, CA - Aug 21, 2005 And that's how it worked within the FBI's language division $500,000, they gave him half a million in order to change his vote on an Armenian genocide resolution

New Iraq Constitution Must Protect Christians
AINA, CA - Aug 23, 2005 time, were slaughtered in what is internationally recognized as the Armenian genocide rights to practise our religion and teach our Syriac language be guaranteed

Moreover / A language everyone understands
Ha'aretz (registration), Israel - Aug 18, 2005 The two Armenian women were sexy, too, the Bulgarian was a bit vulgar. The Guatemalan woman huddled with the Albanian woman in Italian.

Healing words
Los Angeles Daily News, CA - Aug 16, 2005 Language interpreters are a vital part of those services. Soon, they will feature instructions in Armenian, Thai and other languages spoken by the hospital's

AZERBAIJANI AUTHORITIES DECIDE TO HOLD ELECTIONS IN KARABAKH
Eurasia Daily Monitor, DC - Aug 19, 2005 Similarly, last week the management of the newly established Public TV in Azerbaijan decided to produce programs in the Armenian language.

NEW EXHIBITION OF ARMENIAN FEMALE PAINTERS
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 16, 2005 in Hand" project initiated by the Association aims at helping Armenian women and for especially warm attitude to our country and our language, in particular.

Duke student released by Armenian court after detention
Yes! Weekly, NC - Aug 23, 2005 say he was the first Turkish citizen given access to the Armenian National Archives and that he has the largest collection of Armenian-language books in Turkey

Azerbaijan broadcaster launches Armenian-language programs
International Journalist's Network - Aug 21, 2005 Public TV and Radio (PTR), the new public broadcaster in Azerbaijan, has announced plans to broadcast Armenian-language programs, BakuToday.net reported.

Several plead for Turk's release
Durham Herald Sun, NC - Aug 12, 2005 They still lack diplomatic relations. Fluent in the Armenian language, Turkyilmaz is considered sympathetic to the Armenian viewpoint.

Armenian version of Qur?an near completion
IranMania News, Iran - Jul 30, 2005 LONDON, July 31 (IranMania) - The job of translating and interpreting the holy Qur?an into Armenian language which is undertaken by the Iranian Cultural Office

Home buying tips today in Armenian
Los Angeles Daily News, CA - Aug 20, 2005 daunting enough in the current housing market, but when the buyer has a language barrier, the hurdle can be that much higher. So to help Armenian-speaking first

Abkhazian futures
Open Democracy, UK - Aug 23, 2005 Sarajevo, so Georgian bombs razed Abkhazia s Institute of Language, Literature and s control and there is growing discontent among the Armenian minority in

'DOING OUR PART TO HELP'
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 19, 2005 Since February 2005, Mrs. Rodriguez, working with the Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR and foreign languages, including English as a second language, French and

REPORT: NO BIG GAINS TO ARMENIA IF TURKEY LIFTS BLOCKADE
EurasiaNet, NY - Aug 9, 2005 officials, who have downplayed the need for an open Turkish-Armenian border. border," said a recent editorial published by the Russian-language Delovoi Ekspress

Roots of Islamic Terrorism: How Communists Helped Fundamentalists
PeaceJournalism.com, Nepal - Aug 23, 2005 Another Armenian terrorist faction, renamed ARA, moved from Iraqi and PFLP protection to case officer to have some proficiency in an Afghan language did not

TENSIONS SIMMERING IN GEORGIA'S JAVAKHETI REGION
Eurasia Daily Monitor, DC - Aug 3, 2005 These groups want the Georgian government to stop the alleged discrimination of the Armenians, make the Armenian language the regional language in Javakheti

Armenian language - Donetsk Jewish Community at National Cuisine Festival

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Donetsk Jewish Community at National Cuisine Festival
Federation of Jewish Communitites of CIS, Russia - 28 minutes ago from the Jewish community, the event also involved the Greek, Armenian, Georgian, German Sunday, is helping to draw positive attention to the traditions of the

Artnet News
Artnet, NY - Aug 4, 2005 Of Armenian descent, Steve was long attracted to the life and traditions of the Middle East, writing about Shi ite culture for Harper s magazine and many

Roots of Islamic Terrorism: How Communists Helped Fundamentalists
PeaceJournalism.com, Nepal - Aug 23, 2005 Muslims" (or rather, "Islamists", as they care little of traditions and their and PKK were rumoured to have been brainchildren of a Soviet Armenian KGB officer

Air Transport 2002-2004
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 a co-owner of Armavia Airlines founded by a group of Armenian businessmen using between the parties is proceeding in the finest traditions of shareholders' wars

Arab World Festival
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Aug 10, 2005 countries. The group performs instrumental and vocal pieces from Arabic, Egyptian, Turkish and Armenian traditions, among others. The

Armenian films - Ukraine, Georgia fuming over planned Russian sex film

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Ukraine, Georgia fuming over planned Russian sex film
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription), TN - Aug 17, 2005 for his extreme nationalist politics than his prowess as an author of sex films. to demean Saakashvili, 37, who will be played by an unnamed Armenian actor, or

Turkish women in Germany
Toytown Munich, Germany - Aug 21, 2005 with Turks, my mother is French Canadian and my father is an Armenian, a country And it's not just books, I've come across films and documentaries on TV about

2005 Arpa International Film Festival Announces Dates and
Persian Mirror - Aug 17, 2005 that will present over 50 features, documentaries, shorts and animated films from 18 created as a non-profit organization in 1997 to give Armenian filmmakers a

'People were more afraid of the poetry'
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Jul 28, 2005 Often she has been accompanied by Allen or Abkarian, a Paris-based Armenian actor from Beirut whom Potter met "I've always travelled with the films because I

7 Days in The Arts
The Jewish Journal of greater L.A, CA - Aug 18, 2005 The open-air cinema experience will feature various short films, including Tel Aviv The Christian Armenian, Arab and Israeli musicians that make up The Yuval

Downtown Is History
LA City Beat, CA - Aug 3, 2005 Seats, which opens one historic theater each spring for the screening of classic films. They make a mean Armenian coffee, the best on the block, but the

FAST CHAT: Dick Cavett
Newsday, NY - Aug 19, 2005 therapy; and perhaps most recognizably, "Himself" in countless films and TV around in the Village between shows and there was an Armenian-Hungarian restaurant

Joan Allen: Why I had to say yes
Independent, UK - Aug 11, 2005 women of a certain age, Allen is working almost constantly - five films in the to the burnished intensity of co-star Simon Abkarian, an Armenian-Lebanese actor

Winning isn't everything
San Antonio Current, TX - Jul 27, 2005 words, for Billy Bob Thornton's Buttermaker to mistakenly call an Armenian kid an All the ingredients of these films are present here (there's even a dwarf at

ARMANI S 'SOFA' IN AMERICAN COLLECTION
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Jul 26, 2005 plays in 25 cities in English, French, Russian, Arabian, Italian and Armenian. The Labyrinth," "The Last Station," "The Seven Day Deadline," "New Eva" films.

Plenty of treats in store with typically diverse EIFF programme.
EdinburghGuide.com, UK - Aug 5, 2005 In a similar vein is Armenian filmmaker Harutyun Khachatryan's Documentarist where he successfully carved out a horror niche with its edgier, late night films.

Armenian films - Global Gold Corporation Acquires Tukhmanuk Mine in Armenia and

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Global Gold Corporation Acquires Tukhmanuk Mine in Armenia and
PrimeZone (press release), CA - Aug 1, 2005 Lead investors include current shareholders Firebird Global Master Fund is held by the Armenian company Mego of the Company's development, events conditioned on

Political ideas aside, System aims for mesmerizing music
Newsday, NY - Aug 23, 2005 four of the band's members are of Armenian descent Tankian says he keeps up with current affairs while find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words

Uzbekistan and America's Future Conflicts
Global Politician, NY - Jul 31, 2005 So far, events have accumulated in Central Asia rather states, but the strength of their current pro-Western at the plan's inclusion of Armenian soldiers.

Classic Balkanalysis: An Improbable War and Turkey's New
Balkanalysis.com, AZ - Aug 23, 2005 Such ugly events go a long way toward explaining a long time already, but the current proposal would the 90th anniversary of an alleged Armenian genocide at

The CIS and Baltic press on Russia
RIA Novosti, Russia - Aug 12, 2005 Estonian media are still showing interest in the events in the "The current decision to Russia is accused of stressing the Armenian ethnicity of V. Arutyunov

PEOPLE OF AZERBAIJAN CAN BELIEVE ON RELIABLE PROTECTION OF STATE
AzerTag, Azerbaijan - Aug 16, 2005 back to those years, analyzing the events and adopted increased by 76 percent and current year makes Sooner or later, the Armenian leadership should understand

Turkish press yesterday
Turkish Daily News, Turkey - Aug 23, 2005 Turkey hosting important sports events such as One and Universiade 2005; the current situation in concerning the Kurdish problem. Armenian conference in

Armenia - What lies behind the Google chatter?

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What lies behind the Google chatter?
Times Online - 45 minutes ago It is true that the established telecoms companies are wary about VoIP, or Voice Over Internet Protocol. It is one of the new tech systems which, with increasing numbers of people using broadband connections

Grrr! Backstage With The Rolling Stones
FOX News - 4 hours ago By Mike Straka. Boston In a city where last year's World Series champs are dominating the American League and the NFL is in preseason and the beloved Patriots are looking good to win yet another Super Bowl

US Stock-Index Are Little Changed as Ford, GM Shares Drop
Bloomberg - 47 minutes ago Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- US stock-index futures fell after Moody's Investors Service cut the debt ratings for Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp., the two biggest US automakers. Futures found support from

Oil breaks record at $68
CNN - 2 hours ago SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil surged to a record $68 a barrel Thursday, hounded by supply concerns due to a growing threat to oil facilities from an Atlantic storm and a large fall in US gasoline stocks. US light

'Peace Mom' Returns to Texas War Protest
Washington Post - 1 hour ago By ANGELA K. BROWN. CRAWFORD, Texas -- Even when she was in California taking care of her mother, Cindy Sheehan said part of her remained at the protest campsite she had set up outside President Bush's ranch.

Still No Date Set for Resumption of North Korea Nuclear Talks
Voice of America - 40 minutes ago By Luis Ramirez. Although the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs were expected to start next week, negotiators say it is still not clear when they will resume. Wu Dawei, China's vice foreign

Egypt slaps media blackout on Sharm attacks probe
Middle East Times - 40 minutes ago CAIRO -- Egypt has imposed a media blackout on the probe into the July 23 bombings in Sharm El Sheikh after weeks of confusion and contradictory information on the country's deadliest attack by militants.

AOL to reform customer service after NY probe
Register - 1 hour ago AOL has agreed to reform its customer service operation following complaints that led to legal action by Elliot 'the Blitzer' Spitzer, New York's attorney general. In a settlement announced Wednesday, AOL

From the small screen to the big one
The Daily Evergreen - 5 hours ago While most video game-based movies have not been good, three more are on the way with a bit more promise. In the past, when video games have crossed the into the realm of cinema, the results have been, well, horrible.

Israel to extend West Bank barrier
San Francisco Chronicle - 25 minutes ago Jerusalem -- Israeli officials confirmed Wednesday that the government had issued orders to seize West Bank land needed to extend the separation barrier around the largest Jewish settlement, Maaleh Adumim, and to link it to Jerusalem.

Intel Unveils Chips for Media PCs
Los Angeles Times - 5 hours ago The VIIV line is designed for music, TV, photos and home videos. The firm could help computer makers move into the living room. By Terril Yue Jones, Times Staff Writer. SAN FRANCISCO Hoping to speed acceptance

Floridians Brace For Katrina
CBS News - 47 minutes ago (CBS/AP) Battered by four major hurricanes last year, Floridians are accustomed to going through the motions of preparing for dangerous storms. But as a tropical storm blows its way toward South Florida, prompting

Shias fight each other as latest Iraq deadline looms
Times Online - 1 hour ago By Jenny Booth, Times Online. Sectarian violence continues to torment Iraq as politicians wearily prepare to debate the country's draft constitution again ahead of tonight's midnight deadline. Forces of rival

Armenia - COOPERATION AGREEMENT SIGNED IN YEREVAN BETWEEN SIL INSURANCE

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COOPERATION AGREEMENT SIGNED IN YEREVAN BETWEEN SIL INSURANCE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 12, 2005 YEREVAN, August 12. /ARKA/. Agreement on cooperation between Sil Insurance, Armenian insurance company, and Kazakh Eurasia Insurance

CONSTRUCTION AT YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - 17 hours ago The construction of the Yerevan State University s new compound will be completed in less than two months. Sargis Shahazizian, pro

Is Yerevan Scared of History?
Zaman Online, Turkey - Aug 17, 2005 soon after he embarked the plane to return to Turkey after having completing his research in the Armenian national archives on his fourth visit to Yerevan.

'PEOPLE ARE WELL AWARE OF OUR POLITICAL FIGURES', ARTUR
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 They inquired from Mr. Baghdasarian about the order of electing the mayor of Yerevan, as well. They expressed the idea that the elections should be direct.

Rise In Yerevan Bus Fares Annulled Amid Popular Discontent
Vanadzor.net, Armenia - Aug 16, 2005 Facing mounting public discontent, Yerevan s government-appointed mayor has rescinded a 30 percent increase in the key public transportation fares that was

VIVACELL COMPANY PROVIDES MOBILE COMMUNICATION SERVICES IN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 YEREVAN, August 23. /ARKA/. The VivaCell Company provides mobile communication services in Vardenis (Gegharkunik region, Armenia

Trial Of Arrested Scholar Opens In Yerevan
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 10, 2005 A Turkish scholar who researched Ottoman history in Armenia s state archives went on trial in Yerevan on Tuesday nearly two months after his controversial

BTA INVEST BANK PRESENTATION HELD IN YEREVAN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 22, 2005 YEREVAN, August 22. /ARKA/. BTA Invest Bank presentation took place in Yerevan on Monday. Rasul Kosanov, Chair of the BTA Invest

Armenian music - Ukraine, Georgia fuming over planned Russian sex film

2005-08-25T01:00:00.000-07:00

Hayeren - Azerbaijan Embraces Northern Cyprus

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Azerbaijan Embraces Northern Cyprus
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Jul 28, 2005 The opening of air travel by our has not been debated because of sensitivity over the issue of Nagorny Karabakh, the unrecognised Armenian-controlled republic

Darchinyan wants flyweight world domination
SecondsOut - Aug 16, 2005 Now an Australian citizen, Darchinyan calls himself an "Armenian Aussie" and is gathering After the fight with Jimenez, he will travel back to Armenia for the

Here at last
ic Teesside.co.uk, UK - Aug 12, 2005 An Armenian folklore dance troupe travelled for six days by coach to attend a Teesside have the correct visa to enter the UK and they all had to travel over as

Money spent by the Armenian Lobby in US
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 16, 2005 They provide travel opportunities to Washington DC for young Armenian Americans to teach them the ins and outs of lobbying. They

The man who would be king
The Observer, UK - Aug 20, 2005 'Travel across the country, meet people, tell them what's right, what's wrong. The fact that he was half-Armenian and half-Jewish would not play well with

SWITZERLAND DETAINS TURKISH POLITICIAN FOR DENYING THE ARMENIAN
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Jul 28, 2005 minute, Dr. Halacoglu had second thoughts and decided not to travel to Switzerland a Swiss Court for having questioned the veracity of the Armenian Genocide in

turkey, northern cyprus, azerbaijan: First direct commercial
Monday Morning, Lebanon - Aug 9, 2005 In order to travel abroad, Turkish Cypriots need to acquire internationally a partnership agreement between Greece s Intrakom and an Armenian provider that

Newspaper Editors Shoot Back At Kristof's Darfur Complaint
Editor & Publisher - Jul 26, 2005 t even covering the Darfur genocide as well as we covered the Armenian genocide in paper had in even getting a visa for reporter Rick Hampson to travel there.

One on one with the Fire's John Thorrington
Chicago Daily Southtown, IL - Aug 24, 2005 get to see different parts of the world and what have you, but it's definitely not leisure travel. My mom's Armenian, born in Greece and grew up in South Africa

PACE President Tours South Caucasus
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 19, 2005 on August 20 from Armenian capital Yerevan as a part of his South Caucasian tour. After visiting Georgia the PACE President will also travel to Azerbaijan.

Darchinyan stops Jimenez in five
SecondsOut - 21 hours ago The 29 year-old Armenian born Australian citizen was more patient than in While he is prepared to continue to travel overseas to fight, Darchinyan asked for

Colony Capital To Buy Raffles, Swissotel Hotel Brands
Business Travel News, NY - Aug 15, 2005 In a move that could and most likely will affect business travel to Asia That legacy began when four Armenian brothers from the Sarkies family founded the

Habitat for Humanity brings more than new homes to India
Bremerton Sun, United States - Aug 15, 2005 Armenian sociology student Karen Tataryan, 21, pointed proudly at Michel and Vivitha's house as he listed the The sons' travel was funded with borrowed money.

TURKMENISTAN: Focus on ethnic minorities
IRINnews.org, NY - Aug 18, 2005 have reported a further tightening of restrictions on travel, opposition members and He added that since 1991, Kazakh, Uzbek and Armenian language schools have

Papadopoulos says he would not snub a social meeting with
Kathimerini, Greece - Aug 9, 2005 There are 11 bus lines in Athens which passengers can use to travel to and from Police found the body of a 53-year-old Armenian woman yesterday in an apartment

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - 15 hours ago it features an exhibit called "Monks, Merchants and Missionaries: The Bible in the Armenian Tradition." There "People with sick relatives would travel miles to

Abkhazian futures
Open Democracy, UK - Aug 23, 2005 is possible only if they can gain the necessary approval to travel on one of Tbilisi s control and there is growing discontent among the Armenian minority in

Book Review | Debut collection paints picture of regular African
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Aug 24, 2005 Aryan," one of the best stories in the collection, offers up the conversation between a Ghanaian musician and an Armenian taxi driver as they travel to Brooklyn

Anthropology student Yektan Turkyilmaz released
IFEX, Canada - Aug 22, 2005 to stay in Armenia until 30 August and will from then on be free to travel to and for his own research as well as to build up a library of Armenian books that

Where Indian eggs go for a Siberian toss
Delhi Newsline, India - Aug 20, 2005 Russians in Delhi want to go home they don t have to travel far. Says Artem, chief of the counsellor section of the Armenian embassy, Bline is special.

Armenian - The "Color" Democracies are

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The "Color" Democracies are
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 23, 2005 March in Yerevan during his joint press conference with Armenian President Robert on the world practice." In translation from the diplomatic language, it means

Russia expects progress at Moscow talks on Nagorny Karabakh
RIA Novosti, Russia - 22 hours ago Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian President Robert Kocharyan with the Armenian foreign minister. "I hope we will find a common language," he said.

REPORT: NO BIG GAINS TO ARMENIA IF TURKEY LIFTS BLOCKADE
EurasiaNet, NY - Aug 9, 2005 officials, who have downplayed the need for an open Turkish-Armenian border. border," said a recent editorial published by the Russian-language Delovoi Ekspress

Several plead for Turk's release
Durham Herald Sun, NC - Aug 12, 2005 They still lack diplomatic relations. Fluent in the Armenian language, Turkyilmaz is considered sympathetic to the Armenian viewpoint.

NEW EXHIBITION OF ARMENIAN FEMALE PAINTERS
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 16, 2005 in Hand" project initiated by the Association aims at helping Armenian women and for especially warm attitude to our country and our language, in particular.

TENSIONS SIMMERING IN GEORGIA'S JAVAKHETI REGION
Eurasia Daily Monitor, DC - Aug 3, 2005 These groups want the Georgian government to stop the alleged discrimination of the Armenians, make the Armenian language the regional language in Javakheti

'DOING OUR PART TO HELP'
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 19, 2005 Since February 2005, Mrs. Rodriguez, working with the Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR and foreign languages, including English as a second language, French and

Cracking the Case: An Interview With Sibel Edmonds
Antiwar.com, CA - Aug 21, 2005 And that's how it worked within the FBI's language division $500,000, they gave him half a million in order to change his vote on an Armenian genocide resolution

Abkhazian futures
Open Democracy, UK - Aug 23, 2005 Sarajevo, so Georgian bombs razed Abkhazia s Institute of Language, Literature and s control and there is growing discontent among the Armenian minority in

Duke student released by Armenian court after detention
Yes! Weekly, NC - Aug 23, 2005 say he was the first Turkish citizen given access to the Armenian National Archives and that he has the largest collection of Armenian-language books in Turkey

Moreover / A language everyone understands
Ha'aretz (registration), Israel - Aug 18, 2005 The two Armenian women were sexy, too, the Bulgarian was a bit vulgar. The Guatemalan woman huddled with the Albanian woman in Italian.

Azerbaijan broadcaster launches Armenian-language programs
International Journalist's Network - Aug 21, 2005 Public TV and Radio (PTR), the new public broadcaster in Azerbaijan, has announced plans to broadcast Armenian-language programs, BakuToday.net reported.

New Era for Glendale Armenians
Los Angeles Times, CA - Aug 8, 2005 In addition to Central Avenue's bustling shopping district, Glendale is home to at least half a dozen Armenian-language newspapers, and local cable TV outlets

Armenian version of Qur?an near completion
IranMania News, Iran - Jul 30, 2005 LONDON, July 31 (IranMania) - The job of translating and interpreting the holy Qur?an into Armenian language which is undertaken by the Iranian Cultural Office

Roots of Islamic Terrorism: How Communists Helped Fundamentalists
PeaceJournalism.com, Nepal - Aug 23, 2005 Another Armenian terrorist faction, renamed ARA, moved from Iraqi and PFLP protection to case officer to have some proficiency in an Afghan language did not

New Iraq Constitution Must Protect Christians
AINA, CA - Aug 23, 2005 time, were slaughtered in what is internationally recognized as the Armenian genocide rights to practise our religion and teach our Syriac language be guaranteed

Armenian language - AUSTRIA INTENDS TO SUPPORT ARMENIA IN SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS

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AUSTRIA INTENDS TO SUPPORT ARMENIA IN SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 /ARKA/. Austria intends to support Armenia in small and medium business development, RA Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtyan told

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - 14 hours ago 24, 2005. WATERTOWN, Mass. --Armenia has been conquered by the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Ottoman Turks and Russians. Before gaining

ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTION IS CHALLENGE FOR ARMENIA
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 22, 2005 While Armenia has undertaken certain commitments on making constitutional reforms and if we fail to meet them, it may have negative impact on the relations

Saakashvili Visits Armenia
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 22, 2005 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili arrived in Armenia on August 21 for a two day informal visit to hold talks with his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian

BTA to open its affiliates in Armenia and Georgia
Kazinform, Kazakhstan - 19 hours ago ALMATY. August 24. KAZINFORM. /Zhan Buldekbayev/ Kazakhstan Bank TuranAlem has opened its affiliates in Yerevan (Armenia) and Tbilisi (Georgia) early this week

ARDSHININVESTBANK (ARMENIA) HOLDS "CHILDREN'S SUMMER" CHARITABLE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - 20 hours ago The Ardshininvestbank (Armenia) held the "Children's Summer" charitable action at the Yerevan "Zatik" children's home, press-service of the bank reported ARKA

ICRC Press Release n 05/45 - Azerbaijani serviceman repatriated
Reuters AlertNet, UK - 20 hours ago Geneva (ICRC) On Wednesday, 24 August 2005, one Azerbaijani serviceman previously detained in Armenia was repatriated under the auspices of the

Russia Refuses Armenia Plan to Re-export Rough
Diamonds.net, NY - 20 hours ago By Jeff Miller. (Rapaport August 24, 2005) Press reports from Armenia say that Russia's finance ministry declined a proposal from Armenia to re-export 15

PACE president: Election 'real opportunity' to prove adherence to
AzerNews, Azerbaijan - 46 minutes ago Touching upon the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Upper Garabagh, the PACE president said that it should be resolved peacefully. "Peace is the only option.

Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan discussing Karabakh settlement
ITAR-TASS, Russia - 19 hours ago MOSCOW, August 24 (Itar-Tass) - The foreign ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan met in here on Wednesday to discuss ways of settling the Nagorno

Saakashvili: No Political Problems with Armenia
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 23, 2005 President Saakashvili paid a two-day informal visit to Armenia on August 21-22 and met with Robert Kocharian at the latter s summer residence on the shore of

'Nothing Stops The VMAs -- Ever' MTV Exec Says As TD 12 Nears
Click10.com, FL - 20 hours ago coast does. "Nothing stops the Video Music Awards, ever," said MTV Vice President of Marketing and Promotions Joe Armenia. "In Miami

Iran Makes Aid to Armenia
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 ANKARA - Iran Islamic Republic makes grants to two Christian countries of the region, Armenia and Georgia. Armenia has occupied

The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet Monday
Pravda, Russia - Aug 22, 2005 Presidents Ilham Aliev of Azerbaijan and Robert Kocharian of Armenia were slated to meet on Friday in Kazan on the sidelines of a meeting of leaders from

Congressmen make bid to include Armenia in railway project
Turkish Daily News, Turkey - 1 hour ago in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the United States object to a Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railway project because the scheme excludes Armenia.

Girl says she lied about attempted abduction
St. Petersburg Times, FL - 4 hours ago In Saturday's incident, the 12-year-old told Tampa police the man bothered her and her friends inside the skating rink at 5121 N Armenia Ave., so she went to

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Vanadzor.net, Armenia - 13 minutes ago world history. In 301 AD, Armenia became the first nation to adopt Christianity as its official state religion. Through Oct. 30, it

Turkey eyes Azerbaijani-Armenian top meetings for opening to
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 ANKARA - The Turkish government is awaiting the results of upcoming high-level Azerbaijani-Armenian talks for its plans for a diplomatic opening to Armenia.

Unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan' Position in Talks was Always Unchanged
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 president Ilham Aliyev in his talk with the journalists when expressing his attitude to the upcoming Kazan meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Armenian travel - Coastal Monmouth Calendar

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Coastal Monmouth Calendar
Asbury Park Press, NJ - Aug 10, 2005 Rides, games, contests, entertainment, petting zoo, food and fireworks at 9 Stepanos Armenian Church will hold the annual picnic, featuring Armenian delicacies

Darchinyan retains flyweight title
Independent Online, South Africa - 20 hours ago Sydney, Australia - Armenian-born Australian Vic Darchinyan retained his International Boxing over Colombia's Jair Jiminez at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

The Rhythms of the World Festival Announces its Program for the
CCNMatthews (press release), Canada - Aug 17, 2005 Arapyan Trio who brings forth jazz music with an Armenian flavour. a day full of surprises involving cultural activities, musical entertainment, art workshops

'Bat Boy' wings it to Bellingham
Boston Globe, United States - Jul 28, 2005 to Bellingham's new Steps Off Broadway Theater for a little entertainment this weekend. ARMENIAN SALSA DANCING -- When members of Black Sea Salsa say they're

Darchinyan's title defence against Jimenez rescheduled for August
Doghouse Boxing, Canada - Jul 30, 2005 card will now go ahead on August 24th at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in to his natural weight class to face the power punching Armenian-born Australian.

Humor -- and a dose of skepticism -- about isms
Los Angeles Times, CA - Aug 1, 2005 roundly disregarded by the Zongo Street locals apart from its entertainment value, is not In "The True Aryan," an Armenian New York City cabby, stung by his

FAST CHAT: Dick Cavett
Newsday, NY - Aug 19, 2005 around in the Village between shows and there was an Armenian-Hungarian restaurant was going from Austria to Hungary and I put "entertainment business." That

Privatized theatre celebrates new life
Messenger.ge, Georgia - Aug 17, 2005 he expects 100,000 Armenians to vacation in Georgia and encouraged Armenian investors to We had no places for entertainment here except bars and restaurants.

Darchinyan wants flyweight world domination
SecondsOut - Aug 16, 2005 Colombian Jair Jimenez on August 24 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Now an Australian citizen, Darchinyan calls himself an "Armenian Aussie" and is

Midwest traveler
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - Jul 31, 2005 Arts, crafts, food vendors, a quilt show, entertainment and more are set for artists working in a variety of cultural styles, including Armenian, Bosnian, East

Yerevan - Angels' Colon beats Orioles to improve to 17-6

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Angels' Colon beats Orioles to improve to 17-6
San Francisco Chronicle - 45 minutes ago By The Associated Press. Bartolo Colon was too tired to mount much of an argument when Angels manager Mike Scioscia replaced him with two outs in the ninth inning. "Anytime you get that close to completing

Intel Intros Home-PC Platform Called Viiv
InformationWeek - 11 hours ago The home-entertainment platform will use the same processor and support chipsets as its Centrino mobile platform. By Darrell Dunn. Intel will repackage the same basic technology used in its Centrino mobile

Fighting terror with technology
Newsday - Aug 24, 2005 BY LIAM PLEVEN. The new security system the MTA announced yesterday will be designed to foil terrorists and monitor the transportation network - and to expand in the face of evolving threats. A month after

EU-China trade talks on textiles begin
Forbes - 33 minutes ago BEIJING (AFX) - Negotiations between the European Union and China over Beijing's booming textile exports have commenced, delegates to the talks said. 'They are basically trying to discuss strategies on dealing

Attacks erupt in Iraq as vote nears
Boston Globe - 26 minutes ago By Borzou Daragahi and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times | August 25, 2005. BAGHDAD -- Clashes erupted yesterday between followers of a radical Shi'ite cleric and his opponents in the holy city of Najaf, leaving

Peru crash site search continues
BBC News - 9 hours ago Rescuers are searching a marsh in Peru's Amazon where a plane crash-landed on Tuesday killing at least 36 people. The operation, which involves cutting through the plane's fuselage to recover human remains, has been hampered by heavy rain.

War protesters face off with war supporters
North County Times - 1 hour ago SAN DIEGO ---- In a sign of the increasing polarization of public opinion toward the war in Iraq, opposing groups faced off in front of a local radio station Wednesday morning, hurling accusations and slogans at one another.

L'Equipe's allegations raise cycle of questions
Boston Globe - 37 minutes ago By Bob Ryan, Globe Columnist | August 25, 2005. Do we believe the French newspaper L'Equipe, which asserts that it has proof Lance Armstrong used EPO in the course of winning his first Tour de France in 1999

Katrina nears Florida
Charlotte Sun-Herald - 4 hours ago The prospect of a rainy Friday evening -- courtesy of looming Tropical Storm Katrina -- forced area school authorities Wednesday to reschedule the opening games of the 2005 high school football season. Friday's

What's next for Israel's wily general?
St. Petersburg Times - 1 hour ago Things are looking up for Ariel Sharon, though a third term is uncertain as fates shift quickly in Israeli politics. By SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN, Times Senior Correspondent. JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would appear to be riding high these days.

Toshiba: no unified DVD format before player launch
Reuters.uk - 22 hours ago TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp. said on Wednesday that no unified format for a next-generation DVD is likely before its year-end launch of adanced DVD players, a development that could leave users confused and hinder industry growth.

Gulf storm fears push oil to record
Globe and Mail - 1 hour ago By BRAD FOSS. Oil prices surged to a record high above $67 (US) a barrel yesterday on concerns that tropical storm Katrina could hit production sites in the Gulf of Mexico and a US government report that showed a decline in gasoline supply.

From the small screen to the big one
The Daily Evergreen - 59 minutes ago While most video game-based movies have not been good, three more are on the way with a bit more promise. In the past, when video games have crossed the into the realm of cinema, the results have been, well, horrible.

Inside the Iraqi constitution: 3 main points still in dispute
USA Today - 3 hours ago By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY. BAGHDAD Iraqi legislators are scheduled to vote on a draft constitution today, even though Sunni Arab leaders continue to voice sharp differences with Kurdish and Shiite lawmakers. By Safin Hamed, Getty Images.

Liberals bracing for Roberts hearing
Boston Globe - 30 minutes ago By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | August 25, 2005. WASHINGTON -- An influential liberal group yesterday announced its opposition to Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr., as Democrats on the Senate Judiciary

Brock Peters
Telegraph.co.uk - 7 hours ago Brock Peters, who died on Tuesday aged 78, won acclaim for his powerful performance as the black man falsely accused of rape in the film To Kill a Mockingbird. Released in 1962, and based on the Pulitzer Prize

Jays end skid with nine-run fifth
MLB.com - 3 hours ago By Spencer Fordin / MLB.com. Toronto starter Dave Bush had "one at a time" written on the bill of his cap Wednesday night, but his offense pushed a distinctly more aggressive agenda. The Blue Jays staked their

Google's Big Bet: Beyond Instant Messaging
Forbes - 12 hours ago NEW YORK - Google on Wednesday released a new instant messaging and voice chat program, ending months of speculation over whether the search giant would enter the heated IM market. The company hasn't said

Timberlake `affair' nets tabloid apology
Boston Herald - 3 hours ago By Inside Track. Justin Timberlake accepted an apology from the British tabloid, News of the World, yesterday over a 2004 story that had accused the singer of cheating on his girlfriend, Cameron Diaz, with model, Lucy Clarkson.

Base panel votes to keep Portsmouth and Groton
Boston Globe - 1 hour ago By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | August 25, 2005. WASHINGTON -- A federal review panel yesterday rejected Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld's recommendations and voted to keep open the Portsmouth Naval

Hayastan - AUSTRIA INTENDS TO SUPPORT ARMENIA IN SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS

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AUSTRIA INTENDS TO SUPPORT ARMENIA IN SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 /ARKA/. Austria intends to support Armenia in small and medium business development, RA Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtyan told

Russia continues contributing to Afghan stability
RIA Novosti, Russia - 16 hours ago and creating new anti-drug safety belts favored by the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which includes Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

OSCE to focus on air defense
Kazinform, Kazakhstan - Aug 22, 2005 Air Force and Air Defense troops and facilities of Armenia, Byelorussia, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan will take direct part in the final and the most

Saakashvili: No Political Problems with Armenia
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 23, 2005 President Saakashvili paid a two-day informal visit to Armenia on August 21-22 and met with Robert Kocharian at the latter s summer residence on the shore of

Turkish scholar given 2-year suspended sentence in Armenia
Turkish Daily News, Turkey - Aug 18, 2005 An Armenian court sentenced a Turkish historian to two years' imprisonment for attempting to leave Armenia in possession of ancient books, but he left the

ICRC Press Release n 05/45 - Azerbaijani serviceman repatriated
Reuters AlertNet, UK - 17 hours ago Geneva (ICRC) On Wednesday, 24 August 2005, one Azerbaijani serviceman previously detained in Armenia was repatriated under the auspices of the

ARDSHININVESTBANK (ARMENIA) HOLDS "CHILDREN'S SUMMER" CHARITABLE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - 17 hours ago The Ardshininvestbank (Armenia) held the "Children's Summer" charitable action at the Yerevan "Zatik" children's home, press-service of the bank reported ARKA

Unlike Armenia, Azerbaijan' Position in Talks was Always Unchanged
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 president Ilham Aliyev in his talk with the journalists when expressing his attitude to the upcoming Kazan meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan discussing Karabakh settlement
ITAR-TASS, Russia - 16 hours ago MOSCOW, August 24 (Itar-Tass) - The foreign ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan met in here on Wednesday to discuss ways of settling the Nagorno

Saakashvili Visits Armenia
Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 22, 2005 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili arrived in Armenia on August 21 for a two day informal visit to hold talks with his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian

International News
Danmark.dk, Denmark - Aug 23, 2005 A union that included countries such as Armenia and Georgia is not unthinkable for M ller, reported daily newspaper JydskeVestkysten on Tuesday.

Turkey eyes Azerbaijani-Armenian top meetings for opening to
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 ANKARA - The Turkish government is awaiting the results of upcoming high-level Azerbaijani-Armenian talks for its plans for a diplomatic opening to Armenia.

ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTION IS CHALLENGE FOR ARMENIA
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 22, 2005 While Armenia has undertaken certain commitments on making constitutional reforms and if we fail to meet them, it may have negative impact on the relations

Russia Refuses Armenia Plan to Re-export Rough
Diamonds.net, NY - 17 hours ago By Jeff Miller. (Rapaport August 24, 2005) Press reports from Armenia say that Russia's finance ministry declined a proposal from Armenia to re-export 15

No plans to allow US military base in Azerbaijan: president
Xinhua, China - 19 hours ago Aliyev said. Aliyev also said his government's top priority now is to resolve the territorial dispute with neighboring Armenia. In

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - 11 hours ago 24, 2005. WATERTOWN, Mass. --Armenia has been conquered by the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Ottoman Turks and Russians. Before gaining

Girl says she lied about attempted abduction
St. Petersburg Times, FL - 1 hour ago In Saturday's incident, the 12-year-old told Tampa police the man bothered her and her friends inside the skating rink at 5121 N Armenia Ave., so she went to

'Nothing Stops The VMAs -- Ever' MTV Exec Says As TD 12 Nears
Click10.com, FL - 17 hours ago coast does. "Nothing stops the Video Music Awards, ever," said MTV Vice President of Marketing and Promotions Joe Armenia. "In Miami

BTA to open its affiliates in Armenia and Georgia
Kazinform, Kazakhstan - 16 hours ago ALMATY. August 24. KAZINFORM. /Zhan Buldekbayev/ Kazakhstan Bank TuranAlem has opened its affiliates in Yerevan (Armenia) and Tbilisi (Georgia) early this week

Iran Makes Aid to Armenia
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 ANKARA - Iran Islamic Republic makes grants to two Christian countries of the region, Armenia and Georgia. Armenia has occupied

Armenian food - Finally Armenian Officials Free Duke Scolar

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Finally Armenian Officials Free Duke Scolar
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 19, 2005 Turkyilmaz visited Armenia to make research on Armenian and Turkish history. Armenian archives are open but just to the pro-Government Armenians.

TURKEY: NEW DATE SET FOR CONTROVERSIAL ARMENIAN CONFERENCE
AKI, Italy - 12 hours ago held view in Turkey that the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians was due to epidemics and other hardships suffered when Armenian militants, who joined

Duke student released by Armenian court after detention
Yes! Weekly, NC - Aug 23, 2005 He was there to conduct research for his dissertation on nationalist conflicts between the Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish communities in the region of eastern

Turkish FM Opens the Armenian Conference
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 23, 2005 * The disputed Armenian Conference at Interestingly the postponed Armenian Conference will be opened by Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul s speech.

HAMSHEN ARMENIANS TO CELEBRATE DAY OF ARMENIAN CULTURE
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 19, 2005 The Hamshen Armenians will mark "And the Zurna of Hamshen Will Blow Again" celebration of the Armenian culture on August 27-28 in Tuapse region of Krasnodar

Watertown museum preserves the history and culture of Armenia
Boston Globe, United States - 10 hours ago "It is a rough and bloody history," said Gary Lind-Sinanian, curator of the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown.

The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America s Response
Israel Hasbara Committee (subscription), NY - Aug 22, 2005 at length with US government involvement (or the insufficiency thereof, depending on one s point of view) in supporting fellow-Christian Armenian victims.

EBRD funding for Armenian project
International Water Power and Dam Construction, UK - 20 hours ago The electricity will be sold to the Armenian government, under guarantees lasting until 2016, at prices negotiated once a year.

Armenian, Azerbaijani FMs wish for Nagorno-Karabakh settlement
Xinhua, China - 11 hours ago 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov were hopeful Wednesday of progress in settling the

Political Analyst Expects No Results from Azeri, Armenian
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - Aug 19, 2005 A political scholar sees no grounds for expecting positive results from the upcoming meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents in Kazan, Russia.

Duke Student Gets Suspended Term For Breaking Armenian Book Law
WRAL.com, NC - Aug 17, 2005 a two-year suspended sentence to a Turkish historian from Duke University who tried to leave the country with centuries-old books, in violation of Armenian law

Azerbaijan broadcaster launches Armenian-language programs
International Journalist's Network - Aug 21, 2005 Public TV and Radio (PTR), the new public broadcaster in Azerbaijan, has announced plans to broadcast Armenian-language programs, BakuToday.net reported.

Political ideas aside, System aims for mesmerizing music
Newsday, NY - Aug 23, 2005 (All four of the band's members are of Armenian descent.). "Mezmerize" is only the first disc System of a Down plans to deliver this year.

A surprising "yes" to a surprising invitation
Turks.US - 17 hours ago A conference dealing with the question of the Armenian genocide will take place at Bosphorus University in late September. The conference

Turkey eyes Azerbaijani-Armenian top meetings for opening to
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 21, 2005 ANKARA - The Turkish government is awaiting the results of upcoming high-level Azerbaijani-Armenian talks for its plans for a diplomatic opening to Armenia.

Armenian-Austrian Relations at the New Stage of Development
National Assembly of RA (press release), Armenia - 22 hours ago meeting. During the meeting the problems of deepening the Armenian-Austrian political and economic r elations were discussed. Mr

Home buying tips today in Armenian
Los Angeles Daily News, CA - Aug 20, 2005 So to help Armenian-speaking first-time home buyers, the city today will hold an all-day class in Armenian offering tips on how to negotiate the different

Armenian films - Midwest traveler

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Midwest traveler
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - Jul 31, 2005 Jamestown Arts Center, a celebration of folk and ethnic traditions, is set artists working in a variety of cultural styles, including Armenian, Bosnian, East

Arab World Festival
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Aug 10, 2005 countries. The group performs instrumental and vocal pieces from Arabic, Egyptian, Turkish and Armenian traditions, among others. The

Roots of Islamic Terrorism: How Communists Helped Fundamentalists
PeaceJournalism.com, Nepal - Aug 23, 2005 Muslims" (or rather, "Islamists", as they care little of traditions and their and PKK were rumoured to have been brainchildren of a Soviet Armenian KGB officer

Republic of Ingushetia
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 tribes known as the Nakhcho, who are first mentioned in Armenian sources dating from The Ingushes have a rich and varied folklore of traditions, legends, epics

New artistic director settles in with Bolshoi
Philadelphia Daily News, PA - Jul 29, 2005 yet surely there's a touch of political expression in the Armenian-born Khachaturian's vital for me to visit other cities and to absorb different traditions.

COVER STORY: Colour of quiet melancholy
New Straits Times, Malaysia - Aug 8, 2005 foreign culture is not something unusual for Achedjian, whose Armenian grandparents had the underbelly of America, from kitsch to vanishing traditions, to show

Artnet News
Artnet, NY - Aug 4, 2005 Of Armenian descent, Steve was long attracted to the life and traditions of the Middle East, writing about Shi ite culture for Harper s magazine and many

Cookbooks, cookbooks, cookbooks!
Long Beach Press-Telegram, CA - Jul 26, 2005 Sky, In the Garden, At the Seashore, Alfresco Sunset and Tailgate Traditions. which was inspired by her favorite family recipes reflecting her Armenian heritage

Armenian rojak, S'pore style
Electric New Paper, Singapore - Aug 16, 2005 diaspora. The Armenian Singaporean community numbers about 20 and the group is finding it hard to keep traditions alive. A major

Reality Reinterpreted
New York Sun (subscription), NY - Aug 4, 2005 imagination," Edmund Burke's term for the source of all our civilizing traditions. dogma to gay marriage to President Bush's rhetoric to Armenian nationalism.

Air Transport 2002-2004
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 a co-owner of Armavia Airlines founded by a group of Armenian businessmen using between the parties is proceeding in the finest traditions of shareholders' wars

Omsk Region
Kommersant, Russia - Aug 4, 2005 who are maintaining and developing their national traditions and cultures live the Ingermanland Finnish cultural center, and the Luis Armenian cultural center.

Grand Old Ladies
iAfrica.com, South Africa - Aug 5, 2005 in the Orient, Raffles was first opened in the 1880s by four Armenian brothers and being just laid-back enough to put the stuffiest old-world traditions to rest

Armenian travel - PEOPLE OF AZERBAIJAN CAN BELIEVE ON RELIABLE PROTECTION OF STATE

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PEOPLE OF AZERBAIJAN CAN BELIEVE ON RELIABLE PROTECTION OF STATE
AzerTag, Azerbaijan - Aug 16, 2005 back to those years, analyzing the events and adopted increased by 76 percent and current year makes Sooner or later, the Armenian leadership should understand

Classic Balkanalysis: An Improbable War and Turkey's New
Balkanalysis.com, AZ - Aug 23, 2005 Such ugly events go a long way toward explaining a long time already, but the current proposal would the 90th anniversary of an alleged Armenian genocide at

Uzbekistan and America's Future Conflicts
Global Politician, NY - Jul 31, 2005 So far, events have accumulated in Central Asia rather states, but the strength of their current pro-Western at the plan's inclusion of Armenian soldiers.

Political ideas aside, System aims for mesmerizing music
Newsday, NY - Aug 23, 2005 four of the band's members are of Armenian descent Tankian says he keeps up with current affairs while find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words

Turkish press yesterday
Turkish Daily News, Turkey - Aug 23, 2005 Turkey hosting important sports events such as One and Universiade 2005; the current situation in concerning the Kurdish problem. Armenian conference in

The CIS and Baltic press on Russia
RIA Novosti, Russia - Aug 12, 2005 Estonian media are still showing interest in the events in the "The current decision to Russia is accused of stressing the Armenian ethnicity of V. Arutyunov

Global Gold Corporation Acquires Tukhmanuk Mine in Armenia and
PrimeZone (press release), CA - Aug 1, 2005 Lead investors include current shareholders Firebird Global Master Fund is held by the Armenian company Mego of the Company's development, events conditioned on

Armenian traditions - Duke Student Gets Suspended Term For Breaking Armenian Book Law

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Duke Student Gets Suspended Term For Breaking Armenian Book Law
WRAL.com, NC - Aug 17, 2005 a two-year suspended sentence to a Turkish historian from Duke University who tried to leave the country with centuries-old books, in violation of Armenian law

Finally Armenian Officials Free Duke Scolar
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 19, 2005 Turkyilmaz visited Armenia to make research on Armenian and Turkish history. Armenian archives are open but just to the pro-Government Armenians.

TURKEY: NEW DATE SET FOR CONTROVERSIAL ARMENIAN CONFERENCE
AKI, Italy - 11 hours ago held view in Turkey that the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians was due to epidemics and other hardships suffered when Armenian militants, who joined

Home buying tips today in Armenian
Los Angeles Daily News, CA - Aug 20, 2005 So to help Armenian-speaking first-time home buyers, the city today will hold an all-day class in Armenian offering tips on how to negotiate the different

Armenian language - COOPERATION AGREEMENT SIGNED IN YEREVAN BETWEEN SIL INSURANCE

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COOPERATION AGREEMENT SIGNED IN YEREVAN BETWEEN SIL INSURANCE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 12, 2005 YEREVAN, August 12. /ARKA/. Agreement on cooperation between Sil Insurance, Armenian insurance company, and Kazakh Eurasia Insurance

Is Yerevan Scared of History?
Zaman Online, Turkey - Aug 17, 2005 soon after he embarked the plane to return to Turkey after having completing his research in the Armenian national archives on his fourth visit to Yerevan.

CONSTRUCTION AT YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - 9 hours ago The construction of the Yerevan State University s new compound will be completed in less than two months. Sargis Shahazizian, pro

Rise In Yerevan Bus Fares Annulled Amid Popular Discontent
Vanadzor.net, Armenia - Aug 16, 2005 Facing mounting public discontent, Yerevan s government-appointed mayor has rescinded a 30 percent increase in the key public transportation fares that was

Armenia hopes for "common denominators" in Karabakh solution
ITAR-TASS, Russia - 13 hours ago MOSCOW, August 24 (Itar-Tass) - Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan said Yerevan and Baku can hopefully find "common denominators" in resolving the

'PEOPLE ARE WELL AWARE OF OUR POLITICAL FIGURES', ARTUR
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 They inquired from Mr. Baghdasarian about the order of electing the mayor of Yerevan, as well. They expressed the idea that the elections should be direct.

RESULTS OF PROGRAMMERS' CONTEST SUMMED UP IN YEREVAN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 10, 2005 YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. The results of the programmers' contest have been summed up in Yerevan. Director of the "Enterprises

Profitability of State bonds
Arka News Agency, Armenia - 17 hours ago YEREVAN, August 24. /ARKA/. On August 26 presentation of the second and third volumes of the monograph of the Doctor of Technical

VIVACELL COMPANY PROVIDES MOBILE COMMUNICATION SERVICES IN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 23, 2005 YEREVAN, August 23. /ARKA/. The VivaCell Company provides mobile communication services in Vardenis (Gegharkunik region, Armenia

Azeri Soldier Kept in Jail in Yerevan
Baku Today, Azerbaijan - Aug 21, 2005 Ramil Ilyas oglu Hudaverdiyev, an Azerbaijani soldier, detained in the beginning of August, is kept in a Yerevan jail, the State Commission on work with the

BTA INVEST BANK PRESENTATION HELD IN YEREVAN
Arka News Agency, Armenia - Aug 22, 2005 YEREVAN, August 22. /ARKA/. BTA Invest Bank presentation took place in Yerevan on Monday. Rasul Kosanov, Chair of the BTA Invest

Duke student released by Armenian court after detention
Yes! Weekly, NC - Aug 23, 2005 Yektan Turkyilmaz, 33, was pulled off a plane at Yerevan Airport in Armenia s capital city on June 17 at the end of his fourth visit to Armenia.

PLAY BY DIASPORA ARMENIAN STAGED AT YEREVAN CHAMBER THEATRE
AZG Armenian Daily, Armenia - Jul 26, 2005 The Yerevan Chamber Theatre represented a new performance staged on "Beetle" play by Ara Artsruni, honored artist of RA. The play

BTA to open its affiliates in Armenia and Georgia
Kazinform, Kazakhstan - 13 hours ago ALMATY. August 24. KAZINFORM. /Zhan Buldekbayev/ Kazakhstan Bank TuranAlem has opened its affiliates in Yerevan (Armenia) and Tbilisi (Georgia) early this week

Lokomotivi Tbilisi 0-2 Banants Yerevan
GeorgianSoccer.com, UK - Aug 3, 2005 Lokomotivi Tbilisi lost their home game of the UEFA Cup first round after beating Banants in Yerevan. The 3-2 win in Armenia was

ARDSHININVESTBANK (ARMENIA) HOLDS "CHILDREN'S SUMMER" CHARITABLE
Arka News Agency, Armenia - 14 hours ago YEREVAN, August 24. /ARKA/. The Ardshininvestbank (Armenia) held the "Children's Summer" charitable action at the Yerevan "Zatik

Turkish FM Opens the Armenian Conference
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - 22 hours ago This kind of conference cannot be made in Yerevan, California or Lyon (France). Armenians, particularly those in the Diaspora, cannot make self-criticism.

Trial Of Arrested Scholar Opens In Yerevan
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey - Aug 10, 2005 A Turkish scholar who researched Ottoman history in Armenia s state archives went on trial in Yerevan on Tuesday nearly two months after his controversial

A match made in Yerevan
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jul 27, 2005 For decades, all the distillers had to sell whatever they made to the Yerevan Brandy Co., which marketed under the brand name Ararat.

Yerevan - Los Angeles: Sister Cities
National Assembly of RA (press release), Armenia - Aug 20, 2005 He arrived in Armenia on the initiative of declaring Yerevan and Los Angeles sister cities. It is envisaged to sign an agreement