May 20, 2012 | 11:24

YEREVAN. – It is utterly probable that a fact of Armenia’s Republican and Liberal Parties withdrawal antithesis Armenian National Congress (ANC) will not impact a actions of ANC anyway however a bent itself has turn an shocking sign, a executive of a CIS Institute’s Armenian bend Alexander Markarov told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

According to Markarov, Levon Ter-Petrsoyan is a converging cause in ANC.

“The army that combined around ANC during a past few years possibly have mislaid faith in a personality or have disagreements with a care of ANC,” he said.

Markarov also thinks that those domestic army that have left Armenian National Congress will continue a onslaught possibly alone or with parties that have reduction change on a domestic field.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier, on Friday a Republic Party left a antithesis Armenian National Congress (ANC). The personality of a Republic Party,

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PanARMENIAN.Net – A Greek exit from the single currency threatens to plunge Britain into a second recession equal in ferocity to the record postwar slump of 2008-09, according to the expert responsible for the government’s economic forecasting, the Guardian reports.

Robert Chote, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, who was speaking to the Guardian as world financial markets staggered to the end of a week that rekindled memories of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, warned that there was risk that a fresh downturn would do irreparable damage to the UK. Britain has made up less than half the ground lost when output plunged by more than 7% in 2008-09, and Chote said there was a risk that “you go down and you never quite get back up to where you started”.

In a separate exclusive interview, Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, said that he was determined “to stop the experiment” with austerity policies imposed by Germany. He described the tax increases and spending cuts as a “crime against the Greek people”.

The leader of the Syriza party, whose success in last month’s general election has led to political paralysis in Athens and a second general election, said he wanted Greece to stay in the euro, but was fighting capitalism. “On the one side there are workers and a majority of people, and on the other are global capitalists, bankers, profiteers on stock exchanges, the big funds. It’s a war between peoples and capitalism … it is the international financial system, and more especially banks, that are gaining most”.

The head of the UK’s OBR said the deepening crisis in the eurozone could force him to tear up his forecasts, made only two months ago, that Britain would post modest growth of 0.8% this year. “The concern is that you end up with an outcome in the eurozone that creates the same sort of structural difficulties in the financial system and in the economy that we saw in the past recession, and that has consequences both for hitting economic activity in the economy, but also its underlying potential,” said Chote.

Chote said he was particularly concerned about the possibility that a second deep recession would leave permanent scars. “That means not just that the economy weakens and then strengthens again – it goes into a hole and comes out – but that you go down and you never quite get back up to where you started.”

May 19, 2012 | 10:40

YEREVAN. – The central initiation rite of a Armenian Armed Forces’ new veteran sergeants was hold Friday during a Marshal Baghramian troops training section of a Ministry of Defense.    

Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan presented a sergeants their graduation diplomas.

Congratulating a immature sergeants, a Minister voiced a wish that, with their participation in a troops units and a believe they have acquired, they will minister to a serve strengthening of a combat-readiness and augmenting of a fortify of a Armenian army, MOD informs.

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PanARMENIAN.Net – U.S. President Barack Obama urged members of Congress on Saturday, May 19 to urge Wall Street reform, arguing a recuperating US economy can't take a risk of messy slip over a financial sector, AFP reports.

“That’s because it’s so critical that members of Congress mount on a side of reform, not opposite it,” a President pronounced in his weekly radio and Internet address.

“Because we can’t means to go behind to an epoch of diseased law and small oversight, where extreme risk-taking on Wall Street and a miss of simple slip in Washington scarcely broken a economy,” Obama said.

The comments came as members of a Senate prepared to reason hearings about recently-announced large waste by investment bank JPMorgan Chase, that saw some-more than $2 billion disappear in derivatives trading.

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May 19, 2012 | 13:16

YEREVAN. – Price growths are connected to a elections in Armenia. Before them a expansion in prices is reduced or stopped altogether, though once a elections are over a subsequent jump follows during once, a Chairman of a Union of Consumer Rights Protection of Armenia Armen Pogosyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“I have already announced about a 1st indicate and now comes a second: 58 percent of Armenia’s council is assigned by oligarchs who control all and everyone. Of march a prices of sugarine will boost in Armenia if 99 percent of sugarine is alien to Armenia by one chairman and a remaining 1 percent is alien by him as good though underneath a opposite name,” Poghosyan announced.

Poghosyan mentioned that a Armenian legislation prohibits thoroughness additional on a markets though that indicate is not being followed.

“Concerning imports a state contingency settle import quotas of 20-30

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PanARMENIAN.Net – Heritage member slammed a debate techniques a celebration used to attract new people in a candidates’ list.

Larisa Alaverdyan uttered doubt over Free Democrats’ ability to pursue a same process in a new council as Heritage.

She remarkable with bewail that a series of member from Heritage didn’t enter a council since of partnership with a Free Democrats.

“Though we negatively consider Heritage personality Raffi Hovhannisian’s debate techniques, we consider his personal qualities have remained unchanged,” Larisa Alaverdyan said.

The statute Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) took a wilful feat during a parliamentary elections on May 6 gaining 44,02% of votes.

The bloc Prosperous Armenia celebration comes second with 30,12% of votes and a antithesis ANC is placed third with 7,08%. The antithesis parties Heritage (5,76%) and ARF Dashnaktsutyun (5,67%),

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PanARMENIAN.Net – Co-authors Aline Kamakian and Barbara Drieskens from Lebanon wrapped up a month-long, AGBU-coordinated tour across the U.S. and Canada to promote their widely acclaimed publication “Armenian Cuisine”.

Equal parts cookbook, photo essay, and oral history, the recently released hardcover is quickly finding its place on kitchen counters and coffee tables in homes around the world. The book’s concept was developed by Kamakian, who, as a Lebanese-Armenian chef and owner of the renowned Beirut restaurant, Mayrig, had two goals for the project: the first, to record her mother’s cherished recipes, and the second, to resolve her clients’ questions about why the Armenian foods listed on Mayrig’s menu were known by Turkish names.

The two embarked on an emotional three-week journey across almost 2,000 miles to trace the roots of both Armenian food and people, in a place where neither seemed to have survived. The result is a striking volume filled with 139 classic recipes and hundreds of photographs of landscapes and natural foods that have made it a 2012 New York Photo Festival contender.

For their next endeavor, Kamakian and Drieskens plan to translate the book for the Turkish public, according to the Armenian Reporter.

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May 19, 2012 | 12:01

BAKU. – Two earthquakes were registered on Saturday morning in northwestern Azerbaijan, Vesti.Az informs, referring to the country’s national seismic service. 

The tremors measured magnitude 3.5 at around 7am and 3.1 at 8:18am, and their epicenter was located 14 kilometers south of Zaqatala City.   

To note, a magnitude-7 quake had hit the country on Friday, and its epicenter was again nearby Zaqatala; this seismic activity was felt in Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, too.

PanARMENIAN.Net – An influential financial ratings agency has downgraded debt-crippled Greece deeper into junk territory, Belfast Telegraph reported.

Fitch warned of a “probable” Greek exit from the euro currency union if new national elections next month produce an anti-bailout government.

The agency cut Greece’s rating by one notch, from B- to CCC, the lowest possible grade for a country that is not in default.

“The downgrade of Greece’s sovereign ratings reflects the heightened risk that Greece may not be able to sustain its membership of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU),” the agency said in a statement.

In addition to its acute financial woes, Greece has entered a protracted political crisis after elections on May 6 left no party with enough seats in parliament to govern alone, and nine days of hectic talks failed to reach a coalition deal.

The country is now headed for a new vote next month, most probably on June 17, and anti-austerity parties which recorded strong gains on May 6 are again expected to do well.

That has raised deep concerns that, if the new government reneges on Greece’s austerity pledges, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) could cut off the flow of bailout loans. Those rescue funds have shielded the country from bankruptcy for two years but had been agreed in exchange for deeply unpopular cutbacks.

“In the event that the new general elections scheduled for 17 June fail to produce a government with a mandate to continue with the EU-IMF programme of fiscal austerity and structural reform, an exit of Greece from (the euro) would be probable,” Fitch said.

“In the event of a Greek exit from EMU, Fitch would treat the forcible re-denomination of sovereign and private sector debt into a new Greek currency as a default event,” it added.

Thirty-nine Armenian soldiers flew to Macedonia on Friday to take partial in NATO-led infantry exercises that will copy a multinational peacekeeping operation spearheaded by a Western alliance.

The exercises codenamed Cooperative Longbow and Cooperative Lancer are due to take place on from May 21-29 and engage some 1,000 infantry from about dual dozen NATO member and partner states, including Azerbaijan and Georgia.

“The aim of a exercises is to educate, sight and use delegations of comparison partner republic armed army in sequence to foster interoperability with NATO land forces,” review a NATO matter released late final month. “The unfolding for both exercises … is formed on a fictitious United Nations-mandated, NATO-led Crisis Response Operation,” it said.

The Armenian Defense Ministry further pronounced that a participants will use corner peacekeeping activities such as patrolling streets, escorting convoys and manning highway checkpoints. In a statement, it pronounced this will urge a veteran skills of Armenian

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