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BILLBOARDS TO URGE OBAMA RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

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April 10, 2012 | 11:55

During the month of April, 2012, Peace of Art, Inc., will display the

commemorative billboards of Armenian Genocide on Mount Auburn and

Arsenal Streets in Watertown, MA, with the message "Mr. President,

Don't Turn your Back! Recognize the Armenian Genocide."

This year, Peace of Art will display a second message on a digital

billboard in Foxboro, MA, on Route 1 near Gillette Stadium and Patriot

Place, with the message "Honoring the Memory of 1.5 million Lives.

Recognize the Armenian Genocide."

This simple message is written against an image of Der Zor, covered

with 1.5 million lights, one for each life lost. The desert witnessed

the remaining Armenians who were forced to their death march by the

Ottoman Turks, and became the last resting place for many of the

refugees. This digital billboard went up on Easter Monday, April 9,

2012, the day of Remembrance of the Dead.

The message on the Watertown billboards "Mr. President, Don't Turn

Your Back! Recognize the Armenian Genocide," is a message to President

Obama urging him to honor his 2008 campaign promise to recognize the

Armenian Genocide.

MAINE STATE SENATE RECOGNIZES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

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10.04.2012 17:08

Today the Maine State Senate will recognize the Armenia Genocide,

WCSH-TV reports.

There's a joint order on the docket that recognizes that in 1915 the

Ottoman Empire launched a campaign to wipe out the Armenia people,

resulting in the death of more than 1.5 million people.

The resolution says that some survivors settled in Maine and they

want to recognize those survivors' contributions to the State, and

express sympathy for the families of those who died.

WHO WILL BE NEXT PRIME MINISTER?

Naira Hayrumyan

Story from Lragir.am News:

Published: 11:24:20 - 11/04/2012

Who will head the government after the parliamentary elections? This

question becomes urgent in the light of the possibility that the

elections may result in change of balance of power in parliament,

depriving the Republican Party of majority and the right to form

government. Apparently, Tigran Sargsyan will not remain prime minister.

What will the change of prime minister change in the everyday life

of the Armenian citizens? We tend to think that nothing will change

but in reality it will take only several abrupt moves to make the

Armenian economy advance.

The opposition parties point out among the main shortcomings of

the government the lack of clear steps to attract investments. The

government hails its undertakings but even official statistics claims

the opposite.

Foreign investments in Armenia amounted to USD 1.65 billion in 2011.

They increased by 6.3%. Direct investments, i.e. remittances, amounted

to USD 813.3 million (growing by 15.1%). In the same period, USD 115.8

million (22.4% growth) was exported from Armenia. No comments. In fact,

the government boosted remittances rather than investments.

Addressing the RPA session, Serzh Sargsyan did not deny that the

government could work better. He said the government is able to save

the financial and banking system "which would otherwise have left

us under its ruins". Most probably, Tigran Sargsyan, an ex-banker,

told him about it who actually did everything he could to leave only

banks in the economy of Armenia.

No investments in Armenia are not only an economic but also a

political and national shortcoming. Investments are a guarantee of

security and stability for each country. Azerbaijan, for example,

is totally barred from military venture because billions have been

invested in this country.

Investments are also demography. In the end, lack of investments and

development of industry forces people to leave Armenia. Though Serzh

Sargsyan says people leave the country to avoid military service,

a 45-year-old man in his heyday will hardly leave the country to

avoid military service. They are simply jobless.

Tigran Sargsyan says Armenia is an offshore zone and is open to

investments. Facts prove the opposite though. It is notable that

all the opposition parties state the necessity to boost investments

mainly by the Diaspora. Serzh Sargsyan refuses to use the experience

of Singapore where he has recently been.

In this regard, the next government may open the market for the

Diaspora, without being afraid of local monopolists and Russian

investors and create a real offshore in Armenia. This would be

a revolution.

Who will head the government? Are there people in Armenia who are

capable of such an economic revolution?

ARMENIAN POPULATION AT THE EDGE OF AGEING, EXPERT SAYS

/ARKA/

APRIL 10, 2012

YEREVAN

YEREVAN, April 10. /ARKA/. The population of Armenia is at the edge of

ageing as the elderly population of Armenia has increased by 4% to 9.8

% over the last 20 years, said Karine Kuyumjyan, Department of Census

and Demography Head at the National Statistical Service of Armenia.

"CIS population, where elderly people make up 11.5%, is ageing,

and that of Western Europe- demographically old ( 13.8%)," she said

Tuesday at the press conference dedicated to the World Health Day.

Since 1990 the mortality rate amid elderly people over 60 years old

in Armenia climbed by 10.5 ppm to 49.3 ppm as of 2010, she said.

She also added 50% of deaths in Armenia are caused by circulatory

system diseases.

And mortality cases among people aged 0-15 and 16-59 reported tumble

within the reported period in Armenia, she noted.

"Mortality rate for age group "0-15" has reduced from 1.9 people

to 1.1 per 1000 in 2010 in 1990, and from 2,9 to 2,6 individuals in

"16-59" group,"she clarified.

In her turn, Anahit Gevorgyan, Chief Deputy of the Department of the

Disabled and Elderly at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, said

the elderly population of Armenia is accounted to nearly 375,000.

EACH CITIZEN OF ARMENIA OWES EXTERNAL CREDITOR

$100 THOUSAND - POLITICIAN

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April 10, 2012 | 19:06

The Democratic Party of Armenia had its first meeting in the framework

of the pre-election campaign on Tuesday.

After presenting the party's program, the chairman of the party Aram

Sargsyan mentioned that the program aims to solve many problems.

According to Aram Sargsyan, if the illegal economy was eliminated,

which makes up 70 per cent of the economy, and if the oligarchs were

removed, the Armenian State Budget would increase by $1.5-2 billions.

He mentioned that because of Armenia's external debt currently each

Armenian citizen owes $100 thousand to the external creditor.

The Democratic Party of Armenia is a left-wing party established in

1991. Chairman of the party is Aram Sargsyan.

The proportional list includes 45 names. The party's motto is "If

Justice then Democrats".

SOME YEREVAN VOTERS ARE REGISTERED AT CHURCH 

COURTYARDS, FUEL PUMPING STATIONS - NEWSPAPER

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April 11, 2012 | 07:37

YEREVAN. - Comical "scenes" are discovered in the lists of voters

registered at Armenian capital Yerevan's Election Precinct No.

12-which comprises the Erebuni and Shengavit administrative regions-for

the forthcoming parliamentary elections, Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun

daily writes.

"Specifically, 'church courtyard,' 'adjacent garage of adjacent

building,' 'cellar,' 'fuel [pumping] station, base' are written across

the addresses of several thousand citizens of this community.

Let as await the Police adjustments.

By the way, the precinct maps and their representation, which

are posted at the Central Election Commission of Armenia, have no

connection whatsoever with the true geographical locations of the

precincts," Chorrord Inknishkhanutyun writes.

ARMENIAN ONE OF SURVIVORS FROM TITANIC WRECK

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April 09, 2012 | 22:01

Canadian CBC TV channel shot a film 'Titanic: the Canadian

Survivors' on Titanic wreck. One of the episodes is devoted to

the Canadian-Armenian Neshan Krekorian, told by his grandson Van

Solomonian.

Neshan Krekorian's father advised him to make a new life in Canada -

far away from the persecution of Armenians in what is now Eastern

Turkey. Krekorian bought a third-class ticket for the Titanic hoping

to start everything again in Canada.

According to his grandson Solomonian, his grandfather carried nothing

more than the clothes on his back and a small suitcase. He was part

of those passengers, who spoke little or no English.

Krekorian said that when the accident happened, electricity has gone

and panic rose, but later it was back and people started to calm down.

However, Neshan did not see the iceberg, just pieces on the water. At

first, they had to use axes to open way to the port. The grandfather

also said that first and second class ticket holders were assisted and

given priority. Neshan remembered also how the sailors died of hunger,

but he could survive. He never told witnessing the Titanic went down.

Generally, he spoke very little of the accident. Probably he was chosen

by the destiny to survive for later to call his brothers in Canada,

who created their families, concluded Krekorian's grandson.