http://www.panorama.am/ Armenian news and information portal. en-us editor@panorama.am webmaster@panorama.am PHP RSS Feed Generator Member of ARFD parliamentary faction Artsvik Minasyan says that the government program submitted by Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan is not a program, but rather a declaration which lacks clear formulations.  The ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/21/a-minasyan/ Comments Tue, 21 May 2013 12:46:00 GMT+4 Comments The Armenian parliament will discuss the increase in gas price after the four-day parliament session finishes on May 23, Armenian parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamyan said at the beginning of the ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/20/parliament-abrahamyan-gaz-issue/ Comments Mon, 20 May 2013 12:52:00 GMT+4 Comments As Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan continues his visit to Washington the leaders of the Greek and Armenian American communities have joined together in formally calling upon the White House ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/18/turkey-trade-deal-restriction/ Comments Sat, 18 May 2013 09:30:00 GMT+4 Comments Here, we present an article by Vartan Matiossian, a historian, literary scholar, translator and educator, published in The Armenian Weekly on May 15. The article is presented in abridged ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/17/medz-yeghern-genocide/ Comments Fri, 17 May 2013 09:59:00 GMT+4 Comments As Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Erdogan continues his official U.S. state visit, a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives introduced the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Act, a new measure calling ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/17/armenian-genocide-congress-act/ Comments Fri, 17 May 2013 09:26:00 GMT+4 Comments A Turkish High Court on Wednesday ruled that the murder of Hrant Dink in 2007 was a crime committed by an armed criminal organization and not an act by ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/16/dink-murder-ruling/ Comments Thu, 16 May 2013 09:52:00 GMT+4 Comments Below is an article by Chris Bohjalian published in The Armenian Weekly on Monday, May 13.  One night in November 2009, I heard Gerda Weissmann Klein speak in Austin, Texas, at ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/15/bohjalian/ Comments Wed, 15 May 2013 09:46:00 GMT+4 Comments The Central Electoral Commission of Armenia (CEC) has received no withdrawal applications from candidates of Barev Yerevan proportional list. The bloc has decided to take its mandates, David Sanasaryan, a ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/14/hello-yerevan/ Comments Tue, 14 May 2013 15:22:00 GMT+4 Comments The Armenian National Movement (ANM) party is reviving. This statement was sent today from the email of former ANM leader Ararat Zurabyan. The statement said that the initiators of the ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/14/zurabyan/ Comments Tue, 14 May 2013 11:58:00 GMT+4 Comments Below is an article by Talin Suciyan, a Teaching Fellow and a PhD candidate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Chair of ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/13/history-of-perfect-crime/ Comments Mon, 13 May 2013 09:55:00 GMT+4 Comments Turkey has sensationally stated that certain Australian legislators are not welcome to take part in Anzac celebrations in Gallipoli, as a consequence for passing a motion recognizing the Armenian, Assyrian ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/11/turkey-gallipoli-celebrations/ Comments Sat, 11 May 2013 09:43:00 GMT+4 Comments The Armenian National Committee of America Greater Washington (ANCA-GW) called upon police and postal authorities to fully investigate and prosecute an anti-Armenian threat against an elderly Rockville couple of ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/10/racist-letter/ Comments Fri, 10 May 2013 09:19:00 GMT+4 Comments The New South Wales Parliament's Legislative Assembly (Lower House) adopted a unanimous motion recognising the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides. This follows a similar motion passed by the NSW Parliament ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/09/nsw-armenian-genocide-motion/ Comments Thu, 09 May 2013 10:53:00 GMT+4 Comments Member of Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Vartan Oskanian, the partys top candidate for Yerevan municipal elections, gave an interview to Azatutyun Radio in which he expressed a doubt that the ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/08/vardan-oskanyan/ Comments Wed, 08 May 2013 18:42:00 GMT+4 Comments The May 5 municipal elections were classical Armenian elections, political technologist Karen Kocharyan told reporters on Wednesday.  The opposition could gain much from the elections but it lost much instead. Unlike ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/08/qocharyan-k/ Comments Wed, 08 May 2013 13:35:00 GMT+4 Comments Fresno County's pledge of support for the largely Armenian territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has sparked a little-known but certain international standoff, says an article in The Fresno Bee.  The nation of Azerbaijan ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/07/fresno-bee/ Comments Tue, 07 May 2013 13:53:00 GMT+4 Comments Armen Martirosyan, Barev Yerevan blocs top candidate for Yerevan municipal elections, is not yet commenting on the elections held on May 5.  Martirosyan said that he is ok, and is not ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/06/martirosyan/ Comments Mon, 06 May 2013 11:21:00 GMT+4 Comments Azerbaijan violated ceasefire regime at the line of contact between Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces about 250 times in the period between April 28 and May 4. More than 1,000 ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/06/nkrmil/ Comments Mon, 06 May 2013 09:55:00 GMT+4 Comments President Serzh Sargsyan cast his ballot at 9/11 polling station located in Kentron administrative district. He came to the polls with his spouse Mrs Rita Sargsyan. After casting his ballot, Serzh ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/05/serzh-sargsyan/ Comments Sun, 05 May 2013 12:38:00 GMT+4 Comments About a month ago, Azerbaijani media reported that an Azerbaijani citizen blew up on a mine on a neutral territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry spokesman said ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/04/a-hovhannisyan/ Comments Sat, 04 May 2013 12:58:00 GMT+4 Comments Head of Heritage parliamentary faction Ruben Hakobyan was asked at a parliamentary briefing on Friday if Heritage party lost its electorate after February 18 and if it will affect the ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/03/ruben-hakobyan/ Comments Fri, 03 May 2013 13:32:00 GMT+4 Comments In 2010, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the newly-consecrated Pope Francis I, and Argentinean Rabbi Abraham Skorka, published a book entitled On Heaven and Earth (Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra) ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/02/pope-on-genocide/ Comments Thu, 02 May 2013 09:58:00 GMT+4 Comments Today, Wednesday 1st May 2013, in a historically unprecedented move at the request of the Assyrian Universal Alliance, the Australian Hellenic Council and the Armenian National Committee, the Parliament of ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/05/01/assyrian-international/ Comments Wed, 01 May 2013 11:44:00 GMT+4 Comments Vartan Oskanian has formed a pro-Western group inside the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), which may separate from the party unless he persuades Gagik Tsarukyan to become opposition, information security ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/04/30/qocharyan-oskanyan/ Comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:53:00 GMT+4 Comments From our nation's Capitol and across America and the world, Armenians and non-Armenians alike commemorated the 98th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, reported the Armenian Assembly of America. On Capitol ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/04/30/armenian-genocide-commemoration/ Comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:49:00 GMT+4 Comments The key political forces participate in the May 5 municipal elections, and these elections will be competitive, which is very important, Republican MP Gagik Minasyan told reporters today.  According to the ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/04/29/g-minasyan/ Comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:23:00 GMT+4 Comments The draft decision on setting up an ad hoc committee for the investigation of the March 1, 2008 events will be discussed at the next four-day session of parliament. This ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/04/29/march-one-case/ Comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:01:00 GMT+4 Comments The tragic loss of life in the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia reminds us that there cannot be a military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Only a lasting and peaceful ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/04/27/us-departmen/ Comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:30:00 GMT+4 Comments The Chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee the two powerful Congressional panels with oversight over U.S. foreign policy joined with their ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/04/26/menendez/ Comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:33:00 GMT+4 Comments 21 PACE delegates signed a written declaration on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The text of the declaration, published on the organizations official website, reads as follows: Recognition of genocides ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/04/25/pace/ Comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:41:00 GMT+4 Comments President Serzh Sargsyan issued an address on the Genocide Remembrance Day. Dear Compatriots, Today, we bow to the memory of innocent victims. The great majority of these victims didnt even have graves. One ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/04/24/s-sargsyan/ Comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:23:00 GMT+4 Comments Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) is ready to cooperate with all those political forces with which it has no ideological, moral and other disagreements. The most important thing is that it ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/04/23/tigran-urikhanyan/ Comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:38:00 GMT+4 Comments The 98th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide will be marked on April 24. Parliaments of many countries and international organizations have recognized and condemned the Armenian Genocide.  As an Islamic ... http://www.panorama.am/en/comments/2013/04/22/a-israyeyan/ Comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:35:00 GMT+4 Comments