"Sadly, President Obama chose today not to lead, but rather to follow Ankara's gag-rule on his Administration's condemnation and commemoration of the Armenian Genocide."

Sooner or later Turkey will have to recognize the Armenian Genocide. That is a matter of time because the lie and falsehood cannot always be taken for granted, says Eduard Sharmazanov.

"Only weak people, who consider themselves to be in power, can do such a thing, showing their weakness," he said.

Heritage party leader Raffi Hovannisian held a march from Yerevan's Liberty Square to the Memorial to Armenian Genocide victims.

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Leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) Gagik Tsarukyan, was not allowed to get back to his car parked in the territory of the memorial on the same route.

Armenia's first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan did not join the traditional march heading to Tsitsernakaberd, a hilltop Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan, though he was expected to.

The march is led by HAK MPs Aram Manukyan and Gagik Jhangiryan and Vahagn Khachatryan

Karekin II and Aram I have issued a joint statement, calling on Turkey to return the confiscated Armenian churches and church estates.

Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chairmen Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Michael Grimm (R-NY) were joined by over twenty of their colleagues in calling on leading House foreign aid appropriators to increase aid to Armenia.

Armenian National Congress (HAK) has issued a statement condemning yesterday's assault on a journalist of Yerevan-based Ilur website during a campaign meeting with incumbent mayor Taron Margaryan

Vartan Ghukasyan, the former mayor of Armenia's Gyumri city, was detained with his associates late on Tuesday in connection with the killing of a man

election in Armenia authored by the Ad hoc Committee of the Bureau. Semid Seyidov, Head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the PACE, announced that they are well aware of the events taking place in the neighboring country (Armenia) and advised PACE delegates to open their eyes.

Then he urged the presentees to confide in the best doctor - Taron Margaryan and began praising the incumbent mayor.

"When you go and see that there is no space left for your poster, you affix it on someone else's poster, especially when you see that the same poster is affixed within several steps," said the Heritage representative.

Vice Chairman of the Heritage Party Armen Martirosyan, who is leading the party's list in the May 5 municipal election, was called to the Special Investigation Service today where he stayed for three hours.

Only the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) can unite the opposition, says Aghvan Vardanyan, Vice Chairman of the ARF Supreme Council.

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By the day of presenting the declarations V. Khachatryan had AMD 600 thousand and USD 1500 thousand.

Gurgen Yeghiazaryan, a member of the Armenian National Congress (HAK), says Armenia's first President and HAK Leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan is the only political figure who can change something in the country.

The group was carrying a scarecrow, which, they said, featured the police officer who brutally beat the Heritage deputy chairman on April 9.

"Maybe someone did it accidentally, there is no need to make a mountain out of a molehill," said Heghine Bisharyan.

A discussion is underway at the Media Centre in Yerevan, focusing on steps taken by Armenians and Turks ahead of the Genocide Centennial.

The protest action in support of Armen Martirosyan is continuing outside the Prosecutor General's Office in Yerevan.