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Headlines for March 09, 2006ARONYAN KEPT THE SECOND PLACE
Chess super tournament in Linares has entered the conclusive phase, to the end of which only 2 tours have remained. All 4 meetings of the 12th tour, including Aronyan – Swindler game, ended in a drew, ...“DO NOT MISS THE CHANCE!”
Daniel Freed, the assistant of the USA State Secretary on the issues of Europe and Euroasia will visit Armenia and Azerbaijan next week to discuss the regulation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. ...ARMENIA NOT SHOOTING
According to the communication spread by RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs series of violation of armistice by Azerbaijani armed forces took place. In particular, on March 7, at 10:40, 14:40 and 20:15 shots ...U.S STATE DEPARTMENT ABOUT ARMENIA.
The report entitled "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" is submitted to the Congress by the Department of State in compliance with sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance ...THE FORCE OF DOLLAR
The Armenian Assembly commended Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues Co-Chair Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) for promising to fight against the Administration's attempts to provide Azerbaijan a 20 ...ARMENIA STARTED TO LOSE
«I think Evans is not called back to Washington prematurely by chance. That means that teh country changes its politics and the questions are interconnected here», - leader of Democratic party of Armenia ...HUNGER STRIKE GOING ON
It's already the third day that Byuzand residents Nune Varduni, Sousanna Poghosyan and Smbat Melkonyan live in a camp in front of the Ombudsman's office. They went on a hunger-strike.
They ...KARABAGH TELECOM VERSUS ARMENTEL
The claim of “Karabagh telecom”(VIVAcell) against “Armentel” company will be discussed in tommmorow’s session of the RA state committee on the issues of Economic competition protection. On January ...ALIEV DISCOVERED
“The territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is not subject of the peace negotiations with Armenia on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev ...NO DETAILS
The meeting of OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs and personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk ended in Washington. During the meeting the diplomats analyzed the results of Rambouillet ...U.S. EMBASSY ADMONISHES
U.S. Embassy in Armenia spread an official warning today calling the U.S. citizens to avoid to avoid visiting some regions of Armenia. In particular, all the American officials are advised not to use ...PREPARE PUBLICS FOR PEACE
The three Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which deals with the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, have issued a statement regretting the lack of forward movement in the recent negotiations and calling ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Areg was the 8th month in the old Armenian calendar (March 9 to April 7). This name is based on the Armenian for sun (arev). Armenians began the New Year with the awakening of nature: the first month of spring.
- 1799 Death of French armenologist Simon-Petros Lurden. He studied at St. Lazarus island and translated the Bible from Armenian to Latin, and created an Armenian-French dictionary. His works are kept in Munich's Royal Manuscript Library.
- 1801 Death in Tbilissi (Georgia) of H. Arghootyan.
- 1880 An Armenian publishing company is founded in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1899 Death of Petros Shanshyan (public figure) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1819.
- 1911 Birth, in Gyoomree, of the engineer and architect Edmon Tigranyan. He was the son of the composer Armen Tigranyan..
- 1914 France and Turkey sign an agreement on building roads and railways in Western Armenia.
- 1917 The Temporary Government annuls the Caucasian Viceroyship and creates the Transcaucasian Special Committee (Ozakom).
- 1920 Birth of Jansem (Hovhannes Semerjian) in Seleg (Turkey). Many of this artist's works are in European and US galleries.
- 1921 Signature of the French-Turkish Agreement on political, military, and economic cooperation.
- 1924 Death of poet Mateos Zarifyan.
- 1936 Birth of the Italian architect Breccia Fratadocci. He founded the "Mediaeval Armenian Architecture Research Center" in Rome. He organized the first exhibition of Armenian mediaeval architecture in Rome and Venice in 1968.
- 1983 The Ambassador of Turkey is killed in Belgrade. Raffi Elpekian and Harootyoon Levonian (Andranik Poghosyan) are arrested and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. They were both members of the "Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide", an underground political organization. Levonian was set free after four years in jail. Elpekian was freed after seven years.
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