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Headlines for January 30, 2008CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS REFUSES TO ACCEPT LETTERS
If Armenian civilians want their letters to get to the intended addressee, presidential candidate Serzh Sarkissian, they should forward them to Prime Minister Serzh Sarkissian otherwise the central ...SNOWSTORM IS EXPECTED
Presidential candidates will probably have to delay their regional visits because of a severe snowstorm. “ArmHydroMeter” Centre forecasts heavy snow in the eastern regions of Armenia on January 30-31. ...THEY PREFER UKRAINE TO GERMANY
Leading footballers of “Banants” Samvel Melkonian and Ararat Arakelian will henceforth play in “Metalurg,” Donentsk, although some German clubs have taken interest in the Armenian sportsmen.
“Metalurg” ...KOCHARIAN READILY ANSWERS
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President Robert Kocharian had the recurrent meeting with Ambassadors of EU member states accredited in Armenia on January 30th.
Noting that Armenia is facing a responsible period, ...LARGE-SCALE MEETING
Armenia’s first President Levon Ter-Petrossian visited Vardenis on January 30. On the way Ter-Petrossian’s team was welcomed with loud shouts “Levon, Levon!” and waving flags. Local residents joined ...“WILL OPPOSITIONISTS UNITE BY FEBRUARY 19?”
Heghine Bisharian, head of the pre-election headquarters for OYP leader and presidential candidate Arthur Baghdasarian, didn’t rule out that oppositional forces might unite by February 19.
Asked whether ...FINDINGS OF MONITORING RELEASED
The State Commission for Fair Economic Competition has summed up the findings of the monitoring of prices before and after New Year.
The monitoring of consumer goods lasted from December 15, 2007 to ...VAHAN HOVHANNISSIAN: “I AM SURE I SHALL RUN IN THE SECOND ROUND”
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“I am not going to give my votes to any of the candidates, since I am sure that I shall participate in the second round,” presidential candidate, member of the ARF Dashnaktsutiun Bureau ...VAZ-21 RAN INTO PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S CAR
A car accident occurred on Baghramian Avenue at 2.00 p.m. on January 30. A VAZ-21 ran into RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepian's car.
The driver of the VAZ-21 disobeyed the police inspector's order ...KOCHARIAN RECEIVES GRIZLOV
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President Robert Kocharian received the Governor of Moscow region Boris Gromov on January 30.
Robert Kocharian voiced appreciation for the cooperation agreement signed between the ...ARFD FLAG STOLEN
On the night of January 28 unknown people broke into presidential candidate Vahan Hovhannissian's pre-election office located on Myasnikian 34, Dilijan, and stole the flags of the Republic of Armenia ...THEY RELY ON THEIR BIRTHPLACE
Over 400 people gathered in Sisian today to meet presidential candidate Arthur Baghdasarian. “I come from Sisian and I hope that residents of Sisian will back Arthur Baghdasarian during the presidential ...
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Today in Armenian history- 410 Birth of Movses Khorenatsi (historian).
- 1799 Birth of Edward Hyoormoozyan of the Mkhitarist Congregation (Armenian Roman Catholic Order) in Constantinople. He died in 1876 in Rome.
- 1901 Birth of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of Armenia's Communist Party, Aghassee Khanjyan. He was one of the many murdered by Lavrentee Beria in July, 1936 in Tbilisi, where he was invited for consultations.
- 1915 According to statistical data, from the end of 1914 to the beginning of 1915, about 49800 Armenians emigrated from Western Armenia, Persia and the bordering regions of Turkey, to the ten provinces of Yerevan and Tbilisi.
- 1927 First Graduation Ceremony of Yerevan State University students at the Culture House of Yerevan.
- 1975 Opening of the Yeghisheh Charents Museum in Yerevan.
- 2001 French President Jacques Chirac signs the law recognizing the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. From now on, no one in France has the right to deny the fact of the Armenian Genocide.
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