ONE STEP FORWARD TWO STEPS BACKWARD
“Armenia, we all should go ahead and only ahead. Enemies are defeated, strangers are defeated, but we are together, go ahead Armenia”, declared the announcer, but the participants of the rally did not respond. One of the participants, a teacher, laughed and said to her colleague: “Silence is the sign of consent”.
“Have you heard Lenin’s story: two steps forward, one step backward. The same is with us”, said a participant from Armavir and added: “We have come to see how they congratulate the newly elected president. We have come to see him, listen to his promises, so that later we will tell him that he has given promises but have not kept them”.
You could see thousands of buses standing in front of the Yerevan Municipality and their lines reached the building of the RA Justice Ministry. Many people remained sitting in the buses and did not get off. When “A1+” asked why they did not get off, they responded that they would get off the bus; they only waited for a proper moment. The bus which had brought Gyumri residents to participate in the rally, was also full of people, they were having lunch and having fun. Some teachers from Armavir hurried to get on the bus, but when the director called them on the mobile phone and asked where they were, the teachers told they were in the territory. “All teachers are brought to the Square compulsorily. Many people have arrived from Armavir, the majority are teachers”, complained the teachers.
Not only teachers were obliged to participate in the rally, but the employees of kindergartens, hospitals and policlinics. The plenty of buses caused traffic jams on some streets. Passengers of the buses, which stood close to the Square, were compelled to walk to the Square. Employees of ministries were also made come to the Square and participate in the rally.
A group of people who had arrive in Yerevan from regions to participate in Serge Sargsyan’s rally, hurried to join Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s rally in the Liberty Square.
GARNIK MARGARYAN AND SAMVEL HARUTYUNYAN DETAINED
Ter-Petrosyan’s pre-election headquarter informs “A1+” that Garnik Margaryan, chairman of the ”Fatherland and Honour” party and Goris Mayor Samvel Harutyunyan are detained.
The police began a general ...MARCH HAS NOT BEGAN YET BUT THE SQUARE IS CROWDED
It was almost 11 a.m. but the Liberty Square was already crowded. Before the organizers of the march appeared on the platform, the police declared that the march was illegal and demanded to leave the ...THEY DEMAND OSCE TO BE UNBIASED
A group of common citizens and representative of NGO complained of the assessments of international observers on the results of the presidential elections in front of the OSCE Office in Yerevan today. ...“SURENYANTS APPEALED TO THE PUBLIC”
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On 25 February at 21.30 police employees detained Suren Surenyants, born in 1975, at the Liberty Square and brought him Central Police Department for violating the law, organizing ...A MAN ON HUNGER STRIKE SEWED HIS MOUTH
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About 17 people are on huger strike at the Liberty Square demanding to recognize the results of the elections invalid. 50-year-old Vanadzor citizen Sargis Avetyan has sewed his mouth ...NEW DETENTIONS
Today, at 5 a.m. the employees of the RA Police intruded into Khachik Simonayan’s house, member of the “Republican” party and head of the Ter-Petrosyan’s pre-election headquarter in the region of Kotayk, ...THEY ARE WAITED IN GAS-MASKS
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The Republican Square is getting ready for Serge Sargsyan’s gathering. The Square is filled with the flags of the “Republican Party of Armenia”, buses, policemen are in gas-masks.
The ...“THIS IS A POLITICAL TERROR”
The Press Secretary of Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s pre-election headquarters Arman Musinyan does not understand on what grounds their supporters are arrested. “For example, Khachatur Sukiasyan’s car was searched ...“POLITICAL DIALOGUE IS THE ONLY WAY OUT”
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“I understand that the situation at the moment is rather complicated. The election results caused the opposition leaders’ discontent. Political dialogue is the only way out of the situation”, ...ARMEN HARUTYUNYAN MET PEOPLE ON HUNGER STRIKE
The working group, which was set up by the RA Human Rights Defender’s commission, met with the 10 people who went on huger strike on 24 February. During the meeting they found out that some people on ...ONE STEP FORWARD TWO STEPS BACKWARD
“Armenia, we all should go ahead and only ahead. Enemies are defeated, strangers are defeated, but we are together, go ahead Armenia”, declared the announcer, but the participants of the rally did not ...TWO MARCHES AT THE SAME TIME
The rally in the Liberty Square is still going on. At the moment two different marches will begin in two different directions. The Head of the “Republican” party Aram Sargsyan made a speech and declared ...SEARCH
Today at 5.00 a.m. a group of men in the masks tried to search Armen Sirunyan’s house. He is one of the active opposition actors. The men introduced themselves as the employees of the National Security ...TER-PETROSYAN INVITES SERGE SARGSYAN AND ROBERT KOCHARYAN TO LIBERTY SQUARE
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Appealing to Serge Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan, Levon Ter-Petrosyan declared in the Liberty Square: “I appeal to you, my friends. Why don’t you want to understand the situation in ...THE MARCH WAS HELD IN ONE DIRECTION
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The march, which was organized in defense of the detained supporters by the united opposition in Yerevan streets, is over.
Today’s march was more crowded as compared with previous ...SANGER STRIKE STOPPED
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In the Liberty Square Levon Ter-Petrosyan declared that as he had promised he would make numerous speeches and added that the announcements would be simple.
Then he asked those who ...OSCE CHAIRMAN CALLS FOR DIALOGUE AND CO-OPERATION
YEREVAN, 26 February 2008 - The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, called today on all sides in Armenia to engage in dialogue to resolve the tension that surfaced following ...TV TOWER TO BE CAPTURED
The press secretariat of the National Security Service disseminated information allegedly the Service had reliable information that the organizers of the rally in the Liberty Square discussed the plan ...
IS MPS’ ARREST WARRANTED?
“SERZH SARKISSIAN IS KOCHARIAN'S MANAGER”
"POLITICAL PERSECUTION"
OUR ARMY IS THE MOST EFFICIENT IN THE REGION
MINISTER NALBANDIAN DISCONTENT WITH AZERBAIJANI STATEMENTS
OPERATOR OF “A1+” BEATEN
JHANGIRYAN KIDNAPPED
THOUSANDS RALLY IN LOS ANGELES TO SUPPORT TER-PETROSSIAN
THEY ARE WAITED IN GAS-MASKS
TER-PETROSSIAN WINS
ARE THEY BEATING?
GAGIK JHANGIRIAN JOINS TER-PETROSSIAN
PAINSTAKING SEARCH IN MAKEYAN’S FLAT
JHANGIRYAN KIDNAPPED
TER-PETROSYAN’S HEADQUARTER SMASHED UP
- 1798 Tsar Paul the First's decree on the Armenians.
- 1802 Birth of Gabriel Patkanyan (historian, public figure) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He died in 1889 in St.Petersburg (Russia).
- 1828 Start of the repatriation of Armenians living in Iran to Eastern Armenia and the Transcaucasus.
- 1921 Atarbekian, the notorious Secret Police Chief who murdered countless Armenians during Stalin's purges, heads the anti-patriotic offensive in the Dilijan and Karakilisa (Vanadzor) regions.
- 1924 The Central Executive Committee of the USSR renames Alexandropol to Leninakan.
- 1988 Genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait (third largest city in Azerbaijan and its second largest industrial center). The perpetrators were not apprehended. No prosecutions of the guilty were initiated. Mikhail Gorbachev dismisses this Genocide just as an act of petty hooliganism.
- 1992 Artsakh forces control Khojalu, the regional military headquarters of the Azeri Turk forces.
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