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Headlines for March 01, 2006SNOW CAUSED HARM OF ABOUT 2 MILLION
The head of the village Tolors Marat Araqelyan does not even remember when they have seen so much snow as this year. And the heavy snowfalls brought many problems for the residents of the village. The ...IT WAS NOT THE H5N1 VIRUS
Noticing dead crows on the banks of the nearby river, the residents of the Syunik village Uyts called vets immediately. Upon their arrival in the place of incident the specialists found only one dead ...GAS “WOKE UP” THE CONSUMERS’ UNION
The “Union of Public Defenders” is a group of NGOs which was created a year ago but remained unknown to the society. Today the organization invited journalists to discuss the problems of the ...NATO TEACHES US TO SAVE MONEY
The officials of the NATO will try to teach the representatives of the RA Defense System to spend the financial means effectively. They will teach to raise the efficiency of the expenditures in the defense ...THE NUCLEAR POWER STATION WAS NOT GIVEN TO ANYONE
The Republican Party is not going to privatize the RA Nuclear power station. At least, the representative of the fraction Gagik Meliqyan assured in the NA that they are against it, and they will fight, ...ALIEV THREATENS AGAIN
Making a speech for the residents of the village Bonovshalar of the region Aghdam, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev announced that their greatest compromise in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict ...«IT IS EASIER TO LIBERATE SHUSHI AGAIN»
«We do not have a concept about the NKR issue, and we are losing the battle», representative of the Armenians of Azerbaijan, expert Alexander Manasyan announced in the «Mirror» club today.
According ...SHOTS NEAR THE ARMENIAN-AZERI BORDER
The RA Defense Ministry news service informs that on February 28 the Azeri side opened fire towards the Armenian bases in the village Movses at 07:00 p.m. and in the Noyemberyan region at 11:50 p.m. In ...SEVAN “LIBERATED”
Thanks to the warm air which entered the Gegharqounik region for the last few days the lake Sevan was «liberated» from the ice layer. The fish species of the lake, and particularly the whitefish which ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 World Civil Defense day.
- 1856 Birth of the cleric, historian, ethnologist, teacher and translator, Gyoot Aghanyan (Harootyoon Ter - Arakelian) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He translated literary classics and re-wrote Yeghisheh's "Vardanants Story" in modern Armenian. He wrote textbooks on religion and library science. He was the first in Eastern Armenia to publish a wall-calendar.
- 1857 Opening of the school at Varaga Monastery (western Armenia) for the education of "orphan and homeless" children.
- 1865 Birth in Tbilisi of Teegran Hovhannisian, translator and lawyer. He translated the novels "Harootyoon" (Resurrection) written by Lev Tolstoy and "Arants Davananki" (Without Faith) written by Henry Senkeveech.
- 1867 Birth of the writer Nar-Dos (Meekael Hovhannisyan) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He died in 1933.
- 1901 Birth of the poet Sarmen (Armenak Sargsian) in Pakhvants (Western Armenia). Many popular songs have been written using his poems as lyrics.
- 1915 The First Meeting of Armenian immigrants took place in Echmiadsin. The meeting tried to integrate the work of the many benevolent unions that were created to help the survivors of the 1915 Genocide.
- 1920 Azeri Turks perpetrate the Genocide of Shooshee. Some 20 000 Armenians are killed.
- 1920 The Government allots 50 million rubles for agricultural development. Agricultural tractors are brought to Armenia for the first time.
- 1930 The Sardarapat tractor plant starts production.
- 1934 Death in Yerevan of Toros Toramanyan (architecture historian).
- 1960 Martiros Saryan is awarded the title "People's Painter of the USSR".
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