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Recently at the session of the government a lsit, making whole the sizes and values of the programs and arrangements foreseen by the NKR state budget in the sphere of agriculture, ...

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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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