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Headlines for April 27, 2006UNION OF ARMENIANS OF RUSSIA TO SEE TO MURDERERS OF ARMENIAN STUDENT GET HEAVY SENTENCE
By M. HovsepianChairman of Russia’s Union of Armenians, Ara Abrahamian, made a statement in Moscow on Saturday on occasion of murder of 17-year-old Armenian student Vigen Abrahamiants. "The Union of Armenians ...‘I HAVE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE WHAT I SAW’
By Gohar GevorgianIt’s hard to express one’s feelings while seeing a man’s cruelty towards other man. Perhaps there is no language that could offer words justifying such acts. These were the words of ...BUSH USES ‘MASS KILLING AND FORCED EXILE OF AS MANY AS 1.5 MILLION OF ARMENIANS’ ‘GENOCIDE’
By Aghavni Harutyunian"Today, we remember one of the horrible tragedies of the 20th century: the mass killing and forced exile of as many as 1.5 million of Armenians in the final days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. This ...HORRIFYING PHOTOS IN MOSCOW
By Ruben Hayrapetian in MoscowArmenian and Russian intellectuals and renowned clergymen were present at the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition at Halabian Hall of the Ararat Park Hyatt hotel in Moscow dedicated to the Armenian ...IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA
By Gwynne DyerTwo things about American immigration are different. One is that the United States is the only large First World country that has a long land border with a Third World country. The other is that only ...TURKEY LASHES OUT AT CANADIAN PM
Turkey lashed out at prime minister of Canada, Steven Harper, for publicly dubbing the events of 1915 as genocide. According to Turkish state television, Turkish Foreign Ministry sent an official complaint, ...KPMG HOSTS WELCOME EVENING FOR NEW PARTNER
A cocktail reception was held at the Golden Tulip Hotel Yerevan on Tuesday 18th April to welcome Andrew Coxshall and his wife Fiona to KPMG’s Yerevan Office. Andrew will be the Partner in Charge ...REJECTION OF TURKISH GOODS A WAY OUT?
"According to our data, about 30% of the total cost of a consumer's basket is spent on low quality goods," Armen Poghosian, head of RA Association of Consumers, said this at a press conference ...JIM TOROSIAN AND GEGHAM GRIGORIAN AWARDED WITH MEDALS
By Melania BadalianThe Press Service of Holy Etchmiadzin informed that Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, awarded outstanding Armenian architect Jim Torosian and Gegham Grigorian, art director of the Yerevan State ...FILM DIRECTOR MIKAEL DOVLATIAN FEELS BETTER
By Nana PetrosianFilm director Mikael Dovlatian, secretary of RA Union of Cinematographers, feels better. It’s noteworthy that he was attacked on Monday evening, in Moscow. A group of unknown young men attacked ...
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By Ruben Hayrapetian in MoscowLILIT MKRTCHIAN BRONZE MEDAL WINNER
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By Melania BadalianFOX-TV AIRS ARMENIAN
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California CourierARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER DECLARES APRIL 23-27 A WEEK OF REMEMBRANCE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS
By Karine DanielianSERGE SARGSIAN BELIEVES AZERBAIJAN WANTS TO GRAB THE MOST IT CAN
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SENATE OF ARGENTINA ADOPTS STATEMENT ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO CATCH DEFENSE ARMY BY SURPRISE
By Gohar Gevorgian in StepanakertMEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING SIGNED BETWEEN THE ARMENIAN CHURCH AND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL
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Today in Armenian history- 1749 Death of Mkhitar Sebastatsee. He founded the Roman Catholic Mkhitarist Congregation. He was born in 1676.
- 1827 Russian forces lay seige to Fort Yerevan (currently the Armenian Winery building).
- 1849 Students create the "Ararat Union" in Paris.
- 1868 Death of Grigor Aghatonyan in Paris. He was born in 1823.
- 1915 Birth of Hovhannes Shiraz (poet). He died in 1984.
- 1919 In Constantinople, start of the trials of the leaders of the Young Turk government and the central committee members of the "Union and Progress" party.
- 1925 The Science and Art Institute of the Armenian SSR opens in Yerevan.
- 1930 Death of Archbishop Eghisheh Doorian, historian, literary figure, author, and Patriarch of Jerusalem.
- 1931 An earthquake (Richter Scale: 6.3) occurs in Zangezoor and affects a 100 000 sq.km. area. The Monastery of Tatev and other structures on the Tatev highlands and in the valley of the Vorotan River are destroyed.
- 1994 Israel officially condemned the Armenian Genocide as Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin proclaimed on the floor of the Knesset (the Israeli legislature), in answer to the claims of the Turkish Ambassador, that "It was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide, something the world must remember".
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