Published since 24/01/2001

• PAROUYR HAYRIKIAN EXPECTS TO GET 15-30% OF VOTES IN CASE NEXT ELECTIONS ARE FAIR

  By Gohar Gevorgian   
  "If a miracle happens and Moscow reveals the secret network of its agents in Armenia, and we have the opportunity to hold fair elections in Armenia, our party will get 15-30% of the votes," ...

• NEW REASON FOR TENSION. DOES GEORGIA MAKE A PROVOCATION?

  By Nana Petrosian   
  Last week, Mikheil Saaakashvili, President of Georgia, stated that he is going to replace "the Abkhazian authorities that function since 1993" from Tbilisi to the upper part of the Kordor gorge, ...

• ARMENIAN RED CROSS READY TO RENDER ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES FROM LEBANON

  By Karine Danielian   
  At present, already 600 people were forced to leave Lebanon and Israel for Armenia. 51 of them has turned to RA Migration Agency to receive the status of temporary residents. But none of them has appealed ...

• RA OMBUDSMAN APPEALS TO OMBUDSMAN OF GEORGIA TO HELP 80 ARMENIANS STUCK NEAR GORY-TSKHINVAL BORDER

  By Sousana Margarian   
  Recently, Armen Haroutiunian, RA Ombudsman, received an appeal to render assistance to 80 Armenians that are stuck near the Tskhinval-Gory border. In his turn, Mr. Haroutiunian, appealed to Sozar Subari, ...

• "BAZE" HOVERS IN HIGHLANDS OF NAGORNO KARABAKH

  By Kim Gabrielian, Stepanakert   
  Currently, "Baze" All Armenian Youth Festival is in full swing in Nagorno Karabakh. The annual festival launched on July 26. This is the first time that the festival is held in Nagorno Karabakh ...

• "RAMKAVAR AZATAKAN" PARTY CALLS FOR CONDEMNING GREAT BRITAIN AS ACCOMPLICE IN ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

• SERGE SARGSIAN: NEITHER TODAY, NOR IN THE NEAR FUTURE AZERBAIJAN WILL BE ABLE TO UNFOLD BRIEF MILITARY ACTIONS AGAINST ARMENIA

• ACTING PRESS SECRETARY VLADIMIR KARAPETIAN ANSWERS TO QUESTION BY HAYLUR NEWS PROGRAM

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• IN 2005 OVER 400 FAMILIES OF RA CITIZENS INTEND TO MOVE TO ARMENIA FROM RUSSIA

  By Gohar Gevorgian   

• DAYS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN IN AUGUST-SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR

• ANDRANIK MARGARIAN EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE OF ARMENIA'S CONDUCTING COMPLEMENTORY FOREIGN POLICY

• SALE OF 90% OF ARMENTEL SHARES SI LIKELY TO COMPLETE IN LATE AUGUST

  By Ara Martirosian   

• RA OMBUDSMAN APPEALS TO OMBUDSMAN OF GEORGIA TO HELP 80 ARMENIANS STUCK NEAR GORY-TSKHINVAL BORDER

  By Sousana Margarian   

• DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT SEA EXPEDITION OF "CILICIA" VESSEL SHIP TO BE SHOWN IN MOSCOW

  By Tamar Minasian   

• 1680  Death of Catholicos Hakob the Fourth (Jughayetsee). He accompanied Israel Oree to Europe, seeking assistance from the Christian states for Armenian emancipation.
• 1766  Catholicos Simeon Yerevantsi sends a message to Tsarina Ekaterina (Catherine) the Second, asking for help on behalf of Armenia.
• 1812  The "Deetak Byoozantion" periodical was published until September 1816 in Constantinople.
• 1817  Birth of Hovhannes Aivazovsky (seascape artist) in Feodosia (the Ukraine). He died in 1900.
• 1862  Armenians meet in Constantinople and ask the Sultan to ratify the National Constitution.
• 1894  Defense of Sassoon (Western Armenia) against Turkish attacks.
• 1896  500 Kurds are brought to Constantinople by the Turkish Government to help carry out the Genocide of the Armenians there.
• 1903  Birth of Goorgen Mahari (writer). He died in 1969.
• 1905  Tsar Nicholas the Second abrogates his 1903 06 12 law closing Armenian Parish Schools. They are reopened.
• 1914  With the start of the First World War on this day, all previous agreements concerning Armenia were ignored. The Armenians were in imminent danger: in fact, the Armenian Genocide started eight months later.
• 1918  Opening of the First Parliament of the Armenian Republic under the presidency of Father Abraham (Aveteek Sahakian).
• 1919  The Armenian Parliament opens in Yerevan.
• 1919  The Azerbaijani Government and the Artsakh National Council sign a Provisional Treaty.
• 1934  Opening of the First Congress of Armenia's Soviet Writers.
• 1954  The All-Union Agricultural Exhibition reopens in Moscow.
• 1997  On the appointment of Artsakh President Kocharian to the post of Prime Minister of Armenia, by President Ter-Petrossian of Armenia, the minister of Foreign Affairs for Artsakh, Arkady Ghoukasian is elected President of Artsakh for a five-year term.

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