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Published on May 10, 2007
THE FRENCH "AXA" INSURANCE COMPANY GIVES CONSENT
The French "AXA" insurance company gives final consent for uploading entire the information about the company's former clients who became victims in the Armenian Genocide at www.armenianinsurancesettlement.com site. "Liberty" radio station informs that Vardges Yeghian, Brian Kabatek, and Mark Kirakos, American-Armenian lawyers, informed that the site helps check the data and apply to it till October 1.
The latter also informed that they allocated $3 million to the French-Armenian insurance companies for current needs. The French insurance company is to pay about $17 million as compensation. The Armenian lawyers will also leave for Berlin to submit a suit to the government of Germany against "Deutsche Bank." According to the Armenian lawyers, the bank may be given certain instructions for opening its archives.
- By Aghavni Haroutiunian
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By A. HaroutiunianThe day of the victory in World War II and of liberation of Shushi was celebrated today on an event organized by the World Armenian Congress, the founders of the Writers', Journalists' and Artists' unions, ...PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN TURKEY TO LAUNCH AFTER JULY 22 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
By Aghavni HaroutiunianYesterday, the Parliament of Turkey officially stopped the presidential elections. The Turkish parliamentarians accepted the resignation of Abdullah Gyul, Turkish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. ...TURKISH SOURCES STATE PATRIC DEVEJIAN TO BECOME FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER
By Aghavni HaroutiunianThe position of the French Foreign Minister may pass to Patric Devejian, member of the French Parliament. It is known that the latter is the ally and the friend of the newly elected French President Nikolas ...THE FRENCH "AXA" INSURANCE COMPANY GIVES CONSENT
By Aghavni HaroutiunianThe French "AXA" insurance company gives final consent for uploading entire the information about the company's former clients who became victims in the Armenian Genocide at www.armenianinsurancesettlement.com ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1804 Mamed Khan of Yerevan, knowing of the Russian force's progress, orders the migration (for the duration of the war) of about 20000 Armenians from the Khanate of Yerevan to Ghars.
- 1810 Birth of Gabriel Aivazovski in Feodosia (Ukraine). He died in 1880 in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1838 Birth of Viscount James Bryce (statesman). He served under Prime Minister William Gladstone. He was a founder of the League of Nations. He wrote on jurisprudence and political science. He vociferously condemned the Armenian Genocide by the Turkish government. He died in 1922.
- 1848 The Lazaryan College (Moscow) becomes the Institute of Western Languages.
- 1855 The Sultan orders, for the first time, the draft for the Christians in Turkey. The order was ineffective.
- 1920 Armenia's Revolutionary Military Committee in Alexandropol and proclaims the establishment of Soviet power in Armenia.
- 1923 Birth of Heydar Aliev, First Secretary of the Communist Party in Azerbaijan, Head of the Azeri Turk subdivision of the Soviet KGB, Member of the USSR Politbureau, and Head of Atheistic Propaganda under the Soviet regime. Committed Genocide against the Armenians of Nakhitshevan and Artsakh. Took over the presidency of Azerbaijan in 1993.
- 1941 The Ten-day Festival of Armenian Literature starts in Moscow (Russia).
- 1943 Garegeen the First (Hovsepyants) is anointed Catholicos of Cilicia in Antilias' Cathedral.
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