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Published on July 21, 2007
BAKO SAHAKIAN WINS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN NKR
- Bako Sahakian, former head of NKR Security Service, is on course to become next president of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to the preliminary results of July 19 presidential election.
Election officials said around 72,000 voters of registered 92,000 had voted before the polls closed at 2000 local time on Thursday. The poll was declared valid, since turnout was higher than the required one quarter of registered voters. Bako Sahakian was leading with 85.4 percent of the vote. He was backed by almost 62,000 voters.
Masis Mailyan, Sahakian's main opponent, received 8,200 votes of 12.9 percent of the vote.
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Headlines for July 21, 2007THE INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN AGAINST TANER AKÇAM
University of Minnesota sociologist-historian Taner Akçam, an international authority on the 1915 Armenian Genocide, is the target of an ongoing intimidation campaign to portray him as a convicted terrorist ...SHOOT THE MESSENGER
By Taner Akçam, July 16, 2007In May 2007, I revealed the identity of Murad "Holdwater" Gümen, the secretive Webmaster of Tall Armenian Tale, an extensive and influential site devoted to "the other side of the falsified Genocide" ...TURKEY'S MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR ANTI-GENOCIDE ATTACK
1Turkey's multi-million dollar lobbyist Bob Livingston posted an eight minute video on the Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network website. Livingston's anti-genocide diatribe is an effort to block Congressional ...THREE MORE SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT FOR TREACHERY IN AZERBAIJAN
Three more soldiers were sentenced to imprisonment for treachery in Azerbaijan. According to Regnum agency the Military Court of Azerbaijan finished the trial of the three soldiers of a military unit ...IN SPITE OF ARMENIAN-IRANIAN COOPERATION IN NUMEROUS SPHERES, COMMODITY CIRCULATION BETWEEN THEM REMAINS DISSATISFACTORY
By A. HaroutiunianA number of important economic programs were considered on the last session of the Armenian-Iranian Intergovernmental Commission, which took place in Yerevan, said on a meeting with RA President Robert ...SEMNEBY AGAIN SPEAKS OF VISITING STEPANAKERT
By A. HaroutiunianThe European Union is determined to contribute the peace process on Nagorno-Karabakh by making efforts to reestablish reciprocal trust between the sides of the conflict sides, "Azeripress" news agency ...BAKO SAHAKIAN WINS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN NKR
Bako Sahakian, former head of NKR Security Service, is on course to become next president of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to the preliminary results of July 19 presidential election.
Election officials ...76.25 PERCENT OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS PARTICIPATE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN NKR
Yesterday, at 20:00 p.m. the Presidential elections in Nagorno Karabakh completed. According to preliminary data, announced by Sergey Nasibian, head of the Central Electoral Committee, as of 20:00 p.m. ...ACCUSER WANTED FOR ZH. SEFILIAN AND V. MALKHASIAN TO HOLD PUBLIC TRIAL
By Gohar GevorgianZhirayr Sefilian, coordinator of "Union of Armenian Volunteers," "Defense of Liberated Territories" NGOs, and Vardan Malkhasian, member of the abovementioned organizations, made a statement recently, ...THE ARMENIAN SPORTSMEN TO TAKE PART IN EUROPE YOUTH OLYMPIC FESTIVAL
18 Armenian sportsmen will take part in Europe Youth Olympic Summer Festival on July 21-28 in Belgrade (capital of Serbia). The competitions will be held in seven kinds of sports (sports gymnastics, athletics, ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1827 A.S.Griboyedov and Abas-Mirza met in Karaziadin in order to discuss a peace treaty.
- 1902 Death of Archbishop Arsen Aytenian, religious figure and author.
- 1905 Attempted assassination of Sultan Abdul Hamid the Second.
- 1921 The Caucasus Bureau of the Russian Communist Party adopts a decision to annex Artsakh to Soviet Azerbaijan. This lays the foundation for the Stalinist practice of gerrymandering in Transcaucasia without consulting the populations will in such decisions.
- 1947 Death of academician Stepan Malkhassyan (philologist) in Yerevan. He was born in 1857.
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