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Headlines for August 21, 2007ADEQUATE FOR PAST - ON DEMAND OF PRESENT
By Haik Haroutiunian, Director of Byurakan's observatoryThe European and Armenian astronomical societies will hold the first joint congress in Yerevan from August 20 to 25. The congress is headlined "Our Unsteady Universe". 300 scientists and 40 high-ranking ...OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS' NEXT VISIT TO NAGORNO KARABAKH
The discussions about the continuation of the process of Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement continue, announced RA FM Head of the Press and Information Department Vladimir Karapetian, Armenpress agency ...OBITUARY ON ZHIRAYR HOVNANIAN
On August 13, after a long illness, at the age of 80, died American-Armenian benefactor Zhirayr Hovnanian in the New Jersey Hospital. Zhirayr Hovnanian was born in an Armenian refugee family in the city ...RUSSIA RESTORES SOVIET-ERA STRATEGIC BOMBER PATROLS
On August 17, President Vladimir Putin said Russia permanently resumed long-distance patrol flights of strategic bombers, which were suspended in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, RIA Novosti ...FOURTH PAN-ARMENIAN GAMES LAUNCH IN YEREVAN
The official opening ceremony of the forth Pan-Armenian Games took place at the Vazgen Sargsian Stadium on August 18. The number of the sprotsemn participating in the forth Pan-Armenian games is unprecedented, ..."BOYS GO TO BAGHDAD..."
By Gwynne Dyer It's impossible to say whether the United States will attack Iran before President George W. Bush leaves office in seventeen months' time, because nobody in the White House knows yet either. ...OBITUARY
Another classic, Eduard Isabekian, People's Artist of Armenia, passed away at the age of 93 in his house in Ashtarak. He is considered to be one of the best masters of monumental art in Armenia, a great ...FUNERAL OF PEOPLE'S ARTISTS EDUARD ISABEKIAN TO BE HELD AT PANTHEON AFTER COMITAS
On August 19 People's Artists Eduard Isabekian died in Ashtarak. The funeral of the famous artist will be held at the Pantheon after Comitas in yerevan on August 22. They informed at the Artists' Union ...ECONOMY OF ARMENIA GROWS BY 12 PERCENT AS OF JANUARY-JULY, 2007
By Ara MartirosianArmenia's economy grew 12.1 percent in January-July from a year ago to 1.3 trillion Armenian Drams. Armenian Statistical Service said industrial output grew a slight 1.3 percent to 389 billion Drams. ...JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS AND PRESIDENT OF USA ACT IN THE SAME MANNER - DISMISS THOSE WHO RECOGNIZE THE GENOCIDE
By A. HaroutiunianAndrew Tharsey, head of a regional department of the American Jewish "Unity Against Defamation" organization was dismissed from his office just after he stated that the organization should recognize the ...
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By Hakob Chakrian"ERDOGAN'S GOVERNMNENT WILL BE FORCED TO ESTABLISH NORMAL RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA SOONER OR LATER"
By H. ChaqrianJOHN EDWARDS PROMISES TO RECOGNIZE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
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Today in Armenian history- 1421 Battle of Bagrevand during which the Karakooyoonloos are defeated.
- 1899 Aram Aramian was hanged in Carnoy.
- 1903 Catholicos Khrimian "Hairik" orders not to hand over church properties to the civil authorities.
- 1921 The first Assembly of Armenia's Komsomol (the Young Communist League) in Yerevan.
- 1998 Baroness Caroline Cox, deputy spokeswoman of the House of Lords visited Armenia for the 38th time. During a Yerevan press conference, she announced that she would raise the issue of the Armenian Genocide with the British Government.
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