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Headlines for August 01, 2008ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTERS TO MEET IN MOSCOW
By Nairi Muradian, translated by L.H.Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers are to meet in Moscow August 1on the initiative of the OSCE Co-chairs, informed Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian in a press conference July 30 before leaving for ...TALVITIE HOPES FOR ACTIVATION OF PEACE PROCESS ON KARABAKH
Translated by A.M.Heikki Talvitie, special representative of OSCE Chairman in Office, said in Azerbaijan that he hopes for activation in peace process on Karabakh in the October of 2008, after the presidential elections ...ARMENTEL IS FINED
1The State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition (SCPEC) fined ArmenTel for the abuse of monopoly on the infrastructure. ArmenTel has been fined already for three times over the past four ...EDWARD EDIGARIAN, AN ARTIST BY BIRTH
By Mardo Soghomian. Media Analyst with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, PragueIn a small, cobble stoned, historic square in central Prague the passerby notices a strange name on an arched entrance: "Anahit", and then reads the words Art Gallery. As you walk into the small exhibition ...
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Most read news (last 7 days)IRRESPECTIVE OF GEORGIA'S MEMBERSHIP IN NATO ITS RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA DOOMED TO BE DISSATISFACTORY
By A. Haroutiunian, translated by A.M.
"IRANIAN PRESIDENT AHMADINEDZAD SHOULD BE KILLED"
Translated by L.H.ARMENIA SUBJECT TO EVERYDAY DISCUSSION IN TURKEY
By H. Chaqrian, translated by A.M."ARNO BABAJANIAN" INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL TO BE ESTABLISHED
Translated by L.H.AZERBAIJANI DEPUTY ACCUSES MAYOR OF KARS
Translated by A.M.IRAN-ARMENIA UNION OF FRIENDSHIP
By Susanna Sardarian, Tehran, translated by L.H.STATE DEPARTMENT IS TO BE BLAMED FOR DELAY IN SENDING ENVOY TO ARMENIA
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California CourierRUSSELL JOHNSTON PASSED AWAY
HRANT DINK MURDER ORGANIZED BY "ERGENEKON"
By H. Chaqrian, translated by A.M.NEW CANDIDATE ADVOCATES TALKS WITH ARMENIA
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Today in Armenian history- 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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