Published since 17.06.1997

PAN-ARMENIAN GAMES

• The 4th regular Pan-Armenian Games will take place in Armenia, August 18-26.

  The games will start with a ceremony of flaming the torches near the temple of Garni. The torches will then be brought to the Republican Stadium of Yerevan, following the lay-race procedure.

  2500 sportsmen and sportswomen from 69 towns of 26 countries have already been registered for participation in the 4th Pan-Armenian Games; sportsmen from 15 towns of 6 countries are expected to join them.

• MATTHEW BRYZA’S MISSION

  VARDAN GRIGORYAN   
  The most recent regional visit of Matthew Bryza, Assistant to the Under-Secretary of State on Europe and Eurasia Affairs, became important in a sense that Mr. Bryza officially introduced himself as an ...

• PAN-ARMENIAN GAMES

  The 4th regular Pan-Armenian Games will take place in Armenia, August 18-26. The games will start with a ceremony of flaming the torches near the temple of Garni. The torches will then be brought to ...

• WHAT WAS THE USE OF MISSING A WEIGHT

  Did Vazgen Manoukyan gain anything by refusing to run for the parliamentary elections? Did that increase his chances as a candidate for presidency? According to KHOSROV HAROUTYUNYAN, “I have asked that ...

• RELEASED

  The two men who shot in the air during the ceremony organized in St. Mary Church 40 days after the death of Hrant Dink, Editor-in-Chief of “Agos” daily Istanbul, have been released from the hall of the ...

• EVERYTHING - SUBJECT TO TRADE

  “I constantly keep in mind that everything in the Armenian reality is subject to trade. Even under the Soviet rule there were things that wouldn’t be sold. There were Communists faithful to their ideas, ...

• ARMENIANS BUILD CHURCHES IN ABKHAZIA

  As informed by FATHER TARON, pastor of the Abkhazian Armenian community, “We started the construction work of the new church of Gagri this March. For that purpose, 6 thousand square meters of land from ...

• “PYUNIK” DEFEATED

  During the first game for the qualification of the League of Champions, the Armenian “Pyunik” was defeated at a score 0:2 by “Shakhtyor”, a Ukrainian team from Donetsk. Despite the defeat recorded by ...

• PAN-ARMENIAN GAMES

• WHERE IS OUR BORDER?

• NATURAL ACTIVENESS

• MATTHEW BRYZA’S MISSION

  VARDAN GRIGORYAN   

• WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM TER-PETROSYAN’S NOMINATION?

  ARMEN TSATOURYAN   

• EVERYTHING - SUBJECT TO TRADE

• THE FALSE STORY OF “LIBERTY”

  S. HAROUTYUNYAN   

• CRIMES BECOME YOUNGER

• FROM VILLAGE TO VILLAGE FROM THE FOOT OF ARARAT TO AKHURYAN

  LILIT POGHOSYAN   

• WHAT WAS THE USE OF MISSING A WEIGHT

• 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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