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Headlines for April 20, 2012TSARUKYAN CAMPAIGNS IN ALAVERDI: PEOPLE WANT CASH, NOT PROMISES
Around 1,000 people turned out to see Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan at a campaign stop in Alaverdi.
This reporter went around asking some of the spectators what they thought about Tsarukyan ...ODE TO WESTERN ARMENIA - ASKING FOR YOUR BLESSING
By Lucine Kasbarian
On our cellar walls, you are immortal.
Over the years, I've conversed with you.
I speak the mother tongue your resolute children, my parents, taught me.
You stare back thoughtfully, ...RICHARD GIRAGOSIAN: "ARMENIA MUST BE READY FOR THE DAY WHEN TURKEY RECOGNIZES THE 1915 GENOCIDE"
Political analyst Richard Giragosian, who heads the Regional Studies Center think-tank in Yerevan, today talked to reporters regarding Armenia's policies directed at the international recognition of the ...RE-TRIAL OF SERBIAN MAFIA BOSS BEGINS
The trial of Serbia's notorious drug lord Sreten "Joca Amsterdam" Jocic for the 2008 murders of the Croatian journalist Ivo Pukanic and his colleague Niko Franic restarted Thursday in Belgrade. The court ...GIRAGOSIAN TO DIASPORA - STOP REGARDING ARMENIA AS DISNEYLAND
Richard Giragosian, who heads the Regional Studies Center think-tank in Yerevan, declared it was high time for the diaspora to stop viewing Armenia as a "Disneyland"
Giragosian, a transplanted diaspora ...80 YEAR-OLD ROZA: LET'S NOT VOTE LIKE SHEEP (VIDEO)
You can say that the village of Mayisyan, in Armavir Marz, is one of the more politicized villages in the region.
The upcoming parliamentary elections are the main topic of discussion.
80 year-old Roza ...ATP CELEBRATES EARTH DAY IN KOTAYK WITH US EMBASSY AND UN
The celebration of Earth Day is gaining in popularity at a rapid pace inArmenia. This year, Armenia Tree Project (ATP) celebrates the day by planting trees in the community of Teghenik in the Kotayk region. ...GAINING ECONOMIC BENEFITS THROUGH REDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Dafina Gercheva, UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia, and Dr. Jatinder Cheema, USAID/Armenia Mission Director, visited the town of Ararat on April 20 to tour the waste collecting ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1861 Meekael Nalbandian's "Two lines" (tract) published in Paris.
- 1884 Birth of Daniel Varujan (poet). He was killed during the Armenian Genocide implemented by the Turks in 1915.
- 1915 Start of the one-month defense of Van.
- 1919 Creation of the Communist Youth "Spartak" organization in Yerevan.
- 1926 The All-Armenian Congress of the Yezidi people opens in Yerevan.
- 1948 Death of Avetees Aharonian, one of the leaders of Armenian liberation movement. He was born in 1866.
- 1965 The Law on the Armenian Victims' Commemoration Day is adopted at a joint session of Uruguay's Senate and House of Representatives.
- 1994 The Russian Duma (the lower house of the bicameral Russian legislature) votes to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
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