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Headlines for April 27, 2012RACIST STATEMENTS BY GEORGIAN MP AZER SULEYMANOV
On 24 April 2012, the day of commemoration of the 97th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, a Member of the Georgian Parliament, Mr. Jondi Baghaturia while making a statement in the Parliament, touched ...CHILDRENS DAY IN "ZATIK" ORPHANAGE
The event will take place in "Zatik" orphanage (Yerevan, Zakaria Sargavaki 4 Street 145b) on the 28th of April. This event will host children from Zatik, Gyumri orphanages and SOS Kotayk village. During ...THREE ARMENIAN SOLDIERS KILLED BY ENEMY FIRE? MINISTRY SAYS IT WILL RESPOND SHORTLY
According to the Haynews.am website, three Armenian soldiers have been killed in Tavoush Marz along the border with Azerbaijan.
The site claims that the news has been confirmed by Tavoush Regional Governor ...WHO'S THE RICHEST IN ARMENIA'S RULING COALITION?
Let's look at the financial situation of the leaders of the three political parties that now comprise the ruling government coalition in Armenia.
The following numbers have been taken from financial disclosures ...AZERBAIJAN ARMY CLAIMS ARMENIANS WERE "DIGGING" IN DOVEGH
Regarding the recent incident in the Armenian village of Dovegh, along the Azerbaijani border in Tavoush Marz, the APA website reports that Azeri forces opened fire after revealing that Armenians were ...ՕSCE OFFICE IN YEREVAN ORGANIZES WORKSHOP ON RIGHTS OF NATIONAL MINORITIES
A workshop by the OSCE Office in Yerevan on the rights of national minorities as envisaged in international and national legislation and measures to raise awareness of the issue among politicians, the ...DEFENSE MINISTRY CONFIRMS DEATH OF THREE SOLDIERS; DOESN'T MENTION ENEMY FIRE
Armenia's Ministry of Defense has confirmed the deaths of three soldiers in Tavoush Marz earlier today due to gunfire wounds.
The statement doesn't mention where the gunfire originated. A criminal investigation ...RA COURT OF CASSATION THROWS OUT ZHAMANAK NEWSPAPER'S APPEAL
The RA Court of Cassation threw out the appeal of the newspaper Zhamank which sought to overturn a lower court verdict of September 9, 2011
In the original case, Tatul Manaseryan sued the newspaper for ...THE UUNDERSIGNED ORGANIZATIONS EXPRESS THEIR PROFOUND DISAGREEMENT WITH THE WAY IN WHICH SUREN ZOLYAN'S DISMISSAL WAS ORGANIZED
The order by Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan to remove Suren Zolyan, Rector of Yerevan State Linguistic Union named after Brusov, from his position emphasizes once again the fact that ...ACNIS ANALYST ELABORATES ON ELECTORAL PROCESSES IN ARMENIA
The Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS) within the framework of its youth school program today convened the second session of a thematic workshop series, entitled "Peculiarities ...DARKO SARIC'S GANG MEMBERS ADMIT GUILT
Two members of Darko Saric's drug trafficking group have pled guilty as part of a plea bargain with Serbian prosecutors, Blic news reported Thursday. Serbian nationals Mirko Miodragovic and his son Aleksandar ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1749 Death of Mkhitar Sebastatsee. He founded the Roman Catholic Mkhitarist Congregation. He was born in 1676.
- 1827 Russian forces lay seige to Fort Yerevan (currently the Armenian Winery building).
- 1849 Students create the "Ararat Union" in Paris.
- 1868 Death of Grigor Aghatonyan in Paris. He was born in 1823.
- 1915 Birth of Hovhannes Shiraz (poet). He died in 1984.
- 1919 In Constantinople, start of the trials of the leaders of the Young Turk government and the central committee members of the "Union and Progress" party.
- 1925 The Science and Art Institute of the Armenian SSR opens in Yerevan.
- 1930 Death of Archbishop Eghisheh Doorian, historian, literary figure, author, and Patriarch of Jerusalem.
- 1931 An earthquake (Richter Scale: 6.3) occurs in Zangezoor and affects a 100 000 sq.km. area. The Monastery of Tatev and other structures on the Tatev highlands and in the valley of the Vorotan River are destroyed.
- 1994 Israel officially condemned the Armenian Genocide as Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin proclaimed on the floor of the Knesset (the Israeli legislature), in answer to the claims of the Turkish Ambassador, that "It was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide, something the world must remember".
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