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Headlines for May 17, 2012GORIS DIARY: MAN'S BEST FRIEND?
By Shoushan Ohanyan
Dogs roaming the streets of Yerevan, whether individually or in packs, are a common sight.
The accompanying photo shows the fate of one of a number of dogs in the southern Armenian ...US: EX MEXICAN COP PLEADS GUILTY TO AIDING DRUG CARTEL
Former Mexican law enforcement official Jesus Quinonez pled guilty on Tuesday to charges of participating in a federal racketeering conspiracy. He was convicted at a federal court in California, and could ...HAIL DAMAGES CROPS IN SYUNIK MARZ
A hail storm swept through the Khnatzakh village in Syunik Marz yesterday, damaging 150 hectares of grains and 60 hectares of sweet clover.
An inspection team has been sent to appraise the amount of the ...SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS TO ANAHIT BAKHSHYAN
Have questions for Anahit Bakhshyan?
She's the Heritage Party MP who won't be going back to parliament due to her defeat at the polls on May 6.
Mrs. Bakhshyan was voted to Armenia's parliament in 2007 ...PRESIDENT SARGSYAN HOSTS JAPANESE AMBASSADOR
RA President Serzh Sargsyan met today with Tikahito Harada, Japan's Ambassador to Armenia. In the run-up to President Sargsyan's scheduled visit to Japan, the parties discussed Armenian-Japanese relations ...POLAND: FORMER LEGISLATOR SENTENCED FOR CORRUPTION
A member of Poland's ruling Civic Platform party received a three year prison sentence Wednesday after a court found her guilty of corruption.
According to the verdict, former legislator Beata Sawicka ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1827 Departure of the First Armenian Voluntary Brigade from Tbilissi for the front.
- 1851 Greegor Otyan (in Scutaree) founded the "Subscription Company". In his "Arshalooys Araratian" periodical's supplement he encouraged people to establish a boarding school for the free education of the poor.
- 1871 Birth of Nikoghos Adonts (armenologist) in Brnakot, Sisian province. He died in 1943.
- 1978 Death of Armin Wegener (soldier, humanitarian). As a German soldier in the Near East, he surreptitiously photographed scenes of the 1915 Armenian Genocide as it was being implemented by the Turks. He unsuccessfully tried to warn governments of possible future genocides. He was born in 1886.
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