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Headlines for June 04, 20123 ARMENIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN CLASH WITH AZERBAIJANI FORCES
According to preliminary reports from the RA Ministry of Defense, three Armenian soldiers were killed during a clash with Azerbaijani forces in the Tavoush border region earlier today.
The Ministry claims ...JAZZ CONCERT STRESSES TOLERANCE
An evening of jazz music entitled "Jazz as a Phenomenon of Tolerance" took place on May 2 at the Hayratoun Culture Center attached to the Armenian Apostolic Church Diocese of Georgia.
The musical evening ...GUIDEBOOK ON RA FOREST LEGISLATION
The World Wildlife Fund's Armenian office and the EPAC (Environmental Public Advocacy Center) will be holding a reception today for their jointly published guidebook to the legal code regarding forests ...MORE PERSONNEL CHANGES IN NEW PARLIAMENT
Hovik Abrahamyan, who is returning as president of the RA National Assembly, is also bringing back some of his team who left with Abrahamyan when he resigned from the parliament to head the campaign headquarters ...TURKISH AMBASSADOR VISITS ARMENIAN PRIMATE OF GERMANY
Archbishop Karekin Bekdjian, Primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church Diocese in Germany, says he's been visited by Turkey's Ambassador to Germany Hüseyin Avni Karslıoğlu regarding his candidacy ...MULTI-MEDIA EXHIBIT LOOKS AT CLOSED TURKEY-ARMENIA BORDER
A multimedia exhibition "Beyond Waiting…Stories from the Turkey-Armenia Border" will run from June 1-30 in Istanbul's Galata Fotoğrafhanesi.
An announcement for the exhibit states that - Sealed ...SECRETARY CLINTON JOINS ARMENIA'S INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO HONOR RIGHTS ADVOCATES
U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, joined the U.S. Embassy, Counterpart International, the British Embassy, the OSCE, and the EU to honor individuals working to promote human rights, accountable ...APPEALS COURT REJECTS BLIND MAN'S SUIT TO TAKE DIPLOMACY SCHOOL ENTRANCE EXAM
The RA Appeals Court today rejected the petition of a blind man seeking the overturn of a lower court ruling stating that he was not eligible to take an admission exam to the School of Diplomacy run by ...HILLARY CLINTON IN YEREVAN - "I BELIEVE IN ARMENIA'S FUTURE"
During her one day stop in Armenia today, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that, "The United States and I believe that Armenia can have a bright future where all the desires and work of the ...SEEMO CONDEMNS VERBAL ATTACK ON JOURNALIST IN REPUBLIKA SRPSKA
The Vienna- based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today called on Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity ...US BLACKLISTS BALKAN BUSINESSMAN NASER KELMENDI
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The White house has sanctioned suspected Kosovar Albanian Naser Kelmendi for drug trafficking, it announced Friday. US President Barack Obama notified Congress saying he had sanctioned ...ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER - "TURKEY REFUSES TO RESPECT AND IMPLEMENT THE PROTOCOLS"
RA Foreign Minister Nalbandian's statement during the joint press-conference with Secretary of State of the United States Hillary Clinton
Dear Secretary of State,
It is a great pleasure for me to welcome ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1100 Birth of Nerses Shnorhalee (poet, historian). He died in 1173.
- 1679 An earthquake (Richter Scale: 7.0) occurs at Garrnee. After shocks continue till October.
- 1855 Khrimian 'Hayrik' edits 'The Eagle of Vaspurakan' periodical in Constantinople. From 1858 to 1864, it is published in Varada Monastery. It is republished in 1872 by Manuel Ananian in Constantinople.
- 1878 Defense treaty signed between England and Turkey to safeguard the eastern territories occupied by Turkey, in return for which Turkey cedes Cyprus to England.
- 1909 Archbishop Yegheesheh Doorian was elected Patriarch of Constantinople.
- 1918 The Treaty of Ghars is signed between the representatives of Turkey and the Armenian National Council in Batum. Turkey is given extensive Armenian territories.
- 1925 The "Pioner Kanch" (Call of the Pioneer) newspaper was first published in Yerevan.
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