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Published on November 24, 2008
PRE-ELECTION SALE IN STEPANAKERT
An interesting process is underway in Stepanakert. Small and big enterprises or buildings are sold. Some time ago the public learned that the equipment of dry milk production of the Milk Factory and the Wheat Flour Factory were put out to sale. Recently it became known that the Civil Service and State Archive have left the central avenue of Stepanakert. Their premises have been sold to famous people to open shops.
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Headlines for November 24, 2008GAGIK JHANGIRYAN WAS ALLOWED TO GO TO HIS MOTHER’S FUNERAL
The former deputy prosecutor general Gagik Jhangiryan held in custody at Vardashen prison was allowed to go to his mother’s funeral. His mother Clara Avoyan died on November 22 at the age of 79. Gagik ...BEFORE LAST ROUND ARMENIA AND UKRAINE SHARE FIRST PLACE
Before the last round of the Chess Olympiad in Dresden the teams of Armenia share the first place with 17 points. In the ninth round our team lost to Israel and defeated Serbia in the tenth round. In ...IT IS DIFFICULT TO PERSUADE THE CAPITAL COALESCED WITH THE GOVERNMENT
Obviously, the government of Armenia has chosen a peculiar tactics in the time of the global economic crisis. The government is trying to instrumentalize the crisis, considering that Armenia can benefit ...THE PRODUCE OF AGHDAM IS SOLD
This photo posted on mv83.livejournal.com is evidence that the produce grown in Aghdam is sold on the marketplace of Stepanakert. The farmers of Aghdam sell the tasty cabbages, apples, pomegranates, lemons, ...THE MAYOR’S CRUSADE
Again becoming mayor of Gyumri this October, Vardan Ghukasyan announced that he and Serge Sargsyan have a “terrible secret”, and he has immunity thanks to this shared “secret”. He announced that from ...UNTIL THE LAST POLITICAL PRISONER IS RELEASED
The Evrokanch Development NGO has been launched, the honorary president of which is the founder of the Republic of Armenia and the leader of the Armenian National Congress Levon Ter-Petrosyan. One of ...MAYOR OF SEMYONOVKA DIES IN CAR CRASH
On November 23 a Mercedes car turned over on the highway Sevan-Yerevan. The mayor of the village of Semyonovka, Gegharkunik region, Aramayis Vardanyan born 1974 died, and Hrachik Khanzadyan born 1958 ...THE NOBLEST OF THE EUROPEANS
The CoE human rights commissioner Thomas Hammarberg is the noblest of all European officials visiting Armenia. stated Gurgen Yeghiazaryan, member of the central board of the Social Democratic Hnchak Party, ...SETTLEMENT: FAR OR CLOSE
The first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan has every reason to suppose that the settlement of the Karabakh issue will be in December 2008. Although a lot of things happened after this statement ...DIPLOMACY IN THE ARMENIAN MANNER
The Armenian diplomatic corps has apparently set to implement the foreign policy of initiative adopted by Armenia, taking the initiative in almost every issue. In particular, according to our source, ...THERE IS NO RULE OF LAW IN AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA IS BLAMED
On November 19 and 20 an international conference was organized in Tbilisi in which the delegations of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan participated. The head of the Georgian delegation was the chief justice ...SCUFFLE OF ARMENIAN AND GREEK CLERGY WILL REOCCUR
The recurrent scuffle of the Armenian and Greek churches may reoccur on December 28 in Bethlehem, during the preparations of the celebration of Christmas, Republican MP Artak Grigoryan told reporters ...SERGE SARGSYAN LEFT FOR DRESDEN
The president of the Armenian chess delegation Serge Sargsyan had met with the Armenian Olympic team on November 7 in Jermuk and promised to participate in one of the games of the 38th World Chess Olympiad. ...BRITAIN ENDS PROGRAM IN ARMENIA
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met with the UK ambassador to Armenia Charles Lonsdale and the head of the DFID department for Europe and Central Asia Pauline Hayes. Considering that in the early 2006 ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1895 Birth of Hrachia Nerssissyan (actor). He died in 1961.
- 1913 Death of H.F.B. Lynch in London of Irish parentage. Besides his study of law, he became noted as a writer, a geographer, a politician, and a traveller, with a keen interest in Armenia. His two-volume book on his Armenia travels is a classic and describes life in Armenia at the end of the 19th century. In 1906, he was elected to serve as a member of the British Parliament. (He was born on 1862 04 18).
- 1920 The Tashnak government of Armenia falls. Simon Vratsian forms a new government.
- 1927 Death of Shooshanik Kiurghinyan (poetess) in Yerevan. She was born in 1876.
- 1940 Ceremonial inauguration of Lenin's monument, at Lenin Square in Yerevan.
- 1940 Yerevan's Zoological Garden is created.
- 1980 Opening of the meeting (in Yerevan) of Diasporan Armenian representatives.
- 1996 Robert Kocharian is re-elected for a second term as President of Artsakh. International observers witness the election.
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