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Headlines for March 03, 2011ARABKIR CHIEF OF POLICE APPOINTED
Alik Sargsyan, Chief of Police of Armenia ordered to appoint Colonel Artur Mehrabyan Head of Arabkir Police, dismissing him from his position of Head of Yerevan Police Department. According to Gagik Shamshyan, ...INNOVATIONS AND BUSINSSMEN'S INTELLECT
National Assembly member Samvel Alexanyan, also known as Lfik Samo, talking to reporters in the National Assembly said something interesting related to his bodyguard.
"I am repeating I have no bodyguard, ...DE-MONOPOLIZATION OR RETIREMENT
The government announced the year 2011 a year to fight inflation. In January, inflation reached by 2, 4% compared with December, there is no data on February yet, but "progress" is again evident. And ...BAKU PROPAGATING WAR
Edward Nalbanyan, currently in Austria, visited the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, where he made a presentation on Armenia's foreign policy and Armenian-Austrian relations to senior officials of the Ministry ...THIS IS ALREADY A FIGHT FOR RIGHTS
Our interlocutor is art critic Harut Simonyan currently in New York
In our previous interview, you said you were waiting for us to become a civil society and to remake the horrible KGB building into a ...HOW COSSACKS PLAYED
Cossacks appealed to Armenia for a permission to set up an Ambassadorial stanitsa here. No doubt Armenia will give this permission.
Time will pass and a Russian diplomat named Krivopuskov, working in ...FM MET WITH OSCE SECRETARY GENERAL
On March 2, in the course of the visit to Vienna, Edward Nalbandyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, met with Peren de Brishambo, OSCE Secretary General.
The Minister presented the ongoing process ...ARMENIA FAILED TO PERSUADE GEORGIA
Armenia failed to persuade Georgia not to sell the part of the gas pipeline connecting Russia with Armenia. Yesterday, Armen Movsisyan, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Armenia, recalled that ...CONGRESS'S DEMANDS TO POLICE
Levon Zurabyan, Coordinator of the Armenian National Congress dwelt on the actions of the police during March 1, 2011 rally at a March 3 press conference. He said their actions are criminal. He called ...POWER'S "BOYISH" REACTION
The Armenian National Congress supposed there would have been a more serious response by the authorities to the HAK 15 requirements presented at the March 1 rally, said the Coordinator of the Armenian ...WHY SEFILYAN WAS NOT ALLOWED
Why Head of Sardarapat Initiative Jirayr Sefilyan was not allowed to address the HAK March 1 rally. Levon Zurabyan was asked on March 3.
He answered that almost 100 people ask to hold a speech at every ...PREMIER ON PROVOCATIONS
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, speaking at a cabinet meeting, called on the heads of ministries and departments to be more active and make public explanation of public policy.
He noted that the public ...HAK UNDER TIME PRESSURE
Head of the Republican faction Galust Sahakyan, during today's press conference said that the 15 demands of the opposition are copied. "If you open papers of 90ies, you will see that the same demands ...GALUST SAHAKYAN AND COLOR REVOLUTIONS
"Armenians have no color, they are of the same kind and one problem, and the ambassador does not make appeals to a color revolution", says the NA Republican faction head Galust Sahakyan, in answer to ...GALUST SAHAKYAN ON COMPENSATION TO MARCH 1 VICITMS' FAMILIES
One of the demands of the Armenian National Congress was to give compensations to the families of the victims on March 1. Head of the NA Republican faction Galust Sahakyan welcomed this approach. Sahakyan ...HERITAGE IS ALSO UNDER TIME PRESSURE
Head of the Republican Parliamentary faction Galust Sahakyan commented on Heritage's leaving the NA plenary hall and possibility to lay down the mandates. Galust Sahakyan said that Heritage is under ...OPPOSITION'S UNIFICATION
Theme of unification of the opposition in Armenia has never lost its relevance. It was topical, even in February 2008, when it seemed that Levon Ter-Petrosyan managed to initiate a truly national movement. ...HAS GAZPROM NOT DECIDED YET?
Regnum agency circulated a report that a representative of Gazprom announced that gas prices for Armenia has not yet been determined. Press Secretary of the President of Armenia said on February 25 that ...ARFD CONDEMNS
ARF Dashnaktsutyun faction spread a statement in connection with the incident happened on March 3 near the Government building.
It is noted in the statement that law enforcement bodies used force against ...KARABAKH PRESIDENT CONVENED A MEETING OF AMRY HIGH COMMAND
On March 2, NKR President Bako Sahakyan visited a military unit, where he convened a workshop with senior military commanders. Bako Sahakyan noted that subdivision of Defense Forces must maintain constant ...PATIENCE CUP FLIPPED
Today in Yerevan it was an active day. There have been protests in several places. Near the Government House senior police officers showed their force to opposition MPs and women, some people tried to ...ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER EDWARD NALBANDYAN ADDRESSES THE OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL
Vienna, 3 March 2011. (OSCE/Andrey Serenkov) VIENNA, 3 March 2011 - Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan told the OSCE Permanent Council today that the OSCE Minsk Group remains the only internationally ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1842 Birth of the great Armenian benefactor, petroleum magnat Alexander Mantashian in Tbilissi. He made donations to the Church (Ejmiadsin) and founded schools in Constantinople, Tbilissi, and Kareen -among other places. He also built the new building of the Nersisian School.
- 1872 The "Union for Salvation" is formed in Van (Western Armenia).
- 1878 Treaty of San Stefano signed between Russia and Turkey. Article 16 of the San Stefano Treaty guaranteed the security of Armenians in Western Armenia under the Turkish Empire. Article 61 of the Treaty of Berlin, however, annuled these guarantees and the majority of the Armenian lands were given to the Turks.
- 1905 Start of the Armenian - Tatar War.
- 1918 Signature of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Russia and Germany.
- 1918 Signnature of the Russian - Turkish supplemental treaty in connection with the Peace Treaty between Russia, on the one hand, and Germany, Austria - Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey on the other.
- 1920 The Boshevik "Workers' Struggle" Armenian newspaper is published in New Nakhichevan (Rostov, Russia).
- 1930 Opening of the National Seminary.
- 1935 Birth of writer Hrant Matevossyan.
- 1943 The first volume of the novel "Vardanank", written by Derenik Demirchyan, is published during World War 2 (the Great Patriotic War). Soldiers passed it from hand to hand on the front.
- 1953 Opening of the Armenian Manuscript Depository: the Matenadaran (Architect - Mark Grigoryan). The Matenadaran has more than 13 000 ancient manuscripts and more than 100 000 archived documents.
- 1955 Hovhannes Issakov is promoted to Admiral of the Fleet (USSR).
- 1958 Yerevan's Matenadaran (Manuscript Depository) is declared a Research Institute.
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