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Published on December 02, 2005
OPPOSITIONISTS POSTPONED HUNGER STRIKE TO DECEMBER 9
10 activists of Hanrapetutyun party, who declared of hunger strike during today’s rally as a protest against “falsification of the constitutional referendum”, postponed it to December 9. To remind, the regular opposition rally is scheduled for this very day. The united opposition postponed the meeting over the formation of the coordination council, which will comprise all the political forces struggling against the incumbent leadership. According to Hanrapetutyun party leader Aram Sargsyan, the coordination council will deal with the organizational issues, take relative decisions and “lead the nation along the true path of democracy.”
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- 1897 Birth of Marshal Hovhannes Baghramyan in Chardakhloo (Artsakh). He died in 1982.
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- 1920 V.I. Lenin sends greetings to Kassyan (President of the Military-revolutionary Committee of Armenia) on the occasion of the establishment of Soviet power in Armenia.
- 1920 The Bolsheviks seize power in Armenia.
- 1920 The Sovietization of the Armenian Republic.
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