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Published on March 01, 2008
OPPOSITIONISTS SET UP BARRICADES AT FRENCH EMBASSY IN YEREVAN
- Participants of the opposition rallies started setting upbarricades at the French Embassy in Yerevan. Impeachment bloc leader Nikol Pashinyan called to construct defense positions to block the way for armored personnel carriers and water cannons. “It’s a convenient place, since the authorities will not dare to use force near the diplomatic missions of France and Italy,” he said. He told to place barricades with the help of garbage cans, part benches and everything they can find. Presently, they are dismantling a new building opposite to the Embassy, Novosti Armenia reports. The protesters demand to return Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who is presently in his residence surrounded by law enforcers.
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POLICE DISPERSED OPPOSITION RALLY IN YEREVAN
Today, at 7 a.m. the RA Police dispersed the opposition rally in Liberty Square in the center of Yerevan. Witnesses say several thousand people were at the site during the operation. Policemen used rubber ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION GOING TO CONTINUE PROTEST ACTIONS
The Armenian opposition is planning to hold a rally at Matenadaran today. According to Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s headquaters, location of some Ter-Petrosyan’s team-mates is unknown. Today, at 7 a.m. the ...POLICE DISPERSE DEMONSTRATORS AT FRENCH EMBASSY
The Police dispersed the opposition at the French Embassy in Yerevan. Earlier, a group of demonstrators gathered at the Embassy after dispersal of the rally in Liberty Square. In response to police’s ...PROTESTERS, POLICE COLLIDE IN FRONT OF YEREVAN CITY HALL
The collisions between the oppositionists and police that started near France’s Embassy spread over to the ground in front of Yerevan city hall. Stopping the trolleybuses, the protesters blocked the ...TER-PETROSYAN: AUTHORITIES COULD NOTHING BUT BREAK UP OPPOSITION RALLY
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“The Armenian authorities broke up the rally because they had no other way-out to stop the opposition movement,” Armenia’s first President, opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan said when commenting on ...RA POLICE: OPPOSITION WAS PLOTTING MASS DISORDERS MARCH 1
Following the presidential election, Levon Ter-Petrsoyan and his team-mates initiated a sit-down strike in Liberty Square and held unauthorized rallies and marches to destabilize the capital city, reads ...DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY AND WATER CANNONS DRAWN UP TO FRENCH EMBASSY
Special forces, defense technology and water cannons are drawn up to the French Embassy in Yerevan as the number of Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s supporters increases. Two water cannons, armored personnel carriers ...CAFÉ SHAMIRAM BELONGING TO TER-PETROSYAN’S SUPPORTER KHACHATUR SUKIASYAN BURNED DOWN IN YEREVAN
Café Shamiram belonging to Ter-Petrosyan’s supporter, MP Khachatur Sukiasyan was burned down in Yerevan. Witnesses say that the fire burst out some 15 minutes ago. Then two explosions were heard (supposedly, ...TER-PETROSYAN: AUTHORITIES DID NOT OFFER ME COOPERATION
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Armenia’s first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan said neither the President nor Prime Minister offered him to cooperate. “Even if I received such a proposal I would agree to collaborate only if all political ...RA HEALTH MINISTRY: NO CASUALTIES IN RALLY DISPERSAL
31 people, including 6 policemen, suffered in collisions during the dispersal of the opposition rally in Yerevan, the Armenian Public Television reported. According to the RA Public Health Ministry, ...OSCE CHAIRMAN CONDEMNS USE OF FORCE IN ARMENIA
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, condemned the use of force against peaceful demonstrators in Yerevan today. "I urge the authorities to use maximum restraint. I am ...POLICE CORDONED RA GOVERNMENT BUILDING
Police has lifted the cordon of France’ Embassy in Yerevan, where collisions between the policemen and oppositionists have been taking place since 11 a.m. Almost all law enforcers abandoned the scene ...OPPOSITIONISTS SET UP BARRICADES AT FRENCH EMBASSY IN YEREVAN
Participants of the opposition rallies started setting upbarricades at the French Embassy in Yerevan. Impeachment bloc leader Nikol Pashinyan called to construct defense positions to block the way for ...TER-PETROSYAN NOT UNDER HOUSE ARREST
Ex-President Levon Ter-Petrosyan is not under house arrest, RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told a news conference in Yerevan. “Security of an official is regulated by the Constitution. If safety ...OPPOSITION, POLICE COLLIDE IN YEREVAN AGAIN
A regular clash between the oppositionists and police took place at the crossroad of Mashtos and Grigor Lusavorish avenues. The demonstrators armed with iron sticks managed to shove the policemen aside. ...EMERGENCY RULE DECLARED IN ARMENIA
Armenia's President Robert Kocharian declared a 20-day emergency rule in the republic. Conduction of rallies is forbidden, activities of political parties frozen. Media is allowed to publish official ...RA POLICE: CROWD GREW UNCONTROLLED
The Armenian Police issued a statement describing the opposition conduct as uncontrollable. “Mass disorders started; the crowd set fire to cars; the Moscow House was looted; 8 policemen received bullet ...RA AUTHORITIES FORCED TO USE ARMY POTENTIAL TO ENSURE PUBLIC SECURITY
The authorities are forced to use the army potential to ensure public security, Armenian President Robert Kocharian said. “The decision was compelled by an armed assault on unarmed policemen. We tried ...OPPOSITIONISTS WENT ALL LIMITS
Participants of the opposition rally went all limits, RA President Robert Kocharian said. “Eight policemen were injured. State and private property was badly damaged,” he said. “The names of the initiators ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 World Civil Defense day.
- 1856 Birth of the cleric, historian, ethnologist, teacher and translator, Gyoot Aghanyan (Harootyoon Ter - Arakelian) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He translated literary classics and re-wrote Yeghisheh's "Vardanants Story" in modern Armenian. He wrote textbooks on religion and library science. He was the first in Eastern Armenia to publish a wall-calendar.
- 1857 Opening of the school at Varaga Monastery (western Armenia) for the education of "orphan and homeless" children.
- 1865 Birth in Tbilisi of Teegran Hovhannisian, translator and lawyer. He translated the novels "Harootyoon" (Resurrection) written by Lev Tolstoy and "Arants Davananki" (Without Faith) written by Henry Senkeveech.
- 1867 Birth of the writer Nar-Dos (Meekael Hovhannisyan) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He died in 1933.
- 1901 Birth of the poet Sarmen (Armenak Sargsian) in Pakhvants (Western Armenia). Many popular songs have been written using his poems as lyrics.
- 1915 The First Meeting of Armenian immigrants took place in Echmiadsin. The meeting tried to integrate the work of the many benevolent unions that were created to help the survivors of the 1915 Genocide.
- 1920 Azeri Turks perpetrate the Genocide of Shooshee. Some 20 000 Armenians are killed.
- 1920 The Government allots 50 million rubles for agricultural development. Agricultural tractors are brought to Armenia for the first time.
- 1930 The Sardarapat tractor plant starts production.
- 1934 Death in Yerevan of Toros Toramanyan (architecture historian).
- 1960 Martiros Saryan is awarded the title "People's Painter of the USSR".
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