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Published on January 30, 2012
ARMENIA TO PARTICIPATE IN EUROVISION YOUNG MUSICIANS 2012
As an active member of European Broadcasting Union and the official broadcaster of Eurovision Song Contest, Public TV Company of Armenia is competent to select this year ESC's Armenian representative and a song either by National selection(viewers / jury) or Internal selection.
Taking into consideration ESC 2012's feature AMPTV decided to do the selection internally.
The selection will be done by a special committee formed by The Public Television and Radio Council of RA in which musicians, TV specialists and musical producers will be included. The name of ESC 2012 Armenian representative and the song will be published till March 18, 2012.
For the first time AMPTV will participate in Eurovision Young Musicians 2012 contest, which will be held on May in Vienna. 14 countries are taking part in this year contest: Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and Ukraine. Eurovision Young Musicians is one of the EBU's big annual projects in which 15-20 year old young people specialized in classical music are competing. The name of Armenian representative will be published till March 15, 2012, eurovision.am reported.
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Today in Armenian history- 410 Birth of Movses Khorenatsi (historian).
- 1799 Birth of Edward Hyoormoozyan of the Mkhitarist Congregation (Armenian Roman Catholic Order) in Constantinople. He died in 1876 in Rome.
- 1901 Birth of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of Armenia's Communist Party, Aghassee Khanjyan. He was one of the many murdered by Lavrentee Beria in July, 1936 in Tbilisi, where he was invited for consultations.
- 1915 According to statistical data, from the end of 1914 to the beginning of 1915, about 49800 Armenians emigrated from Western Armenia, Persia and the bordering regions of Turkey, to the ten provinces of Yerevan and Tbilisi.
- 1927 First Graduation Ceremony of Yerevan State University students at the Culture House of Yerevan.
- 1975 Opening of the Yeghisheh Charents Museum in Yerevan.
- 2001 French President Jacques Chirac signs the law recognizing the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. From now on, no one in France has the right to deny the fact of the Armenian Genocide.
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