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Published on March 23, 2012
JANKO TIPSAREVIC DJ'D WITH BOB SINCLAIR AT MIAMI PARTY
- Janko Tipsarevic, the world number nine and a columnist for The Tennis Space, DJ'd with Bob Sinclair at the players' party in Miami this week. Tipsarevic shares a couple of tips about where to go in his "favorite city outside Belgrade".
"I love Miami. When the tournament is finished, I will stay there for a couple of days. First of all because the energy the city has is amazing. Then because of the Miami Music Conference. I am a big DJ junkie and I love listening to electronic music, mainly House," thetennisspace.com quoted the player as saying.
Tipsarevic will face off against David Nalbandian in the second round of Sony Ericsson Open in Miami on March 23.
Headlines for March 23, 2012
PAPER SAYS YERKIR'S EDITOR RESENTS ARFD
Zhoghovurd quotes its sources as saying that editor-in-chief of Yerkir paper, member of ARF Dashnaktsutyun party Bagrat Yesayan has quitted his position because he was not included in Dashnaktsutyun's ...RPA OFFERS ELECTORAL BRIBES VIA SMS - PAPER
A student of Yerevan State University informed Hayatsk paper on March 22 that she got an sms message to her mobile several days ago saying: "Dear citizen, please vote for the Republican Party of Armenia ...WHITNEY HOUSTON DIED OF COKE, HEART DISEASE, DROWNING
Whitney Houston was a chronic cocaine user who had the drug in her system when she drowned in a hotel bathtub, coroner's officials said Thursday, March 22, after releasing autopsy findings that also ...AUSTRALIAN POLICE ARREST CHILD PORN RING
Australian police have smashed a child porn ring and arrested 14 men, including fathers, after hundreds of thousands of images and videos were seized, some depicting toddlers, they said Friday, March ...HRANT MELKUMIAN SHARES 1ST-11TH PLACES AT EUROPEAN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
Armenian grandmaster Hrant Melkumian scored a win over Nils Grandelius (Switzerland) in the third round of the European Chess Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
With 3 points, Melkumian currently shares ...JAPAN READIES DEFENSE SYSTEMS AGAINST N. KOREAN ROCKET
Japan on Friday, March 23, readied its missile defense systems to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it threatens the country, as the UN chief warned that next month's launch could jeopardize food ...COMIC MAGAZINE MOCKS TURKEY'S EU MINISTER
Turkey's European Union Minister Egemen Bağış posted on his Twitter account a cartoon lampooning him that appeared on the cover of the comic magazine Penguen.
The cartoon refers to a case from last year ...PAPER: COALITION PARTIES AGREE ON ELECTORAL BRIBES AMOUNT
According to Zhoghovurd paper, the coalition parties have agreed during one of recent meetings on the amount of electoral bribes offered per a vote at the coming parliamentary elections.
The paper said ...FACEBOOK REPORTEDLY BUYS PATENTS FROM IBM
Facebook has apparently acquired patents from IBM, a move that could help it shore up defenses against new patent infringement lawsuits ahead of its IPO.
According to The New York Times, the social networking ...GOOGLE DOODLES SURREALIST PAINTER JUAN GRIS TO MARK HIS 125TH BIRTHDAY
The Spanish surrealist painter Juan Gris is the latest cultural figure to be honored with a Google doodle.
To mark the 125th anniversary of the artists' birth, the search engine has transformed its ...AIR CANADA BAGGAGE HANDLERS STAGE STRIKE AT TORONTO'S AIRPORT
Air Canada baggage handlers staged a walkout at Toronto's Pearson International Airport early Friday, March 23, causing some flights to be delayed.
According to AP, hundreds of passengers were left ...ETHNIC ARMENIAN UNDERWORLD LEADER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW SHOT DEAD IN RUSSIA
Well-known businesswoman, mother-in-law of the underworld leader Eduard Kakosyan a.k.a. "Karas" killed in 2010, was shot dead in Russia's Sochi on March 22, Interfax agency reports quoting its law ...U.S. SERGEANT TO BE CHARGED WITH 17 COUNTS IN AFGHAN KILLINGS
Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, accused of killing Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage in Kandahar province last week, will be charged with 17 counts of murder, a U.S. official said on Thursday, ...MEL GIBSON'S COSTA RICA RETREAT GOES ON SALE
Actor-director Mel Gibson is putting his sprawling hilltop compound in Costa Rica up for sale, with a $29.75 million asking price, Reuters reports.
The Oscar-winning "Braveheart" director, ...PLATINI BACKS TURKEY'S BID TO HOST EURO 2020
UEFA president Michel Platini said he would vote for Turkey to host Euro 2020, but only if Istanbul fails to win the right to stage that year's Olympics.
In a speech to delegates at the opening of ...EUROPE'S HEAVIEST VESSEL HEADS INTO SPACE
An automated craft laden with supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) headed into space on Friday, March 23, in the heaviest launch ever undertaken by Europe.
The 20-ton vessel, named after ...LANDSLIDE IN YEREVAN'S SARI TAGH DISTRICT
The Ministry of Emergency Situations was alarmed on March 22 at 8:50pm that risk of potential landslide and stone avalanche is faced in Yerevan's Sari Tagh district, near 18th street's 37th building, ...JANKO TIPSAREVIC DJ'D WITH BOB SINCLAIR AT MIAMI PARTY
Janko Tipsarevic, the world number nine and a columnist for The Tennis Space, DJ'd with Bob Sinclair at the players' party in Miami this week. Tipsarevic shares a couple of tips about where to go in his ...EUROPEAN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 4TH ROUND DUE MARCH 23
Armenian grandmaster Hrant Melkumian will face off against Nikita Vitiugov (Russia) in the fourth round of the European Chess Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The chess players have 3 points each and ...IRAN'S BUSHEHR NUKE PLANT CONSTRUCTION MEETS SCHEDULE
Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of Russia's state nuclear company Rosatom, announced that construction of Iran's first nuclear power plant in the Southern port city of Bushehr is proceeding according ...SAMSUNG OFFERS PREMIUM SUITE UPGRADE FOR GALAXY NOTE
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, announced it will be offering a Premium Suite upgrade for GALAXY Note users worldwide from Q2, 2012.
It includes extra multimedia features and a range of new S Pen optimized ...SLAVIK HAYRAPETYAN TO PARTICIPATE IN WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS
2012 World Figure Skating Championships kick off in French city of Nice on March 26, with 16-year old Slavik Hayrapetyan representing Armenia.
Though Slavik's elder brother Sargis Hayrapetyan also gained ...TURKISH MINISTER: EU, TURKEY CAN'T AFFORD TO SHUT DOORS ON EACH OTHER
Turkey's European Union Minister Egemen Bağış said that neither the European Union nor Turkey could afford to shut their doors on each other, adding relations were too complicated to ignore.
"Neither ...EXPERT RULES OUT WAR BETWEEN IRAN AND ISRAEL
A senior fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences dismisses hostilities between Iran and Israel in the foreseeable future.
As Viktor Nadein-Rayevsky ...HERITAGE PARTY CLAIMS TO SECURE 25% OF PARLIAMENTARY VOTES
Leader of the opposition Heritage Raffi Hovannissian said their party expects to get 25 per cent of electoral votes at the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Hovannissian reminded of Heritage's success ...FRENCH GOVERNMENT WORKING ON NEW ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION
France's Prime Minister says the conservative government is working on new anti-terrorism legislation after a killing spree by a radical Islamist gunman who was later shot dead following a standoff ...HERITAGE LEADER CALLS FOR AGREEMENT AMONG OPPOSITION
Leader of the opposition Heritage Raffi Hovannissian proposed a meeting with opposition forces to discuss cooperation at elections in majority constituencies. He said each majority constituency should ...KIM KARDASHIAN UNDER "FLOUR ATTACK"
Someone either doesn't like Kim Kardashian's new perfume, True Reflection, or they don't like Kim Kardashian - or both, The Hollywood Reporter says.
According to witnesses, a man rushed onto the red ...ARMENIA, GREECE TO ESTABLISH DIALOGUE BETWEEN AUTHORITIES, PUBLIC
Armenian Public Council jointly with Economic and Social Council (E.S.C.) of Greece will establish a constructive dialogue between authorities, society and the business sector, heads of the two institutions ...$30BLN WORTH OF MOBILE PHONES LOST IN U.S. IN 2011
A new study has shown that a whole lot of mobile phones were lost around the world in 2011, with American citizens losing handsets with a combined value of around $30 billion, Digital Trends reported.
...CRISIS NOT OVER IN ARMENIA - GREEK OFFICIAL
Armenia hasn't handled the crisis yet, President of the Economic and Social Council (E.S.C.) of Greece said.
According to Christos Polyzogopoulos global developments spark fears over a new "tsunami" ...ANC MEMBER: ARMENIAN CONSTITUTION BANS USING ARMY IN POLITICS
Coordinator of the legal service of opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC), former deputy prosecutor of Armenia Gagik Jhangiryan commented on the bill on Legal Regime of the State of Emergency passed ...ANC-WR ENDORSES ADRIN NAZARIAN SAN FERNANDO VALLEY'S ASSEMBLY
The Armenian National Committee of America, Western Region on Thursday, March 22, announced its endorsement of Adrin Nazarian for the newly drawn San Fernando Valley's 46th Assembly District. The primary ...EU PROLONGS RESTRICTIVE MEASURES ON IRAN FOR A YEAR
The Council of the European Union on March 23 reinforced EU restrictive measures adopted in response to serious human rights violations in Iran and prolonged them by 12 months.
The Council added 17 persons ...RPA TRIED TO CREATE "PEOPLE'S FRONT" AIMING FOR PRESIDENTIAL RACE - EXPERT
Political expert Karen Kocharyan slammed the proportional list of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) saying it reflects the prior pledges of the authorities.
"RPA disappointed many people. ...RUSSIA TO SCRAP OUTMODED TANKS, ARMORED VEHICLES
Outmoded tanks and armored vehicles will be scrapped in a "massive" scheme launched by the defense ministry last year, a senior military official said on Friday, March 23. "From 2011 onward, ...IRAN'S EMBASSY IN TURKEY ATTACKED
Three Molotov cocktails were thrown into the grounds of the Iranian Embassy in Ankara earlier on Friday, March 23, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
Two Iranian suspects allegedly threw the Molotov cocktails ...IRAN: DATE, VENUE OF TALKS NOT SET YET
Tehran rejected media speculations about the date and venue of upcoming talks between Iran and the six world powers, adding that Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members ...MALI PRESIDENT MISSING AFTER COUP
Coup leaders in Mali would not give details on the whereabouts of the democratically elected president more than a day after they stormed his compound and took power, AP reported. The streets of the ...EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT OFFERS TO REPLACE FRANCE WITH EU IN OSCE MG?
European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted a document on Armenia, proposing to replace France's mandate in OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement with that of the ...4 MEMBERS OF ARMENIAN GANG CONVICTED IN U.S.
Four members and associates of an Armenian organized crime ring have been convicted in a wide-reaching bank fraud and identity theft scheme that authorities called one of the largest in California history, ...OFFICIAL SAYS ARMENIA FACES WATER MANAGEMENT PROBLEM
Surface water formation in Armenia is conducted in March-May, as a result of which 1 billion cubic meters of water is collected from the republic's 70 reservoirs, deputy head of the Water Resource Management ...NKR OFFICIAL: REPLACEMENT OF FRANCE WITH EU WON'T AFFECT KARABAKH TALKS
Chairman of NKR Public Council on Foreign Policy and Security commented on adoption of the document on Armenia by European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, proposing to replace France's mandate ...ISRAEL, EU FINALIZE COMPREHENSIVE AVIATION AGREEMENT
Israel and the European Union have finalized negotiations on a comprehensive aviation agreement during a final round of negotiating in Tel Aviv on March 22, 2012. According to a press release, the agreement ...SAUDI TO FILL OIL SUPPLY GAP, IEA SAYS
Saudi Arabia will be able to pump enough oil to compensate for any loss of Iranian output caused by Western sanctions, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday, March 23, Reuters ...SYRIAN ACTIVISTS REPORT CLASHES AT TURKISH BORDER
Syrian government forces fired machine guns and mortar rounds Friday, arch 23 in fierce clashes with rebel army defectors in a town near the Turkish border, a Syrian activist group reported, according ...ARMENIA'S FORMER FM ATTENDS 7TH ANNUAL BRUSSELS FORUM
Armenian former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian is in Brussels March 23 to 25, attending the 7th Annual Brussels Forum, sponsored by the German Marshal Fund of the United States.
The Brussels Forum ...INDIA REFUSES COMPLY WITH EU CARBON TAX SCHEME
Indian airlines will not to comply with the European Union's (EU) carbon taxation scheme, according to civil aviation minister Ajit Singh, BBC News reported.
The EU has directed Indian carriers to ...NIGERIA'S FINANCE MINISTER JOINS WORLD BANK PRESIDENCY RACE
Nigeria's Finance Minister Friday, March 23 joined the race for the top World Bank job, backed by Africa's leading economies in a push for greater influence at global financial bodies dominated ...PAKISTANI PM TO MEET U.S. LEADER AT S. KOREA NUKE SUMMIT
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is expected to meet U.S. President Barack Obama during a nuclear security summit in South Korea next week, a senior Pakistani official said Friday, March 23, ...SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETI REP. MEETS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MEMBERS
The coordinator of the Council of Armenian Organizations (NGOs) of Samtskhe-Javakheti (Javakhk) and director of the A-Info news agency Artak Gabrielyan traveled to Brussels earlier this month and held ...EXPERT: ANC WILL TURN INTO ARMENIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT
Armenian National Congress (ANC) opposition bloc will transform into Armenian National Movement following the elections, according to Armenian political analyst.
Karen Kocharyan focused on the withdrawal ...ARTSAKH PRESIDENT APPROVES DRAFT CIVIL DEFENSE STRATEGY
On March 23, President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan convoked a meeting of the Security Council to discuss the draft of the NKR Civil Defense Strategy.
Director of the rescue service Arthur Harutyunyan ...EXPERT: EU'S AND FRANCE'S STANCES ON KARABAKH DIFFER
A senior fellow at the Institute of Political and Social Studies of the Black Sea and Caspian region commented on the document on Armenia adopted by the European Parliament proposing to replace France's ...EU TOUGHENS MEASURES AGAINST BELARUS
Against the background of the further deterioration of the situation in Belarus, the Council of the European Union on March 23 strengthened restrictive measures against those responsible for the repression ...PM: ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES PROMISE TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS
Yerevan hosted a conference on the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
"Armenian authorities are determined to conduct the most free and transparent elections in the modern history of Armenia," RA Prime ...NEW JERSEY TO HOST ARMENIAN EXHIBITION
Bergen Community College's Gallery Bergen, NJ, in cooperation with the College's Center for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation will host the exhibition titled "Fractured History, Reconstructing Identity: ...RUSSIA CRUDE EXPORT DUTY UP $460.7 FROM $411.2
Russia has raised the crude export duty to $460.7 per ton from $411.2, the government website announced on Friday, March 23, RIA Novosti reported.
The decree, signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, ...JENNIFER BEALS TO CO-STAR IN CBS' PILOT "WIDOW DETECTIVE" PILOT
Jennifer Beals will co-star in the upcoming CBS pilot "Widow Detective", The Wrap reported.
The "Flashdance" and "The L Word" actress will play Lainey, the owner of a San ...U.S. RELEASES EGYPT MILITARY AID FOR STRATEGIC GOALS
The Obama administration has decided to release military aid for Egypt that has been in question since the country acted to prosecute U.S. and Egyptian pro-democracy workers, Bloomberg reported.
The ...HUGH DANCY TO HEADLINE "HANNIBAL" SERIES
British actor Hugh Dancy is set as one of the two leads in Hannibal, NBC's 13-episode series from Gaumont International Television, written and executive produced by Bryan Fuller and executive produced ...TWILIGHT WRITER'S "THE HOST" TEASER RELEASED
With the tween-focused The Hunger Games opening imminently, Open Road is hoping to whet the appetite of that audience for another film in that vein, with the first teaser trailer from the adaptation of ...USD MARKET AVERAGE RATE TOTALS AMD 387,93 MARCH 23
The market average rate of USD on March 23 totaled AMD 387,93 remaining unchanged compared to March 22.
Euro exchange rate totaled AMD 514,24 increasing by 3.80 points, and the exchange rate of the Russian ...UKRAINE TO FACILITATE CUSTOMS CLEARANCE OF ARMENIAN GOODS
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met with Chairman of the State Customs Service of Ukraine Igor Kaletnik.
"We favor the cooperation between customs services of Armenia and Ukraine, and will continue ..."FRIDAY THE 13TH" WRITERS' TEAM TO DEVELOP NEW HORROR PROJECT
Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, the writing team behind the recent Friday the 13th remake as well as Freddy vs. Jason, are developing an untitled horror project at Paramount, The Hollywood Reporter said.
..."HANGOVER PART III" PRODUCTION TO START
Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures are reteaming with Todd Phillips for "The Hangover Part III" the third installment in the record-breaking comedy franchise, which is slated for release on ...ATOM EGOYAN HONORED BY CHLOTRUDIS SOCIETY FOR INDEPENDENT FILM
On March 18, the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film honored director Atom Egoyan during its 18th Annual Chlotrudis Awards Ceremony at the historic Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square.
Egoyan was honored ...NKR OFFICIAL: TURKEY'S ARTSAKH RECOGNITION WOULD PROMOTE CONFLICT SETTLEMENT
On March 21, an international scientific-practical round table entitled "The Turkish Factor in the Middle East and in the Post-Soviet Space" took place in Moscow, at the Russian Institute of ...BAKU ILLEGALLY ATTEMPTS TO QUESTION NKR'S SOVEREIGNTY - OFFICIAL
On March 21, an international scientific-practical round table entitled "The Turkish Factor in the Middle East and in the Post-Soviet Space" took place in Moscow, at the Russian Institute of ...DINK WIDOW ATTENDS RECEPTION IN U.S. EMBASSY IN ANKARA
Journalist Nedim Şener, who was recently released from prison after spending nearly a year in jail in a coup plot case, was among guests invited to a reception hosted on Thursday, March 22 evening by ...STEVIE WONDER TO HEADLINE BESTIVAL MUSIC FEST
Bestival England-hosted music festival organisers have signed, sealed and delivered soul legend Stevie Wonder as one of their headline acts, Belfast Telegraph reported.The chart-topping star, who scored ...NOMINATIONS FOR LOLA GERMAN TOP FILM AWARDS NAMED
Barbara, a slow-burning drama set in communist East Germany from director Christian Petzold, is the front runner for this year's Lolas, Germany's equivalent of the Oscar, with eight nominations, including ...ALIOSE SWISS BAND TO FEATURE RENEWED PROGRAM IN ARMENIA
Aliose acoustic pop band will perform a completely renewed show program in Armenia, the band member Alizée Oswald told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
As she also noted, the music to be performed ...EU HALTS MALI DEVELOPMENT AID AFTER COUP
The European Union's executive arm decided Friday, March 23 to temporarily suspend development operations in Mali after a military coup as EU foreign ministers called for the return of civilian rule.
...IFC FILMS PICKS UP "CHERRY" BERLINALE FILM
Cherry stars Ashley Hinshaw, Dev Patel, Heather Graham, and James Franco and premiered this year in the Panorama Section at the Berlin International Film Festival, Deadline reported.
IFC Films has acquired ...HRANT DINK FAMILY DEMANDS NEW INVESTIGATION
The family of Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian journalist who was assassinated outside his newspaper's office in 2007, but most of whose murderers were allowed to walk free following a court ruling last ...ARMENIAN HOSTS ANTI-ARMENIAN SHOWS IN U.S.?
The head of information and analytical International ArmInfoCenter Armen Ter-Sargsyan issued a letter to President Serzh Sargysan and Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, calling their attention to ...U.S. PROVIDES ISRAEL WITH $205 MLN IN ANTI-ROCKET SYSTEM FUNDING
Barack Obama's administration has allocated $205 million toward funding Israel's advanced anti-rocket system, the Iron Dome.
The House of Representatives made the decision 212-206 after it passed ...U.S. NOMINATES PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERT FOR WORLD BANK PRESIDENCY
The United States picked a public health expert of South Korean origin as its candidate for the World Bank presidency, a job emerging market economies are contesting for the first time, Reuters reported.
...IRAN STORES UP GRAIN, USES TURKISH BANKS AS FINANCING ROUTE
Almost half a million metric tonnes of grain has arrived at Iran's major food port and Turkish banks are being used by the Islamic Republic as an alternative trade financing route to sidestep Western ...CASH-STRAPPED LIBYANS ATTACK CONSULATE IN ISTANBUL
Turkish police detained more than two dozen Libyans after they occupied and ransacked the Libyan consulate in Istanbul on Friday, March 23 to protest at a lack of financial support from their government ...RUSSIA'S BIGGEST COMBINED CYCLE GAS TURBINE UNIT LAUNCHED
A new combined cycle gas turbine unit at the Kirishskaya power plant in northern Russia reached the nominal planned capacity of 800 megawatts on Friday, March 23, RIA Novosti reported.
Prime Minister ...AZERIS THREATEN TO FOIL ARMENIAN MPS' PARTICIPATION IN EURONEST SESSION
The head of so-called Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) pledged to prevent Armenian MPs from participating in Azeri-hosted Euronest Parliamentary Assembly's plenary session.
"KLO will spare no effort ...NEWLY-DISCOVERED MOZART PIANO PIECE PERFORMED IN SALZBURG
A newly discovered Mozart piano piece composed when the child prodigy was 11 years old was presented and performed for the first time here Friday in his former family home, AFP reported.
Simply titled ...CINEDIGM, NEW VIDEO ACQUIRE "CITADEL" HORROR FILM
Cinedigm and New Video have jointly acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the horror film "Citadel", The Wrap reported.
The film centers on a young father who becomes afflicted with chronic ...EU EXTENDS BELARUS SANCTIONS AFTER MINSK BOMBERS' EXECUTION
Following the recent execution of two Minsk metro bombers European Union foreign ministers on Friday extended their sanctions on the Belarusian regime, RIA Novosti reported.
The EU ministers added 29 ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1886 Birth of Tsolak Khanzadian, linguist and translator. He died in Moscow, and is buried in Yerevan.
- 1887 Birth of Aristakes Vardanian, linguist and philologist. When he was 23, he become a monk of the Mkhitarist Congregation. He died in 1941.
- 1898 Death of Tigran Tshookhadjiyan - composer and creator of the first Armenian opera - in Smyrna. (He was born in 1836).
- 1904 Birth of composer and important artistic figure, Levon Khoja-Eynatian in Tbilissi.
- 1908 Tachat Terlemezian executes Davo, the traitor.
- 1923 Death of Hovhannes Toomanyan (writer) in Moscow (Russia). He was born in 1869.
- 1929 Birth of Rafael Chmshkian, famous weightlifter, world record-holder, international trainer, European and Helsinki Olympic Games champion.
- 1937 Abolition of the Transcausasian Federation.
- 1937 The 9th Extraordinary Congress of the Armenian SSR confirms the New Constitution for Armenia.
- 1954 The National Congress of Armenia's village doctors opens in Yerevan.
- 1956 Death of actor Goorgen Gabrielyan.
- 1966 Creation of the Armenian Radio and Television Symphonic Orchestra headed by Ohan Doorian.
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