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TODAY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF COMBAT AGAINST HIV
Today is the international day of combat against HIV. The whole world is fighting against the spread of the disease since December 1, 1988 when the World Health Organization decided to attract public attention on HIV problems. The day is nominated by different slogans each year. Since 2005, the slogan for the combat against HIV is Stop HIV! Keep to your promise! U.N. member states have signed a commitment statement on fight against HIV which has become the first global programs on such events. Today an award giving ceremony will take place in Yerevans Moscow Theater. Awards will be handed in several categories of fight against the disease.
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Armenian culture minister, Hasmik Poghosyan, and Russias culture and cinematography federative agency head, Michael Shvidko, signed yesterday Memorandum 2008 on Cultural Cooperation. The memorandum envisages ...HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT HAVE GREAT FREEDOM IN ROTATION SYSTEM
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Today in Armenian history- 1824 The Nerssissian school opens in Tbilissi (Georgia) and continues to operate till 1924.
- 1827 Creation of an Armenian printing-house in Shooshee (Artsakh).
- 1827 Sultan Mahmud the Second expels about 12000 Armenian Catholics from Constantinople. Some 4000 die of exposure along the way and the remainder are banished to provinces of Asia Minor, which they reach in February 1828.
- 1876 The Turkish government orders the burning of the market of Van and destroys Armenian properties.
- 1894 Publication of the "Struggle" newspaper (Association of Armenian Worker-Revolutionaries).
- 1899 Death of Tigran Yerkat, publicist and public figure.
- 1903 Death of Manvel Qadjooni, historian, geographer, and philologist. He was born in 1823.
- 1903 Death of Manuel Katjooni (historian) in Constantinople. He was born in 1823.
- 1914 Battle of Sarighamish. Destruction of the Turkish Army, that was led by Enver Pasha.
- 1915 United States President Theodore Roosevelt states: The crowning outrage has been committed by the Turks on the Armenians. They have suffered atrocities so hideous that it is difficult to name them, such atrocities such as those inflicted upon conquered nations by the followers of Attila and Genghis Khan. It is dreadful that these things can be done and that this nation nevertheless remains neutral.
- 1917 The People's Commissariat of Nationalities of Soviet Russia creates the Commissariat of Armenian Affairs in Moscow. Varlam Avanesov is appointed commissar and Vahan Teryan (poet) is the deputy.
- 1920 The Revolutionary Council of Azerbaijan recognizes Gharabagh, Zangezur, and Nakhichevan to be parts of Armenia.
- 1921 Elections of the first Peasant District and Provincial Unions in Armenia.
- 1923 The Komitas State Conservatory of Music opens in Yerevan.
- 1929 Yerevan's Kanaker radio station starts its broadcasts.
- 1941 Colonel Simon Zakyan heads the new Armenian 89th Rifle Division.
- 1989 The reunification of Artsakh and Armenia is accepted during a joint session of the Parliaments of Armenia and Artsakh. This was followed by the adoption, by Artsakhs legislative body, of a motion to secede from Azerbaijan. The Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan rejected the decision as illegal and the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declare? it null and void.
- 1989 The Supreme Council of Mountainous Gharabagh (Artsakh) decides to rejoin Armenia in a joint session with the Armenian supreme Council.
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