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Published on March 01, 2008
OSKANYAN: NO MURDERS AMONG MEETING PARTICIPANTS
Armenian authorities refuse any news about murders among the participants of the opposition meeting. According to Vardan Oskanyan, the Foreign Affairs Minister, there are only injured people among them. He said that 31 people were injured and only 10 of them were hospitalized. He notified that the force applied by the policemen was in accordance to the created disorder. Oskanyan reminded that the participants of the meeting were with guns. First the police was not forced with appropriate means, as they were not intended to rush towards them. The police was intended to check whether the participants were with guns. Whereas, the policemen met aggression and resistance. That is why the ordinary policemen were exchanged by the prepared ones, explained the minister.
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Headlines for March 01, 2008ARF REPRESENTATIVES OBSERVE RUSSIAN ELECTIONS
The representatives of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) are invited by the Fair Russia party to carry out observation mission in the presidential elections scheduled on 2 March. Hence, Lilit ...POLICE INFORMATION
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Today 31 citizens were injured in the result of disorder events in the Freedom square. There are six policemen in those injured people. Panorama.am reporter was informed from the Health Ministry that ...ONE INJURED
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Armenian authorities refuse any news about murders among the participants of the opposition meeting. According to Vardan Oskanyan, the Foreign Affairs Minister, there are only injured people among them. ...LEVON TER-PETROSYAN FREE
The rumors are spread that Levon Ter-Petrosyan is under house arrest. In fact the reality is quite different. According to Vardan Oskanyan, the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of Armenia (RA), ...
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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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