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LINARES: ARONYAN THIRD
The tournament of world eight best chess players is continued in Linares. After the tenth round Indian GM Wiswanathan Anand leads the tournament with 6.5 scores. He played with Norwegian 17-year-old Magnus Karlsen. Now the Norwegian chess player is the second. Levon Aronyan, Armenian GM and the champion of Chorus-Chess Open 2008 is in the third horizontal with 5.5 scores. Aronyan played with Azeri Taymur Radjabov. Bulgarian Vesselin Topalov is in the fourth horizontal with 5 scores. Radjabov, Shirov and Ivanchuk are in the 5-7 horizontals. Peter Leko has 3.5 scores and is the last in the tournament.
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Headlines for March 03, 2008CAPITAL’S DAMAGES SHOULD BE RECOVERED
The president of the Republic of Armenia (RA) Robert Kocharyan gave orders to the mayor of Yerevan Yervand Zakaryan to take measures to recover the damages of the capital. The information is provided ...PRIME MINISTER SERZH SARGSYAN ABOUT THE INCIDENTS OF 01 MARCH 2008
1Dear compatriots, the recent days incidents caused fatal losts to our nation. There have been fatal cases and murders, people serving the police and people, who were under influence of some groups, from ...62 INJURED CURED
In the result of disorder organized in the capital on 01 March 62 injured were cured, 27 of them were military men. According to the official web page of the Health Ministry, 19 injured were cured in ...WAKE CEREMONY IN ECHMIADZIN
On 02 March Holy Cathedral Echmiadzin headed by Garegin II organized wake ceremony devoted to the Armenians who suffered and were murdered in the results of the disorder organized in the capital. According ...ROBERT KOCHARYAN CONGRATULATED DMITRY MEDVEDEV
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Armenia will start cooperation with Delli, capital of India and several major cities in China. According to Davit Gevorgyan, the head of the foreign affairs department of the municipality of Yerevan, ...LINARES: ARONYAN THIRD
The tournament of world eight best chess players is continued in Linares. After the tenth round Indian GM Wiswanathan Anand leads the tournament with 6.5 scores. He played with Norwegian 17-year-old Magnus ...VISIT OF STATE SECRETARY OF VATICAN DELAYED
The scheduled visit of State Secretary of Vatican City cardinal Tarchizio Bertonne is delayed. According to Tigran Balayan of the Foreign Affairs Ministry said We hope that he will visit Armenia, but ...PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCHARYAN CONDOLED SOFIKO CHIAURELI’S FAMILY
The president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan sent a condolence message to Georgian famous actress Sofiko Chiaurelis family. It is particularly mentioned in the message: It was hard to find out that the ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1842 Birth of the great Armenian benefactor, petroleum magnat Alexander Mantashian in Tbilissi. He made donations to the Church (Ejmiadsin) and founded schools in Constantinople, Tbilissi, and Kareen -among other places. He also built the new building of the Nersisian School.
- 1872 The "Union for Salvation" is formed in Van (Western Armenia).
- 1878 Treaty of San Stefano signed between Russia and Turkey. Article 16 of the San Stefano Treaty guaranteed the security of Armenians in Western Armenia under the Turkish Empire. Article 61 of the Treaty of Berlin, however, annuled these guarantees and the majority of the Armenian lands were given to the Turks.
- 1905 Start of the Armenian - Tatar War.
- 1918 Signature of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Russia and Germany.
- 1918 Signnature of the Russian - Turkish supplemental treaty in connection with the Peace Treaty between Russia, on the one hand, and Germany, Austria - Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey on the other.
- 1920 The Boshevik "Workers' Struggle" Armenian newspaper is published in New Nakhichevan (Rostov, Russia).
- 1930 Opening of the National Seminary.
- 1935 Birth of writer Hrant Matevossyan.
- 1943 The first volume of the novel "Vardanank", written by Derenik Demirchyan, is published during World War 2 (the Great Patriotic War). Soldiers passed it from hand to hand on the front.
- 1953 Opening of the Armenian Manuscript Depository: the Matenadaran (Architect - Mark Grigoryan). The Matenadaran has more than 13 000 ancient manuscripts and more than 100 000 archived documents.
- 1955 Hovhannes Issakov is promoted to Admiral of the Fleet (USSR).
- 1958 Yerevan's Matenadaran (Manuscript Depository) is declared a Research Institute.
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