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Headlines for May 10, 2008

FUNERAL MARCH TO POLICE STATION
On 12 May it is a year since Levon Gulyan was murdered in Police Station. The criminal case has been stopped and not a single police officer is responsible for that, the announcement is made by Gulyans ...
DINNER TO NALBANDIAN
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Yesterday the chairman of Senate of France Christian Ponsele received Foreign Minister of Armenia Edvard Nalbandyan who is in France for working visit in Luxemburg Palace. According to the press service ...
PRESIDENT TOOK PART IN COMMEMORATING CEREMONIES IN ARTSAKH
Yesterday the president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan went to Stepabakert monument and put wreath commemorating the victims of Artsakh war. After, the delegation leaded by the president went to Shushi, where ...

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Today in Armenian history

1804 Mamed Khan of Yerevan, knowing of the Russian force's progress, orders the migration (for the duration of the war) of about 20000 Armenians from the Khanate of Yerevan to Ghars.
1810 Birth of Gabriel Aivazovski in Feodosia (Ukraine). He died in 1880 in Tbilissi (Georgia).
1838 Birth of Viscount James Bryce (statesman). He served under Prime Minister William Gladstone. He was a founder of the League of Nations. He wrote on jurisprudence and political science. He vociferously condemned the Armenian Genocide by the Turkish government. He died in 1922.
1848 The Lazaryan College (Moscow) becomes the Institute of Western Languages.
1855 The Sultan orders, for the first time, the draft for the Christians in Turkey. The order was ineffective.
1920 Armenia's Revolutionary Military Committee in Alexandropol and proclaims the establishment of Soviet power in Armenia.
1923 Birth of Heydar Aliev, First Secretary of the Communist Party in Azerbaijan, Head of the Azeri Turk subdivision of the Soviet KGB, Member of the USSR Politbureau, and Head of Atheistic Propaganda under the Soviet regime. Committed Genocide against the Armenians of Nakhitshevan and Artsakh. Took over the presidency of Azerbaijan in 1993.
1941 The Ten-day Festival of Armenian Literature starts in Moscow (Russia).
1943 Garegeen the First (Hovsepyants) is anointed Catholicos of Cilicia in Antilias' Cathedral.

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