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Headlines for December 01, 2008FOREIGN MINISTERS’ MEETING IN HELSINKI
Foreign Minister of Turkey Ali Babacan said that he would meet the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Helsinki at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ...HOVIK ABRAHAMYAN’S LETTER OF CONDOLENCE TO HIS INDIAN COUNTERPARTS
The Chairman of National Assembly of Armenia Hovik Abrahamyan sent a letter of condolence to the Chairmen of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha of Indian Parliament. It is particularly mentioned in the message: ...CEMENT TRANSPORTATION PRICES LOWERED
South-Caucasus Railroads company made a decision on November 28 to lower the prices of cement transportation if reasonable transportation for the company is guaranteed reported the press service of the ...COMPREHENSIVE PROJECTS ON HIV/AIDS HELP TO PREVENT DISEASE
As the year is coming to its end, the AIDS prophylactic center presents some figures on HIV disease in Armenia. According to the director of the center Samvel Grigoryan in 2008 656 people suffered HIV ...SCIENTISTS FROM ISRAEL AND YEMEN DEFEND DISSERTATIONS IN AZERBAIJAN
A representative of the Israeli embassy to Azerbaijan Mikhail Barkan called the defense of dissertations by scientists from Israel and Yemen at the Institute of Human Rights of the National Academy of ...“GENOCIDE WITHOUT COMMENTS” FILM IS DENIED
There are many films on Armenian Genocide shoot in many countries. They express different view points of our tragedy, but all those films have one similar character there is a person who applies, who ...AZERI CHESS PLAYERS UNDER PRESSURE
Zeiynab Mamediarova, who is the best chess player of Azerbaijan, said that Azeri women chess players were under pressure as enemious character against Armenians is sowed among them. According to Azeri ...MEMBERS OF “PYUNIK” NGO - DONORS
The members of Pyunik NGO of disabled people have become blood donors, today, said Sevak Avagyan, the executive director of National Register of bone marrow donors, to Panorama.am. This is a wonderful ...
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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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