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FIRED GENERAL DENIES SUPPORTING TER-PETROSIAN
By Astghik Bedevian
A prominent army general who was dismissed as deputy defense minister last month insisted on Thursday that he did not support opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian before or after Armenia’s recent presidential ...MINISTER’S NEPHEW NAMED SENIOR PROSECUTOR
By Hovannes Shoghikian
President Serzh Sarkisian has appointed a 33-year-old nephew of Justice Minister Gevorg Danielian as Armenia’s deputy prosecutor-general, it emerged on Thursday. Armen Danielian, a parliament deputy ...GOVERNMENT PLANS ‘DRASTIC’ PAY RISE FOR CIVIL SERVANTS
By Shakeh Avoyan
The Armenian government will sharply increase next year the salaries of civil servants in order to boost the “productivity” of various ministries and other government agencies, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Mareri was the 10th month in the old Armenian calendar (May 8 to June 6). It relates to the time when trees (mayrik) acquire new foliage.
- 1851 Birth of Yeghya Demeertjeepashyan. He died in 1908.
- 1883 Inauguration of the Tbilissi-Baku railway.
- 1930 Murder, by the Soviet Police, of Catholicos, Gevorg the Fifth (Sooreniants).
- 1958 The Eighth Congress of Armenian Trade Unions opens in Yerevan.
- 1992 A counterattack by Artsakhs armed forces retakes Shushi, thereby stopping the random bombardment and shelling of Stepanakert.
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