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Kocharian Rejects Karabakh Vote Criticism
By Emil Danielyan
President Robert Kocharian condemned international mediators and European officials through a spokesman on Wednesday for their strong criticism of the weekend referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh on a constitution ...U.S.-Armenian Tycoon Launches New Lobby Group
By Harry Tamrazian in Prague
Gerard Cafesjian, a U.S. philanthropist of Armenian descent, has set up a new lobbying organization which he hopes will “complement” the existing Armenian-American advocacy groups and match their considerable ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1795 Javad Khan surrenders Gandzak to the Russians.
- 1854 Birth of Mooratsan - Grigor Ter-Hovhannisyan -(writer) in Shooshee (Artsakh). He died in 1908.
- 1890 Death of Mkrtich Emin (armenologist) in Moscow (Russia). He was born in 1815.
- 1901 Opening of the Alexandropol-Yerevan railroad.
- 1911 Gevorg the Fifth (Soorenyants) elected Catholicos. He was murdered by the Soviet Police in 1930.
- 1920 Lenin appoints A. Mravyan and S. Ter-Gabrielyan to the Revolutionary Committee of the USSR.
- 1920 The old administrative institutions and positions are removed by order of the Armenian SSR's People's Committee for Internal Affairs.
- 1921 Start of the repatriation of Diasporan Armenians to Soviet Armenia.
- 1940 Death of painter Stepan Aghajanian.
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