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Headlines for January 31, 2007
ARMENIANS SEE INCREASED CORRUPTION, SHOWS NEW SURVEY
By Emil Danielyan and Shakeh Avoyan
Almost two in three Armenians believe that corruption in their country has increased in recent years despite declared government efforts to combat it, according to new research made public on Wednesday. ...CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE INTRODUCED
By Desmond Butler, Associated Press
Ignoring expected opposition from President George W. Bush, Democratic and Republican lawmakers have introduced a resolution urging the U.S. government to recognize as genocide the deaths of 1.5 million ...YOUTHS PROTEST ANTI-ARMENIAN VIOLENCE IN RUSSIA
By Narine Ghalechian and Ruben Meloyan
About a hundred student activists staged on Wednesday a rare demonstration outside the Russian embassy in Yerevan to protest continuing racially motivated attacks on Armenians in Russia. Chanting “No ...EU PARLIAMENT OBSERVES MINUTE'S SILENCE FOR DINK
AFP, Reuters
The European Parliament observed a minute's silence on Wednesday in memory of slain journalist Hrant Dink, a leading member of Turkey's tiny Armenian minority. "I would like, in the ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1860 Birth of Sargis Moubaiajyan (writer). He died in 1937.
- 1860 Birth in Ghars, of the Armenian writer and public figure Atrpet (Sargees Moobayajyan). His short story, "Tjvtjvik", reflects the social life of the times.
- 1911 Birth in Constantinople of astronomer, faculty member (emeritus) of the University of Mexico Dr. Pishmish (also known as Pareess or Mary Sookeeasian).
- 1924 Adoption of the First Constitution of the USSR.
- 1931 Birth of doctor, pharmacologist and Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Emil Gabrielyan in Ashtarak. He is presently working on the cure for AIDS as the leader of the group that has discovered the Armenicum drug.
- 1931 Birth of artist Rafael Atoyan in Leninakan (currently Gyoomree).
- 1965 Death of writer Aharon Tsatoorian. He was born in 1886.
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