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ARMENIA TO GET CRUCIAL FERRY LINK WITH RUSSIA
By Shakeh Avoyan
Armenia will gain next month a long-awaited second rail ferry link with the outside world that will substantially reduce the cost of its transport communication with Russia and possibly other countries, ...PRIVATE TVS DENY GOVERNMENT ORDERS ON CAMPAIGN ADS
By Ruzanna Stepanian, Astghik Bedevian and Karine Kalantarian
Armenia’s leading private broadcasters denied on Tuesday opposition claims that they were forced by the authorities to set artificially high prices for political advertisements to be aired during the ...HISTORIC VILLAGE HIGHLIGHTS RULING PARTY RECRUITMENT
By Karine Simonian in Lori
Manush Makinian runs a kindergarten in one of Armenia’s oldest villages, but it is not children that she is taking care of these days. She has been entrusted with what local authorities consider a far ...ANXIETY GRIPS TURKISH INTELLECTUALS AFTER DINK MURDER
By Burak Akinci, Agence France PresseHated by ultranationalist groups for their dissident views, liberal Turkish intellectuals have grown even more anxious due to increasing threats and hate mail following the murder of ethnic Armenian journalist ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1870 Birth of Nerses Ashtaraketsee the Fifth, later to become Catholicos and a figure of the National Liberal Movement. In 1814, while leader of the See of Tbilisi (Georgia), he founded the Nersessyan School. (He died in 1957).
- 1885 The Tsar closes Armenian Parish Schools in the Caucasus.
- 1891 The Tsar intensifies the national persecution of Armenians.
- 1894 Birth of Hambardsoom Khachanyan, famous actor of the Armenian stage.
- 1898 Birth of writer and critic Shavarsh Nardoonee. He died in 1968.
- 1921 Start of the Dashnak's anti-Bolshevik revolt.
- 1921 Armed forces of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation that had not already surrendered, start what became known as the "February Revolt" in Kesheeshkend (Yeghegnadzor) against the newly- created Soviet Armenian Government.
- 1925 Publication of the Large Soviet Encyclopedia.
- 1937 Death of seascape artist Vardan Makhookhian. He was born in 1869.
- 1963 The largest food-processing plant in Armenia (at Charentsavan-Lusavan) starts production.
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