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ARMENIAN TAX REVENUES UP IN JANUARY
By Emil Danielyan
The Armenian government reported on Thursday a 21 percent increase in the amount of various taxes collected in January, putting it on track to execute its record-high budget for this year. The ...‘IMPEACHMENT BLOC’ AMONG ARMENIAN VOTE CONTENDERS
By Ruzanna Stepanian
A small opposition alliance pursuing the single goal of impeaching President Robert Kocharian was officially registered to contest the May 12 parliamentary elections on Thursday. The bloc bearing ...INDICTED MP SNUBBED BY OWN PARTY
By Ruzanna Stepanian
Hakob Hakobian, a controversial lawmaker prosecuted for tax evasion and assault, will not be backed by his governing Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) in the upcoming parliamentary elections, ...HOUSE DEMOLITIONS CONTINUE IN YEREVAN
By Shakeh Avoyan
Security forces used force to evict on Thursday yet another family in downtown Yerevan whose old house has been confiscated by the state to be torn down by private real estate developers. The ...AS ARMENIAN ECONOMY BLOSSOMS ANCIENT CAPITAL SUFFOCATES
By Mariam Harutiunian, Agence France Presse
Waking one cold winter morning, Yerevan resident Susanna Poghosian drew back the curtains and got a shock: workmen had razed the trees opposite her home, literally overnight. "Trees that had ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 World Civil Defense day.
- 1856 Birth of the cleric, historian, ethnologist, teacher and translator, Gyoot Aghanyan (Harootyoon Ter - Arakelian) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He translated literary classics and re-wrote Yeghisheh's "Vardanants Story" in modern Armenian. He wrote textbooks on religion and library science. He was the first in Eastern Armenia to publish a wall-calendar.
- 1857 Opening of the school at Varaga Monastery (western Armenia) for the education of "orphan and homeless" children.
- 1865 Birth in Tbilisi of Teegran Hovhannisian, translator and lawyer. He translated the novels "Harootyoon" (Resurrection) written by Lev Tolstoy and "Arants Davananki" (Without Faith) written by Henry Senkeveech.
- 1867 Birth of the writer Nar-Dos (Meekael Hovhannisyan) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He died in 1933.
- 1901 Birth of the poet Sarmen (Armenak Sargsian) in Pakhvants (Western Armenia). Many popular songs have been written using his poems as lyrics.
- 1915 The First Meeting of Armenian immigrants took place in Echmiadsin. The meeting tried to integrate the work of the many benevolent unions that were created to help the survivors of the 1915 Genocide.
- 1920 Azeri Turks perpetrate the Genocide of Shooshee. Some 20 000 Armenians are killed.
- 1920 The Government allots 50 million rubles for agricultural development. Agricultural tractors are brought to Armenia for the first time.
- 1930 The Sardarapat tractor plant starts production.
- 1934 Death in Yerevan of Toros Toramanyan (architecture historian).
- 1960 Martiros Saryan is awarded the title "People's Painter of the USSR".
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