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MEDIATORS IN LAST-DITCH BID TO BROKER KARABAKH DEAL
By Anna Saghabalian 1
International mediators met Armenian leaders on Tuesday during their latest round of regional shuttle diplomacy which they hope will yield a framework agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh before Armenia’s upcoming ...NATIONALIST GROUP ENDORSES TER-PETROSIAN
By Ruzanna Stepanian
A hard-line pressure group opposed to any Armenian territorial concessions to Azerbaijan officially endorsed former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s presidential candidacy on Tuesday despite his conciliatory ...FEUDING OPPOSITIONISTS DETAINED BY POLICE
By Ruzanna Khachatrian
The two rival leaders of one of Armenia’s oldest opposition parties were detained and spent several hours in police custody on Tuesday after again coming to blows at the party offices in Yerevan. Witnesses ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1795 Birth of Alexander Griboyedov, Russian writer, diplomat, and Armenia's friend. He was the first Russian writer, who, based on historical circumstances, became well-informed about the Armenian people.
- 1855 Publication of the "Masseatss Aghavnee" (pigeon of Masis) magazine in Paris. Editor - G. Aivazovski.
- 1903 Birth of Shmavon Arushanian in the Lacheen region. He was Agriculture Commissar of the Armenian Peoples' Committee, President of Leninakan's Regional Party Committee, and headed the Presidency of the Supreme Soviet Council of the USSR.
- 1916 Birth of artist, sculptor, and ceramist Hripsimeh Simonian in Kars (Western Armenia).
- 1931 Celebration of the first decade of the Armenian Artillery Division.
- 1959 Yerevan's population reaches 509340, according to the Census.
- 1990 The Armenian forces control the Azeri Turk village of Kiark. It has a strategic position in the Ararat region.
- 1990 The USSR Supreme Soviet installs Viktor Polianichko (Azerbaijans Communist Party Deputy Leader) as head of the Republic Organizational Committee. In order to do away with Artsakhs Armenian majority, military action takes place from January 1991 to May 1991 to expel the Armenians from 24 Armenian villages and the subsequent occupation of half of Artsakhs territory by the Azeri Army.
- 1990 The Supreme Soviet of the USSR proclaims, without foundation, an emergency situation in Artsakh and Goris.
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