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CANDIDATES KICK OFF ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
By Astghik Bedevian, Ruzanna Khachatrian, Ruben Meloyan and Anna Saghabalian
Candidates presented their manifestos and held first meetings with voters on Monday as campaigning officially got underway for Armenia’s presidential election that will determine outgoing President Robert ...HOVANNISIAN OPTS FOR ELECTION NEUTRALITY
By Astghik Bedevian
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian indicated over the weekend that he and his Zharangutyun (Heritage) party will not endorse any of Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian’s four main election challengers before ...ARMENIA KEEPS UP DOUBLE-DIGIT GROWTH
By Emil Danielyan
Armenia’s economy grew at a double-digit rate in 2007 for the sixth consecutive year on the back of its booming construction and services sectors, according to government data made public on Monday. ...TURKISH MINISTER URGES PROBE INTO POLICE ROLE IN DINK’S MURDER
AFP
Turkey's justice minister has called for a "serious" probe into claims that security forces were involved in the murder last year of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. "Certain members of the security ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1878 Birth of writer and public figure Vahan Tekeyan in Constantinople. He was a classic Western Armenian poet and a famous Diasporan writer.
- 1921 Degrees and ranks among Armenian citizens are abolished in favor of only one title for the Armenian population: Armenian Citizen.
- 1921 Degrees and ranks among Armenian citizens are abolished in favor of only one title for the Armenian population: Armenian Citizen.
- 1924 V.I. Lenin dies.
- 1928 Publication of the first issue of the anti-religious, political, scholarly, popular, and literary illustrated publication called "Anastvatz" (atheist).
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