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Headlines for February 05, 2008
TER-PETROSIAN COURTS PRO-KOCHARIAN TYCOON
By Ruzanna Stepanian
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Tuesday heaped praise on one of Armenia’s wealthiest businessmen close to President Robert Kocharian and urged him to defect to the opposition camp. Ter-Petrosian ...BAGHDASARIAN ATTACKS SARKISIAN OVER ‘DEATH THREATS’
By Emil Danielyan and Ruzanna Khachatrian
Former parliament speaker Artur Baghdasarian insisted on Tuesday that the Armenian authorities threatened to kill him and condemned Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian for laughing off the allegations. Speaking ...LA LAWYER BATTLES GIANTS FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE HEIRS
By Haro Chakmakjian, AFPLawyer Vartkes Yeghiayan has been waging a long and hard battle against US and French giants for million-dollar claims from Armenians dating back to the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. Thousands of ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1540 Birth of Simeon Aparanetsi (historian). He died in 1614.
- 1877 Birth of Alexander Melikyan in Hadrut (Artsakh). This scientist, mathematician, and engineer designed and constructed Yerevan's water-mains system.
- 1879 Birth in Baku of Hovhannes Adamyan, engineer and inventor of colored television and visual telecommunications. He was born in a family of petroleum producers. In June 1970, the inventor's remains were transferred to the Komitas Municipality (Yerevan) Pantheon. He died in 1932 in Leningrad (Russia).
- 1960 Anastas Mikoyan, Deputy President of the USSR's Council of Ministers opened the Soviet Union's Exhibition in Havana (Cuba).
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