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Headlines for February 07, 2008
OSCE WORRIED ABOUT ARMENIAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN
By Astghik Bedevian
International observers indicated Thursday their concerns about Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian’s heavy reliance on his government levers in the Armenian presidential race and pledged to investigate a ...SARKISIAN CONTINUES GOVERNMENT-BACKED RALLIES
By Karine Simonian and Ruzanna Stepanian
Authorities in Armenia’s third largest city of Vanadzor provided for free public transportation, cancelled classes and suspended the work of other public institutions in an apparent effort to ensure high ...BAGHDASARIAN BRIEFS POLICE ON ‘DEATH THREATS’
By Ruzanna Khachatrian
Opposition presidential candidate Artur Baghdasarian met an Armenian police general on Thursday to discuss election-related murder threats which he claims to have received late last week. Baghdasarian ...
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By Anna Saghabalian
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By Emil Danielyan and Ruzanna KhachatrianPROMINENT EX-PREMIER IN RARE MEETING WITH KOCHARIAN
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Mehekan was the 7th month in the old Armenian calendar (February 7 to March 8). The month's name is connected to the Armenian for death (mah) because plants and some animals would be in a state of hibernation at this time.
- 1676 Birth of Mkhitar Sebastatsi (cultural and church figure). He founded the Roman Catholoc Mkhitarist Congregation. He died in 1749.
- 1861 Birth in Vagharshapat (Etshmiadsin) of publisher and author of dictionaries, Tigran Navasardian.
- 1887 Birth of Civil War hero and famous Commander Hayk Bjshkyants (Guy) in Tavriz (Iran). In December 1937 he was killed -- a victim of Stalin's terror.
- 1899 The first train arrives at Alexandropol (Gyoomree) from Tbilisi.
- 1925 Opening of the Land-owners' First National Conference in Yerevan.
- 1950 Death of painter Sargis Yerkanian in St Louis (USA).
- 1992 The U.S. Embassy opens in Armenia. It is the first foreign country to set up a diplomatic mission in Armenia.
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