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Headlines for February 08, 2008
KOCHARIAN ARGUES AGAINST OPPOSITION ALLIANCE
By Emil Danielyan and Ann Israelian
President Robert Kocharian went on national television late Friday to advise former parliament speaker Artur Baghdasarian against withdrawing his presidential candidacy in favor of another, more radical ...TER-PETROSIAN DEMANDS ELECTION DELAY
By Ruzanna Khachatrian
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian has asked the Constitutional Court to postpone Armenia’s presidential election by two weeks, citing state television’s hostile coverage of his election campaign and ...DASHNAKS RALLY THOUSANDS IN YEREVAN
By Emil Danielyan
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) rallied thousands of people in Yerevan on Friday to shore up voter support for its presidential candidate Vahan Hovannisian and urge Armenians to ...OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS ‘BEATEN UP’
By Karine Kalantarian 1
Three opposition activists were discharged from hospital on Friday after claiming to have been beaten up by government loyalists while distributing leaflets announcing former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s ...
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By Karine Kalantarian
EU EXPECTS PROPER CONDUCT OF ARMENIAN VOTE
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Today in Armenian history- 1806 General Tshitshianov is murdered in Baku.
- 1895 Constantinople's Armenian Patriarch, Matevos Izmirlian, in a letter to Turkey's Minister of Justice, informs him, in detail, of the illegal actions of Turks in the Armenian Provinces, including the murders and deportations of the Armenians.
- 1914 The Great Powers and Turkey sign an Armenian Improvements Project. The Dutch official, Westenenk and the Norwegian envoy, Hoff arrive in Constantinople as observers. Because of the start of the First World War, the agreement remains a dead letter.
- 1915 The Young Turks' "Union and Progress" Committee creates a special Sub-Committee for organizing deportations and genocide of the Armenians in Turkey.
- 1918 Death of Dr. Vaheh Minassian the translator Hayneh.
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