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TER-PETROSIAN STEPS UP PRESSURE ON BAGHDASARIAN
By Ruzanna Stepanian and Anna Saghabalian
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian publicly pressed fellow opposition candidate Artur Baghdasarian to back his presidential bid and claimed to have strong support within the state apparatus on Wednesday ...TV COVERAGE OF SARKISIAN RALLIES RAISES QUESTIONS
By Emil Danielyan and Ruzanna Khachatrian
Armenia’s electronic media have long been loyal to the government, and there is nothing unusual about their highly positive coverage of Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian’s election campaign. What is unusual ...ANGRY MANUKIAN RULES OUT SUPPORT FOR TER-PETROSIAN
By Astghik Bedevian
Opposition candidate Vazgen Manukian angrily rejected calls to bow out of the presidential race in favor of his longtime rival, former President Levon Ter-Petrosian, during a rare campaign trip outside ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1870 Birth of Nerses Ashtaraketsee the Fifth, later to become Catholicos and a figure of the National Liberal Movement. In 1814, while leader of the See of Tbilisi (Georgia), he founded the Nersessyan School. (He died in 1957).
- 1885 The Tsar closes Armenian Parish Schools in the Caucasus.
- 1891 The Tsar intensifies the national persecution of Armenians.
- 1894 Birth of Hambardsoom Khachanyan, famous actor of the Armenian stage.
- 1898 Birth of writer and critic Shavarsh Nardoonee. He died in 1968.
- 1921 Start of the Dashnak's anti-Bolshevik revolt.
- 1921 Armed forces of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation that had not already surrendered, start what became known as the "February Revolt" in Kesheeshkend (Yeghegnadzor) against the newly- created Soviet Armenian Government.
- 1925 Publication of the Large Soviet Encyclopedia.
- 1937 Death of seascape artist Vardan Makhookhian. He was born in 1869.
- 1963 The largest food-processing plant in Armenia (at Charentsavan-Lusavan) starts production.
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