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Headlines for February 26, 2008
SARKISIAN APPEALS TO ARMENIANS AS PROTESTS GROW
By Emil Danielyan, Astghik Bedevian and Ruzanna Stepanian
Tens of thousands of people thronged the streets of Yerevan for the seventh consecutive day Tuesday, ignoring Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian’s calls to come to terms with his victory in Armenia’s disputed ...OSCE HEAD DISCUSSES POST-ELECTION UNREST IN ARMENIA
By Ruben Meloyan
The chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe met Armenia’s top government and opposition leaders on Tuesday to discuss mounting tensions in the country in the wake ...BAGHDASARIAN DELAYS ELECTION VERDICT
By Gayane Danielian
Artur Baghdasarian, a former parliament speaker and opposition presidential candidate, on Tuesday cast doubt on the credibility of official election results, alleging widespread vote buying and other ...
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MORE ARMENIAN DIPLOMATS BACK TER-PETROSIAN
By Emil Danielyan
TER-PETROSIAN CONTINUES RALLIES AMID MORE ARRESTS
By Astghik Bedevian and Karine KalantarianKOCHARIAN TELLS MILITARY, POLICE TO THWART ‘OPPOSITION COUP’
By Armen DulianSARKISIAN DECLARED ELECTION WINNER AMID RISING TENSIONS
By Emil Danielyan and Ruzanna StepanianTER-PETROSIAN CLAIMS VICTORY, RALLIES THOUSANDS IN YEREVAN
By Hovannes Shoghikian, Ruzanna Stepanian and Astghik BedevianSARKISIAN APPEALS TO ARMENIANS AS PROTESTS GROW
By Emil Danielyan, Astghik Bedevian and Ruzanna StepanianDASHNAKS ACCEPT SARKISIAN VICTORY
By Emil DanielyanARMENIAN OPPOSITION STARTS ‘NON-STOP’ PROTESTS IN YEREVAN
By Emil Danielyan, Ruzanna Stepanian and Ruben MeloyanTER-PETROSIAN STEPS UP POST-ELECTION PROTESTS
By Emil Danielyan, Ruzanna Stepanian and Astghik BedevianTER-PETROSIAN VOWS TO CONTINUE PROTESTS
By Emil Danielyan, Ruzanna Khachatrian and Hovannes Shoghikian
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Today in Armenian history- 1798 Tsar Paul the First's decree on the Armenians.
- 1802 Birth of Gabriel Patkanyan (historian, public figure) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He died in 1889 in St.Petersburg (Russia).
- 1828 Start of the repatriation of Armenians living in Iran to Eastern Armenia and the Transcaucasus.
- 1921 Atarbekian, the notorious Secret Police Chief who murdered countless Armenians during Stalin's purges, heads the anti-patriotic offensive in the Dilijan and Karakilisa (Vanadzor) regions.
- 1924 The Central Executive Committee of the USSR renames Alexandropol to Leninakan.
- 1988 Genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait (third largest city in Azerbaijan and its second largest industrial center). The perpetrators were not apprehended. No prosecutions of the guilty were initiated. Mikhail Gorbachev dismisses this Genocide just as an act of petty hooliganism.
- 1992 Artsakh forces control Khojalu, the regional military headquarters of the Azeri Turk forces.
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