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Headlines for February 27, 2008
SARKISIAN SAYS COALITION TALKS IN PROGRESS
By Ruzanna Khachatrian
Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian said on Wednesday that his offer to form a new, more broad-based coalition government has met with a positive response from some of the Armenian opposition leaders who challenged ...TER-PETROSIAN KEEPS UP PROTESTS
By Ruzanna Stepanian and Ruben Meloyan
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian told tens of thousands of his supporters Wednesday to continue to challenge the official results of Armenia’s controversial presidential election, dismissing President ...JAILED TER-PETROSIAN ALLIES CHARGED
By Karine Kalantarian and Astghik Bedevian
At least three of the allies of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian arrested in recent days have been remanded in pre-trial custody on a string of criminal charges which the Armenian opposition rejects ...ARMENIAN PEACEKEEPING UNIT GETS MORE U.S. AID
By Emil Danielyan
The United States said on Wednesday that it has donated $3 million worth of additional equipment to the special peacekeeping battalion of Armenia’s armed forces that sends troops to Iraq and Kosovo. ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1826 Birth of Vardges Soorenyan (artist). He died in 1921.
- 1833 Tsar Nicholas the First confirms the Armenian Province's coat-of-arms.
- 1845 Birth of Grigor Artsruni (public figure) in Moscow (Russia). He died in 1892 in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1858 Death of architect Nikoghayos Palyan in Constantinople. He was born in 1826.
- 1873 Birth of Armen Gabo. He died in 1923.
- 1917 Tsarism overthrown in Russia with the victory of the second democratic revolution.
- 1917 The February Revolution took placed in Russia.
- 1988 The Azeri Turks organize the three-day Sumgait Massacres in retaliation for the Artsakh movement.
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