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KOCHARIAN RULES OUT EARLY END TO EMERGENCY RULE
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President Robert Kocharian dismissed calls for an early end to the state of emergency in Yerevan and threatened to imprison his predecessor and arch-foe Levon Ter-Petrosian on Wednesday as his security ...TER-PETROSIAN MAKES CASE FOR REPEAT ELECTION
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian made a case on Wednesday for a re-run of Armenia’s disputed presidential election in a speech at the Constitutional Court that marked his first public appearance since ...KOCHARIAN BLASTS ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN
President Robert harshly criticized on Wednesday Armenia’s state human rights ombudsman, Armen Harutiunian, for questioning the use of lethal force against thousands of opposition supporters who took ...AZERIS, ARMENIANS SPAR AFTER MAJOR KARABAKH CLASH
By Lada Yevgrashina and Hasmik Mkrtchyan, Reuters
Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other on Wednesday of triggering an exchange of gunfire in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh that killed up to 16 people, one of the biggest such clashes in several years. ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1862 Ter Harootyoonian publisheds the "Yeghbayraser" periodical until 1863, in Calcutta.
- 1873 Birth of writer Teodeek (Labchinchian) in Constantinople. He barely escaped from the Der Zor desert and lived under another name till the end of the First World War. Then he returned to his birthplace. His famous books are "Monument to April 24" and "Calendar for Everyone", which he finished in Paris.
- 1878 Birth of Zaruhi Dolukhanyan (singer). She died in 1936.
- 1920 Parade of the veterans of the defenders of Hatjin, Cilicia. Four battalions resisted Turkish aggression till the middle of October. The heroic battle of Hatjin is one of the bright pages in the history of our national struggle.
- 1924 Death of Vrooyr, actor, satirist, and founding editor of the "Hoosharar" periodical.
- 1959 Birth of Vazgen Sargsian, one of the leaders of the Artsakh War. He was Prime Minister of Armenia in June, 1999 and was assassinated in the Armenian National Assembly on 1999 10 27.
- 1991 Creation of the "Gharabagh Committee" of Russian intellectuals in Moscow. The purpose was the internationalization and just resolution of the Artsakh Problem.
- 1998 The Cypriot Parliament condemns the decision to desecrate the Makar Church (in the territories occupied by Turkey) by turning it into a hotel. The Turkish forces had devastated and pillaged it during Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
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