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SARKISIAN VOWS TO HEAL ELECTION WOUNDS
Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian said on Thursday that his hotly disputed victory in last month’s presidential election has split Armenian society and told his cabinet members to start “dialogue” with citizens ...U.S. OFFICIAL DISCUSSES POST-ELECTION UNREST IN YEREVAN
A senior U.S. official was reported to heap praise on Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian as he discussed with the latter Armenia’s bloody post-election unrest during a visit to Yerevan on Thursday. A statement ...VATICAN NO. 2 WRAPS UP ARMENIA VISIT
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, ended on Thursday a three-day visit to Armenia that was overshadowed by its grave political crisis. The visit, originally scheduled to start ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1857 Death of Rooben Papazian, linguist, teacher, literary and public figure. He was born in 1806, in Constantinople.
- 1894 Birth of one of the founders of the Armenian national ballet school, Ilia Arbatov (Yeghia Yaghoobian) in Tbilissi.
- 1905 Death of composer Makar Yekmalian. He was born in 1856.
- 1916 Signature of the Sykes-Picot Secret Pact between Great Britain and France. It dealt with the allocation of the Asian regions of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1921 Creation of the "Ararat" trust in Yerevan.
- 1924 Foundation of the Armenian State Central Archives by decree of Armenia's Central Committee. Now there are 3 million documents in our archive. The oldest document dates from 1630.
- 1926 Foundation of the first Sewing Factory in Yerevan.
- 1945 Lieutenant-colonel of the Guard, Nelson Stepanyan is awarded his second "Gold Star" medal. Because he is a two-time "Hero of the USSR" his bronze bust is to be placed before his residence.
- 1955 Fourth election of the Armenian SSR Supreme Council.
- 1974 During a meeting of the UN Human Rights Sub-Committee, the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians was recognized as the first Genocide fo the 20th century.
- 1992 Azeri Turk forces occupy Karanchi (Martakert, Artsakh).
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