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Headlines for March 11, 2008

TER-PETROSIAN VOWS MORE PROTESTS
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Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian pledged late Tuesday to continue to challenge the official results of Armenia’s disputed presidential election but made it clear that he will not hold unsanctioned ...
U.S. OFFICIAL SLAMS YEREVAN FOR ‘BRUTAL’ CRACKDOWN
A senior U.S. official has condemned as “harsh and brutal” the Armenian government’s post-election crackdown on the opposition and expressed serious concern about the continuing mass arrests of supporters ...

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Today in Armenian history

1666 The Bible is printed for the first time in Armenian, by publisher Voskan Yerevantsi and his students in Amsterdam. Work on this project lasted more than two years.
1709 First publication by Asatoor Vardapet of "Agathangelos" in Grigor Dpeer's printing house (Constantinople).
1836 Tsar Nicholas the First gives assent to the By-laws of the Armenian Church.
1900 Birth of the Soviet Army's Lieutenant- General Stepan Geenossyan in Satakha (Javakhk Province). He was awarded ten Soviet and three Polish medals of honor. He died in 1965.
1909 Birth of the civil engineer and architect Constantine Khoodabashyan in Baku. He designed the chemical fibres factory in Vanadzor, the Yerevan piano factory, and the electro-apparatus plant, amongst others.
1923 The "Invalides" in Paris officially accepts the Armenian tricolor flag.
1952 Death of actress Varditer Felekian.
1955 General of the Army, Hovhannes Baghramyan is promoted to Marshal.
1992 Artsakh forces stop the advance of Russian and Azeri Turkish forces moving towards Gharashinar - thus stopping the entry of the enemies into the Shahumian region of Artsakh.