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Headlines for March 18, 2008

GOVERNMENT SIGNALS BAN ON TER-PETROSIAN RALLIES
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President Robert Kocharian on Tuesday signed into a law a parliament bill that will make it easier for the Armenian authorities to ban fresh anti-government demonstrations planned by opposition leader ...
ARMENIAN OPPOSITION REPORTS MORE ARRESTS
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The Armenian government’s post-election crackdown on the opposition showed no signs of a let-up on Tuesday, with several more supporters of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian reportedly detained by ...
‘THERE WAS BLOOD ALL OVER POLICE STATION’
Robert Chakhoyan endured hours of beating in Armenian police custody but he does not have much of a grudge against his tormentors. He is remarkably composed when describing scenes of torture and pools ...

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Today in Armenian history

1839 Hakobos Bishop Serobian was elected Patriarch of Constantinople. He led the movement against Protestantism and encouraged the national movement against the amira. He supported the Skyootar Gymnasium.
1870 Birth of Sargees (Sako) Hambardzoomian, long-time revolutionary, public figure, and physician. He died in 1944.
1879 Birth of doctor Varazdat Galanchian, major of the British Royal Army and founder of plastic surgery.
1924 Birth of Levon Khatsherian, linguist and Armenologist.
1931 Founding of the Yerevan City History Museum.
1940 Kirov's synthetic rubber factory (now called "Nairit") was created out of the Yerevan Carbide factory.
1944 The "Sassuntsi Davit" Tank Division is created with the help of Diasporan Armenians.
1946 The five-year plan (1946-1950) for the Armenian SSR is adopted.
1949 Trolley buses were first used in Yerevan.