
Headlines for April 02, 2008
KOCHARIAN SACKS DEFIANT GENERAL
By Emil Danielyan
President Robert Kocharian dismissed on Wednesday a prominent army general and deputy defense minister who is thought to have tacitly supported opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian in Armenia’s troubled ...DASHNAKS SEEK GREATER ROLE IN GOVERNMENT
By Astghik Bedevian
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) is seeking to boost its presence in Armenia’s government as a result of its alliance with Prime Minister and President-elect Serzh Sarkisian, a leader ...JAILED OPPOSITIONISTS START HUNGER STRIKE
By Ruzanna Stepanian
Three dozen arrested opposition leaders and activists began a collective hunger strike on Wednesday to demand their release from jail and an end to what they see as government repressions against supporters ...
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By Anna Saghabalian
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By Hovannes Shoghikian, Ruben Meloyan and Ruzanna StepanianKOCHARIAN SACKS DEFIANT GENERAL
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By Ruzanna StepanianDASHNAKS, ORINATS YERKIR DEFEND DEAL WITH SARKISIAN
By Ruzanna Khachatrian
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By Ruben MeloyanCOUNCIL OF EUROPE CONCERNED ABOUT ARMENIAN CRACKDOWN
By Anna Saghabalian and Ruzanna Stepanian
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Today in Armenian history- 1827 Russian forces start their third assault on Yerevan.
- 1848 Khatshatoor Abovyan (writer) disappears. He was born in 1809.
- 1889 Death of academician Kerovbe Patkanyan (armenologist) in St. Petersburg (Russia). He was born in 1833.
- 1921 The Dashnak Government is ousted from Yerevan by the Bolsheviks.
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