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KOCHARIAN KEEN TO CRIMINALIZE OPPOSITION LINE OF ATTACK
By Ruzanna Khachatrian 1
Outgoing President Robert Kocharian proposed on Friday changes in Armenia’s Criminal Code that are apparently meant to stop opposition leaders exploiting the Nagorno-Karabakh origin of the country’s top ...BAGHDASARIAN SAYS NO AGREEMENT YET ON GOVERNMENT
By Hovannes Shoghikian
Former parliament speaker Artur Baghdasarian said on Friday that he still does not know which ministerial positions will be offered to his Orinats Yerkir Party as part of its power-sharing agreement with ...OPPOSITIONISTS TO STAND TRIAL FOR EXPOSING EX-KGB AGENTS
By Ruzanna Stepanian
Two opposition supporters will go on trial soon for allegedly exposing two undercover agents of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) present at a post-election opposition rally in Yerevan, prosecutors ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1820 Birth of Catholicos Mkrtich Khrimyan "Hairik" in Van (Western Armenia). He died in 1907.
- 1915 Death of Arshak Vramian, a representative of the Central Committee of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Party.
- 1920 Genocide of the Armenians in Sooshee (Gharabagh).
- 1922 Death of Leopold Favri, benefactor and Swiss-Armenian armenologist. He supported orphanages in the Armenian provinces.
- 1945 Death of Vahan Tekeyan, writer, speaker, and public figure. He was born in 1878.
- 1957 Death of actor Ashot Shaghatoonee. He was born in 1882.
- 1995 Garegin I elected Catholicos of the Armenian Church. He became the 131st Spiritual Leader of Armenian Holy Apostolic Church.
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