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CENTRAL BANK CHIEF SET TO BECOME NEW ARMENIAN PM
By Astghik Bedevian
President-elect Serzh Sarkisian officially confirmed on Tuesday his intention to appoint the longtime chairman of the Armenian Central Bank (CBA) as the country’s new prime minister. The candidacy of ...KOCHARIAN IN FAREWELL ADDRESS TO NATION
By Emil Danielyan
With only one day to go before his resignation, President Robert Kocharian delivered a farewell address to the nation on Tuesday, saying that Armenia has become one of the world’s fastest developing countries ...POLICE, OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS CLASH IN ARMENIAN TOWN
By Ruzanna StepanianSeveral dozen opposition supporters clashed with police in the central town of Hrazdan on Tuesday following the disappearance of nine supporters of a local parliamentarian arrested as part of the continuing ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Ahekan was the 9th month in the old Armenian calendar (April 8 to May 7). The name of this month is connected with fire and the awakening of spring.
- 1880 Death of Gabriel Aivazovski in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1810 in Feodosia (the Ukraine).
- 1907 Death of Reteos Berberian, public figure and teacher. He was born in 1848.
- 1958 Death of historian Garnik Kizalian. He was born in 1893.
- 1975 The House of Representatives (USA) accepts a resolution (number 148), designating 1975 04 24 to be a National Commemoration Day of Man's Inhumanity to Man.
- 1997 US Congressmen George Radanovich and David Banner present a legislative project to the Congress. They call to accept a special motion condemning the Armenian Genocide.
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