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COUNCIL OF EUROPE ASSEMBLY CONDEMNS ARMENIAN CRACKDOWN
By Ruzanna Stepanian in Strasbourg
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on Thursday condemned the Armenian authorities’ post-election crackdown on the opposition and warned that failure to reverse it would put at risk Armenia’s ...INDEPENDENT TV GRANTED 10-DAY REPRIEVE
By Satenik Vantsian in Gyumri
An independent television station based in Armenia’s second city of Gyumri was on Thursday allowed to resume broadcasts suspended the previous day as a result of its politically charged dispute with the ...ELECTION OFFICIAL JAILED FOR FRAUD
By Emil Danielyan
A court in Yerevan sentenced on Thursday the chairman of a district election commission to two years in prison for committing serious fraud in Serzh Sarkisian’s favor during the recent presidential election. ...MANUKIAN LOOKS FORWARD TO SARKISIAN PRESIDENCY
By Astghik Bedevian 1
Vazgen Manukian, a veteran Armenian politician, expressed readiness on Monday to closely cooperate with the newly elected President Serzh Sarkisian but insisted that he has not been offered any government ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1879 Death of Chamik Aramyan (publisher) in Constantinople. He was born in 1820.
- 1904 Birth of Hrant G. Pastrmajian. He died in 1954.
- 1922 Aram Yerkanian and Arshavir Shirakian executed Behaeddin Shakir, the leader of the "special forces" and Jemal Azmi, former Governor of Trabizond, in Berlin. Both were active in implementing the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
- 1957 Twinning of Kirovakan (Vanadzor) and Batumi (Georgia).
- 1990 An International Scholars' Meeting titled: "The Armenian Genocide: History, Theory, Political Responsibility" and devoted to 75th Anniversary of the Armenian's Genocide, takes place in Yerevan. It lasts to April 21.
- 1997 The Legislative Assembly of New South Wales (Australia) adopts a decision to commemorate April 24 as a Memorial Day of the Armenian Genocide. It suggests to the Federal Australian Government to adopt a similar decision.
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