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BAGHDASARIAN GETS PROMISED GOVERNMENT JOB
By Emil Danielyan
President Serzh Sarkisian on Monday appointed Artur Baghdasarian, the leader of the Orinats Yerkir Party, as secretary of his National Security Council in accordance with a power-sharing agreement reached ...OPPOSITION SEES NO LETUP OF GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN
By Ruzanna Stepanian, Astghik Bedevian and Ruben Meloyan
The Armenian authorities are continuing their post-election crackdown on the opposition contrary to their pledges to comply with a recent resolution adopted by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly ...ARMENIAN GROWTH ‘UNAFFECTED BY POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE’
Reuters
Armenia can hit economic growth targets in 2008, a senior government official said on Sunday, playing down concerns that post-election street fighting had put off foreign investors. Ten people were killed ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Armenian National Media Day.
- 1877 Russian forces, led by General Loris-Melikov, occupy Ardahan (Western Armenia).
- 1892 Khreemyan Hayreek is elected Catholicos of All Armenians.
- 1912 Death of Yeprem Khan, one of the leaders of the Persian emancipation movement and unsurpassed militant of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation party. He was born in 1868.
- 1912 "Pravda" (Bolshevik paper) starts publication.
- 1920 The government of Khatissyan falls. President Ohanjanyan organizes a new government with special powers.
- 1920 The Armenian Revolutionary Federation party seized power in a struggle against Bolshevik and Azeri Turkish forces. It replaced Khateessyan's government with Ohanjanyan's.
- 1923 The first number of the "Avangard" newspaper (Official Organ of the Central Committee of the Leninist Youth League of the Soviet Union) is published.
- 1972 Death of Martiros Saryan (artist). He was born in 1880.
- 1999 Portugal, Indonesia, and the United Nations enter into the East Timor Popular Consultation Agreement Regarding Security and the Agreement Regarding the Modalities for the Popular Consultation of the East Timorese Through a Direct Ballot. Some aspects of these Agreements may be significant in the process of finding a resolution to the Artsakh crisis.
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