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EU ‘CLOSELY FOLLOWING’ SITUATION IN ARMENIA
By Gevorg Stamboltsian in Prague and Ruben Meloyan
Armenia’s relations with the European Union hinge on a reversal of its government’s crackdown on the opposition and restoration of civil liberties restricted following the post-election unrest in Yerevan, ...FIRED DIPLOMATS DENY SUPPORTING OPPOSITION
By Anna Saghabalian
Former Foreign Ministry officials controversially dismissed recently insisted on Wednesday that their public condemnation of the Armenian government’s handling of the February 19 presidential election ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1632 Death of Catholicos Movsess Tatevatsee, a prominent figure of the Armenian renaissance of the 17th century. He was born in 1583.
- 1805 The Treaty of the Kyurak-chai River. Artsakh is joined to Russia.
- 1812 Birth in Tbilissi (Georgia) of Stepanos Nazaryan, the founder of the "Hyusisapail" - Aurora Borealis - monthly magazine. He was born in 1812.
- 1814 Birth of Karapet Shahnazaryan in Hamadan (Iran). He died in 1865.
- 1870 Tsar Alexander the Second sets out his peasant reforms in Armenia and in Azerbaijan.
- 1911 Death of Bogdan Knunyants (Bolshevik politician) in Baku's Baylov prison. He was born in 1878.
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