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KOCHARIAN-LINKED SECURITY CHIEF SACKED
By Ruzanna Khachatrian
President Serzh Sarkisian dismissed on Tuesday one of Armenia’s most powerful security officials close to his predecessor Robert Kocharian. A brief statement by the president administration gave no reasons ...DASHNAKS TO REPLACE GOVERNMENT MINISTERS
By Ruzanna Khachatrian
The three government ministers affiliated with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) will be replaced by other members of the influential party represented in Armenia’s governing coalition, ...OPPOSITION PARTY TO SPURN PARLIAMENT POST
By Astghik Bedevian
The only opposition party represented in Armenia’s parliament said on Tuesday that it will turn down a likely offer to head one of the standing committees of the National Assembly. The government-controlled ...YEREVAN WATER NETWORK GETS FRENCH LOAN
By Ruben Meloyan
The government of France will lend Armenia 24.9 million euros ($39 million) to assist in the ongoing upgrading of Yerevan’s water and sewerage network run by a French company, officials said on Tuesday. ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1661 Birth of Nagharsh Hovnatan (troubadour). He died in 1722.
- 1832 The Egyptian army, headed by Ibrahim Pasha, defeats the Turkish forces and occupies the plains of Western Armenia's Cilician Province.
- 1891 Death of Hakob Paronyan (playwright of comedies) in Constantinople. He was born in 1843 at Adrianople.
- 1950 Inauguration of the new building of the Nshan Palanjian's Seminary in Lebanon, by the President of the Lebanese Republic.
- 1962 Official celebration of the 1600th anniversary of Mesrop Mashtots, the creator of the Armenian alphabet.
- 1990 Fighting erupts between Armenian self-defense forces and Soviet occupation forces near Yerevan's railroad station and along the Yerevan-Nubarashen road.
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