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NALBANDIAN UPBEAT ABOUT ARMENIAN-AZERI SUMMIT
By Emil Danielyan 1
Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian sounded an optimistic note about this week’s meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan as he wrapped up an official visit to Moscow at the weekend. Azerbaijan’s ...WAR VETS CONTINUE HUNGER STRIKE
By Ruzanna Stepanian and Hovannes Shoghikian
More than a dozen Armenian veterans of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh refused food for the seventh consecutive day on Monday in protest against the imprisonment of fellow supporters of opposition leader ...TOP ARMENIAN OFFICIALS SET FOR PAY HIKE
By Ruzanna Khachatrian
The pro-government majority in the Armenian parliament announced on Monday plans to double the salaries of the country’s most high-ranking state officials. Under a relevant bill co-sponsored by lawmakers ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1831 The Tsar cancels the transit privileges of Transcaucasian merchants. Conscription in Transcaucasia is implemented by the Tsar.
- 1891 Death of Petros Adamyan (actor). He was born in 1849.
- 1897 The Tsar's State Council orders the subordination of Armenian Parish Schools to the Ministry of Education. Because of their refusal to do so, the schools were closed.
- 1904 Death of Ahsot Yerkat (Armenak Levonian), an activist of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Party.
- 1922 The first issue of the "Ploughman" daily is published in Yerevan.
- 1941 Death of writer Vazgen Shooshanian. He was born in 1902.
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