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ARMENIAN OPPOSITION RALLIES THOUSANDS, DEMANDS FRESH POLLS
By Emil Danielyan 4
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian demanded President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation and fresh presidential and parliamentary elections late Friday as thousands of his supporters again rallied in Yerevan, ...RULING PARTY LEADER BLAMES U.S. FOR ARMENIA UNREST
By Anna Saghabalian 4
A leading member of the governing Republican Party (HHK) on Friday accused the United States and other “foreign powers” of having a hand in Armenia’s dramatic post-election developments. Galust Sahakian, ...ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN HOLD MORE ‘CONSTRUCTIVE’ TALKS
By Emil Danielyan
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met on Friday in Moscow for the third time in as many months to again try to bridge the two countries’ differences over a framework peace agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh ...AZERBAIJAN BLOCKS CASH TRANSFERS OVER KARABAKH
AFP, ReutersAzerbaijan has suspended the activities of money transfer companies Western Union and MoneyGram because they operate in Nagorno-Karabakh, the central bank said Friday. "Transfers and reception of money ...JAILED EX-PROSECUTOR LOSES COURT CASE
By Karine Kalantarian
A court in Yerevan on Friday upheld the legality of former President Robert Kocharian’s decision to sack a deputy prosecutor-general who openly denounced Armenia’s recent presidential election as fraudulent ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1680 Death of Catholicos Hakob the Fourth (Jughayetsee). He accompanied Israel Oree to Europe, seeking assistance from the Christian states for Armenian emancipation.
- 1766 Catholicos Simeon Yerevantsi sends a message to Tsarina Ekaterina (Catherine) the Second, asking for help on behalf of Armenia.
- 1812 The "Deetak Byoozantion" periodical was published until September 1816 in Constantinople.
- 1817 Birth of Hovhannes Aivazovsky (seascape artist) in Feodosia (the Ukraine). He died in 1900.
- 1862 Armenians meet in Constantinople and ask the Sultan to ratify the National Constitution.
- 1894 Defense of Sassoon (Western Armenia) against Turkish attacks.
- 1896 500 Kurds are brought to Constantinople by the Turkish Government to help carry out the Genocide of the Armenians there.
- 1903 Birth of Goorgen Mahari (writer). He died in 1969.
- 1905 Tsar Nicholas the Second abrogates his 1903 06 12 law closing Armenian Parish Schools. They are reopened.
- 1914 With the start of the First World War on this day, all previous agreements concerning Armenia were ignored. The Armenians were in imminent danger: in fact, the Armenian Genocide started eight months later.
- 1918 Opening of the First Parliament of the Armenian Republic under the presidency of Father Abraham (Aveteek Sahakian).
- 1919 The Armenian Parliament opens in Yerevan.
- 1919 The Azerbaijani Government and the Artsakh National Council sign a Provisional Treaty.
- 1934 Opening of the First Congress of Armenia's Soviet Writers.
- 1954 The All-Union Agricultural Exhibition reopens in Moscow.
- 1997 On the appointment of Artsakh President Kocharian to the post of Prime Minister of Armenia, by President Ter-Petrossian of Armenia, the minister of Foreign Affairs for Artsakh, Arkady Ghoukasian is elected President of Artsakh for a five-year term.
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