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YEREVAN MAYOR’S ELECTION ‘DUE IN LATE 2009’
By Anna Saghabalian
The first-ever indirect elections of Yerevan’s mayor, controversially delayed by the central government, are unlikely to be held before the end of next year, the chairman of Armenia’s Central Election ...FOUR ARMENIANS RELEASED FROM AZERI CAPTIVITY
By Hovannes ShoghikianAzerbaijan on Monday repatriated four Armenian men who crossed into its Nakhichevan exclave last April in still unclear circumstances. They were sent back home through Nakhichevan’s main border crossing ...EX-OPPOSITIONIST GETS TOP DIPLOMATIC POST
By Emil Danielyan
President Serzh Sarkisian has appointed Shavarsh Kocharian, a veteran politician who has long been in opposition to successive Armenian governments, as deputy minister of foreign affairs. Sarkisian’s ...SENATE CONFIRMS U.S. ENVOY TO ARMENIA
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The U.S. Senate confirmed the Bush administration's nominee as ambassador to Armenian after a delay by lawmakers who were unhappy with White House policies on the country. Lawmakers had delayed consideration ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1672 Birth of Tsar (since 1682) Peter the Great. He died in 1725.
- 1903 Catholicos Mkrtitsh Khrimian "Hairik" ordered the Synod not to publish the law on the confiscation of church properties by the state (Russian Empire) of 1903 06 12.
- 1918 Sebastatsi Moorad was killed in the battles of Baku.
- 1922 Hakob Melkumov, commander of Turkmenistan's First Hussar Cavalry, killed Enver at Tshaghan Ghtshlagh. He was one of the leaders of the Young Turk government who had organized the Armenian Genocide. Enver had gone to Turkmenistan after WW 1 to participate in the Bazmachi revolt -- as part of his Pan-Turanian dream.
- 1950 Death of writer Anayiss (Yevpimeh Avetissian). She was born in 1872.
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