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ARMENIA’S FUEL CRISIS CONTINUES
By Shakeh Avoyan
Gasoline remained in short supply in Armenia on Tuesday despite urgent fuel deliveries organized by the government over the weekend and the resumption of the country’s rail communication with the outside ...ARMENIA BANS WESTERN UNION TRANSFERS OVER KARABAKH
By Hovannes Shoghikian 1
The Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) has banned the activities of the money transfer company Western Union following the latter’s decision to stop handling cash remittances to Nagorno-Karabakh taken under ...OPPOSITION PROTESTERS DETAINED, ATTACKED
By Ruben Meloyan and Anush Martirosian 3
Police detained several young men at the scene of an ongoing opposition sit-in in Yerevan on Tuesday as they sought to prevent its participants from placing new anti-government posters and other agitation ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1854 The first version of a constitution for the internal organization of western Armenians is presented to the Armenian Patriarch. He eventually rejects it.
- 1915 Daniel Varujan (poet) was killed during the Armenian Genocide implemented by the Turks. He was born in 1884.
- 1919 Armenian forces defeat the forces of Mustafa Kemal in the battle of Sarighameesh.
- 1926 Opening of the "Arzni" Sanatorium and Spa.
- 1926 Some of those responsible for the Armenian Genocide were hanged in Ankara. They were members of the "Young Turks" belonging to the Union and Progress Party (formerly known as the "Ottoman Union Organization").
- 1945 Death of Franz Werfel (Austrian novelist). He wrote "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933), a best-selling epic tale of Armenian resistance to the Turkish Genocide of 1915. He was born in 1890.
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