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ALIEV AGAIN THREATENS NEW WAR FOR KARABAKH
By Emil Danielyan 4
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliev has renewed his public threats to win back Nagorno-Karabakh by force, telling his compatriots to be ready to restart an all-out war with the Armenians “at any moment.” ...TURKEY’S GUL CRITICAL OF ARMENIAN APOLOGY CAMPAIGN
By Emil Danielyan
Turkish intellectuals’ campaign of public apology for the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire will reflect negatively on Turkey’s ongoing diplomatic rapprochement with Armenia, according ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1816 The "Arevelian Tsanutsmunk" weekly was published in Astrakhan. It was the first periodical in Eastern Armenian.
- 1896 Birth of People's Artist, Havassee (Armenak Markosyan) in Ayazma (Georgia). He developped blindness at the age of three and had eight sisters. He studied with the famous troubadour, Teefeelee.
- 1908 Death of writer Smbat Shahaziz. He was born in 1840.
- 1911 Birth of the Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Karapet Karamyan in Nakhijevan.
- 1930 Opening of the Research Institute of Yerevan State University.
- 1932 Opening of the National Minorities' Women Deputies State Conference in Yerevan.
- 1945 Publication of the "Sasna Tsrer" epos in China as translated by the authoress Go Bao Tsyoon.
- 1959 Death of Academician Karo Halabian, Soviet architect. He was born in 1897.
- 2001 Death of Vladimir Grigorian, philologist, professor and linguist. He was one of the first to invent a translation machine in the USSR. He was born in 1928.
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