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OBAMA, ALIEV DISCUSS TURKISH-ARMENIAN TIES
By Emil Danielyan 1
U.S. President Barack Obama has defended an unconditional normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey in a phone call with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliev, who is strongly opposed to ...OSCE NOT TO MONITOR YEREVAN POLLS
By Ruben Meloyan
Armenian authorities will not invite the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor next month’s mayoral elections in Yerevan, officials said on Wednesday. The Central Election Commission ...OPPOSITION LEADER ON NEW TRIAL
By Karine Kalantarian
A close associate of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian and another opposition activist went on a new trial on Wednesday just one week after prosecutors dropped controversial coup charges leveled against ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Ahekan was the 9th month in the old Armenian calendar (April 8 to May 7). The name of this month is connected with fire and the awakening of spring.
- 1880 Death of Gabriel Aivazovski in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1810 in Feodosia (the Ukraine).
- 1907 Death of Reteos Berberian, public figure and teacher. He was born in 1848.
- 1958 Death of historian Garnik Kizalian. He was born in 1893.
- 1975 The House of Representatives (USA) accepts a resolution (number 148), designating 1975 04 24 to be a National Commemoration Day of Man's Inhumanity to Man.
- 1997 US Congressmen George Radanovich and David Banner present a legislative project to the Congress. They call to accept a special motion condemning the Armenian Genocide.
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