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"No area has seen as many government experiments as the education system," "Hraparak" writes in a commentary on the start of the new academic year in Armenia. "A 12-year education cycle, a pre-term and ...PROTESTERS DEMAND END TO ARMY DEATHS
Naira Bulghadarian
About 100 people picketed the main government building in Yerevan on Thursday to protest and demand urgent government action against continuing non-combat deaths in Armenia's armed forces.
The protest ...ENVOY DEFENDS RUSSIAN MIGRATION SCHEME
Satenik Vantsian
The Russian ambassador to Armenia, Vyacheslav Kovalenko, dismissed on Thursday a public outcry against a government program encouraging and helping Armenians to migrate to Russia.
"Who is forcing Armenians ...POLICE CHIEF VOWS TRAFFIC SERVICE OVERHAUL
Hovannes Shoghikian
The chief of Armenia's national police service, Lieutenant-General Alik Sargsian, on Thursday pledged to revamp its road policing division following the arrest and prosecution of its commander on corruption ...KOCHARIAN UPBEAT ON KARABAKH INDEPENDENCE
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Time favors the Armenian side in the unresolved conflict with Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh's independence will eventually be recognized by the international community, according to former President ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Knowledge Day.
- 570 Signature of the Treaty between Armenia and the Byzantine Empire.
- 1387 Tamerlane's forces surround and occupy Fort Van (Western Armenia).
- 1850 The "Ararat" weekly is first published in Tbilissi (Georgia). Gabriel Patkanyan is the publisher.
- 1860 Creation of the "National Union" with the active participation of Meekayel Nalbandyan in Constantinople.
- 1860 The Armenian Benevolent Union is created.
- 1861 G.Yeranyan, N.Tashtchyan and T.Tshookhadjiyan publish the semi-annual "Armenian Lyre" periodical devoted to music.
- 1868 Opening of the Yerevan Gymnasium.
- 1868 Birth in Elizabetpol (Gandzak) of Melik Melikyan (Bolshevik politician). He was murdered in Baku in 1918.
- 1886 Minas Cheraz opens the Central College at Kalatia (Constantinople).
- 1894 The centenary of Armenian journalism is celebrated.
- 1920 The First Assembly of Eastern Peoples opens in Baku with Armenian participation.
- 1939 Start of the Second World War.
- 1958 The Agriculture and Agrochemistry Research Institute is founded within Armenia's Ministry of Agriculture.
- 1966 Continuing an unbroken practice since the thirties, Soviet Armenia sends petitions to the central authorities in Moscow to return Artsakh to Armenia. These petitions eventually are accompanied by mass protests in Artsakh, which lead to a crackdown by the Communist authorities.
- 1997 Arkady Ghukasyan (former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Artsakh) is elected President of Artsakh.
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