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Headlines for May 31, 2012
NEW ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT CONVENES AMID OPPOSITION BOYCOTT
Astghik Bedevian
Armenia's new parliament elected a government-backed speaker on Thursday during its inaugural session attended by President Serzh Sarkisian but boycotted by two of the three opposition groups represented ...
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TER-PETROSIAN BLOC HAILS ‘COALITION COLLAPSE'
Astghik Bedevian, Naira BulghadarianNEW ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT CONVENES AMID OPPOSITION BOYCOTT
Astghik BedevianARMENIAN PRESSURE GROUP SEES IMPROVED ROAD POLICING
Hovannes ShoghikianPROMINENT TURKISH PUBLISHER GETS ARMENIAN STATE AWARD
Gayane DanielianARMENIAN PM EXPECTS ‘COOPERATION' WITH DEPARTING COALITION PARTNER
Satenik Vantsian
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Today in Armenian history- 1834 The National Hospital of the Holy Savior is founded in Constantinople. It is still in operation.
- 1855 The Russian army occupies Ardahan (Western Armenia).
- 1869 Birth of seascape artist Vardan Makhookhian. He died in 1937.
- 1884 Birth of Dro (Drastamat Kanayan). He died in 1956. His remains were transferred to Aparan in 2001 to recognize his defeat of the Turkish Army there in May 1918.
- 1890 Death of Mkrteetsh Sanasarian, the founder of Karnoy Sanassarian Gymnasium.
- 1915 Zeytoon is renamed Suleymanie by order of Sultan Mehmed Reshad.
- 1918 Death of Marzpet, revolutionary and public figure.
- 1920 The Dashnak delegation starts its negotiations with Soviet Russia in Moscow.
- 1978 The Azat Reservoir (Artashat region) is operational.
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