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ARMENIAN WOMAN DETAINED IN GEORGIA FOR FORGERY
- Eight individuals, including an Armenian woman, Emma Salimyan, have been detained in Georgia for preparing and using fake official documents. All the eight are reported to be Georgian citizens. According to Aspny.ge, an inquest has been launched under Article 362 of the country's Criminal Code.
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Headlines for March 09, 2012CLINTON ANSWERS US ARMENIANS WITH EVASIVE PHRASES
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a written response to a letter of protest from the Armenian National Committee of America, stopped short of properly characterizing this atrocity as a crime, ...US SENATORS INTRODUCE RETURN OF CHURCHES BILL
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Dozens of people have been killed in a suburb of Syria's battle-scarred city of Homs, reports say, in what activists are describing as a "new massacre". According to BBC News, forty-four of ...GREECE NARROWLY AVOIDS DEFAULT
Athens officials last night estimated more than 85pc of private creditors had accepted the €206bn (£173bn) bond swap shortly after a deadline expired yesterday evening, The Telegraph reported.
That ...STEM CELLS TO BEAT KIDNEY REJECTION
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An active member of the Sardarapat Movement and a coordinator for the Armenian Volunteers Union, Zhirayr Sefilyan, has issued a statement, denying any links between his union and the opposition Armenian ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION MEETS WITH LITHUANIAN DEPUTY FM
An Armenian parliamentary delegation headed by Vice-Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov, which is on a working visit to Lithuania, held a meeting on Thursday with Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičius. ...COMMUNIST LEADER ACCUSES OPPOSITION OF MARCH 1 TRAGEDY
The first secretary of the Armenian Communist Party, Ruben Tovmasyan, accuses the opposition of the March 2008 post-electoral turmoil that left 10 people dead in capital Yerevan. At a news conference ...COCA-COLA, PEPSI CHANGING CARAMEL COLOURING
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Former White House adviser Lawrence Summers, diplomat Susan Rice and PepsiCo Inc CEO Indra Nooyi are on a "short list" of possible US candidates to head the World Bank, TVNZ reported, citing ...ARMENIAN SINGER FIRST-EVER ‘HIPPY MP'
The Armenian woman-singer Shushan Petrosyan would run for parliament if she received a proposal to. At her Friday meeting with journalists, she noted that practical steps should be made instead of empty ...ARMENIAN WOMAN DETAINED IN GEORGIA FOR FORGERY
Eight individuals, including an Armenian woman, Emma Salimyan, have been detained in Georgia for preparing and using fake official documents. All the eight are reported to be Georgian citizens. According ...TUNISIAN MAGAZINE FINED FOR PRINTING NUDE PHOTO
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Al Qaeda announced the death of a regional commander in Yemen, whom the group described as one of "its sheikhs of jihad and support," CNN reported, citing an online terror monitoring group.
Mohamed ...AVU NEVER ANNOUNCED SECESSION FROM ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
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The environmentalists plan to start an open-end sit-in unless the Yerevan authorities order the removal of boutiques in the Mashtots park. Talking to Tert.am, Gor Hakobyan, an active member of the 'We ...CANDIDATES FOR ARMENIAN RULING PARTY'S NEW EXECUTIVE BODY KNOWN
The executive body of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has finished its last meeting before the RPA's 13th congress scheduled for Saturday. Among the issues on the congress agenda is the ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Areg was the 8th month in the old Armenian calendar (March 9 to April 7). This name is based on the Armenian for sun (arev). Armenians began the New Year with the awakening of nature: the first month of spring.
- 1799 Death of French armenologist Simon-Petros Lurden. He studied at St. Lazarus island and translated the Bible from Armenian to Latin, and created an Armenian-French dictionary. His works are kept in Munich's Royal Manuscript Library.
- 1801 Death in Tbilissi (Georgia) of H. Arghootyan.
- 1880 An Armenian publishing company is founded in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1899 Death of Petros Shanshyan (public figure) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1819.
- 1911 Birth, in Gyoomree, of the engineer and architect Edmon Tigranyan. He was the son of the composer Armen Tigranyan..
- 1914 France and Turkey sign an agreement on building roads and railways in Western Armenia.
- 1917 The Temporary Government annuls the Caucasian Viceroyship and creates the Transcaucasian Special Committee (Ozakom).
- 1920 Birth of Jansem (Hovhannes Semerjian) in Seleg (Turkey). Many of this artist's works are in European and US galleries.
- 1921 Signature of the French-Turkish Agreement on political, military, and economic cooperation.
- 1924 Death of poet Mateos Zarifyan.
- 1936 Birth of the Italian architect Breccia Fratadocci. He founded the "Mediaeval Armenian Architecture Research Center" in Rome. He organized the first exhibition of Armenian mediaeval architecture in Rome and Venice in 1968.
- 1983 The Ambassador of Turkey is killed in Belgrade. Raffi Elpekian and Harootyoon Levonian (Andranik Poghosyan) are arrested and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. They were both members of the "Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide", an underground political organization. Levonian was set free after four years in jail. Elpekian was freed after seven years.
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