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EP TO DISCUSS FRAMEWORK DECISION ON COMBATING RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA
By organizing a conference on the Framework-Decision against Racism and Xenophobia, the European Armenian Federation for Justice and Development (EAFJD) has taken a first step toward standardizing from ...
ARMENIAN AMERICANS CONGRATULATE OBAMA ON INAUGURATION
Armenian American advocacy, civic, religious, charitable, and educational organizations joined together today in congratulating President-Elect Barack Obama on his inauguration and outlining the community's ...

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Today in Armenian history

1780 The Armenian colony of New Nakhichevan (Rostov, Russia) is founded.
1921 Publication in Brussels of Abbot Matern Muret's memoirs. He witnessed the Genocide of the Marash Armenians by the Turks from January 20 to February 11, 1920 as a result of French perfidy. He called the killing of 20000 Armenians during that time enough to make any human insane.
1933 Opening of the Spendiaryan State Opera Building in Yerevan.
1989 The Supreme Soviet of the USSR establishes a special authority headed by Volsky in Artsakh. This authority is directly subject to the USSR Government rather than to Soviet Azerbaijan. In the summer, a National Council was formed which represented all strata of Artsakhs population.

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