Sunday, April 24, 2016

Foundation of the National United Party (April 24, 1966)

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In the early 1960s, with the national revival in Soviet Armenia, the Communist regime had to confront pockets of dissident thinking. The mon...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Birth of Karen Demirchyan (April 17, 1932)

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Karen Demirchyan was a noted name in post-Stalinist Soviet Armenia and held the leadership of the republic until the beginning of the Karaba...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

The Massacre of Maragha (April 10, 1992)

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The massacre of Maragha was one of the forgotten and under-reported episodes of the Karabagh war. The village of the Karabagh region was occ...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Birth of Tovmas Nazarbekian (April 4, 1855)

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General Tovmas Nazarbekian was one of the main names in a host of Armenian officers that served in the Russian army and helped found the Rep...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Birth of Arthur Pinajian (March 28, 1914)

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"He painted every day but no one saw his art. He received no reviews and not one of his paintings or works on paper ever was shown in...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Inauguration of the Arpa-Sevan Tunnel (March 21, 1981)

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Lake Sevan is one of the few high-mountain fresh water lakes in the world. It originally had a surface of 1,416 square kilometers at an ele...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Birth of Yeghishe Charents (March 13, 1897)

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The most famous names of Armenian poetry in the twentieth century were victims either of genocide (Taniel Varoujan and Siamanto), political...