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  • Funeral To Take Place In Armenia Sunday For Victims Of Air Crash

    FUNERAL TO TAKE PLACE IN ARMENIA SUNDAY FOR VICTIMS OF AIR CRASH

    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    May 4 2006

    MOSCOW, May 4 (Itar-Tass) - A funeral will be held on Sunday, May 5,
    at cathedrals of the Armenian Apostolic churches all around the world
    for those were killed in the A-320 plane crash over the Black Sea,
    said Vartan Pogosyan, spokesman for the Russian and Novo-Nakhichevan
    Eparchy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

    In Moscow the memorial service will take place in the Armenian
    Apostolic Church at the Vagankovo cemetery at 12.00 Moscow time on
    May 5, Pogosyan told Itar-Tass on Thursday.

    Armenia has declared May 5 and May 6 a national day of mourning to
    commemorate those were killed in the air crash near Sochi.

    Armenian President Robert Kocharyan signed a decree to this effect
    on Wednesday, the presidential press service reported.

    Twenty-eight Russian citizens were aboard the crashed Airbus belonging
    to the air company Armavia. The list of passengers placed in the hall
    of the Yerevan international airport Zvartnots showed it.

    These are mainly people of Armenian origin.
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