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YEREVAN MAYOR PAYS TRIBUTE TO ZORAVAR ANDRANIK
Tert..am
25.02.12
Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan has visited the Yerablur military
cemetery earlier today to pay tribute to the legendary Armenian
freedom fighter and activist, Andranik Ozanyan, whose 147th birthday
is celebrated today.
Clergymen of the Armenian Apostolic Church offered a liturgy by the
great hero's grave to commemorate him and all the devoted martyrs, who
sacrificed their lives in the Armenian people's fight for liberation.
According to a press release by the Yerevan City Hall, the mayor
also laid flowers on the tombs of Armenia's former prime minister
and a hero of the Nagorno-Karabakh liberation war, Vazgen Sargsyan
(who was assassinated during the 1999 October 27 terrorist attack on
the parliament), and the founder of the ruling Republican Party of
Armenia, Ashot Navasardyan.
From: A. Papazian
Tert..am
25.02.12
Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan has visited the Yerablur military
cemetery earlier today to pay tribute to the legendary Armenian
freedom fighter and activist, Andranik Ozanyan, whose 147th birthday
is celebrated today.
Clergymen of the Armenian Apostolic Church offered a liturgy by the
great hero's grave to commemorate him and all the devoted martyrs, who
sacrificed their lives in the Armenian people's fight for liberation.
According to a press release by the Yerevan City Hall, the mayor
also laid flowers on the tombs of Armenia's former prime minister
and a hero of the Nagorno-Karabakh liberation war, Vazgen Sargsyan
(who was assassinated during the 1999 October 27 terrorist attack on
the parliament), and the founder of the ruling Republican Party of
Armenia, Ashot Navasardyan.
From: A. Papazian