OCTOBER 16 – DAY OF ARMENIAN PRESS

PanARMENIAN.Net
14.10.2009 20:44 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On October 16, Armenia is celebrating the day of
national press. On that very day in 1794, the first Armenian printed
journal "Azdarar" was published in Madras (India).

By a Government decision dated April 22, 2004, October 16 was declared
as the Day of Media Workers. Later, it was renamed as the Day of
Armenian Press.