BOOK REVIEW: SLEIGHT OF HAND ON THE WORLD STAGE [+] 
29-06-2010
Levon Chorbajian reviews The Invention of History: Azerbaijan, Armenia, and the Showcasing of Imagination. Rouben Galichian's The Invention of History: Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Showcasing of Imagination (Gomidas Institute/Printinfo Art Books) is a very important book that addresses a core issue facing the Armenian people 95 years after the Genocide: ...
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GEORGE AGHJAYAN RESPONSE TO "IS RECONCILIATION COMPATIBLE WITH SILENCE" [+] 
11-06-2010
I recently read Lucine Kasbarian’s review of Khatchig Mouradian’s and Emil Sanamyan’s presentations at ALMA in Watertown, MA. I, too, was present at that event, where the two offered accounts of their recent trips to Turkey. However, my reactions are quite different than hers. From the outset, I must say ...
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IS “RECONCILIATION” COMPATIBLE WITH JUSTICE? [+] 
25-05-2010
By Lucine KasbarianOn Wednesday May 12, at the Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) in Watertown, Massachusetts, editors Emil Sanamyan of the Armenian Reporter and Khatchig Mouradian of the Armenian Weekly spoke about their recent trip to Turkey sponsored by TEPAV -- a Turkish think tank that has recently ...
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COUNTDOWN TO THE NEXT WAR OVER ARTSAKH [+] 
01-02-2010
Meeting at the White House with a group of Armenian Americans, the chief U.S. negotiator for the OSCE peace talks on Artsakh (Karabagh) announced that the United States would be satisfied if a peace agreement were to last for only 10 years. The official was Joseph A. Presel.  It was ...
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THE COMING RUSSIAN DEFEAT IN THE CAUCASUS [+] 
29-09-2009
Russia will be well along the road to total defeat by the US and NATO in the Caucasus and beyond if the recently proposed Armenian - Turkish "Protocols" are ratified. Within two months after ratification, Turkey would be required to open its border with Armenia. Subsequently, or perhaps simultaneously, the ...
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COMPANIES LOBBY (QUIETLY) ON ARMENIA GENOCIDE BILL [+] 
16-06-2009
Corporate America typically hires lobbyists to pressure Congress on taxes and trade rules. But in an unusual - some say risky - move, five military contractors and an energy company have stepped into a fight over whether the U.S. should label Turkey's slaughter of a million Armenians nearly a century ...
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ARMENIA: YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND MAYBE NO TOMORROW BY LUCINE KASBARIAN [+] 
01-05-2009
Yesterday, Armenia was a battlefield and prize for competing empires.  Today, Armenia is a battlefield and prize for competing empires. Yesterday, the Young Turk regime released criminals from prison to terrorize Armenians. Today, Turkish and Armenian regimes contain criminals who terrorize Armenians.Yesterday, the Turkish government solved its “Armenian problem” with ...
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DR ELENI THEOCHAROUS: WHY THE MELKONIAN MUST REOPEN [+] 
24-04-2009
ON APRIL 24 we remember the victims of the Turkish Genocide against the Armenian population of Asia Minor. We honour the Armenian nation and its suffering through resolutions and emotional speeches. In my opinion, there is a much better way to act: let’s reopen the Melkonian school. We owe it ...
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SEVRES TREATY AS AN ARMENIAN PRECONDITION TO TALKS WITH TURKEY? [+] 
19-04-2009
At a press conference held earlier today Turkish studies specialist Raffi Kurtoushyan stated, “Turkish politicians and reporters are always talking about three preconditions, of which only two are discussed in Armenia. And these are misleading.”Mr. Kurtoushyan noted that besides the issue of the 1915 Genocide and Karabakh, the third precondition ...
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IN MEMORAM: A TRIBUTE TO ARAM HAGHNAZARIAN [+] 
16-04-2009
What began in 1961 as a modest student life in the historic city of Aachen, the resting place of Charlemagne and German kings, came full circle almost half a century later.  Thousands of miles from his beloved Armenia, on February 19, as Armenians worldwide marked the St. Vartanants Day, Armen ...
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