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Bosnia: Shame on Us All

Rebecca Tinsley | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Hakija Turaljic, Ethnic Cleansing, Serbia, Darfur, Slobodan Milosevic, Jacques Poos, European Union, Holocaust, Radovan Karadzic, Serb Elections, Yugoslavia, Sarajevo, Barack Obama, War Crimes, Bosnia, Belgrade, Douglas Hurd, Armenia, Biljana Plavsic, Dayton Peace Accord, Genocide, Russia, Sudan, Peacekeeping, Republika Srpska, Rwanda, Denazification, World News
Rebecca Tinsley

On the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war we should feel anger and shame because 'the international order' is still ignoring those warning signs when they occur. We should also acknowledge the human consequences of the West's failure in Bosnia.

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Parliamentary Vote Puts Armenian President To The Test

AP | AVET DEMOURIAN | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Armenian President Serge Sarkisian, Armenian Parliamentary Elections, Serge Sarkisian, Video, Armenia, Armenia Parliament, Prosperous Armenia, World Elections 2012, World News

YEREVAN, Armenia — Armenians voted for a new parliament on Sunday in an election that the nation's president hoped would give him a majority amo...

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6 European Nations Hold Elections

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Germany Elections, Video, Greece Elections, Greece, Armenia Elections, Germany, France, World Elections 2012, Italy Elections, Serbia Elections, Serbia, Italy, Armenia, France Elections, World News

Six European countries held elections Sunday. Here is a quick look at what was at stake: _FRANCE: Socialist challenger Francois Hollande defeats incu...

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Exploding Balloons Injure 144

AP | AVET DEMOURIAN | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Armenia Explosion, Armenia Explosions, Armenia Balloon Explosions, Armenia, Armenia Republican Party, Armenia Balloon Explosion, Armenia Republican Party Rally, World News

YEREVAN, Armenia -- Clusters of balloons exploded Friday during a political rally in the central square of Armenia's capital, injuring at least 144 pe...

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April 24th: Remembering the Armenian Dead

Christopher Atamian | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Taxes, Turkey, Ahmet Davotuglu, Turkish, Syrian Desert, Armenian Genocide, Armenian, 1915, Pontic Greek, Young Turks, Armenia, Talaat Pasha, Wealth, Genocide, Assyrian, Concentration Camps, Wealth Taxes, Reconciliation, Ayash, Komitas, Djemal, Pontic, Chankiri, Enver, World News
Christopher Atamian

Turkey can delay, it can hem and haw and try to dissimulate, but the reality is that Armenians -- and their Greek and Assyrian counterparts -- have truth on their side; and as we have seen before in the course of human history, truth has a strange way of winning out, eventually.

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Armenian Genocide: The French Constitutional Council's Mistake

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Armenia Turkey, Turkey Armenia, Turkey, Armenia, Turkey Armenia Conflict, Armenian Genocide, World News
Bernard-Henri Lévy

A discredited Council, even if it is constitutional, is not the guardian of the Truth, and, fortunately, the decision it has just taken cannot judge in advance the outcome of a battle the historians of genocides have long since won.

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Armenian Genocide: Dangerous Pity

Robert Badinter | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: France Armenia Genocide Bill, Turkey, Armenia, Armenian Genocide, France, World News
Robert Badinter

Our long and tragic history should place us today on the side of international justice. It does not qualify us to appoint ourselves the judge of universal history and the moral conscience of the world.

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Border Tensions Sit Uneasy With Enviromental Challenges

Leyla Aliyeva | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Turkmenistan, Enviroment, Iran, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Home News
Leyla Aliyeva

The international community - political as well as scientific - needs to understand that without true international dialogue, the scope for environmental action is dramatically limited. But with that dialogue comes unlimited opportunity that goes far beyond the future of one species.

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Will 'Pop Music Diplomacy' Delay War in a Long, Bitter Azerbaijan-Armenia Land Dispute?

Jeff Burbank | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Eurovision Song Contest, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabagh, World News
Jeff Burbank

Will the expressed willingness of Azerbaijan to let its arch-enemy Armenia take part in the 2012 competition produce a breakthrough, where international negotiators and military threats have failed?

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Armenia's Exodus Leaves Behind Villages Inhabited Only By Women

Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Russia, Russia Immigration, Immigration, Armenia Diaspora, Armenia, Diaspora, Armenia Migration, World News

An estimated 60,000 Armenians are leaving their country each year in search of a better life, and the mass exodus has caused a startling new trend: wh...

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PHOTOS: Getty Exhibit Explores Medieval Fashion

Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: King David, The Getty Center, Religion, Medieval, Office of the Dead, Byzantium, Illuminated Manuscript, Middle Ages, Christianity, Fashion, Armenia, Fashion in the Middle Ages, Arts News

In the Middle Ages in Europe, you were doing pretty well if you even had time to think about fashion. The images in the slideshow below, from illumina...

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What of Persian and the Lingua Franca of the New Century?

Sam Sasan Shoamanesh | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Bahá'í House of Worship, Uganda, Russian, Huntington, French, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Marco Polo, Uzbekistan, Islamic Golden Age, Chinese, Arabic, Clash of Civilizations, Iran, Armenia, Lingua Franca, Ottomans, Zanzibar, Abbasid Caliphate, Persian Language, Israel, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, British Imperialism, Torah, Iraqbahrain, World News
Sam Sasan Shoamanesh

What of the sway of Persian, or for that matter, any other language in today's world? It is language capable of 'selling' to an increasingly aware world-population that will be triumphant in the 21st century.

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Armenia's Eurovision 2011 Song: "Boom Boom" by Emmy

Will Adams | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Eurovision Favorites, First Semi-Final, Eurovision, Armenia, Eurovision Blog, Eurovision 2011, Emmy, Boom Boom, World News
Will Adams

Though Armenian singer singer Emmy never tells us what her lover's kiss is actually like, the video implies it's as powerful as a punch delivered by a boxer wearing silver stilettos and black spandex.

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Azerbaijan's Autocratic President Keeps Pro-Democracy Activists at Bay

Jeff Burbank | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Corruption, Former Soviet Union, Protest, Democracy, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Baku, Censorship, Ilham Aliyev, World News
Jeff Burbank

Protesters have built momentum toward what they hope leads to a society free of President Aliyev's authoritarian rule that clamps down on the news media and critics of his government.

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75-Year-Old Woman Cuts Off Entire Nation's Internet Service

Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Armenian Internet Service Interrupted, Georgian Railway Telecom, Amenia Internet, Internet Crash@Y:World, Georgian Woman Cuts Internet, Armenia Internet, Armenia Internet Going Down, Armenia, Washington Post Spade Hacker Armenia Woman, 75 Yo Georgia Armerinian Internet, Ksani, Georgia Woman Internet, Georgian Woman Internet, Georgian Woman Armenia, Azerbaijan, World News

A 75-year-old Georgian woman is facing jail time after she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and caused all Internet services in neighb...

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Divorce Rates Up In Armenia

armenianow.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Armenia Marriage, Armenia Divorce, Global Divorce Rates, Armenia Divorce Rate, Armenia, Divorce News

A yearly report from the Census and Demography Department of the Armenian National Statistic Service reveals that Armenians divorced more and married ...

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PHOTOS: Earliest Known Winery Discovered In Armenian Cave

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wine, Winemaking, Winery, Oldest Winery, World's Oldest Winery, Winery Armenia, Armenia, Slidepollajax, Armenian Winery, Armenian Wineny, Food News

This undated handout photo provided by National Geographic shows a wine press, behind which an archaeological identification kit is placed, In Armeni...

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Iran Detains American Woman On Spying Charges

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Iran Spy, Iran American Spy, Nordouz, Armenia, US-Iran Relations, Iran Espionage, Espionage, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — A state-owned Iranian newspaper says authorities have detained an American woman on espionage suspicions. The report Thursday by...

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Astoria Characters: The Two-Time Immigrant

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Laptop, Nancy Ruhling, Printer, Astoria, War, Garo Apanian, Cat, Lebanon, Canada, New York News, Mosque, Beirut, Grape Arbor, Armenia, Cooking, Google Maps, Christian, Parsons the New School for Design, Rhode Island, Long Island City, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Garo Apanian opens his candy-apple-red laptop. "Let me show you the apartment where I was born," he says. "It's a beautiful building." The image that appears is of Beirut.

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Turkey's Answer to the Armenian Question

Elmira Bayrasli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Armenian Genocide Bill, Armenians, Turkey Genocide, Turkey Armenia, Turkey, Armenia, Armenian Genocide, World News
Elmira Bayrasli

Turkey dodged yet another bullet in the U.S. House of Representatives when a resolution "recognizing" the Armenian "genocide" failed to reach the floor for a vote.

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Astoria Characters: The Old-School Sculptor

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Astoria, Lady Liberty, Cave, Picasso, Opera, Sculptor, Hercules, Airplane, Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts, Begger, Superman, Tb, Michelangelo, Clay, Modern Art Foundry, Mattress, Nancy Ruhling, Armenia, Art History, Communist Party, Macaroni, Russia, Bronze, Wine, Soup, Rafael Petrosyan, Alva Museum Replicas in Long Island City, New York News, Cigar, Leninakan, Ivan the Terrible and His Son, Repin, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Sculptor Rafael Petrosyan left Armenia nearly four decades ago, but old customs die hard. He's had his morning shot of wine already when I catch up with him.

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Gratitude In A World Of Sin And Sorrow

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sears, H. L. Mencken, Mayflower, Thanksgiving, Millionaires, George W. Bush, Toys R US, Target, Plymouth Rock, Native Americans, Friday Night Lights, Janine Turner, Pilgrims, Armenia, Billionaires, Wal-Mart, Michele Bachmann, Kmart, Black Friday, Mark Twain, Gratitude, Republicans, Cortisone, Casino, Healthy Living News
Michael Sigman

Hoping to revive my career as a very slow lap-swimmer, my rheumatologist recently plunged a cortisone-filled needle into an inflamed tendon near my ri...

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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Should Return Illicit Donation

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, 2010 Elections, Dccc, Organized Crime, Nancy Pelosi, Armenia, Medicaid, Campaign Finance, Elections 2010, Politics News
Bruce Fein

Campaigns fueled with illicitly filched funds derived from federal felonies are akin to a fencing operation. They mock the rule of law and the democratic process.

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Obama Can Now Replace Bryza With a New Nominee as Ambassador to Azerbaijan

Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer, White House, Baku, Azerbaijan, Wall Street Journal, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ilham Aliyev, Advise and Consent, U.S. Senate, Armenia, Robert Gates, John Kerry, "Hold, Washington Post, Ambassador, Turkey, Washington DC, Congress, Robert Menendez, Matthew Bryza, Anca, Karabagh, State Department, Barack Obama, Artsakh, Caucasus, Recess Appointment, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Neo-Conservatives, Oil and Gas Lobby, World News
Harut Sassounian

At this point, the ideal option for Obama would be to abandon Matthew Bryza's flawed candidacy for ambassador to Azerbaijan and name another less controversial nominee who could be confirmed by the Senate.

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Serj Tankian Talks Politics and Finds the Art of "Imperfection"

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Oil Spill, Imperfect Harmonies, The Beatles, Serj Tankian, Iran, Obama, Armenia, Elect the Dead, President, System of a Down, Left of Center, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

Some band frontmen use their hiatus to take a full-on sabbatical from the studio in some faraway villa. Then there's people like Serj Takian, former leader singer of System of a Down.

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