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  • Before We Talk about Armenian Genocide Reparations, There Is Another Accounting Due

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      From the Armenian Weekly 2017 Magazine Dedicated to the 102nd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide   Did the USSR Really Lose the Cold War? Maybe as a Whole, but Some Have Turned Loss into Staggering Advantage and Profit. Now It’s Time They Pay for the Damage They Have Done—and Are Doing—Before It’s Too Late.…

  • Kricorian: Stories from the Armenian Quarter

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      The following piece by New York-based novelist, essayist, and activist Nancy Kricorian will be published in the upcoming anthology This Is Not a Border: Reportage and Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature. A ceramics shop in the Armenian Quarter (Photo: JHistory) *** G tells me that a few months after the Israelis conquered East…

  • A Case of Turkish Genetic Appropriation

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    By Aris Govjian Special for the Armenian Weekly On May 30, major news and entertainment outlets across the internet began sharing a revelation in the scientific community—the genetic material of ancient Egyptians being found to belong to the original peoples of Asia Minor and Europe. Nearly every source which shared these research findings performed a…

  • Azerbaijani Forces Fire at Baghanis Border Village

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      Mayor Tells the Armenian Weekly Two Homes Were Damaged BAGHANIS, Armenia (A.W.)—On the night of May 31, Armenia’s Baghanis village of the Tavush province was shelled by Azerbaijani forces. Both Baghanis village Mayor Narek Sahakyan and Armenian Defense Ministry Spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan confirmed the attack. Baghanis Mayor Narek Sahakyan (Photo: Tert.am) Though Hovhannisyan told…

  • Three ARF Ministers Reappointed

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      YEREVAN (A.W.)—Armenian President Serge Sarkisian reappointed three members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) to the government’s new cabinet on May 31. Levon Mkrtchyan, Davit Lokyan, and Artsvik Minasyan, who were part of the previous cabinet as Ministers, were reappointed as Ministers of Education and Science, Territorial Administration, and Environmental Protection respectively. (L to…

  • Exiled Azerbaijani Journalist at Risk of Torture after Abduction

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    Afghan Mukhtarli (Photo: Facebook) BAKU, Azerbaijan (Amnesty International)—An Azerbaijani investigative journalist who vanished on the evening of May 29 from the Georgian capital Tbilisi is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment after resurfacing on Tuesday in custody across the border in Baku, Azerbaijan, after what he described to his lawyer as a harrowing cross-border…

  • Armenian Cellist Karen Ouzounian’s String Quartet Takes Top Prize in Osaka

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    Aizuri Quartet (Source: The Strad) OSAKA, Japan (The Strad)—The Aizuri Quartet (U.S), featuring Canadian-Armenian cellist Karen Ouzounian, has won first prize, worth 3 million JPY ($27,000 USD), in the string quartet section of the Ninth Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan. The triennial event took place May 13-21 in the string quartet and wind…

  • Armenian, German Scientists Hold Workshop in Byurakan

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    Scientists from Armenia and Germany held a workshop on May 23-24 in Nor Amberd, Byurakan, Armenia. (Photo: A. Alikhanyan National Laboratory) BYURAKAN, Armenia—The first workshop on common scientific interests in the physical sciences between Armenia and the State of Brandenburg, Germany, (ARBRA 2017) was held on May 23-24 in Nor Amberd, Byurakan, Armenia. German scientists…

  • Armenia Proposes Tobacco Control Laws, Seeks to Ban Public Smoking

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    Protester holds sign that translates “Living Free From Tobacco Smoke is our Right” (Photo: Photolur) YEREVAN—Armenia’s Health Minister Levon Altunyan announced on Wednesday that the country’s leadership had instructed him to declare war on smoking in the country, reducing the number of smokers by 30 to 40 percent. During a press conference, which coincided with…

  • ARF Ministers Reappointed

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    From left reappointed ARF ministers Levon Mkrtchyan, Artsvik Minasyan and Davit Lokyan YEREVAN—President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday reappointed the three members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation who served in the cabinet prior to the April election, thus completing the appointments to the new cabinet. Levon Mkrtchyan, Davit Lokyan and Artsvik Minasyan were reappointed as ministers…