Comrades in Arms
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Antranig Boghosian was a member of the Justice Commandoes of the Armenian Genocide. Alec Yenikomshian was with the other camp — the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia. In October 1980 in Geneva, a bomb accidentally exploded during assembly, and Alec Yenikomshian lost his left hand, and was left visually impaired. In March
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Music: Virtuoso of duduk hits Hye notes; Djivan Gasparian plays the instrument in the manner it demands … from the heart
Friday, 30 November 1990
By Raffi Shoubookian It is believed that no other musical instrument is able to convey the emotions of the Armenian people so honestly and eloquently as the duduk, for it is purely Armenian, born in the early eons of Armenian history. And Djivan Gasparian is uncontestably the foremost dudukist of Armenia today. Because of its
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Cover story: A new era; Democratically-elected Leaders of the Armenian Government Assume Office and Take on the Challenge of Finding Solutions for Armenia’s Innumerable Problems
Sunday, 30 September 1990
By Vartan Oskanian Recently, history was made in Armenia. Not because the first non-Communist president was elected per se, but because he was elected democratically by a popularly chosen parliament. Levon Ter-Petrosyan, 45, who has repatriated to Armenia from Aleppo, Syria in 1946 at the age of one, was elected by the 220-member Armenian Parliament,
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Turks and Armenians agree; Karabagh is not a religious issue
Tuesday, 31 July 1990
By Levon Marashlian Virtually never do Turks and Armenians find common ground on anything. But rare glimmers of possible agreement could be detected in the media between January and March 1990. Hurriyet, Turkey’s largest daily paper, repeated Turkish writer Mehmet Ali Birand’s view in Milliyet, that the crisis in Azerbaijan and Armenia is “not” a
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Roots of a conflict; How the struggle over Karabagh began
Tuesday, 31 July 1990
By Ronald Grigor Suny Crowds moved quietly through the streets of Yerevan. Well into the night they marched, silently, confidently. Tens – even hundreds – of thousands of Armenians reverently engaged in the struggle for Karabagh had answered the first call for support from demonstrators in Stepanakert, Karabagh. Now the Yerevantsis were responding with the
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