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Artsakh State University team are invited to the Russian-Armenian University Intellectual Games in Yerevan for the first time.
For several years the Russian-Armenian University (RAU) in Yerevan has been holding “Intellectual Games” in Yerevan, comprising students from different institutions throughout the Republic of Armenia; these games are held in Russian. The Games promote fluency in the Russian language… Read More ›
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An Englishman remembers the Liberation of Shushi
My fifth visit to Artsakh was planned to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of the Liberation of Shushi, with the intention of becoming involved in events and witnessing the way that such an occasion was to be commemorated. My expectation… Read More ›
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25 Voices from Artsakh are heard in London
A very powerful way of changing the perception that people have of unknown areas of the world from blank, grey, faceless, and foreign zones into something centred around real people, evoking real human emotions, is through personal stories. The “25… Read More ›
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An Englishman returns to Artsakh
My last journey along the long road from Shushi, through the border with Armenia, Goris, and finally to Yerevan seems like a lifetime ago. Not a day has gone past that I have not thought about the people of Armenia… Read More ›
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Armenians in London remember the Genocide
Each year in London the Armenian community in the UK march through the capital to remember the 1,500,000 people killed during the Armenian Genocide in 1915. This march has taken place every year for the last 47 years, and the… Read More ›
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Maragha : Don’t forget the Missing, the Dead, and the Violated
In war there are an abundance of stories which involve the killing of people from an individual personal level to the clinical statistics of mass populations. Despite the sensational numbers each one contains a life lost, a history terminated, a… Read More ›
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Syria: The Armenian Dilemma
A few months ago, a resolution was proposed by the United Nations calling for the Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, to stand down from office; this was vetoed by Russia and China and caused furious reaction from the rest of the… Read More ›
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Armenian Genocide : The blindness of Political expediency
The irony about the Armenian Genocide is that there is no dispute over the fact that a large number of the Armenian community within the Ottoman Empire were killed, died, defiled, or deported in 1915. It is a matter of… Read More ›
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Armenian Genocide ; Eye-Witness Accounts ( Part 5)
In 1916, a book was published entitled “The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-16. Documents presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs”, by Viscount Bryce which contained a comprehensive collection of documents produced… Read More ›
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Silent approval of the First Armenian Genocide
In 1896, Emile Dillon was the Russian correspondent for the UK newspaper, the Daily Telegraph. He reported on the massacre of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire which, sadly, was the forerunner (arguably the First) of the Genocide in 1915…. Read More ›
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