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This is the end of a tough year – not because there were earth-shaking, earth- moving, future-making events, but because there weren’t. In Armenia, it was a year of standing in place, at best, in so many ways.
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By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier
Over the years, Armenians have gradually shifted their attention from the recognition of the Genocide to the pursuit of legal remedies for their massive losses suffered between 1915 and 1923.
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Posted By Asbarez Staff On December 22, 2010
WASHINGTON (Combined Sources)–Armenian-American activists are making a final push Wednesday to secure a vote by a lame-duck Congress of a resolution recognizing the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
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Wed 22 December 2010
'Azerbaijan has a few priority tasks', said presidential official Elnur Aslanov.
On December 21 Chief of the Political Analysis and Information Department for the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Elnur Aslanov met with future doctors of sciences as well a...continua |
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By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier
Over the years, Armenians have gradually shifted their attention from the recognition of the Genocide to the pursuit of legal remedies for their massive losses suffered between 1915 and 1923.
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Armenian-Americans sue Turkey over land claims
The Associated Press
Wednesday, December 15, 2010; 7:23 PM
LOS ANGELES -- Three descendants of Armenians who lost their property in the collapse of the Ottoman Empire filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Turkish government and two Turkish...continua |
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December 17, 2010
Nearly 200 mostly military personnel accused of plotting to bomb mosques and assassinate journalists as part of a plan to overthrow the government went on trial Thursday in Istanbul in a milestone case many observers have characterized as a key step in the process to demilitar...continua |
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Posted: 2010/12/11- From: Mathaba
Thanks to WikiLeaks, we now know that the United States of America has nuclear weapons in several European countries, without the knowledge of their populations
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The United States on Thursday apologized to Azerbaijan as WikiLeaks churned out cables comparing Azerbaijan President to a mafia boss of “The Godfather” films.
Published: December 16, 2010
Tejinder Singh - AHN News Correspondent
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Posted By Asbarez Staff On December 16, 2010
[1]ANKARA (Anatolia News Agency)–Journalists and representatives from media outlets from across the Turkic world will gather in Ankara next week for a two-day media forum starting December 21, a statement from Turkey’s Directorate Genera...continua |
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"CenterAR.org Mailing List" <info@centerar.org>
Dear Fellow Armenians,
We are very excited to bring to your attention the 1915Club, an innovative new website that has laid the foundation for the building of a Virtual Western Armenia on the Internet.
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Per la prima volta in Inghilterra il Cosiglio Comunale di Ealing, dove risiedono molti armeni già dal tempo della Prima Guerra Mondiale, riconosce il genocidio degli armeni.
La mozione* era presentata da Ara Iskandarian, un consigliere del partito laburista....
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Posted By Asbed Kotchikian, PhD On December 14, 2010
Times are changing and if there are still people who are unwilling to accept that, a single word should do the trick: WikiLeaks. Founded almost four years ago, WikiLeaks has grown by leaps and bounds since then, by publishing classified and s...continua |
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There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually
be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival.
Check out the things that you can do with it:
FIRST Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for all Mobile Phones
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GLI ARCHITETTI ARMENI Di ISTANBUL...‏
Italian and Emglish
Una mostra dedicata agli architetti armeni di Istanbul si è inaugurata al' "Istanbul Modern". Sono esposte immagini di 100 palazzi, opere di 40 architetti Armeni residenti a Istanbul fine 19°e in...continua |
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Once upon a time there was an Armenian orphan with a beautiful voice. He was born in Kutina, Kotahya in Turkey. He sang most of the tunes he heard around whether Armenian, Turkish or Kurdish songs. But as a little boy he spoke only in Turkish. In his town and times in mid 19th century, it was danger...continua |
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December 14, 2010
YEREVAN -- Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and his National Security Council have approved a five-year plan to modernize the armed forces, including the acquisition of long-range, precision-guided weapons, RFE/RL reports.
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The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute announced its new scholarship program for foreign students and PhD candidates. Raphael Lemkin scholarship is intended
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Free Nikol!
Nouritza Matossian, Free Speech Blog, UK, 2 December 2010
Last time I wrote about an Armenian newspaper editor who was abused and persecuted for exercising his right to free speech, it was Hrant Dink in Turkey, cruelly murdered for his courage and principles.
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December 07, 2010
Vladimir Socor
Perhaps more than the WikiLeaks themselves, it is the massive security breach and counterintelligence failure that will, for some time to come, discourage candid conversations between the US government and some of its key partners.
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Dec 5th, 2010
“… Mesrob Mashdots, under impossible conditions did the only thing possible, the only seemingly simple and common thing, which would save the nation from destruction, which would unite the nation and which would arm her against all dangers and ensure her perseverance a...continua |
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Published 02.12.10
Deputy leader of Turkish PM Erdogan's AKP party hints that Israel engineered the release of U.S. diplomatic cables as a plot to pressure Turkey, the daily Hurriyet reports.
By Haaretz Service
A senior Turkish official blamed Israel for the WikiLeaks release, Turkish d...continua |
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The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute announced its new scholarship program for foreign students and PhD candidates. Raphael Lemkin scholarship is intended to enable foreign students, who specialize in genocide studies, especially in the Armenian Genocide, to visit Armenia for a month to conduct r...continua |
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Armenia: WikiLeaks Cables Cause Stir in Yerevan
Submitted by k_kumkova on November 30, 2010
November 30, 2010 - 1:27pm
The Armenian government and the US embassy in Yerevan are staying tight-lipped about WikiLeaks disclosures concerning US-Armenian relations. But the country’s fr...continua |
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Website: http://agbueurope.org
Armen Harutyunyan, the Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) of Armenia, was in Brussels from November 15 to November 18, 2010, in order to meet with European Institutions. The visit was organized by AGBU Europe. During his visit, the ombudsman met with Mr Cabrnoch, C...continua |
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http://by137w.bay137.mail.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
This has been the sunniest, longest Yerevan autumn in a long time. Cold, crisp, sunny, beautiful. Good enough to make us work long hours. And the results?
Project Syndicate is running an article by Vartan Oskanian, on the eve of t...continua |
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US embassy cables: US fury at Armenia over arms transfers to Iran
• guardian.co.uk, Sunday 28 November 2010
Wednesday, 24 December 2008, 21:58
S E C R E T STATE 134490
SIPDIS
EO 12958 DECL: 12/23/2018
TAGS ETTC, MASS, OPDC, PARM, PREL, AM,
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Geopolitical Journey, Part 5: Turkey
November 23, 2010
STRATFOR
Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment in a series of special reports that Dr. Friedman will write over the next few weeks as he travels to Turkey, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine and Poland. In this series, he will s...continua |
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What will it take to unify Western and Eastern Armenian spelling and is it really so hard? Salpi Ghazarian asks at Civilitas blog
Narcissistic and short-sighted, too
November 24th, 2010 | Author: Salpi Ghazarian
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WESTWOOD, Calif–On Saturday, October 23, the International Human Rights Law Association (IHRLA) at the University of California, Los Angeles hosted a conference entitled, “Genocide and Then What? The Law, Ethics, and Politics of Making Amends” at Dodd Hall.
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