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Our RoA Problems
I doubt any serious person has doubts that the Republic of Armenia (RoA) has serious problems. A few might not grasp that much of it stems from the system in place, which is built […]
Articles by Garen Yegparian
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Self, Stress, Science, & Starts
I had originally titled this piece “Identity, Trauma, Epigenetics, & Openings,” but was told that might scare readers off, so I went with the S’s. Dictionary.com has chosen “identity” as its word of the year. […]
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Bland, Brutally Believable
You wouldn’t think that failure to signal when making a turn with your car would deserve a death sentence, but…that’s what happened, effectively, to Sandra Bland. And, on Dec. 22, a grand jury returned no […]
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Banks, Oil, and Manats Add Up to Bluster
It seems to me I may have just realized why, over the past year and a half or so, Azerbaijan’s bellicosity and acting on that impulse have risen, costing dozens of Armenians and Azeris their […]
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Turkey’s Twaff* and Transparent Territorial Tomfoolery
Much is being said about the Russia-Turkey tiff over the latter’s shooting down of the former’s warplane, which had supposedly crossed from Syrian airspace into a spit of “Turkish” territory (really part of Armenian Cilicia) […]
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Here We Go Again?
I guess it’s that time again. Every few years we’re treated to some nerve-wracking, gut wrenching, time-wasting, enraging, and just plain wrongheaded notions about “solving” the “problem” of Karabakh (as it is misrepresented thanks to […]
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Thanksgiving … 120 Years Delayed
Scientific American Supplement ran an article titled, “The Massacres in Armenia,” accompanied by a woodcut print captioned, “Trebizond, the Scene of the Armenian Massacre,” in its Nov. 30, 1895 issue. I discovered this only because […]
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Bracing Breeze from the Bosphorus
I had the pleasure of feeling this breeze across my face a week ago when attending a small gathering to meet and interact with Sayat Tekir. Sayat is one of the half-dozen founders of “Nor […]
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Turks and Polls
Let’s dispense with the easy one, first. Azerbaijan held an “election” on November 1st. Who noticed? Who cared? The result was so predetermined, the election such a farce, the persecution of Aliyev’s opponents so extensive, […]
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I’m a ‘2’—Are You, Too?
The ANCA Western Region Grassroots Conference last weekend was very interesting in multiple ways. I “re-met” people I hadn’t seen in a long time. I bought books. I noticed a far younger crowd in attendance […]