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A Commemorable Week
Reading Armenian publications this week brought me to the realization that this time in January seems to be one worthy of some note for our nation, though not entirely in a good way. Three dates […]
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Population Matters
The matter of how many people live on Armenian controlled land has been something I’ve wanted to address for quite some time. Yerevan’s recently enacted increase in benefits to families having more children provides just […]
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Energy in Armenia
Let’s start the year off with some good news in an all-important aspect of daily life, energy. But you’ll have to read through the important buildup to appreciate the importance of the actual news. Recently, […]
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Oh, Woe Is Poor Turkey…
The year is ending, so why not end it laughing? A friend sent an article, “Must Turkey always stand alone in the world?” from a leading Turkish newspaper, “Hurriet” (which, with Turkey’s treatment of journalists, […]
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Impeachment or Monarchy
With apologies to Abraham Lincoln, I am going to plagiarize, permute and adjust his Gettysburg Address to convey the depth of the breach President Donald Trump has created in the proper, legal, constitutional functioning of […]
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Unanimous Senate, What’s Next?
Unprecedented, exciting, unexpected, encouraging, positive, beneficial, hope-inspiring, satisfying, legitimating, wonderful, great and countless other adjectives and participles are probably going through people’s minds regarding the UNANIMOUS passage on Thursday, December 12 of S. Res. 150, […]
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Patriarchal Election
Ever since the previous (84th) Armenian Patriarch of Bolis, Mesrob Mutafyan died on March 8, 2019, conspiracy, gossip, intrigue, natural/normal competition, speculation and Turkish government interference with and intrusion upon the process of electing a […]
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Hateful Turkeys Stuff Turkey
Once again I am overcome with the irrepressible urge to toy with the coincidence of Turkey with turkey right around the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. as opposed to Canada’s which is in October. Who, […]
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Resolution’s Responses
Since H. Res. 296 passed, we’ve had quite the deluge of (mostly) positive publicity. Other than for the Genocide’s centennial, the last time we had this (though it wasn’t positive) was in 2007, when a […]
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Two to Dump
It’s time for two holders of public office, one in the RoA and one in the USA, to exit the stage of public service. First is Arayik Harutyunyan – Minister of Education, Science, Culture and […]