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By Edmond Y. Azadian The April 19 issue of London’s Economist weekly features on its cover Russia’s map in the shape of a bear reaching out to Ukraine to swallow[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian Turkey has hit Armenians where it hurts most. Since the 1960s, the Armenian population in Middle Eastern countries has been dwindling and the Turkish government’s direct[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian On March 21, the occupation of the Armenian town of Kessab in Syria, by Al Nusra terrorists was simply another episode for the world media watchers.[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian The 20th century witnessed the process of decolonization; many colonial powers gradually allowed their subject nations to determine their own ways of development and sovereignty, which[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian The facts are already well known about the crisis in Crimea, whose population just voted in a referendum with 96.6 percent approval to join the Russian[...]

By Raffi Bedrosyan Like a cell dividing itself into two, then each new cell further dividing itself into two, Turkey keeps being divided. Divisions always existed but remained mostly suppressed,[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian Armenian political thought has always been in flux, and remains so even after independence and perhaps even because of it. The Armenian political parities, which were[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian   Recent political developments in Armenia are overshadowed by events in Ukraine, which in their turn will certainly impact on relations with Russia’s “near abroad.” Armenia,[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian If anyone tries to convince you that the Cold War is over, take that statement with a grain of salt. The Cold War is continuing, if[...]

(The following letter by Marilyn M. Petitto Devaney originally appeared in the Weston Town Crier Newspaper last week. She is a member of the Governor’s Council, which is tasked, among[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian Spain is making amends to the Sephardic Jews expelled more than 500 years ago, during the height of the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish parliament is about[...]