... among the first few Diaspora students who, back in 1964, studied in what was Soviet Armenia. In 1969, he graduated as actor and director from the State Drama and Fine Arts Institute in Yerevan. While studying ...
... sent first to Lebanon in 1978 as a diplomat and then, in 1986, appointed First Secretary of the USSR Embassy in Egypt. In 1982, Nalbandian was the youngest diplomat in the Soviet Union who was rewarded ...
... caused by the economic transition that all former Soviet republics experience, the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict has created its own dynamics and difficulties for Karabakh's economy. Coupled with the Azerbaijani ...
... strong criticism-particularly since the collapse of the Soviet Union-by high ranking leaders of the Orthodox churches that follow the Byzantine tradition. Among them, Russian Patriarch Alexei II has warned ...
... challenges which compounded Armenia's already troubled economic transition-earthquake, blockade and war-Armenia was among the first countries in the former Soviet republics to start the process of privatization, ...
... under Soviet jurisdiction. The Archbishop held that the American flag was sufficient….."
This event had far reaching implications for the Church in America. One of the most obvious symptoms of the intensifying ...
... US reporters repeatedly reminded their readers that Armenia is “the highest per capita US aid'' recipient among "the former Soviet republics" and "the second-highest per capita recipient ... trailing only ...
... Cold War, when Catholicos Khoren I (1932-38) wrote these words in an October 1933 encyclical addressed to the dioceses in the Armenian Diaspora. (Khoren I was assassinated by the Soviet authorities in ...
... and above any political agenda. There is increasing economic cross-fertilization between Asia, Europe, North and South America. Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are seen as the potential new ...
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When limitations on religious freedom were lifted, starting with perestroika in the mid-1980s, most countries that were under the influence of the Soviet empire saw a resurgence of religious faith and ...
... Nagorno Karabakh Conflict Provokes a Major Post-Soviet Leadership Change in Armenia
Hratch Tchilingirian
The peaceful resignation of President Levon Ter-Petrossian on February 3 brought to an ...
... UK.
The collapse of the Soviet Union triggered unprecedented processes of rapid and long-term transitions in virtually all aspects of life: political, social, economic, religious, cultural, and territorial. ...
... them to the Karabakh conflict and its consequences. Other post-Soviet states lacking secessionist conflicts do not exhibit superior democratic credentials, as the examples of Belarus or Turkmenistan demonstrate. ...
... beginning of the 21st century in a post-Soviet Armenia provide both challenges and opportunities to the Armenian Church. This chapter discusses the key issues in the Armenian Church today: the role ...
... the globe has enabled Russia to accumulate over $16.7 billion in its energy-stabilisation fund. Asia Times, 27 January 2005. While relatively unknown in Soviet times, the large oil and natural gas ...