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41. Andranik Margaryan

... at the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute and graduated as a computer engineer in 1972. He worked in a number of Soviet state institutions before getting involved in dissident politics in Soviet Armenia. He ...

42. The Armenian Church: Glasnost Without Peristroka?

... yet started in the Armenian Church. By now--whether we understand politics or not--we all know that glasnost without perestroika is not enough. Gorbachev and the explosive situation that he has created ...

43. Church and State Relations in Armenia

... has been established in Armenia-for all political parties to carry out their agenda-there is no need anymore to burden the church with politics. As such, we see the continued separation of the church-besides ...

44. Presidential Elections in Armenia: Candidates and Issues

... flawed parliamentary elections in 1995 and Ter-Petrosian's disputed victory in the 1996 presidential contest, the conduct of the current poll will shape domestic prospects for democratic politics and international ...

45. Political Crisis in Armenia

... likely. The new leadership may bring more democratic politics to Armenia. However, domestic politics in both Yerevan and Baku will probably ensure that the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process is effectively ...

46. Armenia: Political Prospects for 1998

... place in the context of several key factors. It remains to be seen how these factors will effect Armenia’s internal politics. a) All the opposition parties in Armenia have failed to develop a broader ...

47. Armenia: Rebooting the Political Hard Drive

... given as to the motives of the controversial appointment. But it has serious implications not only for Armenia’s internal politics, but also for the Transcaucasus region, in view of the nine-year-old conflict ...

48. The Forgotten Diaspora: Bulgarian-Armenians after the end of Communism

... a few years ago, decided to move to the US because, "There is no advancement in my career, unless I get involved with government work and politics," he says. But he doesn’t think leaving is bad. "If ...

49. The Forgotten Diaspora: Bulgarian-Armenians after the end of Communism

... a few years ago, decided to move to the US because, "There is no advancement in my career, unless I get involved with government work and politics," he says. But he doesn’t think leaving is bad. "If ...

50. Dividing Jerusalem : Armenians on the line of confrontation

... matters and politics, there is coordination among the churches, whose centuries-old presence in the this City precedes Israeli rule." Hintlian added that the Armenian Patriarchate has "semi-diplomatic ...

51. Witness of His Time: Krikor Norikian

... in Lebanon. It was only later as an accomplished artist that he was somewhat drawn in. "For me, party and politics was my art. I am not interested in Armenian politics, neither right, nor left," he says ...

52. Medieval Lobbyists

... the periphery of Armenia proper and politics was mostly local in nature, determined by the geostrategic conditions and circumstances of a given period.” Stuck between Islam and Byzantium, “Armenian history ...

53. Integration: The Point of No Return

... university graduates are less likely to affiliate with political parties, which still enjoy large clout in Lebanese politics, and have found greater opportunities and success in main stream Lebanese society. ...

54. Catholicosal Elections in Armenia

... which would then elect one of the three most favorable ones. If this would have happened, we would not have had this kind of dirty politics in this whole process and we would have had a more spiritually-centered ...

55. Two Different Islands

... and Britain is providing some £500,000 assistance to Armenia this year. In an ever-expanding global politics, economic position and viability has become the ultimate bottom line of diplomacy and interstate ...

56. Master of Grand Theater

... the Shiites explain it in another way. So I feel a responsibility to explain to people that Lebanon is not just politics; Lebanon has its cultural, artistic and social values, which can spread throughout ...

57. An Arab Historian and His Cause

... recognition. "The Armenians are not doing enough to teach or present their case to the Arab world," complains Zahredeen. There are variations in the politics, culture and administrative apparatus of ...

58. Fair, Free… And Oil

... when coverage focused mostly on democracy in Armenia. the focus this time was more on the oil and pipeline politics in the region and Armenia's "negative" impact on regional economic developments vis-a-vis ...

59. Playing with Tigers

... we are spoiled. We have not seen any political difficulties for a long time. The Far Easterners in general are not really interested in politics. Their main aim is business and how to increase productivity. ...

60. Religious discourse and the church in Mountainous Karabakh

... search for industry and new partners" in Ian Bremmer and Ray Taras (eds.) Nation and Politics in the Soviet Successor States, Cambridge University Press. Lalayan, Yervant (1988) Collected Works Vol. ...