by Louise Manoogian Simone
Benon Sevan, born in Nicosia, Cyprus, graduated from the AGBU Melkonian Educational Institute in Cyprus, obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Philosophy at Columbia College, New York, and a graduate degree...
by Genine Babakian
Sitting behind the desk of his modest office in a t-shirt and jeans, 53 year old Valery Simonjan does not exactly fit the image of the slick new breed of Soviet businessman. But the younger, ostentatious crowd of entrepreneurs...
by Genine Babakian
When Natasha Gevorkian began her journalism career, she operated under a completely different system - with a censor at every newspaper. But that did not deter her from pursuing a beat that made the censors jumpy at best.
Since...
by Genine Babakian
All was quiet at the Torzhkovsky Marketplace, where farmers come from the southern regions of the former Soviet Union to sell their produce. Only the boarded up windows and a few lingering splinters of glass give any indication...
by Genine Babakian
To Nazim Ragimov, it is easy to differentiate between Armenians and Azeris in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. "Look into their eyes," Ragimov says. "In the Armenians' eyes you see fear."
Ragimov, himself a product of an...
by Genine Babakian
As a mathematics professor, Mikit Kazarian may not have been the most obvious candidate for Chief of Staff at the Armenian Embassy in Moscow, but upon assuming the post two years ago he quickly rose to the task.
"It's a lot like...
by Genine Babakian
Just opposite Moscow's well-publicized McDonalds lies the Akhtamar Cafe, a quiet, cozy contrast to the glare of the golden arches.
Tucked away on the inner side of the tree-lined Tverskoi Boulevard with an understated sign that...
by Genine Babakian
Joseph Antonian has cut some of the most important heads in Moscow, from coup plotters' wives to visiting dignitaries' relatives. But even as the city government claims to be stepping up its move towards privatization, this...
by David Zenian
KIEV - Gen. Wilhelm Martirossian and Heinrich Altounian are two Armenians of diametrically opposed backgrounds whose popularity has skyrocketed since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the birth of an independent Ukraine.
One is...
by Vincent J. Schodolski
Moscow - When my family and I arrived in Moscow five years ago we decided to spend our first Saturday afternoon in Gorky Park soaking up initial impressions of the new country we had come to live in.
That was the summer of...
by David Zenian
MOSCOW - The apathy of most Russians with politics has not curtailed the number of political parties in a country where until recently the "rubber stamp" was the only tool of legislation.
Today, in the free and democratic Russia,...
by David Zenian
Moscow - Russia's transition from communism to a market economy has triggered an unprecedented rise in organized crime, including protection rackets, smuggling, gambling, drugs and prostitution.
The upsurge is not only claiming...