1. Armenian troops pull out of Iraq: US military
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Armenia has withdrawn its contingent of 46 soldiers from Iraq, further shrinking the US-led coalition forces, the American military said on Tuesday. The unit of the former Soviet republic brought its operations ...

2. Barack Obama congratulates Armenians on Armenia's Independence Day
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... all Armenians on Armenia’s rebirth in 1991 as an independent state after 70 years of Soviet rule, according to Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Communications Director Elizabeth Chouldjian ...

3. 17-year old Arthur Mkoyan Still Facing Deportation
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... All efforts to stay have failed so the family is now pleading their case to a US Congressman. It's been 16 years since Arthur Mkoyan and his family came to this country. They fled the old Soviet Union ...

4. The Armenian Genocide
(Armenians/History)

... never receive compensation. The Kars and Ardahan provinces of Armenia were taken as well in an agreement with the Soviet Union. Contemporary Events On the 50th anniversary of the genocide, the scattered ...

5. Nagorno-Karabakh and Independence
(Armenians/History)

... decline of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s (see fig. 3). In the early 1990s, the struggle defied all negotiating efforts of the West and Russia. Karabakh as a National Issue The protests of the ...

6. The Communist Era
(Armenians/History)

... endemic in communist rule continued until the very end in 1991. The last years of communism also brought disillusionment in what had been one of the most loyal republics in the Soviet Union until the late ...

7. World War I and Its Consequences
(Armenians/History)

... Empire and, by 1920, by the territorial ambitions of Soviet Russia and the nationalist Turks under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Atatürk had rehabilitated Turkey rapidly under a new democratic system, but the ...