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The handiwork of Nerses's wife, Anzhela, which they hope to at one point sell.

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‘Happy is he who is happy at home’ — a Syrian shoemaker in Nagorno-Karabakh

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•5 min read

Stories written about Armenians from the diaspora who moved to Nagorno-Karabakh are, as a rule, positive: about successful businesses or achievements in agriculture. But among those who moved to Nagorno-Karabakh there are many who struggle to make ends meet; the Demirchyans, are such a family. They decided not to run away from problems, but to stay in Nagorno-Karabakh. Sixty-seven-year old Nerses Demirchyan moved to Nagorno-Karabakh from Syria in 2001 with his wife Anzhela and his mother. H

Abkhazia

Everything was over when the war began

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•8 min read

Some people’s hearts start to ache when they suddenly come across a photo album or an old video tape lying in dust in the corner of a cupboard. For a refugee from Abkhazia, the trigger is the word ‘war’. ‘He came to his father, only a few days late’ Arshak Davidyan will never see Abkhazia again. The eighty-year-old refugee from the village of Tamysh, in the Ochamchira District, died last winter, alone, in a small room in one of the abandoned buildings of a former college, where he had

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Opinion | Armenian Georgians working in Russia impedes their integration

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•6 min read

Southern Georgia’s Armenians are not well integrated. That men spend nine months of the year in Russia is a problem — it separates them from the rest of their country. ‘Why don’t you speak Georgian?’ ‘Don’t you live here?’ ‘Aren’t you citizens of Georgia?’ Such questions, with different intonation and different degrees of discontent and disdain, are often asked of Armenians living in Javakheti. Basically, the higher the degree of discontent and disregard in the questioner’s voice, the