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		<title>&#8216;Not Alone:&#8217; Armenia Enters Eurovision 2014 with Aram MP3&#8217;s Romantic Ballad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again when Europeans (and a growing legion of American fans) gather around to stream their favorite songs from the musical contest that has it all. And by all  I mean all the pop synth rhythms and outrageous outfits of your dreams, and of course nightmares. Having missed 2012&#8217;s contest in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Watertown: Armenian-American Stronghold Becomes Tangled in Shootout</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the events from the Boston Marathon bombings, which left three dead and hundreds injured, unraveled, two brothers, Dhzokar and Tamerlane Tsarnaev became the central suspects in a battle that had law enforcement shut down the city as the manhunt carried on. The Tsarnaevs, it became known, were ethnic Chechens, the elder born in  Kyrgyzstan [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Armenian Environmental Activist Mariam Sukhudyan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Mariam Sukhudyan is the quintessential face of Armenia&#8217;s active environmental community. Through her activism both on the ground and with the help of social media, she has carried the message of pertinent environmental issues beyond the borders of the South Caucasus country and gathered much admiration in the process. In 2010, Sukhudyan was awarded [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Safarov Triangle: A Primer, Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/the-safarov-triangle-a-primer-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anger, shock and tomato pelting erupted this week after Hungary coordinated the extradition of Ramil Safarov, who was serving a life sentence after beheading an Armenian soldier while both attended NATO&#8217;s &#8220;Partnership for Peace&#8221; program in Budapest, to his native Azerbaijan. Safarov was given a hero&#8217;s welcome, promotion and was pardoned. Armenia responded by severing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Slideshow: Chechnya&#8217;s Forgotten Armenians</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karena Avedissian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in Grozny to see my old friend Timur, and along the way I decided to use the opportunity to search for my Armenian relatives buried there. My great aunt and her daughter had died in Grozny in the 80s, and the rest of their family had moved away as a result of war. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Women of The South Caucasus Olympic Teams</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/the-women-of-the-south-caucasus-olympic-teams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though the South Caucasus countries have been participating in the Olympic games since 1952, it wasn&#8217;t until the mid 90s that Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia sprung out to participate independently after the fall of the Soviet Union. In honor of unprecedented female representation in every single London 2012 participating team, here is quick highlight of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Picture: Georgia</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/the-big-picture-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries,&#8221; Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili once said. While the country, bordering Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Russia,  sits at the crux of the Caucasus and its membership into Europe or Asia  is debated, its ancient status can be backed up by more [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Picture: Dagestan</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/the-big-picture-dagestan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liana Aghajanian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Situated in the North Caucasus mountains, bordering the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan and Georgia, Dagestan, a Russian Republic,  is one of the most ethnically diverse areas in the Caucasus, with around 30 ethnic groups and 81 nationalities, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic or Iranian languages, according to Encylopedia Brittanica. The largest among the groups [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Brotherhood Concert in Istanbul</title>
		<link>http://www.ianyanmag.com/a-brotherhood-concert-in-istanbul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Poe Aslan]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arto tunboyaciyan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Istanbul is a magical city. You feel it in almost everything but mostly in Bosporus at sunset, night and to be honest, all the time. The magic that wraps you with strange energy is not just because of the magnificent landscapes. Istanbul is enchanting because the city is rooted in many different ethnic and religious [&#8230;]]]></description>
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