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☆ Karabakh refugees in Armenia face uncertainty and poverty in exile
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Felix Light | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/5] Elada Sargsyan, 54, a refugee from Nagorno-Karbakh region, poses for a picture in a disused kindergarten, where she now lives temporarily along with dozens of other refugees from Karabakh, in the town of Masis, Armenia November 22, 2023. Born in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Sargsyan fled her hometown in 1988, aged 19, as the Soviet Union began to fall apart. In 2020, they lost another home, when Azerbaijan - by now closely allied with Armenians' bête noire, Turkey - reconquered much of Karabakh including their village in a second war. Like many refugees, they have struggled to find work in Armenia. Alvina, a grandmother aged 65, has become the family’s main breadwinner, earning a little money selling homemade "jingalov hats" or "green bread", a flatbread stuffed with herbs that is a staple for Karabakh Armenians.

Persons: Elada Sargsyan, Irakli, Sargsyan, I’ve, they’ll, Masis, Alina Harutyunyan, Harutyunyan, I'd, Lilia Abrahamyan, Felix Light, Kevin Liffey Organizations: REUTERS, Soviet Union, Mount, Karabakh, Thomson Locations: Nagorno, Karabakh, Masis, Armenia, Azerbaijan, MASIS, Baku, Soviet, Soviet Armenia, Aknaghbyur, Turkey, Armenia’s, Yerevan, Mount Ararat, Harutyunagomer, Ottoman Turks, Karabakh's, Vanadzor, Alvina

☆ Opinion: Lewiston is a community fighting for its light
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Opinion Amy Bass | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The Lewiston High School boys soccer team, the Blue Devils, the center of my book “One Goal,” had a 5pm quarterfinal game against Farmington’s Mt. Lewiston, Maine’s second most-populous city, is a place that once saw its best days in the rearview mirror, is a city that has fought hard to find its light. Lewiston is a hardscrabble hockey town that made room for soccer, a place that understands the meaning and worth of community and the work that goes into making a city into home. We all know places like Lewiston, places where everyone is connected in some way, whether through soccer or something else. “I’ve read more than several posts from people that say that Lewiston is a good place to live,” he said.

Persons: Amy Bass, Read, CNN —, ”, Don Roux, Jason Fuller, Amy Bass Rodney Bedsole, Dan Gish, Edward Little, Mike McGraw, McGraw, Mohammed Gabow, Obed, “, ” Gish, Texted, Edward Little’s, Lauren Boebert, “ I’ve Organizations: Manhattanville College, CNN, Lewiston High School, Blue Devils, Farmington’s, Bates College, Lewiston, Geiger Elementary School, Topsham’s Mount Ararat High School, Republican, NRA Locations: Lewiston , Maine, Farmington’s Mt, Maine, Lewiston, Maine’s, Androscoggin, Auburn, Portland . New England, African, Topsham’s, Lewistown

NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world, has died at 80. In awarding her the literature prize in 2020, the first time an American poet had been honored since T.S. “The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last,” she once wrote. And in each of us begana deep isolation, though we never spoke of this,of the absence of regret. “You would hand in something and Louise would find the one line that worked,” the poet Claudia Rankine, who studied under Glück at Williams College, told The Associated Press in 2020.

Persons: — Nobel, Louise Glück, unblinking, Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Glück, Eliot, “, Shakespeare, ”, Marigold, Rose, Iris, Nova, ” Glück, Noah, John Darnow, Louise, Claudia Rankine, Leonie Adams, Stanley Kunitz, Goddard, Sam Cooke, Iris ”, “ I’ve, ’ Organizations: ”, Meadowlands, Giants, “, Stanford University, Yale University, Williams College, Associated Press, New York, Guggenheim Museum, Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, New Yorker, The Atlantic, Goddard College, “ Ararat, Washington Locations: American, U.S, New, New York City, , New York, Eastern, “, “ Ararat ”

☆ Russian and Iranian emigres find haven in old Armenian factory
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Roman Churikov | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Launched in 2022, the project is called Abastan - "shelter" in Armenian - and is open to participants and guests from around the world. Polina Ivanova, a co-founder of Abastan, said locals in the northern Armenian town of Tumanyan were at first bemused by the strangers in their midst. Arghavan Majd, a painter from Iran, said she found the atmosphere "more free" in Abastan and it was easier to make personal connections. Timofey Moskovkin, a Russian now working in a cafe funded by the charity, said local people in Tumanyan, a town of about 1,000 people, had treated him warmly. "We looked and saw the lights were on, it was beautiful, there was music and young people dancing," he said.

Persons: Polina Ivanova, Abastan, Majd, Mahsa Amini, Vladimir Putin, haven't, Danil, Timofey, Mark Trevelyan, Gareth Jones 私 Organizations: Armenia Locals, Reuters, Georgian Locations: Russia, Iran, Ukraine, Tumanyan, Armenia, Soviet, revitalise, Abastan, Russian, Perm, Ararat, Soviet Union

☆ Three Former Nagorno-Karabakh Leaders Arrive in Armenia - News Agency
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

(Reuters) - Three ex-leaders of Azerbaijan's formerly ethnic Armenian-controlled region of Nagorno-Karabakh arrived safely in Armenia on Tuesday, the Armenian state news agency Armenpress quoted one of them as saying. Almost all the 120,000 or so inhabitants have since fled to Armenia, fearing for their safety. But Azerbaijan has arrested Ruben Vardanyan, a former head of Karabakh's government, and Levon Mnatsakanyan, former commander of Nagorno-Karabakh's separatist army, at border checkpoints. Former state minister Artur Arutyunyan, ex-interior minister Karen Sarkisyan and the former head of the security service, Ararat Melkunyan, all entered Armenia on Tuesday, Arutyunyan said, according to Armenpress. (Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Kevin Liffey; Editing by Alison Williams)

Persons: Armenpress, Ruben Vardanyan, Levon Mnatsakanyan, Artur Arutyunyan, Karen Sarkisyan, Arutyunyan, Kevin Liffey, Alison Williams Organizations: Reuters, Karabakh Locations: Azerbaijan's, Nagorno, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ararat Melkunyan

☆ Four Karabakh leaders held in Azerbaijan, three more reach Armenia - agencies
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

However, three other former leaders of Karabakh have arrived safely in Armenia, the Armenian state news agency Armenpress quoted one of the three as saying. Almost all the 120,000 or so inhabitants of Karabakh have since fled to Armenia, fearing for their safety. However, former state minister Artur Arutyunyan, ex-interior minister Karen Sarkisyan and the former head of Karabakh's security service, Ararat Melkunyan, all entered Armenia on Tuesday, Artur Arutyunyan said, according to Armenpress. Karabakh is viewed internationally as part of Azerbaijan but had been run as a breakaway ethnic Armenian statelet since the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Kevin Liffey; Editing by Alison Williams and Gareth JonesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Aziz Karimov, Armenpress, Ruben Vardanyan, Levon Mnatsakanyan, Arkady Gukasyan, Bako, Araik, David Ishkhanyan, Artur Arutyunyan, Karen Sarkisyan, Kevin Liffey, Alison Williams, Gareth Jones Organizations: REUTERS, Azerbaijan's State Security Service, Press Agency, Soviet Union, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Stepanakert, Azerbaijan, Nagorno, Karabakh, Azerbaijan's, Baku, Armenia, Ararat Melkunyan, Armenpress, Soviet

☆ ‘I’m Alive but I Feel Dead’: Inside an Exodus Decades in the Making
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Ann M. Simmons | Photographs Justyna Mielnikiewicz For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

GORIS, Armenia—It took a whole day for Ararat Ghahriyan and his family to make it out through the narrow corridor of land leading to Armenia. Normally the trip would only take a couple of hours. But since Azerbaijan took control of Nagorno-Karabakh last week after decades of confrontation and war, a deluge of cars, trucks and buses has swamped the one road out, with more than half the enclave’s 120,000 population now having left. Many of the rest appear set to follow.

Organizations: Ararat Ghahriyan Locations: GORIS, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno, Karabakh

LONDON (AP) — More badly needed humanitarian aid was on its way to the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh via both Azerbaijan and Armenia on Saturday. Nagorno-Karabakh came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by the Armenian military in separatist fighting that ended in 1994. Armenian forces also took control of substantial territory around the Azerbaijani region. Political Cartoons View All 1176 ImagesUnder the agreement mediated by Russian peacekeeping forces, Nagorno-Karabakh’s separatist authorities made sizable concessions: disbanding the region’s defense forces and withdrawing Armenia’s military contingent. Valeri Hayrapetyan from Haterk said that he and his neighbors scrambled to leave after Azerbaijani forces entered the village earlier that day.

Persons: —, ”, Elena Yeremyan, “, Valeri Hayrapetyan, Haterk, Romela Avanesyan, Jeyhun Bayramov, Ilham Aliyev, Ararat, Nikol Pashinyan, Russia’s, Aida Sultanova Organizations: Azerbaijan, Russian, RIA Novosti, “, Baku, International Committee, Russia's Defense, RIA, Russian Defense Ministry, Ararat Mirzoyan, . Security, Armenia’s, ___ Associated Locations: Nagorno, Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Baku, Russia, Azerbaijani, Yevlakh, Artsakh, Askeran, ”, Haterk, Caucasus, Aghdam, Stepanakert, Azerbaijan’s, Yerevan, Moscow, Armenia’s, ___

☆ This is why comedian Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Comedian Sarah Silverman is one of three authors suing the company behind ChatGPT. Comedian Sarah Silverman is suing the company behind ChatGPT, alleging copyright infringement of her book. Silverman is one of three authors who are suing OpenAI, the company that created the AI chatbot, according to the court documents seen by Insider. Sarah Silverman brings case against AI company, ChatGPT. The other plaintiffs are writer Christopher Golden, whose copyrighted books include "Ararat," a supernatural thriller, and writer Richard Kadrey, whose copyrighted books include the dark, urban fantasy "Sandman Slim."

Persons: Sarah Silverman, Silverman, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Christopher Golden, Richard Kadrey, Slim, Daniel Gervais Organizations: Morning, Vanderbilt University, Big Tech Locations: Ararat, US

☆ Armenia and Azerbaijan to hold peace settlement talks in Washington on Sunday
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MOSCOW, April 29 (Reuters) - Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold a new round of talks in Washington on Sunday to try to normalise relations, the spokesperson of Armenia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. The mountain region is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but populated mainly by ethnic Armenians. "From April 30 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan will be in Washington DC on a working visit. The next round of discussions on the agreement on normalisation of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan is scheduled," the spokesperson, Ani Badalyan, said on her official Facebook page. Despite years of attempted mediation between them, Armenia and Azerbaijan have yet to reach a peace agreement that would settle outstanding issues such as the demarcation of borders and return of prisoners.

☆ Echipa națională a Moldovei va juca amicalul cu Turcia fără mai mulți fotbaliști cheie. Vezi lotul final
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-31 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Echipa națională a Moldovei va juca amicalul cu Turcia fără mai mulți fotbaliști cheie. Selecționerul a anunțat lotul final pentru această partidă, iar în listă, din varii motive, nu se regăsesc Artur Ioniță, Igor Armaș, Oleg Reabciuk, dar și portarul Stanislav Namașco.În schimb, în lot, au rămas câțiva fotbaliști care evoluează la cluburi de peste hotare. Este vorba despre Daniel Dumbravanu de la Genoa, Igor Costrov de la FC Gomel, Ion Nicolaescu de la Dunajska Streda, Vitalie Damașcan, care recent s-a despărţit de gruparea olandeză Waalwijk, dar și Dan Spătaru de la Ararat-Armenia.În lot se regăsește și atacantul echipei FC Sion, Nicky Cleșcenco, fiul antrenorului secund al primei reprezentative, Serghei Cleșcenco. "Tricolorii" vor juca pe 3 iunie cu Turcia la Paderborn, Germania, iar meciul va putea fi urmărit în direct la CANAL 5.Peste 3 zile, ai noștri se vor confrunta cu echipa națională a Azerbaidjanului la Chișinău. Partida va fi transmisă în direct de PRIME.

Persons: Artur Ioniță, Igor, Oleg Reabciuk, Stanislav, Daniel Dumbravanu, Igor Costrov, Ion Nicolaescu, Dan Spătaru, Nicky Cleșcenco, Serghei Cleșcenco Organizations: FC Gomel, FC Sion Locations: Moldovei, Turcia, Genoa, Paderborn, Germania, Azerbaidjanului, Chișinău

☆ Danu Spătaru va juca la campioana Armeniei
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-31 | by ( ) www.ipn.md time to read: 1 min

Danu Spătaru va juca la campioana ArmenieiMijlocașul naționalei Moldovei, Danu Spătaru, a schimbat echipa în campionatul Armeniei. El a semnat cu campioana din ultimii doi ai, Ararat-Armenia. Spătaru a părăsit-o pe Noah, cu care a câștigat Cupa Armeniei în acest an. „Am venit la Ararat-Armenia pentru că este o echipă ambițioasă, dar...

Persons: Spătaru, El, Armenia . Spătaru, Noah Organizations: Armeniei, Moldovei Locations: Armeniei, Ararat, Armenia

☆ Fotbalistul naționalei Moldovei, Dan Spătaru, transferat la Ararat-Armenia
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-30 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Fotbalistul naționalei Moldovei a părăsit gruparea armeană FC Noah, după ce i-a expirat contractul și s-a transferat la rivala acesteia, Ararat-Armenia. Spătaru a semnat cu campioana în exercițiu a Armeniei un contract valabil pe un an cu opțiune de prelungire pe încă unul. Moldoveanul a decis să părăsească formația FC Noah după ce nu a ajuns la un numitor comun cu șefii clubului, privind prelungirea contractului. Pentru Noah, moldoveanul, a jucat 28 de meciuri în toate competițiile și a marcat de 6 ori. La prima reprezentativă a Moldovei a evoluat în 13 partide și deocamdată nu a înscris niciun gol.

Persons: Dan Spătaru, Armenia . Spătaru, Moldoveanul, Dan Spătaru . Dan Spătaru, Noah Organizations: Moldovei, FC Noah, Europei, Liga Campionilor, Liga Europei, Cupa, FC Ararat Locations: Erevan, Ararat, Armenia, Armeniei, moldoveanul, Moldovei

☆ VIDEO, FOTO/ Sindromul postbelic: Cum a trăit Armenia capitularea?
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-20 | by ( Milena Onisim | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +12 min

Totuși, nimeni nu a fost pregătit pentru o astfel de escaladare a acțiunilor militare, relatează Jam News. Aceasta a fost prima demonstrație care a arătat o scădere rapidă a ratingului partidului de guvernământ din Armenia. 17 partide de opoziție s-au consolidat chiar înainte de semnarea acordului, iar după încetarea ostilităților, mii de oameni s-au alăturat cererii de demisie a Guvernului și a liderului acestuia. Cei care l-au ales au fost mai mulți în 2018, pentru că el a fost singurul care a decis să-și asume această responsabilitate. Am moștenit instalațiile vechi și a fost târziu să schimbăm ceva, nu ni s-a dat timp pentru asta.

Persons: Pashinyan, Armen Sargsyan, Liana Samvelyan, Erevan ., Anahit, Grant Mikaelyan Organizations: News, Ministerului Apărării, Poliția, Adunării Naționale, Academiei Naționale, Științe, Militar, Facebook, Erevan . Ea Locations: Karabah, Armenia, Erevan, Armeniei, Azerbaidjanului, Rusiei, Baku, Shushi, Nagorno, Pashinyan, Anahit, Azerbaidjan

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