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Famous Armenian-Ukrainian film director Sergei Parajanov with friends on the balcony of his apartment in Kyiv, 1973

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Ararat (2002) dir. Atom Egoyan

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Avetik (1992, dir. Don Askarian)

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"A Shirt Made of Fire", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)

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Եթե իմանայիր, որքան եմ լաց եղել ես Քո գնալուց հետո, որքան եմ քեզ փնտրել: Եթե հավաքեին իմ բոլոր արցունքները Ու սարքեին մի լիճ, որ լողային աստղերը, Եթե այնտեղ գային բոլոր սիրահարները Ու նրանց պատմեին սիրո մասին աստղերը, Նրանք կիմանային, որ սերը մի գիշեր է ━ Երբ կորչում են աստղերը, կորչում է նաև սերը: If only you knew how much I cried After you left, how long I've been searching for you. If they gathered all my tears And built a lake for the stars to swim in, If all the lovers gathered there And the stars told them tales of love, They would understand that love is but a fleeting night ━ When the stars fade away, so does love. (translated by metamorphesque)

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An Armenian niello silver-mounted trousse with inscription, 18th Century.

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I’m crying

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I'm just coasting.

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Don't look at me like that, papi.

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bella hadid . out-andabout

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bella for charlotte tilbury x

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LA

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A yearlong investigation by a team of scholars affiliated with Cornell and Purdue universities has documented a pattern of deliberate obliteration of Armenian cultural heritage in Nakhichevan, a historically Armenian region that became part of Azerbaijan following the Sovietization of the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan between 1920 and 1921. The new report by the Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) identified 108 medieval and early modern Armenian monasteries, churches, and cemeteries in Nakhichevan that were completely destroyed between 1997 and 2011 — an eradication described by the report’s authors as a “striking portrait of cultural erasure that, in its surgical precision, totality, and surreptitiousness, has few parallels.”

Of all the Armenian cultural heritage sites that CHW was able to locate and assess for this investigation, 98% have been completely wiped out. For all practical matters, destruction has been complete: the percentage has been noted for the sake of statistical accuracy, as the ruins of some very few monuments have escaped the attention of Azerbaijani authorities only because they are in such advanced state of disrepair that they were not able to identify them as Armenian, the researchers believe. “By 2011, all physical traces of Armenians in Nakhchivan were effectively gone, with rare exceptions appearing to have resulted from oversight rather than intent,” the report says. Proportionally, the degree of destruction is greater than the elimination of mosques by the Chinese government in the Xinjiang Uyghur region [according to the highest number claimed by Lockheed-funded think tank ASPI]