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Diana Markosian toggle caption Diana Markosian "My home," exclaims Movses Haneshyan, on seeing the enlarged image presented to him by photographer Diana Markosian. He'd fled with his father at age 5. Diana Markosian Today, more Armenians live outside their country than inside. I am one of them. I was born in Moscow to Armenian parents, and was raised in California. For most of my life, I struggled with my Armenian identity, partly because of the history I inherited. I was separated from my father as a child, while he stayed back in Armenia. It took me 1...

Russian Expert Mirzayan: Erdogan Is Trying To Exploit Azerbaijani Nationalism To Undermine Iran December 21, 2020 Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, attending a December 10 victory parade in Baku, chose to recite a poem that Iran viewed as a claim on its territory.  The poem, written by the 20th century Soviet-Azerbaijani poet Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, refers to the Aras River, the border between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani provinces in northwest Iran. The passage selected by Erdogan implies that this border is transient and the Azerbaijanis on both sides of the border...