Hrag Vartanian

Once as a bored teen watching TV I hit my breaking point after having seen one too many Church of Latter Day Saints commercials and mindlessly called the number on the screen to order a free copy of the Book of Mormon.
A few weeks later the tome arrived and I was flabbergasted at how badly [...]

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Interesting tidbits from Armenian-land:

Russian Armenian director Anna Melikyan is showing MERMAID (RUSALKA) at Sundance. It is “The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples [...]

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Ok, the NY Daily News hates it, but I can’t help but love Kim Kardashian’s TV debut as a post-modern Marcia cum porn star in an Alice through the looking-glass version of the Brady Bunch–wow, that’s a mouthful.
“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” premiered last month and is part reality TV-part temper tantrum. It is already [...]

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Tonight, 60 Armenian and Jewish Americans protested the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) refusal to unequivocally state the fact of the Armenian Genocide and support a US Congressional resolution (HR106) that with state the historical reality of that calamity. The rally in front of ADL National Headquarters was part of the continuing effort by Armenian Americans to [...]

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French intellectual heavyweight Bernard-Henri Lévy is a vocal supporter of human rights and this year he has been passionately supporting legislation that will recognize the Armenian Genocide and condemn historical revisionism.
This video is from a Paris meeting where in front of a wide-range of French luminaries and organizations he spoke about the need to prevent [...]

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