Word: armenians
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...Armenian representatives are "exhausted and sad from the earthquake," Welsh said. "For Armenians, who are really ebullient people they are really toned down." She said the delegation will visit a local Armenian church on Sunday to mark the last of the traditional 40 days of mourning for the quake's victims...
This week's visit from a delegation of government and business leaders from Cambridge's sister city of Yerevan has laid the groundwork for business relations with the Armenian capital, officials said...
Sakharov's delegation visited Baku, Yerevan and Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan that has been at the heart of the ethnic clashes that have been rocking the Soviet Union since February. He also stopped in Spitak, the town virtually destroyed in the Dec. 7 earthquake that the Kremlin now estimates took 25,000 lives...
...profile since cutting short his journey abroad to fly to the earthquake zone that he seemed all but eclipsed by Ryzhkov in news reports. Gorbachev may have good reasons for turning the reconciliation work in Armenia over to others. His prestige there . has plummeted since Moscow refused to recognize Armenian claims to Nagorno- Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave in neighboring Azerbaijan that has been the focus of ethnic strife for the past ten months...
Such quantities of food, clothing, construction materials and other essentials have been flooding in from distant parts of the Soviet Union that freight trains were backed up on railroads leading into Armenia. But despite the nationwide display of generosity, Armenian suspicions of Moscow still run high. Rumors continue to circulate that Moscow has exploited the disaster to raise its troop strength in the Caucasus republic to 20,000. Some military units have been pelted with stones by discontented Armenians, who charged that soldiers spent more time checking passes than digging out victims...