Word: arutunyan
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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...mostly Christian Armenia, nationalists are also gaining new prominence. Communist Party leader Suren Arutunyan, who jailed many extremists last December following demonstrations in the capital of Yerevan, has ordered most of them released. Says Khachik Stamboltsyan, a member of the Armenian supreme soviet who spent six months in confinement: "Relations are still tense between us, but we talk a lot." Expressions of hatred toward Azerbaijan are the rule. "They had an earthquake in Baku recently," recounts an Armenian girl. "Too bad it didn't hit 20 on the Richter scale and wipe them...
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