Word: erivan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian consulates throughout the Middle East had opened their doors to Armenian refugees, promised them homes near Erivan, capital of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Workers, poor students, intellectuals responded quickly: by the end of 1945, 20,000 had applied in Iran, 35,000 in Syria and Lebanon, thousands more in Greece, Egypt and Palestine...
...biggest, most meaningless election on earth. From Archangel to Erivan, from Kënigsberg to the Kurils, almost 100 million citizens of great Russia voted this week in their first national election in eight years...
...Council further passes on plans to open theological schools, nonexistent in Russia since 1917. The first one, Moscow's Theological Institute in the 400-year-old Novodyevichi monastery, was reopened three weeks ago. More recently the Council has granted Gregorian Armenians permission to open a seminary near Erivan, is now considering a request from Moslems in the Uzbek Republic who want to open a school for mullahs. Poliansky concedes that religious freedom would be an empty slogan if churches could not recruit clergy, declares there is "no objection" to any faith having religious schools for clergy...