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Members of a pro-government labor union demonstrate outside the French Embassy in Ankara over the proposed French law.

France Passes Armenia Genocide Bill

France's lower house has passed by a large majority a bill that would make it a crime to deny examples of genocide as defined by the French state, which has already classified Ottoman-era mass killings of Armenians as such. More

Leaders at the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) narrow format summit in Moscow on December 20

CSTO Seeks Voice On Foreign Bases

Members of the CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have reached a tentative agreement that would require all seven member states to agreement to any individual state allowing foreign military forces to be based on its territory. More

Turkey Urges France To Drop 'Genocide Law'

Turkey's President Abdullah Gul has called on France to abandon an Armenian "genocide bill." More

The chairman of Armenia's State Commission for Economic Competition Protection, Artak Shaboyan, says that there has been a tenfold increase in the number of fines imposed for competition infringements.

'Unfair' Competition In Armenia

An Armenian business leader says unfair economic competition remains endemic in the country despite tougher antitrust measures implemented in the past year. More

Surik Khachatrian (right) had been accused of assaulting businesswoman Silva Hambardzumian (left)

Armenian Ruling Party Won't Censure Governor For Alleged Attack

Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian's Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) says it will not take disciplinary action against or criticize a controversial governor accused of assaulting a woman. More

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Khadzhimurad Kamalov during an antipolice protest in Makhachkala

A New Power Struggle In Daghestan?

Most Daghestani politicians and fellow journalists have linked Khadzhimurad Kamalov's killing last week to his journalistic and political engagement. "Chernovik," and Kamalov personally, have a reputation for fearless and trenchant reporting and analysis of the corruption and human rights violations for which Daghestan has become a byword. More

South Ossetian presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva has called on Russia to help resolve a simmering standoff between her camp and outgoing President Eduard Kokoity.

South Ossetian Opposition Suffers Setbacks

The parliament of Georgia's breakaway Republic of South Ossetia has failed to endorse two key provisions of the agreement signed on December 9 between the republic's then de facto president, Eduard Kokoity, and Alla Dzhioyeva, the opposition candidate whose victory in the runoff presidential ballot on November 27 was subsequently annulled by the republic's Supreme Court. More

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A historical photograph by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky of 19th-century Russian settlers

Literature And Empire: Scholar Susan Layton Discusses Russia's 'Literary Caucasus'

Where did Russia's stereotypes of the Caucasus come from? Susan Layton's book "Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy" provides part of the answer.

Apple Computer Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Says Schools, Not Money, Are Key To Growing IT Sector

RFE/RL's Armenian Service talks to Steve Wozniak, one of the men who co-founded Apple Computer with the late Steve Jobs. Among his many accomplishments, Wozniak is credited with inventing the Apple 1 and Apple 2 computers in the mid-1970s, which kicked off the personal computer revolution. Since leaving Apple in 1987, he has become a prominent philanthropist.

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