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HOLIDAY OF DECLARATION OF NKR INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATED IN REPUBLIC
SEPTEMBER 2
Stepanakert, September 1. ArmInfo. NKR people celebrates the 15th
anniversary of Nagorno Karabakh Republic's formation on September
2. In the talk with ArmInfo wown correspondent in Stepanakert, the
Karabakh political scientist, David Babayan, noted one can literally
state that the Karabakh movement has become a cradle of rebirth of the
Armenian state system as a whole. It was just Karabakh which created a
completely new configuration of Armenia-Artsakh (Karabakh)-Diaspora in
the Armenian history and politics. There was no such a configuration
before, Babayan noted.
According to him, even when there was no Armenian state system, there
existed one united ethno-cultural and political space, at that,
Karabakh was a center of political activity of all the Armenians for a
long time (since XV century after the Kilikian Armenia fall) in view
of the fact that it had the main attributes of political independence
and self-government for that time, i.e. national nobility, clergy and
army. Artsakh had turned out separated from Armenia both
administratively and culturally only in 1921, when it was transferred
to Azerbaijan by bolsheviks, Babayan said.
As for Diaspora, he said, though the Armenian always existed, but in
XX century it underwent fundamental transformations. After the
well-know events in the Osman Turkey in 1915, the Diaspora started to
develop independently and separately, having created a specific
subculture, the main consolidating element of which the memory of 1915
Genocide can be called. The Diaspora became stronger and influential
enough in a number of countries, especially in the USA, and it
directed its main political activity at Genocide recognition and
maintenance of this idea in Diaspora.
SEPTEMBER 2
Stepanakert, September 1. ArmInfo. NKR people celebrates the 15th
anniversary of Nagorno Karabakh Republic's formation on September
2. In the talk with ArmInfo wown correspondent in Stepanakert, the
Karabakh political scientist, David Babayan, noted one can literally
state that the Karabakh movement has become a cradle of rebirth of the
Armenian state system as a whole. It was just Karabakh which created a
completely new configuration of Armenia-Artsakh (Karabakh)-Diaspora in
the Armenian history and politics. There was no such a configuration
before, Babayan noted.
According to him, even when there was no Armenian state system, there
existed one united ethno-cultural and political space, at that,
Karabakh was a center of political activity of all the Armenians for a
long time (since XV century after the Kilikian Armenia fall) in view
of the fact that it had the main attributes of political independence
and self-government for that time, i.e. national nobility, clergy and
army. Artsakh had turned out separated from Armenia both
administratively and culturally only in 1921, when it was transferred
to Azerbaijan by bolsheviks, Babayan said.
As for Diaspora, he said, though the Armenian always existed, but in
XX century it underwent fundamental transformations. After the
well-know events in the Osman Turkey in 1915, the Diaspora started to
develop independently and separately, having created a specific
subculture, the main consolidating element of which the memory of 1915
Genocide can be called. The Diaspora became stronger and influential
enough in a number of countries, especially in the USA, and it
directed its main political activity at Genocide recognition and
maintenance of this idea in Diaspora.