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NO, HE DOESN'T LOOK ARMENIAN
Mark Krikorian
National Review
March 3 2010
Derb: You knew I'd take the bait. The story (from June of last year)
that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is Armenian appears to be a
hoax. The original seems to be a blog posting at a Dutch paper.
But if true, he wouldn't be the first: Anastas Mikoyan (brother of
the MiG aircraft designer Artem Mikoyan) was president of the USSR
in the 1960s. He was a slippery SOB who served under -- and managed
not to be killed by -- Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev. Maybe
part of the price of that ability to survive was that his hometown
of Sanahin in northern Armenia hated his guts -- there is (or was,
anyway) a Mikoyan museum there, almost exclusively about his brother
the MiG guy, with a picture somewhere saying, "Oh, yeah, and his
brother Anastas was president."
http://corner.nationalreview.com /post/?q=NmNjMTA3YzA3NjJlNzg0NzEyMTJhNWRkZTM3MDNiN 2I
Mark Krikorian
National Review
March 3 2010
Derb: You knew I'd take the bait. The story (from June of last year)
that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is Armenian appears to be a
hoax. The original seems to be a blog posting at a Dutch paper.
But if true, he wouldn't be the first: Anastas Mikoyan (brother of
the MiG aircraft designer Artem Mikoyan) was president of the USSR
in the 1960s. He was a slippery SOB who served under -- and managed
not to be killed by -- Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev. Maybe
part of the price of that ability to survive was that his hometown
of Sanahin in northern Armenia hated his guts -- there is (or was,
anyway) a Mikoyan museum there, almost exclusively about his brother
the MiG guy, with a picture somewhere saying, "Oh, yeah, and his
brother Anastas was president."
http://corner.nationalreview.com /post/?q=NmNjMTA3YzA3NjJlNzg0NzEyMTJhNWRkZTM3MDNiN 2I