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Author Julien Zarifian latest book, “The United States and the Armenian Genocide: History, Memory, Politics,” has been published by Rutgers University Press.

During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have long described these massacres as genocide, one of Hitler’s prime inspirations for the Holocaust, yet the United States did not officially recognize the Armenian Genocide until 2021. 
 
This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s. Although the American government expressed sympathy towards the plight of the Armenians in the 1910s and 1920s, historian Julien Zarifian explores how, from the 1960s, a set of geopolitical and institutional factors soon led the United States to adopt a policy of genocide non-recognition which it would cling to for over fifty years, through Republican and Democratic administrations alike. He describes the forces on each side of this issue: activists from the US Armenian diaspora and their allies, challenging Cold War statesmen worried about alienating NATO ally Turkey and dealing with a widespread American reluctance to directly confront the horrors of the past. Drawing from congressional records, rare newspapers, and interviews with lobbyists and decision-makers, he reveals how genocide recognition became such a complex, politically sensitive issue. 

Julien Zarifian is professor in U.S. History and Civilization at the University of Poitiers, France, and fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the author of two books in French and has published dozens of academic articles in journals, including in the Society and European Journal of American Studies.

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Readers in Canada can purchase the book here, and those outside of Canada and the U.S. can purchase the book here.

Russia on Friday recalled it ambassador to Armenia, Sergei Kopyrkin, for what it said are “consultations,” further escalating tension between Yerevan and Moscow.

“On May 24, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Armenia Kopyrkin was summoned to Moscow for consultations,” Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said during a press briefing.

The move comes days after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claimed to parliament that two members states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aided and abetted Azerbaijan during the 2020 War. While he did not mention the names of those countries, Pashinyan’s statement could be construed that he meant Russia and Belarus.

During his remarks in parliament on Wednesday, Pashinyan referenced remarks made by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who, during a visit last week to occupied Shushi in Artsakh, boasted of his country’s support in remarks addressed to his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev.

“I know that at least two CSTO member countries participated in preparing for the war against us. These countries may have created an illusion that they wanted to help us or that they allegedly helped us,” Pashinyan told lawmakers on Wednesday.

He also claimed that the “Karabakh issue” had been “closed” for these countries and their ultimate goal was to “eradicate the independent Republic of Armenia.”

Pashinyan also added that Azerbaijan’s 2021 and 2022 incursions into Armenia’s sovereign territory, as well as the September 2023 military offensive in Artsakh, pursued the same goals.

Zakharova on Thursday challenged Pashinyan to name the two countries he claimed had helped Baku.

“I am interested to know which countries the prime minister of Armenia was talking about. Do we all have to figure it out for ourselves? Or will they tell us later?” Zakharova said at a press briefing Thursday. “I think it would be quite logical to name them if such serious statements are made. But let’s leave that to official Yerevan.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday commented on the recall of his envoy to Armenia saying, “Ambassadors intermittently come for consultations.”

Asked whether Armenia’s ambassador to Russia would return to Yerevan for consultations, Lavrov simply said, “What has been announced has been announced.”

Armenia’s foreign ministry said the decision to recall the Russian ambassador is Russia’s decision.

“We have no comment,” Armenia’s foreign ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan told Azatutyun.am on Friday.

In a televised speech to the nation on Friday, Pashinyan did not address relations with Russia nor the recall of its ambassador.

Sardarabad Bookstore offers a rich variety of books, publications on Armenian history, culture, art, language, textbooks, books for children and other subjects, as well as souvenirs, mementoes and gifts, which are primarily made in Armenia.

The bookstore also offers visitors coffee, refreshments and snacks to enjoy in the bookstore’s cafe, in its outdoor facility.

“We are also very happy that within this Youth Center, we have the opportunity to organize events, which will become another opportunity to draw in our community,” said bookstore manager Zhaklene Avagyan.

According to Avagyan, a special effort has been made to expand the bookstore’s children and young adults offerings, the latest of which are the works by children’s author Aline Bezdikian, whose two new books are now available in Eastern and Western Armenian.

Armenian children’s books

To celebrate Children’s International Day, an event will be held at the bookstore on June 1, where children’s author Aline Bezdikian-Shirajian will discuss and sign her latest books. Some of her books will also will be presented in Animated format, and the children in attendance will have the opportunity to make chalk art. They are encouraged to come dressed in Armenian folk costumes, and will each receive small gifts.

Bezdikian-Shirajian has authored 15 children’s books in both Western and Eastern Armenian. She has been an educator for 35 years, has TV programs, and has written songs for kids.

“There was a great need for such a venue in our community,” said the author. “It is the first time that book lovers can enjoy literature with coffee in the same facility as well as attend events attractive for book lovers.”

This event is free and open to the public.

Sartarabad bookstore is located at 211 E. Chestnut St., Glendale, CA 91205. For more information, contact the bookstore at (818) 500-0790.