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Recommended for publication by the Department of Contemporary Armenian, Institute of Language, Armenian National Academy of Sciences

Summary

Seda Gasparyan
The article deals with the study of the Armenian word եղեռն (yeghern) and the semantic field of its equivalence in English. Proceeding from the well-established statement of the dialectical correlation between language and speech the author carries out the research on both the emic level (i.e. the language system) and the etic one (i.e. from the point of view of its functioning in speech). The study of the field of equivalence in the language system is based on different data registered in Armenian and English monolingual and bilingual dictionaries.

The confrontative study of these data reveals the presence of a common dominant seme (crime) in the semantic structure of the majority of them, as well as the possibility of rejecting some of the semantic equivalents offered.

By the research carried out on the etic level it is established that full equivalence is provided not only by semantic but also stylistic and pragmatic adequacy of linguistic elements. The role of the horizontal and vertical contexts, as well as the speech situation cannot be underestimated.

In the closing part of the article, the results of the investigation are summed up graphically presenting the constituent semes in the semantic globality of the word genocide ­ the only internationally established term, equivalent to the Armenian word եղեռն (yeghern).

The legend of “late albains”

Henrik S. Svazyan
The state of «Azerbaijan» appeared on the historic arena only on 1918. During existence of the USSR the heirs of the Caucasian Tatars got artificial name «Azerbaijanin» on that «basis». As a result of the illegal decision (July 5, 1921) of the Caucasian Bureau RC(B)P, Mountainous Karabakh was forcibly annexed to Soviet Azerbaijan. It was a political pretext of treating the ancient and medieval history of the Great Armenia’s regions of Artsakh and Utik as a target for attacks by the «Azerbaijani» falsificators of history. As far as it had been impossible to find a «historic justification» for the annexation of the Armenian territories by comparison with Armenia and Armenian centuriesold history, thus the historians of Soviet Azerbaijan, following the «experience» of Cemalist Turkey, started to appropriate the history of proper Aluank and the Albanian tribes which disappeared from the historic arena after the 8th century.

After Azerbaijan became independent, notoriuos Azerbaijani falsificator F.Mamedova published a monography «Caucasian Albania and Albanians» (Baku, 2005, in Russian) where she continued and deepened this falsifying shrewdness. F.Mamedova, through absolute falsification of historic data, called the Armenian population of Utik and Artsakh, which ethnically had no relation to the Albanian tribes, by the artificial term «late Albanians» and tried to prolong the latter’s history up to 19th century. Such an approach is besically contrudictory not only to the data of the Armenian, but also Arabic (Ibn al-Asir, al-Dinavari, Yakubi, Tabari and others), Byzantine (Constantine Porphyrogenitus) and other sources.

In the context of the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide 

Armen Ts. Marukyan
Despite all obvious deficiencies onesidedness and artificial mistakes commited at the trial of the Young Turks by the Turkish justice, it has had not only historic, but also very important legal and political significance for the historic-legal substantion of the fact of the Armenian Genocide. The Turkish Military tribunal found guilty the high officials also in the mass killings of Armenains. The proof of such a charge in the Turkish court meant indirect recognition of the Armenian Genocide by modern Turkey. Later, probably, as a result of it, the Kemalists tried to neutralize the decisions of the Military tribunals. From this point of view, it seems that at the present there is a need to internationalize the decisions of the Military tribunals, i.e. it is necessary to undertake the investigation of that lawsuit on the basis of available documents in the International court with a new condemnation againts the Turkish state-that it has been guilty in committing the Armenian Genocide.

Atom Sh. Margaryan
Based upon the experience of global financial and economic crises, this article examines the issues surrounding the development of the Republic of Armenia’s current financial system. The concept of the modern study of crises is touched upon, in particular, the character of financial crises are discussed, the reason for their emergence, the different stages, and to overcome these, scientific and theoretical issues. Accordingly, a crisis is viewed as one of the stages in the natural development of the national economic cycle.

By classifying crises, cyclical, structural and coordinated crises are identified and studied.

The rise and expansion of Kondratiev waves are discussed. Within the context of observing economic crises, the peculiarities of the manifestation of global financial crises and their influence on the economy of the Republic of Armenia are discussed.

Accordingly, the hypothetical assertion is put forward, that during a global economic crisis, those countries in transition or developing countries are affected more severely, because crises have a cyclical characteristic; added to these are structural, coordinated and institutional crises.

As a result of studying the economic situation in the Republic of Armenia, recommendations are made based upon the conclusions and generalities, the application of which will provide the ability to overcome the crisis or to soften its blow.

These apply not only to political and institutional structures, but also to fiscal and monetary-credit policies.

Gevorg S. Stepanyan
Literary, lithographic and documentary sources witness that the Armenian population had been living in Eastern Ciscacausus since antiquity and that that territory was considered to be within the sphere of the influence of Armenian civilization. With the efforts of the Caucasian Tatars, heirs of the Turk-Oghuz, and the Turkish army who came to their aid, contemporary historians of the Azerbaijani state, which had been created only in 1918, over the last several decades, when reflecting upon the history of the left bank of the Kur River of “Bun Aghvank” and Shirvan, have “created” the ancient and medieval history, which has nothing to do with reality; a fable of an Aghvan-Azerbaijani-Turkish heritage.

Azerbaijani historiography has thoroughly distorted the roots of the ethnic formation of its own people – with the “excuse” of finding “Azerbaijanis,” “Azerbaijani tribes,” or the “Azerbaijani race” they have appropriated the ethnic-cultural and political history of the Eastern Cisscaucasus peoples – the Armenians, the Lezgis, the Tatars and others.

The objective of this artificial notion, is to appropriate the created spiritual and material culture of the indigenous people of the territory and by doing so present themselves as an ancient people.