The Armenians - People of Armenia, Caucasus

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Henrikh Mkhitaryan, the most creative player in EPL.





Below Henrikh with his sister





Among other things Mkhitaryan speaks 6 languages (Armenian, Russian, French, Portuguese, German and English) and plays good chess.

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Seven-year-old Aren Emrikian from Chicago (USA) became world champion and won the 2017 World Cadets Chess Championship for players under age 8 held in Pocos de Caldas, Brazil

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Catholicos of All Armenians (head of Armenian Church) Garegin the Second (Ktrij Nersessian)







Some people in Armenia tell a joke. Catholicos is a good man but he does not beleive in God :-)

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Karen Aslanyan became world champion and won gold award and title at World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship among Military held in Klaipeda, Lithuania

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Garo Paylan, Member of Turkish Parliament from Peoples Democratic Party (pro- Kurdish) visited Armenia to participate in 6th Armenia-Diaspora Pan-Armenian Conference in Yerevan which brought together about 1800 representatives of Armenian diaspora organizations from more than 70 countries of the world. The largest delegations came from Russia, USA, France, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Argentina.

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Azat "Crazy A" Hovhannisyan earned the vacant WBC Continental Americas Title in fight held in California, USA

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Armenian weightlifters Ara Poghosyan, Gevorg Ghahramanyan and Armen Grigoryan won gold medals and became champion of Europe at European Youth Weightlifting Championships held in Pristina, Kosovo

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Narek Mirzoyan set a new record of the Guinness Book of Records - 34 push-ups in 15 seconds

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Art Papazyan Wins Second World Poker Tour Title of Season and made a serious bid to win the title of the Player of the Year

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Wow Armenians are quite the overachievers, specially for a relatively small ethnic group.