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Armenia: Flag display

Monday, July 13th, 2009 @ 10:45 UTC

by Onnik Krikorian

Countries:: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey
Topics:: Arts & Culture, Ethnicity, History, War & Conflict, International Relations
Languages:: Russian, English

517 Design [RU] posts a photograph of a billboard made up of the flags of those countries which will be entering films into the Golden Apricot festival in Yerevan. The blog notes the inclusion of flags from Azerbaijan and Turkey, countries with no formal diplomatic relations with Armenia because of conflict with the former and unresolved historical grievances in the case of the latter.

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