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 | | To this, the Armenian Supreme Soviet responded on December 1 by declaring the merger of Karabagh and Armenia. |
 | | The low response to the parties in general can perhaps be explained by the Armenians' suspicion towards political parties after seventy years of communist rule, and also by the absence of the various charitable, educational, cultural, sporting organisations and day schools that have normally acted as a base for recruitment of members in the diaspora. |
 | | Armand Boghosian argued that Armenian professionals and intellectuals "are mostly uninvolved in group life", since within traditional organisations leadership structures are informal, and as a result "[p]ractically anyone who wants to can become a leader." A TAR editorial blamed 'gerontocracy' among the existing leadership for the chair-grabbing that is characteristic of American-Armenian organisations. |
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