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Perhaps if the US Diaspora had not merely appeased obvious goons and clowns over the years or focused only on Genocide recognition, there might be a chance of a future Armenia.  Now we'll witness what everyone (except perhaps the American-Armenian) has foreseen all along:  a sell-out of the Genocide and of Karabagh as well as complete Russian annexation.

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will
mediate a frozen conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the
disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, as he seeks to boost Russia's
influence in the South Caucasus.

``In the near future, there should be a meeting of the three
presidents,'' he said during an official visit to the Armenian
capital Yerevan today, in remarks published by state broadcaster
Vesti-24. ``This meeting will take place in Russia.''

Armenia is Russia's closest ally in the South Caucasus, a
region to which Medvedev is making his first trip since the Russian
army fought a war with Georgia in August. Medvedev and his Armenian
counterpart, Serzh Sargsyan, are meeting for the fifth time this
year.

Medvedev cited ``Georgian aggression'' for provoking the five-
day war, which started when Georgian troops entered the separatist
region of South Ossetia on Aug. 7 to try to reclaim it and ended
after the Russian army went in the next day to expel them.

``The August events have shown that complex problems must be
resolved starting from international principles, on the basis of
international negotiations,'' he said. ``Nothing else can lead to a
positive outcome. That's one of the most important lessons of the
crisis in the Caucasus.''

Unresolved Dispute

Nagorno-Karabakh is located entirely within Azerbaijan,
occupying about a fifth of its territory, and has a mainly ethnic
Armenian population. It declared self-rule in 1991, sparking a
three-year war between Azerbaijan and Armenia that killed an
estimated 30,000 people and drove about 1 million people from their
homes. A cease-fire was declared in 1994 and the dispute remains
unresolved.

The former Soviet republic of Armenia doesn't border
Russia, from which it's separated by Georgia and Azerbaijan. As it
has no diplomatic relations with Azerbaijan, all of its trade
with Russia, its main foreign trade partner, is routed through
Georgia.

Russian-Armenian trade rose 13 percent in the first eight
months of this year compared with the same period in 2007, reaching
$536.5 million, the Kremlin said in a statement
yesterday. Russia has invested more than $1.6 billion in Armenia
since the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, the statement said. Of
that, $428 million was invested in the first half of 2008.

Medvedev and Sargsyan appeared together at a ceremony to rename
a central Yerevan square `Russia Square.' Medvedev hailed the move
``as a mark of respect to modern, democratic Russia and its
people.''