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Home is where your heart is: Armen from France, Christine from Romania find their bliss in Karabakh

A remarkable wedding took place in Shushi, Karabakh, last Sunday as Oliver Rakejian from France and Christine Manian from Romania decided to tie their lives in marriage and live in the Karabakh town. Oliver, who is more known as Armen in Karabakh, had invited to the wedding party his friends that he has made during the five years of his life in this unrecognized Armenian republic.

The couple opted out of traditional wedding dresses – a white dress for the bride and a suit for the groom. At this wedding ceremony the bride and the groom were wearing traditional Armenian costumes. But that wasn’t the most remarkable about their wedding. What was remarkable is that two people from distant countries that do not even border on Karabakh or Armenia have found a home and their happiness there.

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20.07.2010 11:22
Amazing story. God bless you both and the many kids that you will have. Hopefully many Diaspora Armenians can learn from you two and them to will move back to our motherland and start families there as well. You guys are truly inspirational.
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18.07.2010 10:49
Thanks all of you :))
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18.07.2010 02:20
a great video/report about Arstakh/ Karabakh.... http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/auf_den_gipfeln_der_welt_13_20_-3313482.html
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17.07.2010 17:14
congratulations to the couple, what a place they chose to live, it is gorgeous there... that said, stories like this are like a dream and very rare, we have to reinvent our culture and move forward in this life, we cannot live in nostalgia forever. We are not as desperate as the native Americans for instance, i can imagine that they also have such marriages in their ancestoral land but it is all about nostalgia... with all due respect to the native Americans, our culture is different and has the chance to develop and exist in the 21st century, enough crying, it is time to take action! we survived a Genocide and we are at least 2800 years old. This should be the basis of a solid future... yes it is hard but we should think like a group and not individually, we should take action together and not leave the newly weds alone in Shushi...
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16.07.2010 14:55
congradulations many happy years to you
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16.07.2010 06:51
Not all diaspora Armenians marry Artsakhtsi girls and take them abroad. Zaven, from Iran, who fought in the war of liberation and was a soldier, married a local girl from Karin Taki village and settled in Shoushi with their two daughters.
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16.07.2010 03:16
God bless!!!
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