By Rollo Tomasi
Armenia as a republic of the U.S.S.R., and excepting the Stalin period, seemed to have enjoyed a healing interlude from centuries of war and occupation by Arabs, Persians, Mongols and Turks. Today, as the result of Soviet annexation, many prominent Russian businessmen, statesmen, educators and scientists, actors and musicians of Armenian descent contribute significantly to not only CIS, but to global society.