Good evening, [inaudible] [applause] to introduce our speaker for this evening who will tell you, Leeanna Keith teaches history at the Collegiate School for boys in new york city. She is the author of the colfax massacre. [inaudible] [inaudible] please join me in welcoming Leeanna Keith. [applause] thank you everybody. Forgive me for remaining seated. Im going to tell you what happened to me. I know you want to know how i broke my legs. They sideswiped me. I feel very lucky to be here at all. Now im going to tell you a story about the civil war and afterwards all i can remember is on the lady who a [laughter] what can i say, thats my story. Ive been traveling and one thing about my book is theres a lot of local history and their s, stories that happen in different places. This is not where much of the action takes place. Seeing how about how to organize this talk make me recognize a certain pattern to the geography of the civil war and the whole radical movement. Which in my story get
On aljazeera. 2018 a new government came to power in armenia and made quite spread optimism that its leader Nicole Shinya would end decades of corruption and economic mismanagement but now he said ministration faces a major lemma whether to proceed with a huge be defined mining project that summer warning will cause enormous environmental damage and one of the worlds rarest animal species. The former soviet republic of armenia has witnessed dramatic changes in the last 12 months. A bloodless revolution led by journalist turned politician nicole pushing a promised an end to decades of corrupt rule this. Is just one a snap election and for the 1st time in years there is hope to ms m o 1st priority is to continue. To call it war sally and to make a real difference is he not me on the economy. Or mania has enjoyed years of blockades imposed by its neighbors turkey and azerbaijan the countrys economy never really recovering from the collapse of the u. S. S. R. Previous governments resorted
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That came after it could not contact this day. Also coming up at protestors in iraq are demanding a functioning government that works for everyone instead of a system that cheats as many as possible the response so far has been brutal and at the United Nations see they use life bullets weak human beings protesting into minding our rights look at what they did to my leg and my hand they started shooting live ammunition at us. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the bridges that were supposed to replace the walls when the berlin wall crumbled 30 years ago the peaceful revolution that followed. Gave much of the world a reason to hope for a different future the reunification of germany the expansion of the European Union and even the enlargement of nato these were significant events that looked like progress but progress for whom not for the post soviet wild west russia of the 1990 s. That diminished great power that would