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About Onnik Krikorian

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Onnik Krikorian is a journalist and photojournalist of Armenian and English descent who has been resident in the Republic of Armenia since 1998. He also works extensively in the Republic of Georgia and until moving to Armenia worked on the Kurds in Turkey and the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh. His articles and photographs have been published by The Los Angeles Times, New Internationalist, The Scotsman, Transitions Online, Middle East Insight, Oneworld.net, EurasiaNet, The Institute for War & Peace Reporting, New York University Press, UNICEF, and Amnesty International, among others. Krikorian has also worked as a fixer for Al Jazeera English, the BBC and The Wall Street Journal. He maintains a blog from Armenia and the South Caucasus at http://blog.oneworld.am and also posts for the London-based Frontline Club at http://frontlineclub.com/blogs/onnikkrikorian.

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