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Five years ago, Kim Kardashian and her husband, Kanye West, visited Gyumri, the second largest city in Armenia, after the capital, Yerevan.
It was the first and only time mundane, main face of one of the reality show most seen in the world, he stepped on the land of the ancestors. The father, the well-known lawyer Robert Kardashian, was born and died in Los Angeles, as were his parents and parents, so his Armenian ancestry goes back to the line of great-great-grandparents, which did not stop Kim, Kanye and the North West baby. he had visited the cabin once occupied by the Kardashian family and filmed for the tenth season of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”, to the delight of the population and the mayor, who was part of the committee organized to welcome them. the city.
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Nor has it prevented it, now that Baku has once again claimed possession of the Republic of Artsakh, in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, an Armenian Christian majority territory that was integrated in 1921 by the USSR into Azerbaijan and that, 70 years later, proclaimed unilaterally and with the support of Armenia for its independence, that Kim Kardashian is one of the most audible voices in the defense of Armenian interests in the conflict.
Since the revival of the conflict, which in two weeks has claimed at least 300 dead and several hundred displaced, the socialite, from the suburbs of Los Angeles, where she lives, has been deployed on social networks, in order to call the pay attention to what is happening more than 11,500 kilometers away.
Share the news @esrailian Armenians in #Arstakh have been attacked. We pray for brave men and women who risk their lives to protect Artsakh and #Armenia. The news is misleading and these are not “crashes”.
– Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) September 27, 2020
“Armenia is falling victim to unprovoked attacks by Azerbaijan and the foreseeable disinformation campaign that accompanies them. Azerbaijan is blocking social networks except for war propaganda, ”he wrote on September 27 on Twitter, a network where he accumulates 66.9 million followers.
This Saturday, through a video posted on Instagram –189 million followers–, Kim Kardashian announced that she will donate a million dollars to the support fund for Armenia, created in 1994 by the millions of Armenian descendants in the diaspora – it is estimated that between 500 thousand and a half million Armenians were exterminated, during the First World War, by the Ottoman Empire, in what became known as the Armenian genocide, which caused the exodus of a large part of the population abroad.
Interviewed by the Telegraph’s special envoy to Armenia, the mayor of Gyumri, he was satisfied with the support for this weapon, which is not very secret: “[A exposição pública de Kardashian] it is fundamental for us. We are very happy that the family is from Gyumri and that it has really helped put the city on the world map, ”said Samvel Balasayan.
“Kim Kardashian’s efforts to publish and talk about the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh have raised great public awareness of the conflict, not only in the United States but around the world,” added an Armenian, interviewed in front of the former home of the family. Kardashian, on a dirt road.
The visibility that the socialite has brought to the conflict, in a position applauded by many but rejected by the social activists from Azerbaijan and Turkey, who supported it, was also considered fundamental by the executive director of the Repat Armenia Foundation. “Armenia is a small country that has always been at the mercy of other empires, we only have two allies: our army and our diaspora. Whenever we have an existential problem, the entire nation becomes an army. “
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