Yesterday July 10, in Los Angeles, Professor Richard G. Hovannisian passed away at the age of 90.  He was a world-renowned historian, a national academician of the Republic of Armenia, the founder and first holder of the Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA, later named in his honor, and author of the monumental four-volume work The Republic of Armenia and multiple books on the Armenian Genocide and the historical homeland of the Armenian people.

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