Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan, has won the first ever Organized Crime and Corruption Person of the Year bestowed by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
For the Armenians of Australia, the year 2013 may turn out to be one of the most "interesting" (if not momentous) of times in the century-old history of their presence in this lucky country. Relieved at having survived the global calamity foretold for December 21, 2012 by the ancient Maya Codex, they stand on the threshold of a new era in this hospitable diaspora.