Armen and Cristina Rakedjan

Armen and Cristina Rakedjan (Popa) on their sofa in Shushi with their 40 day-old daughter. They decided to marry in Ghazanchetsots cathedral in 2010 after having met each other on Facebook a few months earlier. He is originally a French citizen and she is Romanian but both, when they discovered their Armenian origin, felt they had to learn Armenian and go back to their homeland. Armen arrived earlier, in 2004, following the repopulation program, but discovered that it was mostly directed to Armenian citizens moving to NKR.