Liana Aghajanian | Lead Stories

Liana Aghajanian is a deputy editor at Lead Stories and an award-winning journalist. She has reported extensively in the United States, Europe, the South Caucasus, and Mongolia. Her work has appeared in New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and BBC, among other international publications. Throughout her career, she has travelled to three unrecognized republics, reported on the refugee crisis, and visited the world's only forensics lab that solves crimes against animals. She splits her time between Los Angeles and London.
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