question: American citizens Peter Balakian, the poet, writer and academic and Sako Shahinian the illustrator were both originally of which nationality?
answer: Armenian
context: Title: Peter Balakian
  Passage: Peter Balakian (Armenian: Փիթըր Պալաքեան , born June 13, 1951) is an Armenian American poet, writer and academic, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities at Colgate University.  He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2016.
  Title: Cool Gardens
  Passage: Cool Gardens is a poetry book by the lead singer of the band System of a Down, Serj Tankian.  It was published by MTV Books and was released on October 1, 2002.  It is a collection of seven to eight years of Tankian's reflections on life, and features artwork by fellow Angeleno, Sako Shahinian.  The poetry, like the songs of System of a Down, consists of a reflection of societies and people's wrongs.  It portrays what people do to themselves and the control others try to hold over them.
  Title: Sako Shahinian
  Passage: Sako Shahinian (Armenian: Սաքո Շահինյան ; born 1980) is an American-Armenian illustrator whose artwork has been featured in System of a Down projects.
  Title: Armenian Golgotha
  Passage: Armenian Golgotha (Armenian: Հայ Գողգոթան ) is a memoir written by Grigoris Balakian about his eyewitness account of the Armenian Genocide.  The memoir was released in two volumes.  Volume 1, about his life prior and during the Armenian Genocide, was released in 1922.  Volume 2, about his life as a fugitive after the Genocide, was released in 1959.  Originally published in Armenian, the memoir was later published in various languages including an English translation by his grandnephew Peter Balakian with Aris Sevag.
  Title: American Citizens Abroad
  Passage: American Citizens Abroad (ACA) is, as it provides in public media, a "non-profit, non-partisan, volunteer association whose mission is to defend the rights of Americans living outside the United States border."  It was founded in 1978.  ACA has individual members around the world, and has developed a network of country contacts—volunteer American citizens who work without compensation in their respective host countries on behalf of not just the organization—in more than 50 countries, but to further ACA's causes.
  Title: Ensign of the United States
  Passage: The ensign of the United States refers to the flag of the United States when worn as an ensign (a type of maritime flag identifying nationality, usually flown from the stern of a ship or boat, or from an installation or facility of the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Coast Guard or the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration ashore).  International maritime law—see International Treaty on Law of the Sea, articles 91 and 92—provides that vessels have a national character and thus should display a flag (ensign) that corresponds to this national character, especially when in international or foreign waters.  Vessels that are formally documented under the federal vessel documentation act, vessels owned by government bodies in the United States, and vessels in the US armed forces unquestionably have US national character, and thus properly hoist a U.S. ensign to show their national character.  Vessels that are numbered by the states (see 46 U.S.C. section 411) and small, non-registered craft owned by American citizens and not registered in other countries may also hoist a U.S. ensign to show their national character.
  Title: Ozone Journal
  Passage: Ozone Journal is a 2016 Pulitzer Prize winning work by Peter Balakian.
  Title: The Burning Tigris
  Passage: The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response presents a narrative of the massacres of the Armenians during the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the responsibility of the Ottoman government.  Using archival documents and first-person accounts, Peter Balakian shows the history of how the Young Turks were involved in the Armenian Genocide.  The book received the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and was a "New York Times" Notable Book and "New York Times" and national best seller.
  Title: Dima Yakovlev Law
  Passage: The Dima Yakovlev Law (Russian: Закон Димы Яковлева ), Dima Yakovlev Bill, Dima Yakovlev Act, anti-Magnitsky law, or Federal law of Russian Federation no. 272-FZ of 2012-12-28 "On Sanctions for Individuals Violating Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms of the Citizens of the Russian Federation" is a law in Russia that defines sanctions against U.S. citizens involved in "violations of the human rights and freedoms of Russian citizens".  It creates a list of citizens who are banned from entering Russia, and also allows the government to freeze their assets and investments.  The law suspends the activity of politically active non-profit organisations which receive money from American citizens or organisations.  It also bans citizens of the United States from adopting children from Russia.  The law was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 28 December 2012 and took effect on 1 January 2013.  The law is informally named after a Russian orphan adopted by a family from Purcellville, Virginia, who died of heat stroke after being left in a parked car for nine hours.  The law is described as a response to the Magnitsky bill in the United States, which places sanctions on Russian officials who were involved in a tax scandal exposed by Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky against Russian officials; Magnitsky was later found to have been handcuffed and tortured while in jail.
  Title: Laurel–Langley Agreement
  Passage: The Laurel–Langley Agreement was a trade agreement signed in 1955 between the United States and its former colony the Philippines.  It expired in 1974.  It was an amendment to the Bell Trade Act, which gave full parity rights to American citizens and businesses.  Under this agreement, American citizens and businesses were able to own 100 percent of companies in any area of the economy.  Lindio-McGovern argues that this served American interests while exacerbating poverty within the Philippines, and also explains why U.S. corporations control most foreign investments in the Philippines.
citations: Peter Balakian Sako Shahinian