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Statement from the Institute on Recent Events in Turkey (USC Shoah Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jul 2016
Turkey has long denied the genocide of the Armenians and not confronted its own brutal past. The draconian measures are redolent of events 100 years ago when the Ottoman Turkish government began rounding up Armenian intellectuals and community leaders - events that led directly to the murder of 1.5 million people in the Armenian Genocide....

Costa makes Armenia trek, meets with president, Catholicos Karekin II

Edit Fresno Bee 30 Jul 2016
Rep. Jim Costa said he’s always wanted to visit Armenia. Fresno has a huge Armenian population, and he grew up around lots of prominent Armenian families at his family’s home … Click to Continue » ... ....

Armenian Parliament Refuses To Debate Hostage Crisis

Edit Topix 30 Jul 2016
The pro-government majority in Armenia's parliament thwarted on Thursday opposition lawmakers' attempts to force an emergency session on the continuing standoff between security forces and gunmen occupying a police station. Only 19 members of the 131-seat National Assembly, virtually all of them opposition deputies, formally demanded such a debate ... ....

Armenian Genocide officially recognized by Alicante, Spain

Edit Topix 29 Jul 2016
The City Council of Spain's Alicante has officially recognized and condemned the Armenian Genocide.  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia told ARMENPRESS ......

Weary Armenians Show Surprising Support For Yerevan Gunmen

Edit Topix 29 Jul 2016
Since an armed band took over a Yerevan police station on July 17, killing one officer and briefly taking several hostages, thousands of locals have rallied around the gunmen, urging the government to negotiate and make concessions. "These guys are right," one elderly man told RFE/RL's Armenian Service on July 26. "All of them are veteran fighters [of the 1990s war in Azerbaijan's Armenian-majority Nagorno-Karabakh region] ... ....

Russia Has Armenian Leader's Back in Police-Station Stand-Off -- or Does It?

Edit Indonesia News 29 Jul 2016
Image. This poster is circulating virally on Armenian social media. Journalist and human rights defender Levon Barseghian was recently arrested after criticizing the authorities during the ongoing Ere ... ....

French-Armenian photographer's "best shot" in...

Edit Topix 29 Jul 2016
The Guardian presented a 55 year old French-Armenian photographer Antoine Agoudjian's best photograph in its "my best shot" ranks. "I was a dancer before I was a photographer ... ....

A haunting portrayal of beleaguered Aleppo

Edit Topix 29 Jul 2016
The Daily Star July 27, 2016 Wednesday A haunting portrayal of beleaguered Aleppo by Ruwan Teodros Syrian-Armenian filmmaker Avo Kaprealian's "Houses without Doors" is an honest and heartbreaking, if slightly confusing, portrayal of the demise of Aleppo's once-thriving Armenian community ... Syrian-Armenian filmmaker Avo Kaprealian's "Houses without ......

The delegation arrived from Odessa visited Yerevan History Museum (Yerevan Municipality)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016
The winners of the sport tournament between schoolchildren organized at the initiative of the Armenian community of Odessa and with the assistance of the benevolent foundation 'Rainbow', got a week-tour to Armenia reward. The Ukrainian delegation which also includes some Armenians is in Yerevan where some meetings and sport and cultural events have already been organized for them....

Prime Minister Holds Farewell Meeting with Ambassador of Kuwait (Government of the Republic of Armenia)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016
Alqabandi for his tenure-long efforts, noting that the current level of political dialogue provides an opportunity to expand the agenda of the Armenian-Kuwaiti cooperation and push ahead with the joint effort aimed at strengthening economic ties between the two countries ... trace in Armenian-Kuwaiti relations....

Dolma – Memories wrapped in grape leaves

Edit RBTH 29 Jul 2016
For this occasion, I chose an Armenian dish as a tribute to Anastas Mikoyan, a Soviet minister of different departments, including food, under administrations from Lenin to Brezhnev, and the driving force behind the Book of Healthy and Tasty Food ... You don’t want to get looks at an Armenian dinner table, so you eat a lot, which is not hard, since Marina Nikolayevna’s dolma is to die for....

Zaruhi Postanjyan appeals to Catholicos of All Armenians

Edit Topix 29 Jul 2016
"On Tuesday, July 26, the authorities of the Republic of Armenia refused my written request to deliver food and water to our citizens barricaded in the seized police building. Nor did they respond to my demand to explain their failure to carry out their responsibilities ... ....

Azerbaijani cultural monuments vanish in Nagorno-Karabakh

Edit Topix 29 Jul 2016
Armenian invaders continue destroying the monuments regarded as the tangible cultural heritage the occupied Azerbaijani territories. These historical monuments are the heritage of not only Azerbaijani nation but also of all mankind ... ....
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