From Artsvi Bakhchinyan

Artsvi Bakhchinyan

Artsvi Bakhchinyan is a Yerevan-based philologist, writer, historian of art, researcher in Armenian Diaspora, translator, Ph. D. He is author and editor of dozen books. Artsvi conducts interviews and writes articles in Armenian, English and Russian.

YEREVAN/OAKLAND — For many years, I have been in touch with American theater director, actress, producer, playwright, and translator Torange Yeghiazarian. Born in 1964 in Tehran, she received a medical[...]

YEREVAN – Arman Peshtmaljyan (born 1992) is an award-winning composer, arranger, keyboardist/pianist, songwriter, and music producer. He specializes in jazz, pop, folk and fusion while continuously exploring innovative approaches in[...]

YEREVAN-THE HAGUE, the Netherlands — Andrius Arutiunian (born 1991, Vilnius, Lithuania), a multifaceted conceptual artist and composer of Armenian and Lithuanian heritage, works with hybrid forms of listening, vernacular knowledge,[...]

YEREVAN/CAPE TOWN — My interlocutor, Mario Migirdic (Megerdich) Atakliyan, resides in South Africa. Born in 1965 in Istanbul, he studied at the Surp Haç Tbrevank Armenian Lycée. Actively involved in[...]

YEREVAN-TRIVANDRUM, India — Arjun Krishna Lal is an Armenia and India-based author, entrepreneur, and an emerging leader in the B2B content industry, servicing the US market. While in college, Arjun[...]

YEREVAN-RIGA — Latvian translator Valda Salmiņa (born in 1962) earned a bachelor’s degree in philology with a specialization in German Philology from the University of Latvia and studied Armenian Philology[...]

YEREVAN-BORDEAUX, France — French photographer Gaëlle Hamalian-Testud has been pursuing her artistic vision for more than 30 years, specializing in humanist, documentary and landscape photography. Since 2004, her work has[...]

YEREVAN — On January 14, in Yerevan, Svetlana Gulyan, film scholar and researcher at the Institute of Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, passed away at the[...]

YEREVAN-LUND, Sweden — Swedish historian and writer Svante Lundgren holds a doctorate in Jewish Studies from Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He has worked as a secondary school teacher and as[...]

YEREVAN/ATHENS — George (Giorgos) Tossikian is one of the most creative and talented Greek guitarists. He was born in 1981 in Piraeus to an Armenian father and a Pontian Greek[...]

YEREVAN/GENEVA — The Beirut-born Vicken Bayramian is an international business lawyer and serial entrepreneur. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Business, Trade, and Tax Law from Sorbonne[...]