BERN, Switzerland (RFE/RL) — The Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents, Serge Sargisian and Ilham Aliyev, met in Bern in a bid to settle their longstanding conflict over Nagorno-Karabagh. The December 19 meeting[...]
By Elizabeth Redden WASHINGTON (Inside Higher Education) — A controversial institute supporting research in Turkish studies has lost its funding from Turkey’s government, raising questions about whether an institute that has long[...]
YEREVAN (news.am) — Chorrord Ishkhanutyun daily has learned that in January, Armenia will have a new ambassador to the US. According to the newspaper, Armenia’s Ambassador to Mexico, Grigor Hovhannisyan,[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian The year 2015 proved to be an exhilarating one for Armenians. This year capped a full century of traumatic living, struggling for recognition against political ploys[...]
BAKU (Guardian) — Azerbaijan’s currency has plummeted after moving to a floating exchange rate, causing a rush on dollars and shops as customers try to buy goods before prices increase.[...]
By Hagop Vartivarian WATERTOWN — Helene was born on June 26, 1933 in Boston to the tradition-respecting household of Khachadoor and Yeghsa Pilibosian of Kharpert. Her parents, survivors of the[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian If a talented writer had been commissioned to come up with a screenplay about a perfect disaster, perhaps he could not come up with a better[...]
WATERTOWN — The Armenian Mirror-Spectator will take a one-week break after the last issue of the year, which will come out on December 26. That issue will have our annual Christmas[...]
MOSCOW (PanARMENIAN.Net) — Nikolai Levichev, vice-speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament, co-author of the bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide spoke this week to the Haqqin.az Azeri news agency and[...]
STEPANAKERT (RFE/RL and ArmeniaNow) — Azerbaijani tanks shelled positions in the Nagorno-Karabagh region for the first time in 21 years, the Defense Ministry of the republic said on December 9. “For[...]
By Peter Schworm BOSTON (Boston Globe) — When the Old State House’s century-old time capsule was opened last fall, the red hardback book found inside, a routine government report, was dismissed as[...]
