Armenia & Karabakh

By Ruth Bedevian YEREVAN — I came to my recent visit to the American University of Armenia (AUA) well aware of the graduate degree programs. My husband and I enjoyed[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Faith in Christianity remains vital for the survival and prosperity of the Armenian people, Catholicos Karekin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, insisted on[...]

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — Films are not only for entertainment, but may have the power to change political reality. This is certainly the case with[...]

By Emanuele Cassano Mariam is 31 and the mother of three daughters. She comes from Armavir in western Armenia. Even after the birth of her second daughter she continued to[...]

PARIS — The 180th anniversary of the birth of Ottoman-Armenian composer Dikran Tchouhadjian will be marked in March. The author, an actor, musician, producer and director, is director of the Dikran[...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — The secretary general of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on December 29 condemned as “provocative” an armed incident on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan which left[...]

YEREVAN (Phys.org) — Astronomers from the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Armenia have discovered a strong outburst of the embedded young stellar object (YSO) designated UKIDSS-J185318.36+012454.5. This newly detected event could[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — The United States called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to avoid ceasefire violations as it announced the appointment of its new chief negotiator in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process on[...]

YEREVAN — Prime Minister Karen Karapetian received US Ambassador to Armenia Richard Mills on December 28. The two discussed issues related to U.S.-Armenia relations and exchanged views on cooperation in[...]

YEREVAN — On the occasion of the New Year, President Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia delivered the following speech: Dear Compatriots, Year 2016 becomes history; it was the 25th year of[...]

YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia) – A court in Armenia has upheld the life sentence for the Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, who had killed seven members of a family in[...]