Armenia & Karabakh

YEREVAN — A prominent Armenian pianist, composer, recipient of numerous international competitions Tigran Hamasyan is set to perform concerts in dozens of states in the first half of the year.[...]

YEREVAN — The 2016 Aurora Prize Laureate, Marguerite Barankitse — founder of Maison Shalom and the REMA Hospital in Burundi — was offered the chance to nominate humanitarian organizations which[...]

DILIJAN, Armenia — Just Dilijan It! summer youth program for ages 10-17, is now accepting applications for its Summer 2017 Program. This year’s program will be led by Yuri Gorvits,[...]

YEREVAN and CALABASAS, Calif. — During the holiday season of 2016 and early 2017, the girls and staff of the Mer Hooys program in Yerevan, Armenia celebrated the traditions of[...]

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[...]