By Edmond Azadian It is a delightful autumn night in Yerevan. Streets are bustling with people. Families are strolling along boulevards and the city lights create an idyllic atmosphere. The[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian For the last three and a half years, Armenia had been negotiating with the European Union (EU) to sign the Association Agreement, yet on September 3,[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian Why do Armenians gravitate away from their native land and live in far-away countries, overwhelmed with the nostalgia of the ancestral homeland? We seldom pose the[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian The political turmoil artificially created in the Arab and Muslim world has come to be named euphemistically as the Arab Spring, as if promising a better[...]
Armenians have become citizens of the global village, living in different countries and subject to different — at times contradictory — laws. Numerically, Armenians living in dispersion far surpass those[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian Russia’s President Vladimir Putin recently paid a state visit to Azerbaijan on his way to Iran. Azerbaijan being an oil-rich land, represents a slippery territory, figuratively[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian The celebrated Armenian national poet, Vahan Tekeyan, has written a series of poems which encapsulate in the most concise and effective fashion the woes befallen[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian As the current Islamic administration tries to dismantle Ataturk’s legacy, much dirt is being unearthed in Turkey. The fallout from that ideological warfare has been benefitting[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian An announcement was sent to the media about a lecture to be delivered on August 18 at the Congregation B’nai Israel in Tustin, Calif. A prominent[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian When the Turkmenchay Treaty was signed in 1828 between the Russian and Persian Qajar Empires, the Khanate of Yerevan, effectively Eastern Armenia, was ceded to Russia.[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian No one could imagine a few months ago that the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan would return home from his triumphant trips abroad to salvage[...]