By Artsvi Bakhchinyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator YEREVAN/RIGA — Solvita Avakjana (Avakian) is a Riga-based professional dancer, pop singer and fitness trainer. Years ago she was a member of the[...]
FRANKFURT, Germany — The Frankfurt Book Fair is a highpoint in the German cultural calendar, and one that I look forward to every October. Hundreds of thousands of new books[...]
(The following open letter was issued by the Hrant Dink Foundation, based in Istanbul, this past week.) We could not understand the reason why the conference on “Social, Cultural and[...]
PARIS (Armenpress) — The Union of Journalists of Armenia has condemned the October 21 attack on the office of the Nouvelles d’Arménie France-based Armenian newspaper. “This isn’t the first attack[...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — After months of negotiations with the Armenian government, the Irish budget airline Ryanair announced on Wednesday, October 16 that it will launch flights between Europe and Armenia[...]
By Philip P. Ketchian Special to the Mirror-Spectator This was not what he had struggled to come so far for. The water was ice cold. His legs were numb and[...]
By Kareem Fahim and Sarah Dadouch ISTANBUL (Washington Post) — Russia agreed on Tuesday, October 22, to help remove Syrian Kurdish fighters from a large swath of Turkey’s southern border,[...]
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian hosted co-founder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative Vartan Gregorian and Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London,[...]
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian, together with his wife Nouneh Sarkissian, attended the enthronement ceremony of new Emperor of Japan Naruhito in Tokyo on October 22, the[...]
Turkey was the beneficiary of pre-Soviet-era turmoil in the Caucasus, signing the Treaty of Kars of 1923; it continues to benefit also during the realignment of powers in the post-Soviet[...]
ISTANBUL (Panorama.am) — Archbishop Karekin Bekchian, one of the candidates for Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, issued a letter on October 21 addressed to Bishop Sahak Mashalian, the locum tenens of[...]
