By Haykaram Nahapetyan Mirror-Spectator Video Correspondent “The Red Army was as multiethnic as the Soviet Union, but its generals were overwhelmingly Russian. Very few non-Slavs reached high rank and the[...]
By Tom Hawthorn TORONTO, Canada (Globe and Mail) – While playing for the Soviet Union in the gold-medal basketball game at the 1964 Olympics, point guard Armenak Alajajian contested a loose[...]
ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Turkey intends to open an embassy in East Jerusalem, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, days after leading calls at a summit of Muslim leaders for the world to[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — One by one, and at a painfully slow tempo, German journalists and intellectuals unlawfully imprisoned by the Turkish authorities are being[...]
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — The Yesh Atid opposition party in Israel is going to submit a bill to the Knesset (Parliament of Israel) which supposes official recognition of the Armenian Genocide.[...]
WASHINGTON — On December 6, Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, the Diocesan Legate and Ecumenical Director, took part in a special panel on “Sacred Sites and Property Rights” during the third international[...]
PARIS — The Hrant Dink Foundation has been awarded the Chirac Prize For Conflict Prevention by the Chirac Foundation. On behalf of the Hrant Dink Foundation, the president of the foundation, Rakel Dink, received[...]
ISTANBUL (Anadolu) — An Istanbul court on December 8 ordered the release on probation of five suspects implicated in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, the state-run[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator POHLHEIM, Germany — Pohlheim is a small town in Germany, near Giessen in the state of Hessen, with just under 20,000 inhabitants. But[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — It was a refreshing change to see such an initiative in the German capital. As Aurora Humanitarian Initiative co-founder Ruben Vardanyan[...]
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Ramil Safarov, the Azerbaijani serviceman infamous for the horrendous murder of Armenian serviceman Gurgen Markaryan while the latter was sleeping, has been promoted to a higher military[...]
