MOSCOW (Armenpress) — Armenian President Serge Sargisian defeated the International Chess Federation (FIDE) President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in an impromptu blitz chess game on March 15, Narek Nikoghosyan, assistant to the[...]
MOSCOW — President Serge Sargisian on March 11 visited Moscow for official talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The leaders of the two strategic partner-states discussed a wide range of issues[...]
ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — Turkish-Armenian Garo Paylan, a member of the Turkish Parliament as a representative of the People’s Democratic Party, defended the right to freedom of worship for religious minorities[...]
RIGA, Latvia (Armenpress) — GrecoRoman wrestler Artur Aleksanyan won the silver medal att the European Wrestling Championship. In the final round, he competed against and lost to Nikita Melnikov from[...]
NEW YORK and YEREVAN — On Tuesday, March 15, the Aurora Prize Selection Committee announced the names of the four Aurora Prize finalists: Marguerite Barankitse, from Maison Shalom and REMA[...]
BAKU (Armenpress) — Amnesty International this week launched a campaign demanding the release of Azerbaijani spouses Arif and Leyla Yunus for treatment. Azerbaijani authorities interfere with the departure abroad for[...]
ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — Procedural instruments of Hrant Dink’s case reveal striking details on the participation of the state, particularly the police and intelligence services, in the murder of the Istanbul-Armenian[...]
ISTANBUL (Newsweek) — Top officials in France, Germany and the European Union condemned Turkey’s takeover of the country’s largest newspaper last week ahead of a summit with Ankara on the[...]
LONDON (Public Radio of Armenia)— The daily Telegraph lists Yerevan among Europe’s 16 oldest continually inhabited cities. While many of the world’s oldest cities, settled around the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East,[...]
ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — There are 1845 cases pending against Turkish citizens for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Those found guilty face one to four years of imprisonment, according to the[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — Will the German Bundestag ever make up its mind about the genocide? This is the question raised last October when the news[...]
