Is artistic talent hereditary or is it learned? In families with several great musicians, like the Bach or the Strauss families, and in the visual arts, as in the cases[...]

BAKU (Caucasian Knot) — During a hearing at the Baku Military Court at the end of December, former speaker of the Nagorno-Karabakh parliament, David Ishkhanyan, delivered his closing statement, denying[...]

PARIS (Public Radio of Armenia) — French-Armenian actor Simon Abkarian will portray General Charles de Gaulle in “De Gaulle,” a French-language, two-part historical biopic set for release in 2026, with dialogue[...]

YEREVAN–LONDON — Grace Aidiniantz (1927-2015), the late London-based businesswoman of Armenian descent, is best known for her founding of the Sherlock Holmes Museum on Baker Street in 1990, a landmark[...]

By Vahan Zanoyan “It is not death that is frightening. What is truly frightening is indifference — a state that enters us quietly and gradually, like radiation, and destroys us[...]

By Shoghik Galstian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to disagree on some major issues, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on December 29, pointing to Baku’s key precondition for[...]

By Arshaluys Barseghyan Armenia and Turkey will “simplify” the visa procedure for diplomatic, special, and service passport holders as of January 1, 2026. The representatives of these groups from both[...]

His Holiness Karekin II has led the Armenian Church since October 1999 as its Supreme Patriarch and 132nd Catholicos of All Armenians, the highest-ranking official in the global Armenian Apostolic[...]

The Academic Publishers of Latvia has released the volume Latvians about Armenia and Armenians about Latvia: Articles, Memoirs, Travel Notes (258 pages). It was compiled and edited by the Latvian-Armenian[...]

On December 24, 2022, exactly three years ago, many Stepanakert citizens walked to Shushi, 12 kilometers away, where Russian peacekeepers had barricaded the sole road to Yerevan, explaining that it[...]

WASHINGTON (The Guardian) — The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the US diplomatic posture abroad[...]