Armenia

On December 19, six choirs from Armenia and Artsakh joined seven other choirs to perform on World Choral Day (http://worldchoralday.org/). This event, organized every December under the auspices of the International Federation of Choral[...]

YEREVAN/USTI NAD LABEM, Czech Republic — Viktor and Erik Agateljan (Aghatelyan), are Armenian professional boxer brothers from Czech Republic. Born in 1994 and 1995 in the town of Ararat, Armenia, from childhood they live with their[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — President Armen Sarkissian has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said on Tuesday, January 5. A statement released by the office said Sarkissian, 67, took the test after showing symptoms of COVID-19[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Russia has allocated 10 million euros ($12.2 million) in financial assistance to thousands of ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh who fled to Armenia during the recent war. The office of Deputy Prime Minister[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced plans to further deepen Armenia’s relations with Russia, saying that his country needs “new security guarantees” after the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh. “The very[...]

YEREVAN (Panorama.am) — The families of Armenian soldiers who went missing during the recent Artsakh war on Tuesday, January 5, staged a protest outside the government building to again call the authorities’ attention to the problem[...]

ECHMIADZIN — On January 5, on the occasion of the Feast of the Nativity, Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, presided over the Liturgy of the Dawn with the participation of the Congregation of the Mother See,[...]

By Aris Govjian Honest reporting and activism take a back seat when it comes to ethnic cleansing for two major NGOs. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, which have branded themselves as being beacons for protecting human rights[...]

The Karabakh war is behind us but a formal peace is certainly not. While Armenia is waiting for its POWs from Azerbaijan and is burying its dead, the situation in and around the country continues to remain unsettled. Azerbaijan has taken[...]

Undoubtably, Armenians all over the world are devastated by the 44-day war that resulted in the defeat of Artsakh and Armenia, pitted against an overwhelmingly large combined army of Azerbaijanis, Turks and jihadists equipped with greatly[...]