Armenia

Armenia As It Is: Photoseries By Alicia Asmarian The Mirror-Spectator is pleased to present a series of photo essays prepared by the students of Professor Ken Martin at the American[...]

By Artsvi Bakhchinyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator YEREVAN — Tineke van Geel is a Dutch dance teacher who specializes in Armenian traditional and folk dances and teaches them throughout the[...]

WATERTOWN — International Center for Agribusiness Research and Education (ICARE) director Arthur Grigoryan was in the United States recently, during July, on a fundraising trip. ICARE (http://icare.am/), he explained, has[...]

BERLIN/YEREVAN — This year Armenians in the Republic and in the diaspora are celebrating the 150th birthday of Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869-1923), a beloved national poet. Known for his vast literary[...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan received on August 26 President of Swedish Riksdag Andreas Norlén, who was in Armenia at the invitation of[...]

YEREVAN (Panorama.am) — The initiative group “Kamq” which is sponsoring a petition campaign named “No to Istanbul Convention” arrived on Monday, August 26 in Echmiadzin, Armenia’s Armavir region. “Our campaign[...]

ECHMIDZIN — On August 18, Armenian Apostolic Church celebrated the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, attended the Divine[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — A major gold mining project launched in Armenia by a Western company poses only “manageable” environmental risks, a senior law-enforcement official who has investigated it insisted on Monday.[...]

In most countries, an environmental dispute would have local dimensions, but not in Armenia. Because of the country’s size, the dispute regarding the continuation of the mining operation has been[...]

By Raffi Bedrosyan Hidden Armenians are the present descendants of Armenian orphans left behind in Turkey after the 1915 Armenian Genocide. These orphans, the living victims of the Genocide, were[...]