France Tells Turkey to Remove ‘Mercenaries’ From Karabakh
PARIS (RFE/RL) — France expects Turkey to withdraw Syrian mercenaries recruited for Azerbaijan during the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh, a senior French official visiting Armenia said late on...
View ArticleFrench National Assembly Joins Senate to Call for Recognizing Independent...
PARIS (RFE/RL) – The French National Assembly joined the French Senate on December 3 in calling for recognizing Artsakh or Nagorno Karabakh, as an independent republic. A resolution overwhelmingly...
View ArticleOpposition Names Vazgen Manukyan Candidate for Prime Minister
YEREVAN (Armenian Public Radio) – The 17 opposition forces demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan have named Vazgen Manukyan as their candidate for the post of Prime Minister....
View ArticleAzerbaijanis Send Priest to Dadivank as Part of Broader Cultural Usurpation...
BAKU (Azernews, Turan, multiple sources) – According to a report from the Azerbaijani Trend News Agency, a new priest has been sent to Dadivank Monastery, which Azerbaijanis are calling Khudavang or...
View ArticleIntellectuals and the National Interest: Parallel Worlds or Worlds Apart?
By Asbed Kotchikian Special to the Mirror-Spectator On October 21, an open letter addressed to Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (see below) was sent to more than 110 academics and scholars in...
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Eros: Repopulation and the Instinct of Self-Preservation
By Ani Tatintsyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator From the early days of the Artsakh war, Armenian youth in Armenia and the diaspora had begun flooding the newsfeed on Twitter (or as some call it,...
View ArticleIstanbul-Armenian Coronavirus Deaths Increase in October, November
ISTANBUL (Nor Marmara) – Since March 2020, when the first signs of the coronavirus became evident and a pandemic was announced, the Istanbul-Armenian community had victims both among elders and...
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New England Patriots Showcase Armenian-Themed Sneakers, Call World Attention...
LOS ANGELES – If there is a silver lining to the dark clouds of the Artsakh defeat, it is the strong support for Armenia demonstrated publicly by prominent Armenians and non-Armenians during this...
View Article‘Pure Armenian Blood’ Members and Associates Indicted for Racketeering and...
NEW YORK (US Attorney’s Office, Southern District Office)- Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge...
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Arsène Jiroyan: ‘I would like to perform in a play or a film in Armenian’
YEREVAN/CANNES — Arsène Jiroyan, a French stage and screen actor of Armenian descent, was born in 1962 in Istanbul. He has acted in about 20 films and nearly 40 TV projects. Both on the small screen...
View ArticleGroup Calls for German Government to Recognize Artsakh
BERLIN — On November 25, the French Senate voted almost unanimously to recognize Artsakh, as reported in the Mirror-Spectator. The following day, the Central Council of Armenians in Germany (ZAD)...
View ArticleOSCE Minsk Group Foreign Ministers Issue Joint Statement
TIRANA — The heads of the delegation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group Co-Chair countries — Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, Deputy...
View ArticleMeet the Girl From Cairo
The Girl from Cairo is a memoir covering Peggy Hinaekian’s early life in Cairo, Montreal, Boston and Manhattan, from 1940 to 1960. It is a riveting story of an Armenian girl born and raised in Egypt,...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s Mt. Davidson Cross Is Rebranding
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The Mt. Davidson Cross Armenian Council, also known as the Council of Armenian American Organizations of Northern California (CAAONC), is closing out 2020 with positive...
View ArticleEvidence of Azerbaijan’s Use of Chemical Weapons Unveiled
YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net) — Armenia’s Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan has visited the National Burn Center and obtained new evidence of the use of weapons of mass destruction containing chemical...
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What Will Happen to Armenian Treasures under Azerbaijani Control?
NEW YORK — It was five years ago that I visited the crowning glory of Artsakh, the Dadivank Monastery. Inside the almost bare church, except for fresco paintings and numerous Armenian inscriptions, was...
View ArticleArmenia Commemorates 32nd Anniversary of Quake
YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net) — On December 7, Armenia marked the 32nd anniversary of the devastating earthquake that hit the northwestern regions of the country. On that day in 1988, at 11:41 a.m. local...
View ArticleOpposition Protests Resume as Pashinyan Ignores Ultimatum to Resign
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — A coalition of 16 Armenian opposition parties urged supporters to again take to the streets after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ignored their ultimatum to resign and pave the way...
View ArticleArtsakh Armenia Relief Concert in Providence Dec. 12
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Knights of Vartan – Arax Lodge of Providence RI, is sponsoring the Artsakh Armenian Relief Concert on Saturday, December 12 at 6:00 p.m. EST. This fundraising event which brings...
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At Baku Victory Parade, Aliyev Calls Yerevan, Zangezur, Sevan Historical...
BAKU (AP, Reuters, France24, Trend, Daily Sabah, en.president.az, Facebook) – On December 10, Azerbaijan celebrated its military victory over Artsakh and Armenia with a parade in Baku presided over by...
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