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Armenian Holiday Traditions
DETROIT — This holiday season was a little quieter than many people, especially Armenians, are used to. Due to Covid-19 and the shadow cast by the Artsakh War, the celebrations of the world have been...
View ArticleLisa Kirazian’s Novel, Cadenza, Released
SAN DIEGO — Cadenza by Lisa Kirazian, the third and final book of “The Music We Made” novel series, has been released by Laurel Publications and is available on Amazon.com. The books follow three...
View ArticleNagorno Karabakh Shuffles Top Officials, Plans New Elections
By Ani Mejlumyan STEPANAKERT (eurasia.net) — Following the defeat to Azerbaijan, the government in Nagorno Karabakh has reshuffled many of its top officials and is preparing for new elections. On...
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Battlefields in Eurasia
There was a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Artsakh Republic, the Armenian name for the Nagorno Karabagh region. I won’t dwell on the political, economic or military aspects of the war, but I...
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Music and Art Breaking Boundaries: ‘Gorky’s Dream Garden’ at Newark Museum of...
(Editor’s Note: This review from fall 2019 preview is reprinted now to announce two January 2021 on-line events. As an official selection of the Ridgewood Guild International (Virtual) Film Festival,...
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Basketball Player and Coach Edward Noni Atamian Passes Away
LOS ANGELES – Basketball player and coach Edward Noni Atamian passed away on January 9 after a week-long battle with Covid-19. Atamian was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1932. Jerry Tarkanian UNLV and...
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Putin, Aliyev and Pashinyan Sign Joint Statement on Karabakh
MOSCOW (Combined Sources) — Following talks in the Kremlin on Monday, January 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed...
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New England Patriots Staffer Najarian’s Cleats Set New NFL Auction Record,...
BOSTON – As the Mirror previously reported, the National Football League (NFL) every year conducts a My Cause My Cleats campaign, in which custom sneakers or cleats can be worn on the field before...
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Can We Build Our Future Together?
By Marine Petrossian In December, my essay “The Turkish Border Has Gotten Closer to Me” was published in the Mirror-Spectator. When writing the piece, I mostly had in mind American readers whose...
View ArticleKazarian Elected Rhode Island House Majority Whip
PROVIDENCE (Providence Journal) — Rhode Island House Democrats elected Rep. Katherine Kazarian of East Providence as House majority whip on January 11 at a virtual House Democratic caucas meeting,...
View ArticleTowards the ‘Fourth Republic’ – Armenian President Pens Commentary
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian penned a fresh article released on January 11 about the inevitability of building a substantive state and the ways to restore the country’s strength. It is...
View ArticleBarbara Haroutunian Passed Away
DETROIT – Barbara (nee Zamanigian) Haroutunian passed away peacefully on January 12. She was the wife of the late John Haroutunian and the daughter of the late Leo and Victoria Zamanigian. Barbara...
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St. Vartan Cathedral Celebrates Christmas
NEW YORK — As a testament to its unwavering faith — despite the past year’s extraordinary global suffering and tribulations — the Armenian Church celebrated the Feast of the Nativity and Theophany...
View ArticleFrom Kessab to Watertown: A Modern Saga Now Available on Kindle
WATERTOWN — Ohan Press has released From Kessab to Watertown: A Modern Saga as an e-book on Kindle (at amazon.com) for $4.99. It has been revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary since its...
View ArticleKoutoujian Completes Term Leading Massachusetts Sheriffs’ Association
MEDFORD, Mass. — Middlesex Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian has officially completed his tenure as President of the Massachusetts Sheriffs’ Association (MSA) after leading the organization for the past...
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Gayane Georgyan: ‘To Work, Create, Create for the Sake of the Motherland’
MOSCOW/YEREVAN — Lawyer, public figure Gayane Georgyan, was born in Tbilisi and raised in Russia. She is the director of the branch for the CIS and EAEU countries of the Helsinki International...
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A New Sense of Place: Santomieri-Farhadian Sound Installation Enriches Public...
BERKELEY, Calif. — Critics have compared the San Francisco-based Santomieri-Farhadian Duo’s experimental musical compositions to everyone from modernist Anton Webern to hard rock icon Frank Zappa. This...
View ArticlePashinyan’s Mission Impossible to Moscow
There is a tug-of-war between Moscow and Ankara, and Armenia is caught in-between the two. The 44-day war was necessary for Russia to return its military force back in Azerbaijan. It was also necessary...
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Armenia Fund Set New Fundraising Records During Karabakh War, Report of...
GLENDALE — The Artsakh war of 2020 may have had disastrous results, but it also led to unprecedented fundraising in the Armenian diaspora. Armenia Fund, a nonprofit nongovernmental pan-Armenian...
View ArticleItalian Lawmaker Involved in Azerbaijani ‘Caviar Diplomacy’ Sentenced to Four...
ROME (Panorama.am) — The former Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Luca Volonte, was sentenced to four years in jail on Monday, January...
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