Magda Tagtachian: In Search of Memory, Truth and Justice
YEREVAN / BUENOS AIRES — Magda Tagtachian is a writer and journalist. Born in Buenos Aires, she studied meteorology at University of Buenos Aires. She then worked at Clarin newspaper for twenty years...
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‘The Popcorn Man’s’ Success Story Continues at CSUF
PALOS VERDES, Calif. — In 2019, the Armenian Studies Program Director at Fresno State (CSUF) announced that the James L. Melikian L.A. Brothers Scholarship fund had been established. The effort to...
View ArticleUS Reaffirms Support For Prewar Karabakh Peace Formula
YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — The United States continues to stand for a “comprehensive settlement” of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict based on internationally recognized principles such as self-determination of...
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EU’s Michel Reports ‘Tangible Progress’ Made At Armenian-Azeri Summit
BRUSSELS (Azatutyun) — Armenia and Azerbaijan’s leaders made progress towards negotiating a bilateral peace treaty, demarcating the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and opening transport links between the...
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Latest Book Edited by Hovannisian Focuses on Iranian Armenians’ History
BELMONT, Mass. — Prof. Richard Hovannisian on May 6 was the speaker at the first in-person evening lecture event since the beginning of the pandemic, at the National Association for Armenian Studies...
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Honoring Women’s Achievements in Gyumri
BERLIN — ”Trümmerfrauen” was the name given to those German women (“Frauen”) who, after World War II, rolled up their sleeves and helped remove rubble (“Trümmer”) from the streets of bombed out cities...
View ArticleGALAS Queernissage Pop-Up Market to Celebrate the Creativity and Artistry of...
LOS ANGELES — GALAS LGBTQ+ Armenian Society (GALAS) will host its second annual Queernissage: an open air market featuring LGBTQ+ creatives from South West Asia & North Africa (SWANA). The market...
View ArticleErdogan Blanks Greek Prime Minister over US Remarks
By Matt Murphy ANKARA (BBC News) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he no longer recognizes the leader of neighboring Greece and will refuse to meet him at a planned summit. Erdogan on...
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‘Where Is Humanity?’: A Conversation with Bedross Der Matossian
By Aris Janigian When it comes to crimes against humanity, we must admit, geo-politics and the great games between empires and their proxies determine who will be rescued, who will be prosecuted, who...
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MetaGait Helps Armenia’s Soldiers One Step at a Time
YEREVAN — Inspiration for innovation can come from anywhere. For the founder of Metagait, a virtual reality (VR) rehabilitation device, Dr. Davit Arsenyan got his inspiration from, of all areas, video...
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A Day of Armenian Music at UCLA
By Robert Baker WESTWOOD, Calif. (UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music) — Nine years ago, the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Armenian Music Program was started with a single student...
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GiniFest Setting New Records, Going International: Video Included
BURBANK, Calif. — This year GiniFest, the Armenian Wine and Spirits Festival, lived up to so many of the expectations that philanthropist Stepan Partamian and wine specialist and sommelier Anush...
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Robohood in Armenia and the US — Everyone Can Paint
YEREVAN (Robohood INC.) — Robohood Inc. is a company that developed robotic painting technology. The goal of the project is to combine the capabilities of a robot and a human, shortening the path...
View ArticleBy Signing the Document on November 9, Azerbaijani President Acknowledged the...
YEREVAN (ArmenPress) — Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on May 28 referred to the statement of Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev that there is no Nagorno Karabakh, the Nagorno-Karabakh...
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California Assembly Member Adrin Nazarian Shares Vision of Armenians in a New...
TOLUCA LAKE, Calif. — Adrin Nazarian has served continuously as a representative in the California State Assembly for the 46th district in the central San Fernando Valley from 2012, and he could have...
View ArticleAnoush Baghdassarian Receives Harvard’s 2022 Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Award
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Anoush Baghdassarian is the recipient of the 2022 Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Award. Graduating with an unprecedented 4,000 pro bono hours during her time at Harvard Law School,...
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Remembering a Special Hotel that Made Armenian-American Travelers Feel at...
By Stephen Kurkjian MANOMET BLUFFS, Mass. — In late 1940, Michael Saraf and Elmas Saraf, an Armenian couple from Wellesley who dabbled in real estate, purchased a lot of land on Manomet Bluffs in...
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Montreal Armenians Raise Funds for Psychological Rehabilitation Program in...
MONTREAL (Abaka Weekly) — A fundraiser took place on Thursday May 5, 2022, at the “Centre Armenie” of city of Laval, near Montreal in Quebec, Canada, for the psychological rehabilitation program...
View ArticleArmenian Satellite aboard SpaceX Launched
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — The first ever Armenian satellite has been launched into the Earth’s orbit, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced at the May 26 Cabinet meeting. “On May 25, 2022, at...
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For Artsakh, for Justice: First Major Peaceful Protest in Artsakh
STEPANAKERT — On May 28, the anniversary of the First Armenian Republic, the people of Artsakh stood together to voice their discontent with their country’s current state and prevent possible future...
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