Peace is a word “used too much and much too soon”
(Photo: Knar Bedian) In the days of “normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations,” peace is the word Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his team manipulate. Pashinyan wants peace with Azerbaijan, a country...
View ArticleEconomic Freedom in Armenia and its Significance
A dried fruit stand inside a Yerevan market, September 2010 (Photo: Shaun Dunphy/Wikimedia Commons) Economic freedom is the ability of individuals to own private property and use it as they see best,...
View ArticleArmenian Memory Project
In the spring of 1915, Nigoghos Mazadoorian and his father Garabed came across an early ripening mulberry tree while walking through their orchards in Ichmeh, a village in the Ottoman Armenian province...
View ArticleThe nation deserves to know. What is the price?
Nearly 3,000 people marched from the Massachusetts State House to the Armenian Heritage Park as part of a series of events to mark the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. (Photo: Aaron Spagnolo) The...
View Article30th Homenetmen Eastern US Navasartian Games to be held in Boston
The Homenetmen Eastern Region United States is excited to announce that the 30th Navasartian Games will take place on the fourth of July weekend (July 1-4) and will be hosted by the Homenetmen Boston...
View ArticleHekimians establish endowed ANCA family fund
“We are – as a family – so very gratified to make this forward-looking investment in the future of our community and our common cause – strengthening and sustaining ANCA advocacy for generations to...
View ArticleCalifornia establishes sister-state relationship with province of Syunik
GLENDALE, Calif. — On February 10, 2022, the CA State Senate passed ACR 105, a resolution backed by the Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region (ANCA-WR), that establishes a sister-state...
View ArticleANCA-WR hosts farewell reception for Mayor Garcetti
Mayor Garcetti with ANCA-WR’s award LOS ANGELES, Calif.—On February 17, 2022, more than 100 community leaders, public officials and supporters attended the Armenian National Committee of...
View ArticleFate of Armenian POWs: Captivity or prosecution?
Armenian POWs await trial in Baku (Photo: Azertac News Agency, June 23) The eighth point of the Artsakh-Azerbaijan-Russia trilateral armistice agreement states that the sides agree to exchange...
View ArticleDon’t let Turks buy land in Armenia; impose tariffs on Turkish imports
The Armenian government must take two important steps prior to opening the border with Turkey: 1) Forbid Turkish citizens from buying real estate in Armenia; and 2) Place tariffs on the import of...
View ArticleDiary of a Dead Man | A captivating new novel by Vahe Berberian
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Vahe Berberian’s latest novel Diary of a Dead Man is a gripping, pageturner packed with uncanny twists and hair-raising turns, which tells the story of Armen, a young Armenian...
View ArticleArtsakh officials fight cultural erasure
The damage caused to the Holy Savior Ghazanchetsots Cathedral following the two strikes on October 8, 2020 (Office of the Human Rights Defender of Artsakh) On February 3, Minister of Culture of...
View ArticleAYF-ER commemorates Baku and Sumgait pogroms
In the late 1980s, the struggle to liberate Artsakh began. In the post-Soviet landscape, ethnic Armenians sought self-determination and freedom from the state-sponsored terror of Azerbaijan. The brave...
View ArticleLent—A Season of Renewal
St. Stephen’s Armenian Apostolic Church, March 2019 (Photo: Facebook) For Protestant and Catholic Churches, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. The Lenten season extends over a 46-day period, beginning with...
View ArticleReflection on the “Armenia-Iran: Historical Past and Present” International...
Weekly columnist Yeghia Tashjian pictured with Iranian diplomats, conference organizers and participants at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Yerevan The Iranian Studies Department of the...
View ArticleRussia–Azerbaijan Declaration on Allied Interaction: Implications for Armenia
Declaration on “Allied Interaction between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation” signed in Moscow, February 22, 2022 Since February 24, 2022, the world’s attention has been focused on...
View ArticleCreative residency in Brussels opens to artists from Armenia
Creative Armenia and the Boghossian Foundation are pleased to announce the 2022 edition of the East-West Residency, a one-month creative residency at the cultural haven of the Villa Empain in Brussels....
View ArticleDetroit’s Friends of Artsakh, ACAA Artsakh Fund renovate home of Artsakh...
The family of Goruyn Soghomonyan The renovation of martyred commander Goruyn Soghomonyan’s house was completed earlier this year with the financial contributions from Detroit’s Friends of Artsakh in...
View ArticleRex Kalamian faces uphill task of bringing Armenian basketball to...
Rex Kalamian (Photo: Instagram/@rexkalamian) It’s a frigid night in Michigan on January 10, 2022, and Detroit Pistons assistant Rex Kalamian is pacing through the halls of Little Caesars Arena with a...
View ArticleGegard Mousasi, Arman Tsarukyan cap off amazing weekend for Armenian...
Three Armenians took center stage at two high-profile mixed-martial arts events in different parts of the world this weekend, and they all claimed victory. Gegard Mousasi was the biggest name of the...
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