Since August 2008 this book has had seven editions. “Karabakh Diary, Green and Black” was published in Eastern and Western Armenian (with classical orthography), Russian, English, and Arabic.
Ten Iraqi-Armenian families reside in Darbnik, a village eight kilometers from Yerevan. 90% of the village is comprised of refugees. The Iraq-Armenian families live in the former agricultural college that has been renovated by the United Nations. They have created a little Baghdad in their apartments furnished with photos and memorabilia from their former homes. They have also preserved their memories of Iraq. As in Iraq, they are caught in an identity...
Four of the eight candidates running in next month’s Armenian presidential election have filed financial disclosures as required by law. The wealthiest of the four appears to be the current president, Serzh Sargsyan.
Thirty Syrian Armenians were granted Republic of Armenia citizenship on January 17 by Armenia’s Ambassador to Syria, Arshak Poladyan.
An employee of an agency operated by the Armavir Municipality told this reporter that he had been handed a blank official form and was instructed to collect the passport data of at least ten residents in support of President Sargsyan.
On January 18, Ambassador John A. Heffern joined officials from the Armenian Ministry of Energy and National Security Service to open the Armenian Nuclear Forensics Laboratory at the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP). The U.S. Department of State’s Preventing Nuclear Smuggling Program (PNSP) partnered with the ANPP to establish a Laboratory for Technical and Forensic Analysis of Nuclear and Radioactive Materials as part of a joint effort...
“I would like to believe in Ivanishvili’s sincerity and in the statements that he made in Armenia. However, we must take into account a number of negative and positive factors that exists independent of the prime minister’s will,” Sargsyan told reports in Yerevan today.