Polish politician Tomasz Lech Buczek, author of the book The Cry of the Armenian Mother: Genocide in Sumgait 1988, has launched a petition calling on the International Court of Justice to hold Azerbaijan accountable for crimes against humanity.
Emin has faced a host of challenges in his life before the war took his brother.
The rally is taking place as this article goes to press.
It should be noted that this conflict taking place in the South Caucasus is considered as part of a wider geopolitical game.
Armenians in Philadelphia demonstrated outside that city’s City Hall, denouncing Turkish-Azerbaijani aggression against Artsakh and Armenia.
French politicians, including former President Francois Hollande, members of the Council of Armenian Organizations of France and the Armenian community gathered today in Alfortville, near Paris, in solidarity with war-torn Artsakh.
The international community must act now to protect fundamental rights, first and foremost the right to life and dignity of all the peoples of the region.
On the Yerevan-Sevan-Vardenis roadway in Armenia, on the left side of the highway from Ltchap village to Berdkounk, there is a sign that hints at the existence of a trout store in the area.
Lala Stepanyan has lived in a ramshackle domik (Russian for “little house”) in Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city, for the past twenty-six years.
Relatives from Lebanon often ask her how life is in Armenia, whether she wants to go back. Khatoun response is a categoric “no”. "Even if I go hungry and sleep on the street, I don’t think about returning to Lebanon."
A benefactor in Switzerland, who wishes to remain anonymous, has purchased a three-room apartment for the Gyumri family of eleven that Hetq wrote about yesterday.
Aida Gasparyan is 32 years old. She married in 2007. The couple never dated. Her future husband was a friend of her sister's husband. He saw her and “snatched” her.
In 2001, important legislative acts concerning Lake Sevan, the largest body of fresh water in the country and the entire Caucasus region, were adopted by the Armenian government.
The reasons for the Sevan algae blooms are diverse, most notably the waste runoff into the lake that brings large amounts of organic and inorganic substances, the drop in the water level, and persistent overfishing of fish and crayfish.
Armenia’s High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs Zareh Sinanyan told Hetq today that an assistance package for Armenians impacted by August 4 Beirut explosion will be finalized by September 1.
A young Armenian engineer has created such a magic wand that converts words into audio in seconds by a mere computer “click”.
The delegation from Armenia, which visited Lebanon, also brought with it a certain amount of humanitarian aid, which was transferred to the Armenian community, to a joint commission created for that purpose.
On August 4, Varanta Yacoubian, as per her routine, entered a café near the port of Beirut.
"I don't show that I'm upset. There are emotional moments at night when I'm alone. I remember what happened and ask why me. Maybe it’s because I was the strongest,” Mary said in one of our previous conversations.
"She’s our Marlene Dietrich," say the staff at Yerevan’s Orran (Haven) Center in response to a smiling Marlene Hakobyan.
Today is the third day that students from the Yazidi village of Tlik, in Armenia’s Aragatzotn region, are on strike to protest the decades-old lack of daily drinking water.
"We're fourteen kids here․ I'm the eighth oldest," says 13-year-old Soghomon, not looking away from the wooden spoon he’s making. His glossy black eyes shine more when he smiles.
He said that the mortality rate in the area had increased four-fold.
"I would like to believe I’m mistaken, but I don’t see Mashalian breathing any new life into the community. On the contrary, I fear he will extinguish that which exists no. Developments fuel my concerns. Let’s see.”
Mashalian’s only competitor for the post, Patriarchal Vicar Archbishop Aram Ateshyan, has congratulated the new patriarch.
Late yesterday evening, residents of Kapan, capital of Armenia’s southern Syunik Province, again reported that the Voghji River passing through the city had been polluted.
Yerakouyn news website founder/editor Nairi Mkrtchyan told Hetq that local sources report eight dead and twenty wounded in today's bombing of the town.
Margaryan is president of the Global Development Mission NGO, which focuses on more than 50 children with Down Syndrome, children with cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, and most of them from needy families.
Ten local NGOs have sent an open letter to Tsarukyan, who owns Ararat Cement CJSC, arguing that the company started work on the plant without public permission.
Lyuba Balyan provided Hetq with a map of the Institute of Zoology listing all the places where blackened oil-coated storks were found.
On the way to Kapan, the provincial capital of Syunik, many tourists mistake Armenia’s largest tailings dump for a beautiful lake, a “blue gem”.
Geghamyan believes the next patriarch should be a good clergyman, a good organizer, and a good politician.
Photos of oil-soaked storks, Armenia’s non-official state bird, recently appeared in the local social media, causing a minor public uproar.
Five years ago, Garik Khumaryan and his friend Boris Hambardzumyan founded a silvery business in Yerevan to showcase Armenian culture via jewelry.
In May 2017, 28-year-old Armenian sambo fighter Kolya Karapetyan won a bronze medal at the European Sambo Championship in Minsk, Belarus.
Every morning, 74-year-old Gagik Movsesyan gases up his cream-colored RAF Soviet-era van and drives his four-year old grandson Garik to kindergarten.
On April 29, the Religious Council of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople decided to petition the Istanbul Governor’s Office for permission to hold a new election for the post of patriarch.
27-year-old Gayaneh Papoyan, a blue-eyed mother of five, got married nine years ago. Since then, she’s moved many times, renting houses here and there together with her husband.
“We founded Moreni to incorporate Armenian embellishments for Armenian fashion. We wanted to use Armenian ornamentation to make young Armenian women fashionable,” says Nahapetyan.
But there wasn’t one word in the joint statement regarding the proposal made by Armenia to Baku that Artsakh official representatives become full participants in the negotiations.
Kajaran is situated 345 km from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia and approximately 25 km from Kapan, the administrative center of the southern Syunik Province.
Mariam is having difficulty navigating her wheelchair along the cracked wooden floor.
When paying a visit to the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography NAS RA, it’s common to find piles of boxes all over the building. These boxes contain excavated materials from different parts of Armenia.
Beni Unutma Rusyam, Asırlık Sürgün (Don’t Forget Me, Russia; A Century of Exile), is the new book by Istanbul-Armenian journalist Vercihan Ziflioğlu (Ziflian).
To implement an economic revolution, thousands of people should raise their voices and say what they need, and the government must listen to them. If it doesn’t, then those thousands of people will change the government.
Gasarjyan says the situation is especially problematic when flights arrive from Dubai and Sharjah, mostly carrying Indians and Filipinos to Yerevan. Since they don’t know what cabbies charge, they are easy prey.
We are a long way from a final round of negotiations.
The Avetisyans, the family that was brutally murdered in Gyumri four years ago, were Rafo's aunt’s family. He says that they were very close, often going to the same repair jobs together with his cousin.
All these years, I have always thought that there are people who have wings instead of arms. Mary is one of them.