Armenia’s Energy Minister Armen Movisisn on Thursday confirmed that the Armenian government was indeed in talks with a US-based energy company interested in buying Armenia’s largest power-generating facility in Syunik .

Representative Adam Schiff sat down with Asbarez Editor Ara Khachatourian on May 29 for an interview at his newly-opened district office in Hollywood.

The Turkish Studies Project of the University of Utah convened its fourth conference on on Wednesday in Tbilisi, Georgia. The conference is entitled “The Caucasus at Imperial Twilight: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building (1870s-1920s).”

The American University of Armenia (AUA) continues to garner overwhelming philanthropic support for its new undergraduate program, set to launch in the Fall of 2013.

We mourn the deaths of Asbarez collaborator and former Assistant Editor of the English Section, Allen Yekikian and his wife, Sose Thomassian who were in a car accident on Friday en route from Armenia to Georgia. The entire editorial board, staff and management of Asbarez would like to offer their condolences to the Yekikian and [...]

With polls now closed in Yerevan, today’s mayoral election has been marred by extensive reports from local and Diasporan observers of intense cheating, interference and violations.

The February 18 presidential elections this year coincided with an important milestone for the Armenian nation. Twenty five years earlier, almost to the day, hundreds of thousands Armenians took to the streets in Yerevan and Stepanakert to demand the reunification of Artsakh with Armenia and set in motion a series of events that can be attributed to the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of our modern-day Republic of Armenia.

During the month of April, Peace of Art, Inc., will be displaying the Armenian Genocide commemorative billboards to honor the victims of the Armenian Genocide, calling for recognition and condemnation of the genocide.

On the weekend of March 8, 9, and 10, eleven high school students participated in the 61st annual Berkeley Model United Nations conference at the University of California Berkeley. This is the third conference that our school has taken a part of this year.

Beware citizens of Armenia (and to an extent the Diaspora) you are to blame for Armenia’s woes—poverty, lack of social justice and rule of law, emigration, economic monopolies, usurpation of power, the rape of the environment, election fraud…

The Friends of the UCLA Armenian Language and Culture Studies on Friday announced the program details of its upcoming annual banquet, at which Professor Richard Hovannisian will be honored with the Narekatsi Medal of Achievement. The highly anticipated community event will take place on Saturday, March 16, at the Armenian Society of Los Angeles Hall, in Glendale.

An overflow crowd of community members at St. Mary’s Armenian Church hall on Sunday pledged to join the popular movement, attending the “Rally for Armenia. With our People, For our People,” during which opposition presidential candidate Raffi Hovannisian addressed the gathering live via Skype to thunderous applause.

“This popular struggle will not die down. We will achieve victory,” said opposition presidential candidate Raffi Hovannisian on Firday as he addressed thousands of supporters who had gathered at Liberty Square to hear a briefing on his meeting Thursday with Serzh Sarkisian at the Presidential Palace.

When hundreds of thousands of Armenians took to the streets on February 20, 1988 to demand the reunification of Karabakh with Armenia, a modern-day Armenian liberation struggle was born—a movement that still unites and mobilizes the Armenian Nation.