The 1994 ceasefire brought a tenuous end to the Karabakh War. Negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan have been ongoing for the past twenty years under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chaired by the United States, France and Russia.

An ever-increasing number of testimonials, or reports, or essays, or travelogues, or… are appearing from and/or about Western Armenia, written by Armenians, Kurds, or Turks.

Peter Balakian, Professor of Humanities at Colgate University, recently wrote a thought-provoking commentary, titled: “A Broken Connection: The Armenian Financial Community and the Making of Culture.”

In 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, Dolores Ibarruri Gomez, a Spanish communist delivered her famous speech entitled, No Pasarán, which means “They shall not pass.”

Eighty-five years ago, in this part of January, a man was born who would become one of the luminaries of the 20th century. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) came to lead a movement that initiated a transformation in the United States of America that continues even today.

The man with a simple baton: but a great talent, who left an even greater legacy …

“The Azerbaijanis are once again shooting at the village…for the past thirty minutes now…”

The Turkish government, its lobbying firms, and Turkish-American organizations have spent millions of dollars to take members of Congress and their staffs on all-expenses-paid trips to Turkey with the intent of buying their allegiance.

Dink, Bonk, Bling, Crash, Smush— the sound effects you might see in the emphatic bubbles in the panels of a comic book are what the news from Turkey is starting to sound like lately, a farce of ego, filth, and conflict.

Canadian Turks launched a petition last month seeking the removal of all references to the Armenian Genocide from the 11th grade curriculum of Toronto high schools.

Two years before his death in 1921, Hovhannes Tumanyan wrote a letter to Avetik Isahakyan.

Imagine starting off the 2014 New Year knowing that you’re going to get screwed by your own government in yet another way. That’s what our compatriots in the Republic of Armenia (RoA) face starting January 1.

2013 began and ends with conflict. Beginning with the election cycle in Armenia—presidential and municipal—which was marred, once again, with voter fraud and corruption to the Armenian government’s abrupt decision to join the Russia-led Customs Union, the ruling party in Armenia reinforced its grip on power by neglecting the population.
One of the key threats to [...]

BY MARIA TITIZIAN
In the absence of faith and hope and belief living can often be dwindled away, becoming mundane, a chore, destroying the core of what we were meant to do or be to others as human beings.
These past few weeks we have been in a deep winter freeze in Yerevan. Temperatures have plummeted causing [...]