On Tuesday, April 23, the Montebello Armenian community gathered at the Martyrs Monument for the traditional candlelight vigil and commemoration. Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region Co-chairwoman Nora Hovsepian delivered remarks

The imperative to demonstrate collective strength as a nation to attain international recognition for the Armenian Genocide and advance our demands for reparations was highlighted last year in the editorial published in our annual Genocide Commemorative Issue.

Lawsuits arising from Armenian-originated citizens of United States against Insurance or Financial establishments, detaining or having detained assets belonging to our Ottoman ancestors, paved the way for a new frontier of the Armenian Cause.

On March 26, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California issued its ruling in the case of Garbis Davoyan, et al. vs. Republic of Turkey, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, and T.C. Ziraat Bankasi (case no. CV 10-05636 DMG).

Now that “the roots have taken hold in the soil”, the future of Armenia depends on all of us. The people have arisen and there is no going back. T

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.

Idaho resident and Korean war veteran Johnny Kazian has never met financial professional Meri Davitian from Pasadena, California, who herself was born in the Republic of Armenia.

The Voice of Russia published an opinion piece in its most recent issue authored by Ruben Zargaryan, Associate Professor of History, an advisor to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s Foreign Ministry. Below is the text of the article:

While the percentage of Armenian voters casting a vote was well above that of others, less than 40% of the Armenian registered voters cast a vote.

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…

As Members of Congress and Armenian Americans were celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Artsakh’s freedom and democracy movement on Capitol Hill last week, Representatives Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Steve Cohen (D-TN), the co-chairs of Congressional Azerbaijan Caucus, launched a preemptive campaign against Congressional efforts at extending recognition to the independent Republic of Artsakh.

February 20, 1988 was the day when Soviet authorities in Moscow saw the first real signs of what was soon to become the first truly democratic movement in the Soviet Empire.

All eyes are on Syria. After two years of a “popular” revolt against a dictatorial government, the result is total devastation of a country, almost seventy thousand dead, and over three million people displaced.

Last Wednesday, in the historic Cannon Building on Capitol Hill, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) joined an impressive number of Congressmen to mark the 25th Anniversary of liberty in Nagorno Karabakh.