Charles Aznavour has expressed concern over the arrest of Armenian businessman and philanthropist Levon Hayrapetyan in Moscow.

Armenia wants to develop its partnership with the European Union based on what was achieved during the recent negotiations and considering the “new realities,” Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said in Brussels.

The Georgian Orthodox Church condemned a recent incident at the Armenian Surb Etchmiadzin Church in Tbilisi, where clerics were attacked in what was seen as a racially motivated assault. The Georgian Church has called on the participants in the confrontation to make peace.

The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group — Ambassadors Igor Popov (Russia), James Warlick (US), and Pierre Andrieu (France) — met separately with the Foreign Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian, and the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, on Tuesday in Brussels.

PayPal’s Armenian users will be able to cash their accounts by using Yerevan-based iDram’s payment system, iDram executive director Gayane Stepanyan said today.

The Armenian Hikers Association (AHA!) Los Angeles Chapter is organizing a 100 Kilometer (62.14 miles) Tribute March on the occasion of the Armenian Genocide centennial.

As a summer baby, I always seem to be away from home on my birthday every year.

“I am the only Armenian woman here,” I was thinking during the three day conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. More than 400 women participated in the conference organized by National Organization for Women (NOW), from June 27 to 29.

An afternoon luncheon fundraiser for displaced Syrian Armenian students at Haigazian University became a reunion of sorts with alumni, philanthropists, clergy, government officials, and friends. They had one goal— to raise much needed scholarship funds for the displaced Syrian Armenian students studying at Haigazian.

If Turkey’s initiative to create a free trade zone with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan becomes a reality, it will prove to be an unfavorable factor for Armenia as Turkey will become a real actor in that market, with certain anti-Armenian manifestations, expert in Turkic studies Ara Papyan told Tert.am.

On a working visit to Brussels, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian had a meeting with the Minks Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov, James Warlick and Pierre Andrieu and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.

Members of Nagorno-Karabakh’s legislature have called for an immediate release of an Armenian businessman who was arrested in Russia last week on suspicion of having ties with an organized criminal group.

A linear particle accelerator, named AREAL, was inaugurated Tuesday at the CANDLE (Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries using Light Emission) Synchrotron Research Institute in Yerevan.

Zecotek Photonics Inc., a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, on Tuesday announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Zecotek Display Systems Pte. Ltd. has contracted LT-PYRKAL of Yerevan, Armenia, to assemble and test its first compact, high-speed 3D printer.