YEREVAN (Yerkir)–Armenian Revolutionary Federation Bureau Chairman Hrant Markarian and ARF Supreme Council of Armenia President Armen Rustamian Saturday met with former Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan at the ARF "Simon Vratsian" center. Ter-Petrosyan was accompanied by former foreign minister Aleksander Arzoumanian.
The meeting, which took place at Ter-Petrosyan’s request, focused on the domestic political situation [...]

Another right wing chestnut, probably the second favorite after “liberal media”, has been burnt to a crisp. The farcical hiring-firing-rehiring of law professor-cum-dean Erwin Chemerinsky by the University of California at Irvine is ample proof of the conservative bias prevailing in the academy. The hue and cry raised by the right wingnuts about “liberal bias” [...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)–Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian condemned in a letter on Friday eight former U.S. secretaries of state for jointly speaking out against the passage of a congressional resolution that refers to the 1915-1918 mass killings of Armenia’s in Ottoman Turkey as a genocide. In a joint letter on Tuesday, the former officials [...]

When Armenia Tree Project pursued a partnership with Yale University’s Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, the organization first contacted James and Sandra Leitner because they were active supporters of the school and sponsored expeditions for students to work with the Green Belt Movement in Kenya. In fact, when Sandra Leitner was meeting Nobel Peace Prize [...]

Last week, Turkish denialist circles tried to create a major scandal out of Georgetown University’s cancellation of a planned speech by the Patriarch of Istanbul, Mesrob II, titled "The Impasse between Turks and Armenia’s Must be Broken." Turkish officials, journalists and some "liberal" Turkish and Armenian scholars (who believe in reconciliation without justice), joined the [...]

CINCINNATI, Ohio–The Ohio premiere of the movie "Screamers," will take place on October 10 and 11 at various locations including The Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky University, The University of Cincinnati, and the Esquire Theater in Clifton reported the Armenian National Committee of Ohio. Co-Sponsoring this event with the ANC of OH are The [...]

MILL VALLEY–The 30th annual Mill Valley Film Festival will feature on October 6 the world premiere of "The People’s Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry." The feature length documentary about famed Armenian-American criminal defense attorney chronicles the gripping story of one of the twentieth century’s most influential civil rights attorneys, Charles Garry [...]

ANKARA (Reuters)–Turkey and Iraq signed an anti-terrorism deal on Friday targeting Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, but failed to agree on a plan that would have let Turkish troops chase militants across their shared border. Ankara claims the right under international law to send its troops across the mountainous frontier in "hot pursuit" of [...]

YEREVAN–Russia has promised to soon reopen its main border crossing with Georgia and upgrade a new Black Sea ferry link in order to further enable a major increase in its trade with Armenian, a senior Armenian diplomat said late Thursday. “They are promising to reopen the Upper Lars crossing in 2008,” said Armen Smbatian, [...]

Istanbul–Two Turkish policemen went on trial Friday for their role in a scandal which saw security forces pose for pictures with the suspected murderer of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. The trial in the northern city of Samsun is the first time that members of the security forces have been brought before a court over the [...]

LOS ANGELES–In a new and innovative partnership, the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance (ADAA) and the Tufenkian Foundation have joined to assist young filmmakers in Armenia. Working with the Manana NGO for talented youth, the two groups initiated a summer filmmaking workshop featuring noted directors Gor Kirakosian and Carla Garapedian. More recently, the groups have arranged [...]

Yerevan–California Trade Office Yerevan Director, Dr. Arthur Khachatryan, recently visited the U.S. Embassy in Armenia to meet with Charge d’Affaires Rudolf Perina and his management team. The meeting was attended by Joseph Pennington, Deputy Chief of Mission and Marko Velikonja, Economic Officer. Khachatryan briefed the Charge d’Affaires and his team on the structure of [...]

YEREVAN–EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby on Friday stressed the importance of continued negotiations in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The diplomat expressed the opinion that possibly the negotiation process will get complicated for a certain period of time, but it is necessary to guarantee progress and not to lose the [...]

WASHINGTON–On Friday, Sept. 28, five former U.S. Ambassadors to Armenia converged at the Library of Congress to talk about “United States-Armenia Relations, 1991-2006” to a capacity crowd at the Library of Congress James Madison memorial Building. The event , organized by the Near East Section African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress, [...]