WASHINGTON (AP)–Pulitzer Prize winning author and renowned anti-genocide crusader, Samantha Power, an adviser to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign who was forced to resign earlier this year after calling Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a "monster" is now working on the transition team for the agency Clinton is expected to lead.
Power was this year’s recipient of the [...]

In the light of the present Turkish political and diplomatic foray into the Caucasus, with its benign fa?ade and “football diplomacy,” one can’t help but remember another planned incursion into the region, with ominous overtones. Indeed, in October 1993, Ankara, encouraged by the political instability resulting from a severe power struggle in Moscow–pitting factions of [...]

MANHASSET, N.Y.–Dr. Louis M. Najarian is the best friend a country like Armenia could embrace.
For the past 20 years, he’s laid his psychiatry practice aside, put his busy personal life on hold, and paid annual visits to depressed areas, lending trauma relief to children and adults.
It all started after the earthquake in March 1989 when [...]

ENCINO–The Board of Regents of Prelacy Armenian Schools held its 12th Annual Professional Development Day on Monday, November 10, at Holy Martyrs Ferrahian Armenian School.
In addition to the faculty and the administration of the Prelacy Armenian Schools, a number of teachers and representatives from Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School, Mekhitarist Fathers’ Armenian School, Armenian Community [...]

What began twenty-six years ago as a lecture series to promote understanding and awareness of the Holocaust has been transformed into a series on all genocides that have affected people from all over the world, from all walks of life and with a special awareness of the Armenian Genocide.
In Rohnert Park, California, about a one-hour [...]

It’s been a strange week, from hope and death to irritation and joy. Attending Vahig Gourjian’s funeral was something. There was a justly deserved huge turnout. Unfortunately, another memorial probably interfered with the attendance of some others of his earlier coworkers. Vahig was good, except the smoking that hurt him. One story I remember him [...]

BURBANK, CA–The Media City Ballet of Los Angeles will present a magical production of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, featuring an award-wining cast that includes a number of Armenian dancers and performers, visual illusions, special effects and aerialists.
Asbarez Newspaper and Horizon Television are official sponsors of the Nutckracker performance.
A pre-show mini-concert featuring singers from the [...]

Turkish officials are getting increasingly apprehensive about the announced position of the incoming Obama administration on Armenian issues. Consequently, they are trying to win over President-elect Barack Obama and his inner circle by using high-priced lobbying firms, dispatching delegations of senior diplomats, Prime Minister Recep Erdogan meeting with Obama’s representatives in Washington, and Pres. Abdullah [...]

An interview with Lernik Hovhannisyan, the Representative of the ARF’s Youth Organization of ArtsakhFrom Hetq.am
Hetq: Mr. Hovhannisyan, recently, at the initiative of your organization, youth groups in Artsakh participated in “round table” discussion of the Karabakh issue. What resulted was a condemnation of those statemen’s that “call into question the justice and victory achieved by [...]

The St. Thaddeus Church best known as Qara Kelisa which literally means Black church is an ancient monument perched on a mountain ridge in the northern Iranian province of West Azarbaijan.
As one of the oldest and most notable surviving Christian monumen’s of Iran, Qara Kelisa carries great significance for the country’s Armenian Orthodox community.
Armenia’s hold [...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)–A two-day conference on the European Union’s role in the South Caucasus kicked off in Yerevan Friday, bringing together experts and analysts from the countries in and around the region to discuss cooperation with the EU on the footing of a security partnership.
Attending the conference, were analysts from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russian [...]

ISTANBUL–Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has accepted an invitation from his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul to visit the country next year, the Armenian foreign minister said Monday, news agencies reported.
"The Armenian president will be in Istanbul in October 2009," Armenian foreign minister Eduard Nalbandian told journalists in Istanbul, where he presided over a meeting of foreign [...]

HUNTINGTON BEACH–Walter Hekimian was recently elected to serve a second consecutive term as the Vice Chairman for the California Association of Health Facilities (CAHF) during its annual convention in Anaheim. The organization represents more than 1,200 of the 1,500 nursing facilities in California and is recognized as the primary voice for advocating on behalf of [...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)–Defense ministers from the Collective Security Treaty Organization’s (CSTO) member states have agreed to hold joint Rubezh command-and-staff exercises every two years, Russia’s defense minister said on Friday following a CSTO summit in Yerevan.
Anatoly Serdyukov said that the exercises would be held in turn in each of the organization’s member states. "I believe [...]