YEREVAN (RFE/RL)-Real estate prices in Armenia have plummeted by at least 30 percent this year because of a worsening economic situation and decreased cash inflows from abroad, private realtors said on Tuesday.
The Armenian government reported a far more modest drop, however. According to the State Real Property Cadastre, the average home prices in the country [...]

A group of House members, traditionally and vocally opposing Congressional resolutions recognizing the Armenian Genocide, wrote a letter to the presidents of Armenia and Turkey expressing their support for what they called “lasting Armenian-Turkish rapprochement.”
These notorious Genocide deniers representatives Robert Wexler, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (D-Fla.), Ike Skelton (D-MO), the Chairman [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–Hard currency inflows to Armenia from its citizens working abroad, which benefit a large part of the country’s population, fell significantly in the first two months of this year, the Armenian Central Bank (CBA) said on Tuesday.
According to the latest CBA data made available to RFE/RL, the total amount of cash transfers processed by [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–A key panel of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) reportedly deferred making further recommendations regarding the Armenian authorities’ treatment of the opposition after a meeting held in Valencia, Spain late on Monday.
The Monitoring Committee discussed, among other issues, the authorities’ compliance with the most recent PACE resolution on Armenia. The resolution, adopted [...]

WASHINGTON–On the eve of the April 1st arrival of Genocide Prevention Month, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Monday launched a nationwide online and print campaign urging concrete action to end the Darfur genocide and full U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Echoing Martin Luther King’s famous remarks at the Lincoln Memorial in August, 1963, [...]

BY SEROUJ APRAHAMIAN
LITTLE ARMENIA, CA–More than 300 Armenian youth adorned in bright green t-shirts and armed with cleaning supplies made their way throughout the streets of Los Angeles’ Little Armenia region this past Sunday, March 29. With rakes, shovels, brooms, bags and other utensils in hand, the young volunteers proceeded to pick up trash, plant [...]

LAKEWOOD, CA–Hundreds of tenth and eleventh grade history students gathered in the Lakewood High School Library on Monday to participate in a discussion on genocide with members of the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF).
The discussion covered a range of issues, from the basic history of the Armenian Genocide to how its denial put into motion a [...]

VINA DEL MAR, Chile (ARF Press Service)–Armenian Revolutionary Federation Bureau member Mario Nalbandian Sunday met with Vice-President Joe Biden during the sixth Conference of Progressive Leaders, which was being held in South America for the first time.
Nalbandian, who is the ARF’s representative to the Socialist International where he is a co-chair of the CIS, Caucasus [...]

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Combined Sources)–Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lost votes in an election for the first time in his seven-year rule after the economy dived into recession, weakening his hand with Turkey’s Kurdish minority and secular rivals.
Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) failed to conquer the Kurdish bastion of Diyarbakir in Sunday’s municipal [...]

BY CHRIS BERGERON From the Daily NewsPublished: Monday March 30, 2009
FRAMINGHAM, MA–Descended from survivors of the Armenian genocide, filmmaker Apo Torosyan hopes his art transforms prejudice and hate into tolerance and compassion.
Growing up in Turkey, he learned his father’s parents had both starved to death after the genocidal massacres of 1915. As a teenager in [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–A key panel of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) was due to again decide late Monday whether to recommend sanctions against the Armenian authorities over their 2008 post-election crackdown on the opposition.
The authorities’ compliance with the most recent PACE resolution on Armenia was among the issues on the agenda of a regular [...]

The verbal back-and-forth on an imminent agreement between Armenia and Turkey continued Monday with the Turkish press reporting that Turkey and Armenia had agreed on a roadmap to establish diplomatic ties and open the border, with the sides reportedly contemplating the timing of the announcement and some asserting that the announcement should come next week [...]

LOS ANGELES–Armenia Fund, Inc., the U.S. Western Region affiliate of “Hayastan” All-Armenian Fund has elected its new president, Ara Aghishian to head the organization’s operations in the region.
On Thursday, March 26, the Corporate Board of Armenia Fund, Inc. unanimously elected Ara Aghishian to the post of Chairman/President. Mr. Aghishian has been Vice President of the [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–The Armenian government’s budget deficit continues to soar to its highest levels in years as expected state tax revenues continue to plummet as the global credit crisis drags the Armenian economy deeper into a recession.
In a monthly budgetary report released at the weekend, the Finance Ministry said the government’s overall revenues fell by 14.6 [...]