Boston University will host an international conference and a student workshop on the Armenian Diaspora during the weekend of February 12. The three-day event is organized by the Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature, Boston University.

“Gakavig,” a colorful new monthly magazine for children, is being launched in Southern California in the first week of February.

I hope that the primary overriding lesson we learn from the election of Scott Brown as the replacement senator from Massachusetts is that the electorate may finally have wised up and decided that, like an uncut melon, an elected official in a new office is an unknown quantity. He looks and acts clean cut, honest and sincere but so does every candidate for office, from class president, sophomore year in high school to country President, USA.

In an effort to help Haiti, which is in desperate need of aid, the administration, parents, students and supporters of Vahan and Anoush Chamlian Armenian School are undertaking fundraising efforts for Haiti.

The show is finally over! The international community is no longer buying the endless Turkish excuses for refusing to ratify the Protocols. Armenian officials, who naively believed that Turkey would open its border and establish diplomatic relations with Armenia, are beginning to question the Turks’ sincerity and contemplating the possibility of the Protocols’ collapse.

Armenia’s demographic landscape is changing; modern-day warriors are emerging. These warriors are not engaged in battle or warfare but exemplify a different kind of courage and daring, one that demands unfaltering commitment and love to our collective concept of homeland.

“Dear Professor Zinn.” That’s how all of my emails to him began. Sometimes, I would be more “casual” and address him only as “Professor.” I could never muster up the courage to call him by his first name – I never found it appropriate. I simply had too much respect for him, and always felt compelled to include some sort of “title.” “Professor” was the one I settled on.

Efforts to normalize relations between Turkey and Armenia and open their common border could fail unless the process is carried out “properly,” Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday, referring to a ruling by Armenia’s Constitutional Court over the protocols.

Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian met Thursday with the United Kingdom’s Minister for Europe, Chris Bryant, for talks on a wide range of bilateral, regional and international issues, the Armenian Foreign Ministry Reported.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reassured Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian that the United States will continue to seek a quick and unconditional normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations, official Yerevan said on Friday.

Moscow’s longtime Mayor Yuri Luzhkov expressed on Friday his readiness to attract large-scale Russian investments in a massive redevelopment project in Yerevan unveiled by the Armenian authorities during his visit to Armenia.