This winter has been particularly rough for farmers in Armenia’s Shirak region, where 17,000 hectors of cultivated land is in danger of going bad. The area is usually covered in snow this time of the year, which insulates newly planted crops, preventing frostbite and providing much needed water for the crops.

President Serzh Sarkisian wants to propose a constitutional amendment, which would create two parliamentary houses, one of which will allow Diaspora Armenians to be part of the legislature, announced Diaspora Minister Hranoush Hakopyan during a meeting with community members Sunday at Arbat Gloden Palace organized by the Consulate General of Armenia to Los Angeles.

An organization representing Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan has sent a formal letter to the United Nations Security Council, urging the body to respond to Azerbaijan’s worsening rhetoric of racism and violence against Armenians.

January 29 marked the 92nd anniversary of the death of ARF revolutionary and Armenian national hero Aram Manoukian.

Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh welcomed on Monday an internationally recognized referendum in South Sudan, saying the nearly unanimous vote for its secession from the country’s north underscored peoples’ right to self-determination.

The number of divorces in Armenia increased in 2010 while the number of marriages dropped, according to a new demographic study from the National Statistics Service of Armenia.

The US State Department is warning Americans of a terrorist threat to Western targets in Azerbaijan and urging U.S. citizens to be vigilant in the oil-rich former Soviet republic on the Caspian Sea.

Over two hundred men and women gathered in Little Armenia on Sunday for a march to end violence against women, organized by the United Human Rights Council of the Armenian Youth Federation. Activists marched in memory of Zaruhi Petrosyan, a twenty year old mother who was brutally murdered by her husband and mother-in-law in October and to demand the just prosecution of all responsible parties.

Over two hundred men and women gathered in Little Armenia on Sunday, January 30, 2010, for a march to end violence against women, organized by the United Human Rights Council of the Armenian Youth Federation. Activists marched in memory of Zaruhi Petrosyan, a twenty year old mother who was brutally murdered by her husband and mother-in-law in October and to demand the just prosecution of all responsible parties.

Armenia and neighboring Iran have struck a deal to construct a $240 million oil pipeline connecting the two countries, the Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Armenian and Iranian news reports.

Chamlian Armenian School has donated seven computers and 2 printers to Homenetmen’s Camp Tecuya.

An ancient church mentioned in the Bible has been discovered in western Turkey, according to the head of the excavation.

Amid strong objections from its Armenian members, the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) decided on Friday to restart the work of an ad hoc “subcommittee” on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict championed by its Turkish president, Mevlut Cavusoglu. ARF Parliament Faction member and Armenian PACE deputy Armen Rustamian discusses the decision to revive the committee and its consequences.

Yerkir Media explores the local problems facing the Bogdanovka region of Javakhk. With 31 villages and a population of 33,000, Bogdanovka is one of Javakhk’s majority populated regions.