January, 2012

• 30 January

  

  Female Inmates in Georgia Plead for Custody of their Children, Begin Hunger Strike Today

  Female inmates in Georgia whose children were taken away from them and put in an orphanage will be launching a hunger strike on...
• 30 January

  

  Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust Archive to Include Armenian Genocide Testimonies

  A video archive, set up 18 years ago by Steven Spielberg, of tens of thousands of Holocaust testimonies will now be incorporating testimony from...
• 30 January

  

  Mother of March 1 Victim Promises to Protest if PACE Co-Rapporteur John Prescott Returns to Armenia

  "After this, if John Prescott, [one of two PACE co-rapporteurs for monitoring Armenia,] comes to Armenia, we won't ask for a meeting...
• 30 January

  

  Canadian Couple Sentenced to Life in Person for Killing Their 3 Daughters

  A Montreal couple and their son were convicted Sunday of first-degree murder in the deaths of four family members in a...
• 30 January

  

  ‘Let Them Come and Arrest Me’: Turkish Minister Denies Armenian Genocide in Switzerland

  Turkey's EU affairs minister has challenged France's controversial genocide-denial bill in Switzerland, saying such efforts have...
• 30 January

  

  Opposition Leader Levon Ter-Petrossian Discusses Upcoming Elections with European Official

  On Jan. 28, first president of Armenia and leader of the opposition bloc the Armenian National Congress (HAK) Levon Ter-Petrossian met with...
• 30 January

  

  Chess Democracy? Armenian, Azerbaijani GMs Stress No Deal Made Beforehand in Chess ‘Wimbledon’

  Armenian GM Levon Aronian and Azerbaijani GM Teymour Radjabov both stressed that there had been no deals of any kind beforehand in...
• 30 January

  

  ‘Homeland, Protect Your Protector’: Silent Candlelight March in Memory of Killed Soldiers

  On Jan. 28, when the 20th anniversary of Armenia's Armed Forces was being celebrated in the country, local public initiative group...
• 27 January

  

  Turkey’s First Lady Snubs French Ambassador’s Wife

  In reaction to the French Senate’s approval of a bill that criminalizes denying genocide (including the Armenian Genocide), Turkey's first lady Hayrünnisa Gül...
• 27 January

  

  Diasporan Armenian who Purchased Home in Yerevan ‘Cheated’ Out of 30 Million Drams

  Diasporan Armenian Georges Tovmasian, who claims that a company by the name of Dershin embezzled 30 million drams (approx. $77.6 thousand USD) from...