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Iran Wants More Trade, Visa-Free Travel With Armenia
Tehran has pushed, at least until this year, for the signing of an Armenian-Iranian free-trade agreement. According to some officials in Yerevan,...Read More »
West Hollywood Approves Ban on Most Fur Sales
West Hollywood's City Council voted Monday to approve a modified version of the ban on fur sales they gave initial approval to in September...Read More »
Another Earthquake in Van, Turkey, Felt in Armenia
At 2:05 am AMT (UTC/GMT +4) on Nov. 9, a 5.6 magnitude earthquake with a depth of 9.4 km at its epicenter struck eastern Turkey...Read More »
Armenian Church Foundation Not Transparent, Complains Turkey’s Armenian Community
For many years the Armenian community in Turkey has been saying that the Surp Yerrortutyun Church Foundation in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district...Read More »
Robert Fisk Suggests Compiling List of Ottoman Turks who Saved Armenians During 1915 Genocide
"I wrote about the Armenian Genocide in my book [The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East] and now it's being translated into Turkish...Read More »
Mother of Killed Soldier Says Suicide Note Not Her Son’s, Told Not to Bother to Complain
Lena Sarukhanyan, mother of 22-year-old Torgom Sarukhanyan who died in one of the military units in Khojaly, Nagorno-Karabakh, as a...Read More »
Ruling Parties Begun to Make Use of Administrative Resources Ahead of Elections: MP
If fair elections are held then no political party can hold the majority of seats in parliament and in political terms, today's opposition...Read More »
Can, Jar and Pickle As Much as Possible in Preparation for Crisis that Awaits Us, Says Opposition MP
"This means that mostly it will be us who will be paying the taxes from our pockets — it won't be from revenue or profit, but exclusively from... Read More »
Russia, Germany Launch Strategic Nord Stream Gas Pipeline
The leaders of Germany and Russia on Tuesday will inaugurate the controversial Nord Stream pipeline pumping Russian gas to Western Europe...Read More »
Appeals Court to Rule Whether State Law Conflicts with US Foreign Policy on Armenian Genocide
A federal appeals court on Monday took up the thorny issue of whether California law declaring there was an Armenian Genocide in Turkey...Read More »