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Vladimir Putin will Pressure Armenia and Azerbajian: Analyst
Unlike outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, president-elect Vladimir Putin won't spend a lot of time with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and...Read More »
Baku Homeowners Evicted to Make Room for Eurovision Venue
Homeowners in Baku say they were summarily evicted and offered poor compensation in land clearance for 2012 Eurovision Song Contest venue.Read More »
Republican Party of Armenia Makes Clear Intention to Retain Parliamentary Control
Though the Republican Party of Armenia's list of candidates in the May 6 parliamentary election weren't made public at the party's 13th convention on Saturday...Read More »
Fire at Istanbul Building Site Camp Kills 14
A fire engulfed a tent used as a dormitory for workers at an Istanbul construction site late Sunday, killing 14 people, a local official said.Read More »
VIDEO: Women Occupy Kiosks in Mashtots Park
On Mar. 8, a group of female activists broke through the barricades surrounding kiosks in a downtown Yerevan park and occupied one... Read More »
PHOTOS: Women Occupy Mashtots Park (Live Blog)
Women environmental and civic activists less than an hour ago occupied the partially constructed kiosks in Mashtots Park to mark International Women's Day.Read More »
Mother of Killed Soldier Again Receives Court Summons Too Late
Lena Sarukhanyan, mother of Torgom Sarukhanyan, 22, who died of gunshot wounds in a Khojaly, Nagorno-Karabakh military unit on Feb. 12...Read More »
Estonia Teachers Strike Biggest Since WWII
Teachers in Estonia have staged what commentators are calling the biggest strike in the country since World War Two. They are calling for a 20 percent pay rise...Read More »
Hillary Clinton Continues to Characterize Armenian Genocide as Conflict Instead of Crime: ANCA
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton refrained from again mischaracterizing the Armenian Genocide as a “matter for historical debate,” but stopped far short of...Read More »
The Forgotten Faces of Armenian Women in History
Abgar [whose real name was Anahit Aghabek (Aghabekyan)] was born in 1859 in Burma of Armenian parents from Persia (Iran) and grew up in India.Read More »