YEREVAN (Panorama.am), April 29–Meausres are being conducted in Armenian city of Gyumri to establish a working rehabilitation center for the people with disabilities, Armenian Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Jemma Bagdasaryan said at the National Assembly today. According to her, the measures will be complete in the next two or three months and [...]

YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia), April 29–Today the President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan received newly appointed Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk group Igor Popov, Central Information Department of the Office of the President reported. The meeting covered a wide range of issues related to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement. The parties emphasized the necessity [...]

YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), April 29–In a year and a half 260 movies produced by Armenfilm studios have been digitized, Hasmik Poghosian, the Armenian Minister of Culture informed on Wednesday during a session in Parliament. In August 2005, Armenfilm, the only state film studio, was sold for 350 million dram to Armenio Studios CJSC, part of CS MEDIA [...]

YEREVAN (News.am), April 29—The vice-chairman of the opposition Republican People’s Party of Turkey and a well-known anti-Armenian figure, Onur Oymen, once again urged to withdraw the signed Armenian-Turkish protocols and criticized Davutoglu’s last speech in which he noted that the time of ratifying the protocols is near. Oymen accused Davutoglu saying that there was nothing [...]

YEREVAN, (Novosti-Armenia), April 29–On Wednesday, the Public Council of Armenia made a decision to propose to the government to restore the status of Yerevan’s “Moscow” cinema amphitheater as a site of architectural and cultural historical value. In 2007 the Armenian government made a decision to deprive the amphitheater of having such a status, The area occupied [...]

BY RICHARD GIRAGOSIAN As yet another April 24th  commemoration of the Armenian genocide has passed, yet another American president has failed to accurately or honestly invoke the genocide definition for what he has termed the “Meds Yeghern.” Although the dubious distortion of the historical record was not a surprise, it does represent a disappointment. The [...]

BY KHATCHIG MOURADIAN ANKARA, Turkey (Armenian Weekly)—On April 24, as genocide commemoration events were being held one after the other in different locations in Istanbul, a groundbreaking two-day conference on the Armenian Genocide began at the Princess Hotel in Ankara. The conference, organized by the Ankara Freedom of Thought Initiative, was held under tight security [...]