By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, August 13 — August 12 will definitely be marked as one of the most impressive and greatest days on the calendars of numerous Armenian rock lovers. World-renowned rock-musician and frontman of System of a Down Serj Tankian finally rocked Yerevan on Thursday night. The concert was held at Yerevan Karen Demirchyan [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), May 19–According to the head of the parliamentary faction of the opposition party ARF-Dashnaktsuyun, Vahan Hovhannissian, Armenia will face great difficulties in PACE. “Taking into account the policy implemented by the president, it is not going to be easy to work in PACE for us,” said Hovhannissian on Monday in parliament. The president of [...]
YEREVAN (Armenianow.com), March 18–Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill is completing today his three-day visit to Armenia during which he and his Armenian counterpart accentuated the strong bonds between the two churches and peoples. As part of the visit staged at the invitation of Karekin II, the Catholicos of All Armenians, the leader of [...]
BY JEFF MASARJIAN AND JASON SOHIGIAN Armenia is very special to those of us in the Diaspora for a number of different reasons. Not typically high up on that list–due especially to a lack of public awareness–is the enormous diversity of landscape, plant, and animal life that exists in Armenia. Armenia is located at the [...]
YEREVAN–In 2009, Armenia Tree Project (ATP) planted more than 56,000 trees at dozens of urban and rural sites around the country as part of its Community Tree Planting (CTP) program. The huge public demand for trees and the professional capacity of ATP program staff, along with the production of fruit and decorative trees at the [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am)–During a December 17–20 visit to Armenia, 15 journalists from Turkey, making a trip to Armenian Genocide Museum, promised to view Armenian history differently, said Turkologist Artak Shakaryan, while speaking to journalists today. The Turkish journalists laid wreaths at the Genocide Memorial, and, as Shakaryan described, they respectfully directed their questions to the Genocide [...]
