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Confronting Domestic Violence in Armenia
Special for the Armenian Weekly Try if you can to put yourself in the position of a battered woman who awakens each morning praying that she can go through the day without another confrontation. You...
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Crowdfunding Campaign to Protect Armenia from Heavy Metal Pollution
Special for the Armenian Weekly For rural mining communities in Armenia, knowledge is power, and with the support of ONEArmenia, the American University of Armenia’s Center for Responsible Mining (AUA...
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Activating Awareness Through Alternative Art in Armenia
Special for the Armenian Weekly On Aug. 4, a group of activists from the Women’s Resource Center (WRC) in Armenia formed the Facebook group “Art + Activism”(see www.facebook.com/ArtActArmenia/info)....
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Robert Morgenthau to Receive Freedom Award at 8th Annual ANCA Eastern Region...
New York, N.Y.—The Armenian National Committee of America Eastern Region (ANCA-ER) will be honoring renowned lawyer Robert Morgenthau and the Morgenthau Family with its highest honor, the prestigious...
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Anger Turns to Protest Against Erdogan’s Visit to France
Special for the Armenian Weekly PARIS (A.W.)–French President François Hollande received Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Oct. 31. Erdogan decided to fly to Paris after Hollande’s decision to...
View ArticleBedrosyan: Three Fugitives and a Great Crime
Nov. 2, 1918 was a turning point in Turkish, German, and Armenian history. Three days after the Marine Minister of Ottoman-Turkey signed the Mondros Ceasefire Treaty aboard the British warship...
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Alice Movsesian to Receive Vahan Cardashian Award at 8th Annual ANCA ER Banquet
New York—The Armenian National Committee of America Eastern Region (ANCA-ER) will be honoring longtime Hai Tahd activist Alice Movsesian at the 8th Annual ANCA Eastern Region Banquet on Sun., Dec. 7,...
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ARS Awarded ‘Medal of Service to Armenian Prelacy of Aleppo’
WATERTOWN, Mass.—During his tour of Armenian communities in the United States, His Eminence Archbishop Shahan Sarkisian, prelate of Syria’s Armenian Prelacy, visited the international office of the...
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Over 95 Percent of ANCA Endorsed Candidates Win Seats in Congress
WASHINGTON—Months of intensive voter registration efforts and grassroots campaigning contributed to significant Congressional victories for pro-Armenian American issues candidates during Tuesday’s...
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‘We Don’t Run’: An Interview with Archbishop Shahan Sarkisian, Prelate of Aleppo
Special for the Armenian Weekly WATERTOWN (A.W.)—In late October, Archbishop Shahan Sarkisian, the prelate of Aleppo, granted an interview to the Armenian Weekly. The Archbishop was in Boston to meet...
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Letter: Amoulsar, A Mining Disaster in Armenia
The following is an open letter by the Save Teghut Civic Initiative, a coalition of groups and individuals concerned about Armenia’s environment, urging Armenians worldwide to refrain from supporting...
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Soccer: Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal Welcomes Armenia to the Algarve
Special for the Armenian Weekly European championship qualifying is set to continue on Fri., Nov. 14, as Armenia travels to Estádio Algarve in the southern city of Faro, Portugal, to take on a red hot...
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Aleppo Prelacy Employee Killed in Bombing
ALEPPO, Syria (A.W.)—A bomb exploded in front of the Armenian Prelacy building in Aleppo on Nov.8, killing an employee. A bomb exploded in front of the Armenian Prelacy building in Aleppo on Nov. 8,...
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Heghnar Kherdian Paloian: The Life of a 108-Year-Old Genocide Survivor
By Deacon Charles Kherdian Hardy Heghnar (Helen) Kherdian Paloian was one of the few survivors left of that generation of Armenians who lived through the genocide of 1915. She was born in 1906 in the...
View ArticleTurkey’s Post-Post-Modern Coup and U.S. Foreign Policy
Special for the Armenian Weekly Turkey is no stranger to changes in regime. The administration in Ankara has seen fundamental, abrupt shifts a number of times since the Republic of Turkey was founded...
View ArticleAzerbaijan Shoots Down NKR Air Force Helicopter, Casualties Reported
STEPANAKERT, NKR (A.W.)—Azerbaijani Armed Forces shot down an Artsakh Air Force Mi-24 helicopter on a training flight on Nov. 12. The helicopter was engaged in military training exercises near the...
View ArticleMinsk Group Co-Chairs Express ‘Serious Concern’ Over Downed Helicopter
(A.W.)—Following news of the downing of an Artsakh Mi-24 helicopter by Azeri forces, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs—Ambassadors Igor Popov of Russia, James Warlick of the U.S., and Pierre Andrieu of...
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Hamazkayin Welcomes Rakel Dink in New Jersey
PARAMUS, N.J.—The Hamazkayin New Jersey chapter organized a gathering in honor of Rakel Dink, who was in New Jersey to participate in a panel discussion at Ramapo College. Members of the Hamazkayin...
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SAS Holds 40th Anniversary Workshop in Yerevan
A Pioneering Effort with a Promising Future On its 40th anniversary, the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) organized an unprecedented workshop from Oct. 3-5 at the presidential hall of sessions of the...
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A Hero’s Tale
By Elizabeth Chouldjian As Azerbaijan once again escalates its aggression against Armenia and Artsakh, we are reminded of the bravery of Major Sergey Sahakyan and the two soldiers who perished in...
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