The New Britain Public Library is pleased to announce that Armenia has been selected as the country being featured in this year’s “World of Words” celebration. The Armenian population in New Britain ...
YEREVAN, ARMENIA — April 24 marked the 94th anniversary of the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish Empire in what is now eastern Turkey and western Armenia. Whether these ...
It has been 102 years since the official start date of the Armenian Genocide, yet many people lack knowledge on the history and importance of it. Christian Armenians were targeted in mass killings ...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the slaughter of Armenians by calling the massacre by Ottoman Turks “the first genocide of the 20th century” and urging the ...
YEREVAN, ARMENIA — Suppose you’re a pope on a foreign trip, and you know full well there’s one word that pretty much everyone is waiting to hear you say. Also suppose you don’t quite want to say it ...
Karenn Chutjian Presti began translating nursery rhymes and American folk tunes into Armenian about 6 1/2 years ago, when her first daughter was born. “A lot of people talk about having a baby and ...
I knew Armenian, my first language, before I knew anything else. I knew the language before I discovered my hobbies and passions. I knew the language before I knew how to do simple addition and ...
In the final days of the Trump administration, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that China was committing genocide against Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjiang province. Whether this ...
Local Armenians say every person in their community has some connection to the genocide. On March 29, The Bee kicked off monthlong coverage reviewing how the Armenian genocide has shaped the history ...
(Public domain) Emblems, flags and national anthems. There are few things, it seems, more likely to stimulate the energies and passions of legislators in the fledgling states of the old Soviet Union.
On the eve of a visit to Azerbaijan, it appears that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is turning up the heat on Armenia, calling on Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to apologize for recent ...