“A new chapter” for the Hairenik and Armenian Weekly
For over a century, the Hairenik Weekly and Armenian Weekly have delivered news, ideas and community into Armenian homes around the world. They chronicled genocide and survival, war and independence, protest and rebirth. They connected village to village, generation to generation, Watertown to the homeland.
Their printed pages told our story when others would not. Today, that story continues with renewed energy, in a new format, for a new era.
This week marks the final issue of their print editions. But we do not consider this an ending. On the contrary: we are stepping into something larger, faster, farther-reaching and more enduring.
Just as our ancestors embraced the printing press as a revolutionary tool of connection, so too must we embrace the tools of our time. Our press now moves into the digital sphere— not to retreat from tradition, but to ensure its continuity.
From this point forward, the Hairenik Weekly and Armenian Weekly will live online, accessible across borders, devices and time zones. Stories will no longer wait for mail routes. Our words will travel at the speed of need.
This evolution allows us to grow: more multimedia content, more archival preservation, more ways to serve a new generation of readers without sacrificing the values that shaped us.
Print gave our cause visibility. Now, digital gives it velocity.
We know what these papers have meant to generations, how the fold of the page carried the weight of remembrance, celebration and struggle. That spirit will not be lost. It will live on through special print editions for historic milestones and through the Hairenik digital archive, which continues to preserve every issue since the beginning.
Our press is defined by the voices it amplifies and the truths it preserves. Today, we begin a new chapter, borderless, dynamic and enduring—rooted in legacy, powered by purpose and open to the world.
We turn the page. And on the next, our story continues.
Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Eastern Region Central Committee
June 2025
The announcement took me way back to 1991 in NJ, when Ung. Vram Yegparian announced that Hairenik will cease being published as a daily but as a weekly. It created quite a stir. Թարի երթ onto the digital age.
Shameful that an organization like the ARF can’t support to keep a print addition of the paper.
Business decisions can be difficult but necessary.
An alternative is in place.
Nikol will stay let the losers who talk big come here and make agitation so we see. Nikol is a chance for Armenia for multiple reasons. Even keeps antagonism of Turkey away from us. The ones who talk big have zero chance against a Turkish incursion. They took Artsakh with 4 Turkish Generals they can take Armenia too if they want. Priests with black robes and crosses have zero chance against a modern, ferocious Army like the Turks have with decades long experience. Armenian Generals are mostly cheap copies of Russia. They would maximum be Majors in a NATO Army. This is the Modern Age. Soviet Era Tactics have expired
You don’t seem to realize that by blindly supporting the incompetent, anti-Armenian, and loser Nikol, you are supporting the destruction of Armenia. You should have stayed in Turkey.
Whilst there’s clearly some posturing clearly Armenia was outmoded in 2020. Subsequent conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Iran reveal when one military is outmoded for its challenge. Just as the Soviet Union has expired so too have tactics which might have been valid then are scarcely now. Those who revel in past glory are doomed to future disaster in this era of reckoning and reordering of the world.
@Charles, you and Sevan Balci speak with one voice. It’s very creepy.
@Yakub
It’s best to speak freely rather than mantra Kremlin policies
Although given their breakdown with Azerbaijan might have some interesting effects on their support for the proposed zanzegar corridor
@Charles, Way to go, anyone who disagrees with you is a kremlin puppet. You are a manipulative little freak.
The moderators should ban you as being a turkish agitator, always promoting Ankara and Baku’s man, pashinyan.
There are plenty although not as many as previously persons touting Kremlin viewpoints. Ad hominem claims don’t help ones case
Imagine a fascist Turk hiding behind an Armenian name spewing nonsense. How pathetic! You are not fooling anyone. I can smell a Turk from a mile away and it stinks here. Let’s analyze the garbage you wrote “Sevan”-oglu. “They took Artsakh with 4 Turkish Generals” you say. First of all, this confirms Turkey’s terrorist defense military’s direct involvement in the invasion of Armenian liberated territories on behalf of militarily incompetent pseudo-Turkish artificial Azerbaijan with no Armenian provocations towards Turkey whatsoever.
Why would terrorist Turkey conduct such an aggression against the Armenians if this conflict was between Armenia and artificial Azerbaijan? Because Armenians shattered all Turkish myths drilled into unsuspecting and gullible Turkish peasants that they are invincible yet we Armenians proved they are not with our 1994 devastating and humiliating victory in the battlefield despite artificial Azerbaijan’s massive petrodollars and three times the population. We made “brave’ Turks beg and cry for thirty years. Every time they raised their heads we flattened them. This is when artificial Azerbaijan realized they are useless without terrorist NATO member Turkey with over seven decades of experience in the art of terrorism,
Furthermore, why did terrorist Turkey join NATO in 1952 as the only Muslim Turkish terrorist state in the world? This one shatters more of those fake Turkish myths and that was to save terrorist Turkey from Soviet takeover. The price of admission was to send some Turkish peasants to the Korean War. Terrorist Turkey has what it has today only because of its NATO membership. Without NATO terrorist Turkey would be a fourth-world country today. There is absolutely nothing in terrorist Turkey that is of Turkish origin. More fake Turkish myths: Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453 they say. This is another one of those big lies in past Turkish history. Constantinople was an abandoned and burnt out city at the time with a population of less than 50K with no military force to defend it when prior to that it was a hustling and bustling port city of a million plus. The constant wars between the Western Roman empire (Rome as we know it) and Eastern Roman empire (Byzantine empire) weakened the two which created an opportunity for hyena-minded Central Asian Turkish terrorists to move in and grab it. Remember, you Turkish cowards are an Open Book to us and we know your fake history and opportunist cowardly Turkish character better than you ever will. Last but not least, as the old proverb says, pride goeth before the fall!