A gay man was assaulted and beaten last week while walking down the street at night in Yerevan. The man, 23-year-old Yerevan resident Vrezh “Max” Varzhapetyan, a gay rights activist and Right Side NGO staff […]
YEREVAN—Nikol Pashinyan led his My Step coalition to a historic landslide victory on Sunday night, bringing two decades of Republican Party majority to an abrupt end. With results coming in from just over 2,000 precincts […]
With U.S. sanctions on Iran going into effect this month, Iranians in Armenia are beginning to feel the pinch. Iranian citizens discovered their bank accounts are being frozen, and banks across the country have implemented […]
YEREVAN—Hundreds of thousands of people crowded Yereven’s Republic Square and the adjacent streets on Friday to hear Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s assessment of his government’s first 100 days in office. In a fiery speech that […]
Anna Hakobyan, the wife of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, announced at a press conference on August 7 that her My Step Foundation has been able to secure $517,000 in donations to help fund 2018-2019 […]
WATERTOWN, Mass.—Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, Minister of the Diaspora, visited the Boston area for a number of events this past weekend. A town hall meeting was held at the Armenian Cultural and Educational Center on Saturday night […]
YEREVAN—Unconfirmed sources claimed Lydian Armenia CJSC is under investigation by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Armenia for intentionally concealing information on pollution. Lydian Armenia controls the rights to the Amulsar gold mine located on […]
YEREVAN–Ani Khachatryan is a recent graduate in biophysics from Yerevan State University. She develops computer simulations to predict the results of genetic mutations without the need for experimentation on live subjects. The field is an […]
WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—The editorial staff of the Armenian Weekly is pleased to announce the online release of the Armenian Weekly’s May 2018 special magazine issue dedicated to the centennial of the Republic of Armenia. On […]
It has been over 15 days that the roads leading to Amulsar are closed by residents of the Jermuk community and environmentalists from the surrounding region. Demonstrators have gathered as a display of opposition against […]
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