Shushan Harutyunyan, founder of the communications firm AxelMondrian, together with her team, delivered a masterclass for the 2025 fellows of the Student Home programme. Student Home is a residence and educational hub for students from Armenia’s regions who are admitted to universities in Yerevan and live there on a community basis. At the event, dedicated to the start of the academic year, the founder of AxelMondrian spoke to students about the importance of communications, as well as the future of professions and skills.
The general director of Ucom also toured the Leopard’s Canyon area to study the unique nature and see firsthand how the availability of technological solutions is changing the daily work of forest rangers, making it more efficient and safer.
This September, the William Saroyan Foundation will present Saroyan Days (September 5–11), a weeklong celebration showcasing rare works and fresh perspectives on the life and influence of acclaimed Armenian-American author William Saroyan.
The controversy over Israel’s lack of recognition of the Armenian Genocide erupted last week when Armenian-Assyrian blogger Patrick Bet-David asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu why Israel has not recognized the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocides. Netanyahu wrongly replied: “In fact, I think we have. I think the Knesset [parliament] passed a resolution to that effect.” Netanyahu knows better than anyone that is not true, since he himself, as Prime Minister, has blocked several such Knesset resolutions.
imID, Armenia’s leading provider of digital identity and trust services, has announced the launch of its “MobileID eSIM” solution in collaboration with the country’s three major telecommunications operators. This innovation takes secure and convenient digital identity solutions to the next level, making them even more accessible and flexible for users.
For decades, up until the usurpation of power in 2018, we all together in Armenia, Artsakh and in Spyurk were celebrating this day with the grandeur, a sense of joy and dignity. Artsakh’s independence day was the day of liberation of a part of our Fatherland which had been unjustly annexed to the Armenophobic Azerbaijan. Our heroic brothers and sisters gave their lives for this day, thousands of Armenians gave the best years of their lives to this cause.
In an unprecedented global action, almost 200 media outlets from 50 countries will simultaneously disrupt their front pages, homepages, and broadcasts to demand an end to the killing of journalists in Gaza and to call for international press access to the enclave.
The Chinese side welcomes Armenia’s membership in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and stands ready to deepen cooperation with the Armenian side within the framework of the AIIB and jointly support the AIIB in better serving its developing members’ demands for infrastructure construction and sustainable development.
Today, on the occasion of birth anniversary of the former president of the Republic of Artsakh Bako Sahakian, the second President of the Republic of Armenia, Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan spoke on the phone with the members of his family, wished them patience and tenacity.
Maria Karapetyan, a leading voice in Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party and often described as one of its ideologues, recently wrote a Facebook post criticizing two Armenian scholars: Dr. Arman Grigoryan and Dr. Arthur Khachikian. Instead of engaging with their ideas, she accused them of hiding behind Western academic authority to disguise contempt for their own nation.
