Unibank, along with leading financial organizations, was a supporting sponsor of the 2025 BAFT Asia Bank to Bank Forum, an exclusive regional event for senior-level professionals and decision-makers. The forum was held in Singapore in conjunction with GTR Asia.
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.
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.
On August 8th, American president Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to announce a framework that could potentially end the two countries’ decades-long conflict. While many parts of the deal had been in place for almost a year*, the White House ceremony creates the need for swift action for the deal to stick. Europeans can influence the process, with their leverage growing as attention turns to the region’s possible integration into global markets.
