His Holiness Pope Francis donated a symbolic stone to the Holy Martyrs Armenian Apostolic Church in Gyumri, signifying union and communion.
People’s artist of USSR Armen Dzhigarkhanyan remains in average hard condition, ‘Interfax’ was informed from the help Desk of the Institute Sklifosofskiy.
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Eastern Region (ANCA-ER) announced on March 7 that it successfully defeated Senate Resolution 168 in Kentucky, which grossly misrepresented the facts of Artsakh-Azerbaijani conflict. Dozens of Kentucky residents responded to the ANCA-ER action alert and successfully defeated the measure. Kentucky joins Idaho, New Hampshire, and other states which have already rejected similar misleading pro-Baku measures in the recent past.
It is waging war on an ethnic minority, its riot police just stormed the offices of a major newspaper, its secret service faces allegations of arming Isis, its military shot down a Russian bomber – and yet Turkey wants to join the European Union. The country’s swift descent into despotism poses yet another existential problem for the west.
The Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn will host an unprecedented, multi-disciplinary, international academic conference on the “Armenians and the Cold War,” which will be held on the university’s campus on April 1-3, 2016.
Belgian parliamentarian Alain Destexhe was appointed as new PACE rapporteur on the human rights situation in Azerbaijan, reports APA.
In his words, Russia isn’t a reliable partner for Georgia, and negotiations, upon many politicians, were doomed to failure. “Although negotiations are in process, I don’t hope, that they’ll essentially support Georgia to solve its energy issues. I consider, these negotiations solve other issue between Georgia and Russia, by the way, the process revealed that tension between the parties is high. Georgia strives to have secure neighborhood, to which, in essence, this attempt of cooperation is directed to. “
About 17,000 U.S. forces will participate in the joint military exercises with South Korea, according to United States Forces Korea.
The former first lady was living in Bel Air and has been in failing health in recent years. She died from congestive heart failure at her home, reports TMZ.
Istanbul police conducts special operations against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which fights for the rights of Kurds in Turkey.
