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Recent Articles from the Armenian Weekly...
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YEREVAN (A.W)—On Dec. 2, 1920, Armenian Prime Minister Alexandre Khatisian signed the Alexandropol Treaty between the First Republic of Armenia and Turkey. Pro-Soviet forces took control of Armenia’s government, and the country was declared a Soviet state. Exactly 93 years later, on Dec. 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Armenia to welcome President Serge Sarkisian’s decision to join the Russian-led Custom’s Union, which many argue is an incarnation of the Russian imperialistic appetite and an attempt to create a Soviet Union 2.0.
Despite all odds stacked against Armenian civil society and strong pro-Russian and anti-European Union (EU) propaganda, a very diverse group of more than 1,000 citizens took to the streets of Yerevan to protest Putin’s visit, and the regime’s decision to join the Custom’s Union, and its failure to sign the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) and Association Agreement with the EU.
Activists protested...
The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund’s worldwide Telethon 2013 raised $22,661,372 in pledges and donations for numerous projects in Armenia and Artsakh (Karabagh), including the Vardenis-Martakert highway construction, which was approved during the fund’s annual Board of Trustees meeting.
Below is a breakdown of the initial list of pledges, in U.S. dollars:
Russian Federation: $12,350,000
U.S. Western Region: $2,000,000
France, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Greece, Belgium (Phoneathon): $1,984,000
Armenia: $1,642,372
Switzerland (private donation): $1,250,000
Artsakh: $1,000,000
U.S. Eastern Region: $1,000,000
Argentina: $700,000
Toronto, Canada: $225,000
Brazil: $170,000
Montreal, Canada: $120, 000
Great Britain: $100,000
Lebanon: $94,000
Iran: $60,000
Austria: $10,000
It is always interesting to see how the Armenian community is viewed by outsiders. That perspective becomes even more fascinating when it is made by a U.S. diplomat in an internal report.
The large number of classified U.S. government documents released by WikiLeaks include cables sent by the American Embassy in Armenia to the U.S. State Department. One of those dispatches, dated Nov. 17, 2009, is a “Confidential” report by then-Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch covering her 2009 tour of Los Angeles, Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C.
Here are highlights from the ambassador’s report, which was titled, “Experience Engaging Diaspora Communities: Armenia.”
1) The Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church “is under the authority of the Holy See of Etchmiadzin,” she writes, while the Prelacy “recognizes the jurisdictional authority of the Armenian Catholicos (head of the Armenian Church) based in Antelias, Lebanon. This is only for administrative purposes though, as,...
MONTREAL, Canada—Attorney-author Matthew Karanian spoke to large crowds in the Canadian cities of Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto last month as part of his three-city tour of Canada to promote his latest book, Armenia and Karabakh: The Stone Garden Travel Guide.
Matthew Karanian (right) presents a copy of his book ‘Armenia and Karabakh: The Stone Garden Travel Guide’ to Harold Albrecht, Canadian Member of Parliament, at the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Ottawa.
On Nov. 21, Karanian addressed a crowd of about 100 people at the Armenian Community Centre in Montreal, and showed photographs from his book.
He also presented Armenia and Karabakh to capacity crowds at the Armenian Community Centre in Toronto, and at the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Ottawa on Nov. 23.
The events in Montreal and Toronto were sponsored by the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society. The entire tour was under the auspices of the Armenian Embassy in Canada.
The book...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey—On Sat., Nov. 30, an AYF (ARF-Dashnaktsutyun Youth Organization) delegation comprised of Sarkis Degirmenjian and Rupen Janbazian, participated in the first youth congress of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). The congress was organized by the Youth Assembly of the BDP and was held in Diyarbakir’s Seyrantepe Sport Hall. The invitation was extended to the AYF as well as all other member youth organizations of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY).
The AYF in Diyarbakir
The conference was attended by more than 30,000 BDP members and supporters, as well as several representatives of socialist youth organizations from around the world. The AYF representatives addressed the crowd, outlining their views on a number of regional and international issues faced by both the Armenian and Kurdish people. The speech, which was delivered first in Armenian and then in Turkish, focused on the shared history of the two peoples and how...
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