By Ruzanna Stepanian
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — International mediators have reported an “improved mood” in the ongoing Armenian- Azerbaijani negotiations over Nagorno- Karabagh, but said the parties are “not there yet” for an ultimate peace accord.
The United States, Russian and French cochairmen of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group spoke at a [...]

Prime Minister Visits
Pioneering Journalist at
Hospital
YEREVAN (Arminfo) — Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargisian visited Edik Baghdasaryan, head of Hetq online news and Association of Investigator-Journalists of Armenia, at Soorp Grigor Lusavorich Medical Center Tuesday, November 18. Baghdasaryan was attacked the previous day, the government press service said.
The premier, after the visit, condemned the incident while [...]

By Thomas C . Nash
Mirror-Spectator Staff
WORCESTER, Mass. — Where Taner Akçam goes, his reputation as a groundbreaking historian facing harassment and death threats for his views precedes him. Two months into his new post at Clark University as the Armenian Genocide Studies chair, he seems to have left the attention that greeted his appointment behind.
Instead, [...]

By Taleen Babayan
Mirror-Spectator Staff
NEW YORK — The 11th annual Armenia Fund telethon will take place on Thanksgiving Day in a global effort to raise money for the Armenia Fund Rural Development Program (RDP), focusing on the Lori and Tavush regions in Armenia and the Martuni region in Karabagh.
In an effort to maximize participation in the [...]

Armenians Accuse Greeks of Status Quo Breach
By Arthur Hagopian
JERUSALEM — The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of the tomb of Jesus of Nazareth, and regarded by many as the holiest relic in the whole of Christendom, has once again become the unwelcome theatre of an unsightly brawl between two brotherly Christian denominations.
Though [...]

WASHINGTON — Armenian President Serge Sargisian and Artsakh (Karabagh) President Bako Sahakian were among the world leaders who sent their enthusiastic congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice President-Elect Joseph Biden this week.
Sargisian congratulated Obama, writing, “Honorable Mr. Obama, I warmly congratulate you on the occasion of your election as the 44th president of the [...]

Dear President-Elect Obama:
Your election to the presidency of the most powerful nation on earth was a dream come true. The strongest mandate accorded to you by the citizenry of America will resonate around the globe, will touch millions of lives and will shape world politics for the years to come.
The Armenian Democratic Liberal Organization (ADL) [...]

By Denis Dyomkin
MOSCOW (Combined Sources) — The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have signed an agreement in Moscow, agreeing to intensify talks to end a 20-year conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabagh. The agreement also calls for the sole use of political means to resolve the dispute.
Armenian President Serge Sargisian and his Azeri counterpart, [...]

YEREVAN — Haigashen Ouzounian, the ADL and Tekeyan Cultural Association leader, established an annual literary award in 1960. Since that time, the Haigashen Ouzounian Literary Award Committee has given out prizes annually to writers of Armenian descent, both in Armenia and in the diaspora.
Since his death, his two daughters, Taline Avakian and Ani Ouzounian, have [...]