ISTANBUL (AFP) — Armenian and other rights groups called for action Saturday over Turkish school screenings of a documentary on the Ottoman mass killings of Armenians, charging that the film incited racism and enmity. The call follows an outcry in the Armenian community following reports earlier this week that the Education Ministry had asked school [...]

By Ruzanna Stepanian YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Residents of Yerevan will go to the polls on May 31 to elect a municipal assembly that will choose the city’s new mayor and oversee the work of the municipal administration. The Armenian capital has until now been governed by officials appointed by the president of the republic. Its [...]

LINARES, Spain — Armenian Grand Master Levon Aronian beat Viswanathan Anand of India in the second round of the Linares 2009 Chess Tournament. Aronian and Alexander Grishchuk (Russia) were tied for the first place with 1.5 points. In the second round, Teymur Rajabov (Azerbaijan) tied with Vasily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, while Magnus Carlsen of Norway [...]

By Thomas C . Nash Mirror-Spectator Staff NEW YORK — The quest for family and national history that Peter Balakian turned into a widely-acclaimed memoir has been re-published this month with two new chapters detailing his travels to Syria that yielded still more insight into his family’s past. On its release in 1997, Black Dog [...]

YEREVAN (Reuters/AFP) — French singer Charles Aznavour recently announced he has agreed to become ambassador to Switzerland for his ancestral homeland Armenia. Aznavour, 84, was born in France of Armenian parents and established an international singing career that still takes him around the globe. “At first I hesitated, because I thought that this is no [...]