BOSTON — Benefactors of Armenian Heritage Park gathered at the home of Charles Talanian in Boston on Monday, December 15, to celebrate a major milestone — the signing of the agreement authorizing the Armenian Heritage Foundation to develop Armenian Heritage Park on Parcel 13 of the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston.
The park will commemorate the [...]

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A group of about 200 Turkish intellectuals on Monday issued an apology on the Internet for the Armenian Genocide earlier in the century in Turkey.
The group of prominent academics, journalists, writers and artists avoided using the contentious term “genocide” in the apology, using the less explosive “Great Catastrophe” instead.
But the apology [...]

YEREVAN — The World Bank will likely allocate hundreds of millions of dollars in additional loans to Armenia to help its government mitigate negative effects of the global financial crisis on the domestic economy, a senior bank official said on Tuesday.
Armenia’s banking sector has so far been barely affected by the credit crunch that plagued [...]

YEREVAN (ArmeniaNow) — On December 7 at 11.41 a.m. sharp, Armenians in Gumri and throughout the country stopped for a moment to observe a minute’s silence and hear the church bells ringing in commemoration of their compatriots who lost their lives in a natural calamity exactly 20 years ago.
On December 7, 1988, the northern provinces [...]

By Thomas C . Nash
and Taleen Babayan
Mirror-Spectator Staff
WATERTOWN and NEW YORK — The havoc caused by the December 7, 1988 earthquake in Armenia will be remembered this year as an event that brought the diaspora together.
The earthquake leveled the city of Spitak, where the epicenter was, and destroyed much of Leninakan (Gumri). About 25,000 persons [...]

LOS ANGELES — Hayastan All Armenian Fund held its most successful ever telethon on Thanksgiving Day, November 27. The telethon raised $35 million during the 12-hour live broadcast from Los Angeles.
The funds raised during the Telethon 2008 will go towards the revival of border villages in Armenia and Artsakh.
Donations made by the Hayastan Fund affiliates [...]

Karabagh Primate, Representative to US Accompany Sahakian
WATERTOWN, Mass. — Nagorno Karabagh President Bako Sahakian and a highlevel delegation, which included Karabagh Primate Archbishop Parkev Martirossian and the Karabagh representative in the US, Vartan Barseghian, visited the Greater Boston Armenian community, ahead of the Armenia Fund USA Telethon on Thursday, November 27.
During the visit, Sahakian [...]

By Ruben Meloyan
ISTANBUL (RFE/RL) — Armenia’s leader will pay a visit to Turkey next fall, it emerged late on Monday after the talks of the Armenian and Turkish foreign ministers in Istanbul.
President Serge Sargisian is expected to attend theWorld Cup qualifier between the Armenian and Turkish national teams, to be held here in October 2009.
Turkish [...]

By Tatevik Lazarian, and Harry Tamrazian
DRESDEN, Germany (RFE/RL) — The Armenian Men’s Chess Team repeated its win of two years ago at the biannual World Chess Olympiad on November 25.
The news sparked celebrations among chess fans in Yerevan and throughout Armenia.
Many fans had followed live the final-round action between Armenia and China in a closely-packed [...]

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 [...]