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Mayor Vows to Compensate Yerevan For $20,000 Air Ticket
Dec 24, 2024 · By Gayane Saribekian YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am) — Amid an uproar from his political opponents and media, Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan said on Monday, December 23 that he will pay the municipal administration about $20,000 to cover the exorbitant cost of his recent flight to the United States. Avinyan and eight other city officials traveled to Los Angeles late last month on what they called a ...
Visiting Armenia, Greta Thunberg Decries Azerbaijan’s Repressive …
Nov 21, 2024 · YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Armenia on November 13 after visiting neighboring Georgia. Thunberg in the past week has taken actions and spoken out against the COP29 United Nations environmental conference happening in Baku. Speaking Monday at a protest in Tbilisi, she called Azerbaijan “an authoritarian petrostate” and added that ...
Vardanyan Legal Team Condemns Azerbaijan’s New Charges …
Dec 19, 2024 · YEREVAN — In an unprecedented escalation of its ongoing crackdown on dissent, Azerbaijan prosecutors have unveiled a new and enormous array of some 45 potential charges against Armenian humanitarian and political prisoner Ruben Vardanyan, according to his legal team, in a statement on December 16. If convicted, Vardanyan faces the grim prospect of life imprisonment. The new charges presented ...
From ‘Four Letter Words’ to ‘Anora,’ Karren Karagulian’s 30-Year ...
Nov 7, 2024 · By Preston Barta – Film Critic HOLLYWOOD (Denton Record-Chronicle) — After nearly three decades of working together, one of cinema’s more unnoticed but enduring collaborations returns. “Anora” sees writer-director Sean Baker and Armenian-American actor Karren Karagulian joining forces for the ninth time in film since they first linked up in 1996 for “Four Letter Words,” later ...
George Dulgerian, Home Builder, Passes Away at 91
Dec 24, 2024 · SPRINGFIELD, Penn. — George Dulgerian, a man who lived his life with the same precision and creativity he used to craft the beautiful homes he built passed peacefully at home […]
Could Aliyev Collapse like Assad? - The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
Dec 12, 2024 · The Assad family, father and son, dominated Syria for more than a half century. The last 13 years in Syria were chaotic, but diplomats from both the moderate Arab camp […]
Karen Ouzounian and Lembit Beecher’s Armenian Ode: Dear …
Dec 19, 2024 · On Friday, November 22 and Saturday, November 23, 2024, Cantori New York opened its 40th season with a thought provoking and technically accomplished commissioned world premiere of Dear Mountains, co-composed by the renowned cellist Karen Ouzounian and Lembit Beecher. Conducted by Mark Shapiro, the piece featured performances by Ouzounian on cello, oud expert Ara Dinkjian and Philip Mayer on ...
In Memoriam: Nubar Kupelian (1933-2024) - mirrorspectator.com
Dec 4, 2024 · NEW YORK — Nubar Kupelian was born in Egypt on November 1, 1933, to Armenian Genocide survivors Megerditch and Araxi. He was one of three children, with an older sister Anahid and a younger brother Berj, both of whom predeceased him. At 16 years of age, Nubar attended the Antelias Jemaran in Beirut, Lebanon, where he spent five years studying Armenian history, language, and religion. There ...
AI Is the Future, and Armenia Is Placing a Big Bet on It
Nov 11, 2024 · YEREVAN — In October 2024, during the 28th World Congress on Innovation and Technology (WCIT2024), one of 17 tech events held in Armenia that month, the global tech community gathered around a small nation in the Caucasus that is making ambitious steps to establish itself as a global technological center. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent a message to the attendees, expressing his ...