“Armenian Genocide – a crime against humanity” rally will take place in Moscow on April 24. Russian political and public figures will speak at the event, Moscow commission for coordination of events on Armenian Genocide 100th anniversary reports. The initiative aims to condemn the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and demand that Turkey should officially acknowledge the atrocity it committed. Russia’s State Duma condemned...

Turkey’s Foundations General Directorate decided to return the Armenian Surp Hac Tibrevank Foundation in Istanbul’s Uskudar district back to the Armenian community on Wednesday, Hurriyet Daily News reports. “We managed to ensure the foundation’s return after a very long struggle. We are very happy,” Laki Vingas, a council member of the Foundations Directorate General, told...

On April 15, the 10th anniversary of Vem Radio was solemnly celebrated at Komitas Chamber Music Hall in Yerevan.  Around 300 guests - representatives of clergy, art, culture and business - took part in the celebration. Among the guests were also numerous friends and benefactors of Vem Radio who have supported Vem within these years. In his opening address, Vem's...

Armenia’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) registered 16,000 local observers and 31 NGOs to monitor the parliamentary elections, CEC head Tigran Mukuchyan said on April 14. Parliamentary elections are scheduled for May 6 in Armenia. The legislative body has 131 MP seats. The Parliament is formed on 90 seats of proportional and 41 seats on majoritarian system. Eight political parties and one bloc have presented...

Armenian private Mkhitarian (Pangalti) College in Istanbul is among the 10 best colleges of Istanbul’s 917 colleges. To note, some months ago the students of Pangalti College had a meeting with Turkey’s National Education Minister and informed him that there are anti-Armenian statements in the textbooks and it would...

Hackathon Armenia 2012 will take place in resort town of Tsaghkadzor on April 27-29. The event aims to create necessary and interesting programs for Armenian society, develop interesting extensions/apps for Google Chrome Browser, as well as broaden scope of interests towards finding solutions on mobile and network technologies.