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  • My dream is that US recognizes Armenian Genocide

    My dream is that US recognizes Armenian Genocide

    News.am Looking into the eyes of the former U.S. President Bill Clinton, a 21-year-old Armenian student needed a minute to realize whether it was a dream or reality. “How can I, a mere student and recent immigrant, meet a president? How can I be here...

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  • Hacopian Elected GCC Board President!

    Hacopian Elected GCC Board President!

    Dr. Armine Hacopian was elected President of the Board of Trustees of Glendale Community College by unanimous vote of her colleagues.  She has been serving Glendale Community College as a trustee for more than eleven years and this is her third term as President of...

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  • HOW WE CAN HOLD THE SOUTH CAUCASUS?

    HOW WE CAN HOLD THE SOUTH CAUCASUS?

    Arevagal: The following article by the former Russian ambassador to Armenia was written just before Moscow liberated South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Georgian/Western aggression. The commentary by the ambassador is a little insight into how Moscow views Armenia and its role in the Caucasus. The article clearly...

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  • Armenia’s Police plan on installing more cameras & speed detectors

    Armenia’s Police plan on installing more cameras & speed detectors

    News.am Armenia’s law enforcement intends to increase the number of video cameras and speed detectors at capital Yerevan’s streets by the end of the year, Deputy Road Police Chief, Police Colonel Hayk Sargsyan said during a press conference on Friday. In his words, thirty speed...

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  • Hometown Hye-Lite: Hejinian Turns Artwork  into Action

    Hometown Hye-Lite: Hejinian Turns Artwork into Action

    By Tom Vartabedian Armenian Weekly CHELMSFORD, Mass.—Anyone with a prominent Armenian name like Daniel Varoujan might be adding poetic justice to the Armenian Genocide. Not necessarily Daniel Varoujan Hejinian. This talented expressionistic is sending his message through art. All you have to do is lift...

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  • Mobile commerce service introduced in Armenia

    Mobile commerce service introduced in Armenia

    News.am Armenian clients will be offered another innovation by the banking systems. Unibank and Boomerang Software Company will provide the customers with mobile commerce service (shopping through mobile device). The system will first be available for smartphones only, later it will include other phones as...

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  • I would not want for my son to take up boxing

    I would not want for my son to take up boxing

    News.am Former IBF Middleweight Champion Arthur Abraham, 32, is currently speaking with students from Yerevan State University (YSU). Before his meeting, however, Abraham had an interview withNEWS.am Sport. “It is interesting to speak with university students. I came to Armenia to [attend] the May 9...

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  • NY to host fundraising event for Armenian village environmental project

    NY to host fundraising event for Armenian village environmental project

    PanARMENIAN.Net Armenia Tree Project (ATP) and the Acopian Center for the Environment (ACE) are joining together to initiate a new project in Margahovit village, located in the Lori region of northern Armenia, and will hold a fundraising event on June 6 in New York City....

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