A community portal about Armenia with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked mountainous country in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, located...
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A community portal about Armenia with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked mountainous country in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, located in the Southern Caucasus. It shares borders with Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Nakhichevan exclave of Azerbaijan to the south. A former republic of the Soviet Union, Armenia is a unitary, multiparty, democratic nation-state and one of the oldest and most historic civilizations in the world with a rich cultural heritage, as well as the first nation to adopt Christianity as its official religion. Although Armenia is constitutionally a secular state, the Christian faith plays a major role in both its history and the identification of the Armenian people.
YEREVAN, May 16. /ARKA/. Armenia's tourist industry will be represented during an Armenian-Russian info-tour in Sochi, Russia, this September-October. Speaking at the first Armenian-Russian business forum on ...
On May 14 the coordinator of the USAID Thomas Adams arrived in Armenia. This is Adams last visit to Armenia as the coordinator if the projects. Adams is accompanied by ...
YEREVAN, May 16. /ARKA/. Great Britain has no intention to break off activities with Armenia, but further bilateral cooperation mainly depend on the country's internal political situation and economic progress, ...
Catholicos Karekin II of the Armenian Apostolic Church spoke of the "genocide" suffered by Armenia at the hands of the Ottomans in the early 20th C. "The denial of these crimes is an injustice that equals the commission of the same", said Karekin.
By Emil Danielyan A senior US official ended on Friday a three-day visit to Yerevan that focused on continued US economic assistance to Armenia which ...
Our concern to spend much on diplomatic missions is justified, said the foreign minister of Armenia Edvard Nalbandyan in NA session today. The minister said that Azerbaijan spends more money ...
Germany will provide Armenia with 74 million euros in fresh low-interest loans designed to improve its energy and water infrastructure and financial services, it was announced on Friday.
Armenia’s ex-president Robert Kocharian has consistently dissipated and weakened the political sphere since 1998. As a result the state started to rely on ...
The Constitution as amended in December 2005 provides for freedom of religion; however, the law places some restrictions on the religious freedom of adherents of minority religious groups, and there were some restrictions in practice. The Armenian (Apostolic) Church, which has formal legal status as the national church, enjoys some privileges not available to other religious groups. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom by the Government during the reporting...
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The New Republic in its July 23rd issue has a wonderful article dealing with efforts by the Armenian Lobby to get Congress to pass a resolution attacking Turkey for its genocide of Armenians. The arti...
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