Tuesday, September 16, 2025

ON THIS DAY in 1857 (September 16), Gevorg Bashinjaghian, “The Father Of Armenian Landscape Painting,” was...

Born in Sighnaghi, Kakheti, into an Armenian family, Gevorg’s childhood was marked by hardship....

Armenian Catholicos Karekin II Invites Pope Leo XIV to Armenia, Presents Artsakh Armenians’ Plight, Prisoners in...

On September 16, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians,...

Etchmiadzin Museum Acquires Rare 18th-Century Map Entitled “Earthly Paradise” Placing the Biblical Garden of Eden in...

The Museum of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin has acquired a rare 18th-century...

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Rights Defender Says Armenia Taking No Steps To Secure Access To Its Citizens Held Prisoner In Baku After ICRC Expelled, Reports Suicide Attempts Among...

Armenia is taking no steps to secure access to its citizens imprisoned in Baku, Human Rights Lawyer Siranush Sahakyan warned this week, after several of the 23 detainees reportedly...

15,522 Artsakh Residents Have Not Returned to Armenia as of July, After Azerbaijan’s 2023 Ethnic Cleansing

As of July 1, 2025, 15,522 of the more than 100,000 people forcibly displaced...

Investigation Finds Belarus Supplied Weapons to Azerbaijan Used to Down Armenian Drones in 2020 Artsakh War

A new investigation has revealed that Belarus, despite being Armenia’s formal ally within the...

Azerbaijan Destroys Artsakh Hero Bekor Ashot’s Monument In Occupied Stepanakert

Azerbaijan has destroyed the monument to Artsakh hero Ashot Gulyan (Bekor Ashot) in the center...

Armenian Citizen Vicken Euljekjian, Illegally Imprisoned in Azerbaijan Since 2020, Hospitalized in Baku After Hunger Strike as Armenia’s Government Remains Silent

Vicken Euljekjian, a Lebanese-Armenian and Armenian citizen who has been illegally imprisoned in Azerbaijan since 2020, has been on a hunger strike in a...

Living with Gunfire: How Armenia’s Border Communities in Syunik Are Adapting to a New Normal

On-the-Ground Report by Arpine Hovhannisian | Zartonk Media For over the last forty nights, the peaceful life in Khnatsakh and nearby Khoznavar in Syunik, southern...

Ruben Vardanyan’s Son Calls on U.S. President Donald Trump to Help Secure the Release of His Father & All Other Armenian Prisoners in Azerbaijan

David Vardanyan, son of Armenian philanthropist and political prisoner Ruben Vardanyan, currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan, has penned a powerful op-ed in Fox News, calling on U.S....

Ruben Vardanyan’s Family Urges the Vatican to Help Secure the Release of Armenian Prisoners in Azerbaijan

On April 28, the family of Armenian political prisoner Ruben Vardanyan issued a statement calling on the Vatican to take decisive action to help...

Azerbaijani Forces Open Fire On House In Armenia’s Syunik Again, Damage Reported—No Casualties

On the night of April 23, at around 10:20 p.m., Azerbaijani Armed Forces opened fire in the direction of the Khoznavar village in Syunik...

Armenia’s Varazdat Lalayan Crowned Two-Time European Weightlifting Champion

On April 21, Armenian weightlifter Varazdat Lalayan has claimed his second career European Championship title, earning gold in the combined event with a total lift...

Azerbaijani Forces Open Fire on Armenian Village in Syunik, Damage Residential Building—No Casualties

On April 20 at approximately 2:30 a.m., units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces opened fire in the direction of the village of Khoznavar in...

Ruben Vardanyan’s Family Continues To Support Construction Of New Church In Armenia’s Dilijan

The construction of a new church in Dilijan, Armenia—launched in 2019 by philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan—has resumed this spring with renewed momentum, despite Vardanyan’s ongoing...

Former Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan Re-Elected as Gyumri Mayor by Opposition After Over a Decade

Vardan Ghukasyan, the former mayor of Gyumri and a candidate representing the Armenian Communist Party, has been elected as the new head of the...

Hungary Again Blocks €10 Million in “Non-Lethal” European Union Military Aid to Armenia

Hungary has blocked the European Union from allocating an additional 10 million euros ($11 million) in “non-lethal” military aid to Armenia through its European...

PACE President Calls Aliyev a Dictator, Azerbaijan Responds with Entry Ban, Blacklists 76 PACE Members & Threatens Deportation

Tensions between Azerbaijan and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) escalated sharply after PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos referred to Azerbaijani President...

Azerbaijani Forces Open Fire On Syunik’s Khnatsakh Village, Damage Cultural Center

Azerbaijani forces opened fire late at night toward the Armenian village of Khnatsakh in Syunik Province, damaging the local Cultural Center, according to a statement from...

Vatican Hosts Controversial “Christianity in Azerbaijan” Conference, Accused of Erasing Armenian Christian Heritage

On April 10, The Artsakh Monument Watch expressed strong concerns regarding an international conference titled “Christianity in Azerbaijan: History and Modernity,” currently underway at the Pontifical...

ANCA Urges Trump to Block $339 Million U.S. Taxpayer-Backed Financing of Boeing Cargo Jet Sale to Azerbaijan

The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) on April 9, has launched a nationwide grassroots campaign urging former President Donald Trump to block a controversial U.S....

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