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A Blueprint for Shaping India–Armenia Economic Partnership
Introduction In recent years, India has emerged as one of the most important foreign policy partners for Armenia. The development has been fuelled by India’s arms exports to Armenia,[1] which have made it Armenia’s largest provider of military and...

Armenian activist blasts Azerbaijan’s criticism at OSCE event
October 8, 2025 - 17:49 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - At the OSCE Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw on October 7, Daniel Ioannisyan, program coordinator at the Union of Informed Citizens NGO, responded sharply to the Azerbaijani delegation's...
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Democracy Activist María Corina Machado
Not even brokering a historic cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas that ended more than two years of war was enough for President Trump to secure the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Early Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize to...

Armenian archbishop jailed for two years for criticising state policy
A senior cleric of the Armenian Apostolic Church has been sentenced to prison following accusations of being involved in a coup against the government. The courts found Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan guilty of calling for the overthrow of Prime...

Haile Selassie’s Band of Armenian Orphans
In the spring of 1924, Ras Tafari Makonnen, Ethiopia’s crown prince, regent plenipotentiary and de facto ruler, embarked on a diplomatic world tour. His country had just become the first African nation admitted to the League of Nations, and the...

EU official praises Armenia’s innovation progress
October 10, 2025 - 16:58 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Speaking at the opening of Digitec 2025, Frank Hess, Head of Cooperation at the EU Delegation to Armenia, stated that the event has become the most important technological and digital event not only...

An Armenian, A Buryat, A Nenets, A Tajik And Two Yakuts: The AFU Captured Six Russian Occupiers
4 Not a single ethnic Russian was among them. Ukrainian soldiers have captured six occupants, among whom there was not a single ethnic Russian. According to Censor.NET, a video of the captives saying what ethnicity they belong to has been...

Armenian Council of America Urges Secretary of State to Implement Safeguards for TRIPP Initiative and Protection of Armenian Sovereignty
LOS ANGELES, CA — The Armenian Council of America (ACA) has sent a formal letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the U.S. Department of State to implement critical safeguards for the proposed Trump Route for International Peace and...

Strengthening Armenia’s role in the global Web3 ecosystem
Minister of HTI Mkhitar Hayrapetyan met today with Gavin Wood, co-founder of the Web3 Foundation and Ethereum and a well-known blockchain technology specialist. We learned about this from the minister’s Facebook page. “We touched upon...

Gavin Wood Announces Intention to Establish a Web3 University in Armenia
NEWS » Telecom » Gavin Wood Announces Intention to Establish a Web3 University in Armenia Gavin Wood, founder of the Web3 Foundation, co-founder of Ethereum, and renowned blockchain expert, announced his intention to establish a Web3 University in...

Lawyer urges opposition to act on political prisoners
October 14, 2025 - 18:36 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Human rights advocate and lawyer Ruben Melikyan has proposed creating a special commission to address the rights and legal status of nearly 30 individuals he classifies as political prisoners in...

Armenia’s Independence Day marked in Athens
The Embassy of Armenia in Greece hosted a concert-reception in Piraeus to celebrate the 34th anniversary of Armenia’s independence. The event took place at the historic Piraeus Municipal Theatre and featured performances by the talented Armenian...

Wisdom Project | David Amram, 94, Composer, Conductor and Student of ‘Hangoutology’
The Wisdom Project at Moment: Inspirational conversations with wise people who have been fortunate to live long lives. This week’s conversation is with musician David Amram, 94, of West Camp, NY. David Amram has earned acclaim as a composer,...

Armenian Defense Minister, Cyprus Ambassador Discuss Defense Cooperation
Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan and Republic of Cyprus Ambassador to Armenia Michael Mavros met today in Yerevan and discussed defense sector cooperation. The two, according to Papikyan’s office, also discussed regional and international...

ATOP MeaningfulWorld and ABSA partner for mission in Armenia and Georgia
We join forces to nurture sustainable collaboration with Armenia for trauma healing, human rights education, transforming domestic, horizontal, collective and generational trauma, nurturing emotional intelligence, establishing Psi Chi honor...

Armenian lorry drivers face deportations as Russia strengthens immigration laws
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Tehran opens Saint Mary subway station, countering Western stereotypes
Social media users have warmly reacted to the news of the inauguration of the Saint Mary subway station in Iran’s capital, Tehran, describing it as a positive counter to the negative portrayal of the country in Western mainstream media. In a post...

A Week In Armenia: Hope Emerges After Trump’s Major Steps Toward Peace
YEREVAN, ARMENIA—There’s a newfound hope on the streets in the capital of the oldest Christian nation in the world, but it’s a cautious hope. Armenians have been burned in the past by adversaries who ignore ethical norms and so-called protectors...

Court to Seize AMD 25 Million From Former Culture Minister
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Court, overruling a lower court’s verdict, has issued a ruling that former Armenian culture minister Hasmik Poghosyan must pay AMD 25 million ($65,600) in compensation because of the improper execution of the contracts...

Coast guard says a migrant speedboat it was chasing overturned, leaving 2 dead
NEWS File photo. A speedboat carrying migrants overturned while it was being chased by the Greek coast guard near the island of Rhodes, leaving a man and a boy dead, the coast guard has said. The coast guard vessel was on a regular patrol in the...