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Western Armenian Renaissance – Update 2.1

By: Shahen Araboghlian My colleague put it perfectly on the fourth episode of the Meet the Revolution podcast. "When it comes to language, the Armenian language, there's been some sort of online virtual renaissance, almost like a virtual զար...

How Social Distancing Is Affecting Your Life

As the COVID 19 pandemic continues to affect millions of lives all over the world and as we are coming to terms with being increasingly cut off from our social circles, we asked our readers how they are coping with the unprecedented situation. ...

Testing for Covid-19

By Alan Whitehorn   Last Thursday my family doctor was talking with me on the phone and going over my prescription renewals, when I told him about not feeling well for the past ten days. Then he said the words I really did not want to ...

How Is Armenia Coping With Covid 19 Pandemic? What Are The Economic Fallouts Of The Emergency Situation?- EVN Report Maria Titizian Explains

EVN report editor-in-chief Maria Titizian   TorontoHye’s Interview With Editor In Chief Of EVN Report Maria Titizian   TorontoHye- Emergency situation has been declared in Armenia due to COVID 19 pandemic. Can you talk about what ...

Troubled Times

By Alan Whitehorn People kindly ask if we are doing OK amidst this novel pandemic of 2020. Actually, as seniors in our seventies, we are quite used to being at home, mostly reading and resting. At my age, several colleagues have recently died ...

Defining Moments

By Alan Whitehorn As we start week three of the COVID-19 self-quarantine, I think back about the defining moments of historic crises that I have experienced. Each has left a profound impact on me. The first was the assassination of JFK in 1963. ...

Race for the COVID-19 Vaccine: 7 Questions for Moderna Chairman Noubar Afeyan

By Syuzanna Petrosyan As dozens of research groups around the world race to create the first vaccine for COVID-19, in late February, Moderna, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company, announced that it had shipped the first batch of its clinic...

Women of Artsakh: A Tale of Heroic Resilience

Artsakh Supreme Court of Justice is composed of all female judges headed by Narine Narimanyan (third from the left). (Photo by Karl Mancini from his long term work 'Women of Artsakh). http://www.karlmancini.com/women-of-artsakh) By: Karin Saghde...

Senate Recognition Of Armenian Genocide: Reactions And Next Steps To Be Take

By Harut Sassounian For the first time since the Genocide of 1915, the US Senate adopted a Resolution unanimously on December 12, 2019, recognizing the Armenian Genocide, after it was blocked for three consecutive weeks by different Republi...

Rural Villagers Plant ATP’s Six Millionth Tree in Lori

ATP provides jobs for dozens of people to plant trees; last week, Mirak nursery worker Siranush Harutyunyan (pictured at left) selected this Scots pine to be ATP’s six millionth tree to be planted in northern Armenia By Ani Melkonian MIKHAYLOV...