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Ontario Premier Doug Ford Visits ACC Summer Festival

Armenian community leaders and ANCT members with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, MPP Raymond Cho and MPP Vincent Ke. On Sunday, July 8, Ontario Premier Doug Ford visited the Armenian community centre’s Summer Festival in Toronto. Premier Ford was ...

Time Magazine Names Nikol Pashinian and 3 Others ‘Crusaders of World Democracy’

NEW YORK — Time magazine has named Armenia’s prime minister one of the modern world’s four prominent crusaders “keeping the dream of democracy alive”. The publication has spoken with all the four people about their motivation to fight ...

Canadian PM Reaffirms His Participation In the 17th Francophone Summit In Yerevan

Pashinyan meets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Brussels, July 12, 2018.  On July 12, 2018, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a series of informal working meetings with leaders of different ...

Pashinyan Meets Macron, EU Officials in Brussels

Prime Minister Pashinyan Meets with French President Emanuel Macron in Brussels on Wednesday BRUSSELS—Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is on his first official visit to the European Union capital, where on Wednesday he met with French President ...

$42 million in unpaid taxes restored by authorities in just 45 days

(Armenpress)- 20 billion 622 million drams in tax evasion damages have been restored in one and a half months alone as of July 1, PM Nikol Pashinyan said at today’s Cabinet meeting. “As you know, since the formation of the government the combat ...

Embattled Hayastan Fund Director Resigns

YEREVAN—A week after Ara Vardanyan, the executive director of the Hayastan All-Armenia Fund was detained and charged with misappropriation of funds, he submitted his resignation, which President Armen Sarkissian has accepted. Armenia...

Yerevan Mayor Daron Markarian Resigns

(Azatutyun)- Bowing to apparent pressure from Armenia’s new government, Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian stepped down on Monday. Markarian announced his resignation in a short written address to the city’s residents. He gave no reasons for the ...

Hayastan All Armenia Fund Toronto Affiliate Issues A Clarification After Arrest of Ara Vardanyan

Hayastan All Armenia Fund Toronto affiliate chair person Mgirdich Mgrdichian issued an announcement in response to Tuesday’s arrest in Yerevan of Hayastan All Armenia Fund’s executive director, Ara Vardanyan, on charges of misusing of funds from ...

ARS Welcomes Netherlands chapter

Almelo, Netherlands – The Armenian Relief Society, Inc. welcomed the inception of the ARS “Netherlands” Chapter-at-Large on June 30, 2018. The establishment of the new chapter in the Netherlands, adds another country to the ARS portfolio, ...

Director of Hayatsan All-Armenian Fund arrested on embezzlement charges

(Azatutyun)- The National Security Service (NSS) has arrested the executive director of a pan-Armenian charity headquartered in Yerevan, accusing him of embezzlement. The NSS said on Tuesday that Ara Vartanian, who has managed the Hayastan All-Ar...