Ukrainian Armenians’ union soon will  publish a book in which, will present the cultural and historical legacy of the Armenians of Ukraine.

The Armenian-French joint archaeological excavation team, which carried out diggings at the citadel of the ancient Urartian Erebuni Fortress located in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan, summed up the results of the first phase of its activities during a press conference on June 28, 2012.

Renowned Armenian historian Artashes Papikyan’s book, entitled Armenians in Lviv: A Historical Review, will be published in Ukraine for a fourth time. 

Papikyan collected the information for this book over the course of twenty years, Analitika.at.ua informs.

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Verjine Svazlian presented her new book about the Armenian Genocide to President of the Republic of France Nicolas Sarkozy, Yerevan, Armenia-Marriott Hotel, October 6, 2011

January 28 is National Army Day in Armenia.

But the celebrations marking 20th anniversary of the Armenian Armed Forces got underway on Friday, as President Serzh Sargsyan awarded medals and decorations to several participants of the Karabakh movement. Also, a number of military servicemen received officer’s ranks. Decorations and medals were awarded to over seventy men in arms, and more than one-hundred servicemen will receive the President’s medals and certificates at their military units.       

The French Senate adopted bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial after long debates on Monday.

More than 10,000 protesters marked the fifth anniversary of a Turkish-Armenian journalist's murder on Thursday, January 19, as outrage continues to grow over a trial which failed to shed light on official negligence or even collusion.

Robbers from Turkey’s eastern region of Genci (Bingol province) are desecrating Armenian graves in an attempt to dig out gold, Asbarez reported, citing the Turkish media.

Pierre Nora, famous for his negativistic ideas, acknowledged at a French Mémoire et Histoire (Memory and History) TV program by Alain Finkielkraut on France Culture, that Turkey runs a state policy of denial, Nouvelles d`Arménie reports.  

In the framework of World Cinema Series Armenian film Director Sergei Parajanov’s The Color of Pomegranate was presented in Singapore’s National Museum on Thursday.

The film was shown in Armenian with English subtitles. The presentation was organized in Singapore’s National Museum in the framework of Cinémathèque program.

Armenia’s National Archive will organize exhibitions dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the Armenian typography and 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Armenian Army.

Legendary secret agent, Soviet hero Gevorg Vardanyan died at the age of 87 in Moscow on Tuesday.

Vardanyan could come into direct contact with the agents’ group of the Interior Office in Tehran in 1940. He headed the special group revealing the fascists in Tehran and revealed more than 400 people, having connection to the fascists.

Sergei Parajanov was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He graduated from Moscow Institute of Cinematography. He shot a number of films. But it was Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (renamed Wild Horses of Fire for most foreign distributor), a film created in 1964, made Sergei Parajanov world-famous.

Armenia’s Ambassador to Lebanon, Ashot Kocharyan, visited Wednesday the retirement home and the special school for children of the Center for Armenian Handicaps in Lebanon (CAHL), and the Lebanese-Armenian community’s Zvartnots Center for Armenian children with mental disabilities. 

On November 26, 2011 at the Armenian Cultural Union in Hamburg took place the eighth presentation of the book “Planet Armenia: Pilgrimage to an Unknown Land” by Dr. Jochen Mangelsen.

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There are interesting observations and information about Armenian people in traveling notes of Swedish botanist and physician Fredrick Hasselquist (1722–1752) “Iter Palaestinum” first published in 1757.

On December 16 the City Hall of the Brazilian city of Campinas (Sao Paulo) officially informed the Armenian Embassy in Brazil that , Mayor Demétrio Vilagra signed the resolution on recognition of the Armenian Genocide adopted by the City Council on November 20.

The film made by AZD Production features the civilization charm and peculiarity of the Armenian people. The three-hour documentary film-guide acquaints viewers not only with Armenia’s historical-cultural monuments and sights but also with the joy, sorrow, national psychology and traditions of the people having a history going back thousands of years.