Armenia’s Foreign Intelligence Chief Travels to Baku for Security Forum
Armenia’s foreign intelligence chief Kristinne Grigoryan traveled to Azerbaijan on Tuesday to attend a major security gathering in Baku, in another rare visit by a senior Armenian security official to the neighboring country. Grigoryan, director of Armenia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, is taking part in the 4th Baku Security Forum, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s press secretary, Melanya Harutyunyan, confirmed Tuesday. The Armenian government has not released further detai
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What Happens in 20 Years to U.S. Armenian Churches? The Question Weekly Measurement Can Answer
Most decisions facing Armenian churches today will be judged by a generation that is not yet in the pews. That is what makes current attendance numbers so consequential. Today only about 7 in 1,000 young Armenian-American women attend an Armenian church on a typical non-holiday Sunday. The immediate concern is today’s attendance. The greater concern is what that 0.7% could mean 10, 20, or 30 years from now. Churches cannot wait until another generation has passed to discover
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TUMO Raises More Than $17 Million at Los Angeles Gala to Expand Across Armenia
TUMO raised more than $17 million at a Los Angeles gala celebrating its 15th anniversary, securing new funding to expand the Armenian-founded education program across Armenia. The September 20 event at Vibiana brought together leaders in technology, entertainment and sports, along with members of the Armenian-American community. System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian performed, while Nasdaq Listings host Kristina Ayanian emceed the evening. Founded in Yerevan in 2011, TUMO pr
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Azerbaijan Claims Indigenous Armenian Dadivank Monastery’s Artifacts Were Stolen, Reports Them to Interpol
Azerbaijan says cultural artifacts allegedly removed from the medieval Dadivank monastery and taken to Armenia have been listed in Interpol’s database of stolen art, opening a new front in a growing dispute over Armenian Christian heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh. Sabina Hajiyeva, head of Azerbaijan’s State Service for the Protection, Development and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, said information about frescoes and khachkars — Armenian carved cross-stones — was submitted to I
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Trump Quotes Pashinyan and Aliyev in Marathon U.N. Address
U.S. President Donald Trump pointed to Armenia and Azerbaijan as one of eight conflicts he says he has helped settle, invoking praise from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev during his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Trump used the opening day of the U.N. General Assembly’s annual debate to make the case for his record as a peacemaker, saying his administration had helped resolve conflicts that in some
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‘No Facts or Evidence’: Lawyer Challenges Ruben Vardanyan’s 20-Year Sentence in Azerbaijan
INTERVIEW: The Azerbaijani court that sentenced Ruben Vardanyan to 20 years in prison held him responsible for alleged crimes dating back to 1988, decades before he became an official in Artsakh, according to an Armenian lawyer who reviewed the full judgment in his case. Siranush Sahakyan, an attorney representing Vardanyan before the European Court of Human Rights, told The Armenian Report that she found no evidence in the judgment showing that Vardanyan personally ordered,
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Meet John Terzian, the Armenian-American Who Turned His Love of Chicken Tenders Into the Star-Studded TenderFest 2026
TenderFest co-founders Lawrence Longo, left, and Armenian-American entrepreneur John Terzian at TenderFest 2026 in Beverly Hills. INTERVIEW: TenderFest returned to Beverly Hills over the weekend with an all-you-can-eat celebration of chicken tenders, celebrity judges and some of Los Angeles’ best-known restaurants. Behind the festival is Armenian-American hospitality entrepreneur John Terzian, who says the idea reflects the family-centered culture that shaped him. The fifth a
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Russian Voters Head to Polls in Yerevan for Russia’s Parliamentary Election as Protesters Chant ‘No War’
INTERVIEWS: Thousands of Russian citizens turned out to vote in Armenia on Sunday in Russia’s parliamentary election, forming a long line outside the Russian Embassy in Yerevan as anti-war protesters gathered nearby with signs opposing President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine. The Armenian Report was at the embassy as Russians living in Armenia waited to cast their ballots in the first State Duma election since Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukraine in February
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Armenia Celebrates 35 Years of Independence From Soviet Rule
Armenia is celebrating 35 years of independence today, commemorating the 1991 referendum that ended nearly seven decades of Soviet rule and opened a new chapter in the country’s history. On Sept. 21, 1991, Armenians went to the polls to answer a single question: Should Armenia become an independent democratic state outside the Soviet Union? The answer was overwhelming. More than 95% of eligible voters took part, and 94.39% of all eligible voters backed independence. The refer
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Khachkar Studios’ Masterclass #3 Now Available in Three Languages
Masterclass #3, “Revitalizing Churches Worldwide,” has been released in Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian, joining the English edition Khachkar Studios published earlier. Featuring the case study “Armenian Churches Joining the Movement,” the program lays bare the current state of Armenian Christianity and charts a course toward major, Biblically grounded change. The most cited statistic: just 7 per 1,000 U.S. Armenian women ages 18–29 attend church on a typical non-holida
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