AIM Gives the Gift of Hearing to Children and Adults
In October 2021, the Armenian International Medical (AIM) Fund completed its 22nd medical mission to Armenia. The participant medical experts succeeded in giving the gift of hearing to children and young adults in Armenia for the second time in 2021. During this mission, ten children received cochlear implants and began hearing for the first time. […]
Economic Freedom of the World: 2021 Annual Report
The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to enter markets and compete, and security of the person and privately owned property. Forty-two data points are used […]
New Dairy Factory Opened In Artsakh
The State Minister of the Artsakh Republic Artak Beglaryan together with the Minister of Education and Science Lusine Gharakhanyan attended the opening ceremony of “Narine +” dairy factory in the Artsakh Scientific Center on January 29. The State Minister got acquainted with the organization of small-scale production, which is carried out according to the results […]
Les exportations de l'Arménie ont dépassé les 3 milliards de dollars en 2021
Export from Armenia exceeded $3 billion in 2021 growing by 19.1% year-on-year, the National Statistical Committee reports. In the reporting period, the volume of foreign trade turnover in the country amounted to $8.38 billion, up by 17.7% against 2020. Imports for the reporting period totaled $5.35 billion, registering a y/y increase of 16.9%. In December […]
Veterans Hospital to be Opened in Armenia
The Zinvori Tun (Soldier’s Home) Rehabilitation Center is planning to open a Veterans Hospital soon, the Director of the Soldier’s Home Rehabilitation Center Haykuhi Minasyan informed at a press conference. The new hospital will be a multi-profile medical facility offering combined services to members of the armed forces who require treatment. “The hospital will be […]
Matena – a new educational establishment in Armenia
On February 1 the Matena International School of Leadership and Professional Development launched its first executive education programs, in collaboration with the renowned Skolkovo Moscow School of Management. The school has announced the launch of two international programs:“Leading change: executive program for business managers”“Effectively managing communities in Armenia: program for municipal authorities” Matena has developed a […]
“Dragon Reaper” – Young engineer, winner of 100 Ideas for Armenia, works on drone-killing air defense system
A young ex-servicemember and IT engineer created a modern air defense system designed for new generation warfare. Albert Hovakimyan, the winner of the 100 Ideas for Armenia project, is calling his innovation the Dragon Reaper (Vishapakagh). It is an automated optical detection active anti-air defense system, he explains. Hovakimyan says his system can potentially replace […]
The Press Collection of The Mekhitarist Library is Now Online
The Mekhitarist Congregation’s journal collection and its portal website are now live, featuring digitized Armenian press published between 1794 and 1920, in a free and accessible format. To date, the online library of the Mekhitarist press and its corresponding databases have been endowed with more than 400,000 pages of digitized Armenian newspapers and periodicals from […]
Armenian-American Diaspora: A History of 400 Years
The first known Armenian to live in the United States was a man named Martin the Armenian, who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1618.During the Armenian Massacres (1876-1923), many Armenians from Western Armenia and the Middle East settled in the United States. Currently, about 2,000,000 Armenians live in the United States, about half of which […]