The 6th annual Pomegranate Film Festival presented by Hamazkayin will be held on the first weekend of December 1-4, showcasing a wide selection of films, including thought-provoking documentaries, shorts and feature-length films. POM VI is also proud to announce its 2011 jury: Silva Basmajian, Norayr Kaspar, and Arsinee Khanjian. Basmajian is currently the Executive...

YEREVAN (Reuters) – Armenia’s foreign minister has rejected Turkish calls for concessions in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh in exchange for the historic rapprochement between Yerevan and Ankara. peaking to Reuters late on Friday, Edward Nalbandian said negotiations between Turkey and Armenia were over and both sides were obliged to move quickly to...

MONTREAL — A Canadian judge has imposed the toughest sentence possible on a man convicted of committing atrocities during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, described as the worst possible crime a human being can commit. In a historic case, Desire Munyaneza was sentenced Thursday to life imprisonment without possibility of parole for 25 years. Quebec Superior Court...

Zach Bogosian (born July 15, 1990 in Massena, New York) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman and an alternate captain of for the Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League. The first NHL player of Armenian descent, Bogosian played major junior hockey with the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League before joining the Thrashers. Playing...

Canadian Armenian businessman Vardan Martirosian will never forget October 10 – the day of signing of Protocols between Armenia and Turkey. “The authorities have sold us. They have sold 9 million Armenians. I felt as an invalid in front of the TV set. While Nalbandian was signing the Protocols I felt terror and couldn’t utter a word. Never had I...

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The second stage of the ninth child-youth theater festival “Nran Hatik” (Seed of Pomegranate) will start in Armenia October 24 and will last until November 1. As the chairman of the festival Hasmik Ter-Karapetyan informed, this year’s festival will be devoted to 140th anniversary of the great Armenian writer Hovhannes...