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Yerevan: The City Where Art Breathes
Yerevan: The City Where Art Breathes
“Yerevan possessed one of the most beautiful city centers I have seen among Middle Eastern and Caucasian cities. Unique stone structures, vast Soviet-style squares, boulevards, the aesthetics of street names and signs, parks, and statues… It gave the appearance of a city where art breathes. Walking along its wide avenues created the feeling of wandering through the streets of a European city, rather than being in the center of a country that shares a border with Turkey.”
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Armenians of Turkey having started a new life in Armenia
Armenians of Turkey having started a new life in Armenia
Issue of migration preoccupies many people in Turkey as the political atmosphere gets increasingly tenser. In a time like this, we wanted to get together with Armenians of Turkey who migrated to Armenia, the closest and most distant neighbor, during the hard periods of recent history and report their first-hand accounts. These people, who told about their lives with a great sincerity, revealed human's power and hope of starting over.
27 December 2016 Fatih Gökhan Diler
Free little libraries in Yerevan now
Free little libraries in Yerevan now
29 July 2016 Varduhi Balyan
Yerevan getting ready for the film festival
Yerevan getting ready for the film festival
13th Golden Apricot International Film Festival will host film lovers on June 10-17 in Yerevan.
29 June 2016 Haber Merkezi
“It is exactly on April 24 of last year that I fled Burundi”
“It is exactly on April 24 of last year that I fled Burundi”
101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide was commemorated with Aurora Prize, which is one of the most innovative events of the year and named after Aurora Mardiganian, a genocide survivor who witnessed the killing of her relatives. The winner of the prize that was granted for the first time is Marguerite Barankitse (Maggy), who saved hundreds of orphans' lives during the civil war in Burundi.
28 April 2016 Maral Dink
Police attacks and disperses Yerevan barricades
Police attacks and disperses Yerevan barricades
On 6 July at noon, the police forced protestors, who for the last two weeks had taken to the streets to voice their opposition to the electricity price rise, out of Baghramyan Avenue in Yerevan.
7 July 2015 Haber Merkezi
Yerevan protests dwindle
Yerevan protests dwindle
Protests against an electricity price rise appear to have lost momentum: The government’s suspension of the price rise for “re-examination” as well as differences in opinion and indecision among protestors have played their part.
2 July 2015 Alin Ozinian
Yerevan resists electricity price rise
Yerevan resists electricity price rise
Last night, police attacked the group that had resisted in Yerevan’s Freedom Square protesting against an electricity price rise.
23 June 2015 Haber Merkezi