WIlliam Saroyan

1 month ago | mirrorspectator.com | WIlliam Saroyan |Alin K. Gregorian

“When Ruben was arrested in September 2023, he was remanded to pretrial detention on three charges — financing terrorism, participation in the creation and operation of armed groups not sanctioned by law, and illegal crossing of the state border. It was only after over a year in pretrial detention that the prosecutor announced the 42 charges listed above.

1 month ago | mirrorspectator.com | WIlliam Saroyan |Alin K. Gregorian

As described in Hamasyan’s website about the tale, Hazaran Blbul is about a generous king who opens the palace gates to share his property with his people. In the greedy subjects’ jostling, a small child is trampled; his grandmother holds the king responsible and puts a curse on him. Only the bird of a thousand songs can lift it. And so the king sends his oldest sons on a quest to find the mythical creature. But when they return empty-handed, it’s the youngest son Areg’s turn.

1 month ago | mirrorspectator.com | WIlliam Saroyan |Alin K. Gregorian

A sham trial started in Baku in January. As one can imagine, there is no direct contact between the team of attorneys outside Azerbaijan and the clients there. In addition, the Azerbaijani authorities have barred the attorneys from traveling there. The list of charges Vardanyan and the other seven leaders are facing is long.

2 months ago | mirrorspectator.com | Ella Chakarian |WIlliam Saroyan

While Eastern Armenian is the standardized language in Armenia and Iran, Western Armenian only has a home in nooks of the Armenian diaspora, in remaining households where the language has been passed down from the days of the Ottoman Empire. And it struggles to survive in its displacement. Now, the endurance of the dialect depends on the stretched Western Armenian-speaking communities across the world, from Beirut to Los Angeles.

2 months ago | mirrorspectator.com | Edward Tomic |WIlliam Saroyan

By Edward TomicPORTLAND (Maine Wire) — Several members of Maine’s Armenian community are calling for the resignation of the director of the Maine Office of New Americans (ONA) due to his history of making anti-Armenian comments on social media. Tarlan Ahmadov was appointed by Gov. Janet Mills as ONA director in December 2024.