As Nikol Pashinyan has emerged as the winner of the June 20th Snap Parliamentary Elections, AGBU offers its congratulations to Mr. Pashinyan as the duly re-elected Prime Minister of Armenia. By a decisive margin, voters have given him a second chance to make good on his promises to address all that contributed to the tragic losses of the 2020 Artsakh War...

 

 

 

 

Until about two months ago, Marine Melkonyan, a 42-year-old mother of one, had had to rely on the occasional online course or freelance assignment to maintain her skills as a computer programmer. But after a decade without a full-time job, Marine knew she was hitting a wall in her professional development with little hope in sight. Nor was she getting any younger to be making a radical career shift. “It was all becoming rather depressing,” she admits. It wasn’t until she stumbled on a Facebook ad for the Armenian General Benevolent Union WomenCoders program that she allowed herself to dream again...

 

 

On June 2, 2021, AGBU President Berge Setrakian, Vera Setrakian and Vasken Yacoubian, accompanied by AGBU members, friends and partners paid their respects to the soldiers who lost their lives during the 2020 Arstakh War. AGBU youth was represented by groups from the AGBU Scouts and Young Professionals as well as students from Hayortats Children’s Centers. They took part in a memorial service held at Yerablur Military Memorial Cemetery, where many of Armenia’s war heroes are laid to rest. His Eminence Archbishop Nathan Hovhannisyan led the religious service...

 

 

As the world’s largest Armenian non-profit organization with a 115 year history serving our people, AGBU has long understood the value of an unequivocal recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 by the United States of America. After many missed opportunities, that elusive clarity from an American president was finally brought to bear on the official record through the words of...