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EXCLUSIVE REPORT: The Armenian Report team took a trip to the Armenia-Turkey border villages to meet the residents who live in the Bagaran community of Armavir Province in Armenia. Bagaran borders with Turkey. Here, the dividing line of the Armenian-Turkish border is the Akhuryan River, which joins Araks. The village is 50 meters away from the Turkish border, there are parts of the village that are only separated from Turkey by barbed wire. Russian border guards have a base here. The residents of the community accompanied our reporter and presented the village. They shared with us their concerns regarding the…

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The parents of those servicemen who were killed during the 2020 Artsakh war have joined the two servicemen who are on a hunger strike in Yerevan’s Freedom Square. The Armenian Report spoke with Garik Galeyan, the father of Mkhitar Galeyan, who died in the 44-day war. We caught up with Galeyan in Freedom Square who called on all Armenians to fight for Artsakh, not to allow Artsakh to become part of Azerbaijan. He emphasized that they gave the most precious thing for Artsakh, they are ready to remove the authorities of a decisive struggle, to keep Artsakh. “One…

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CANDID TALK WITH ARMENIAN RAPPER AND ACTIVIST, R-MEAN R-Mean is an Armenian-American Hip Hop artist who gained massive popularity in the community for his song about the Armenian Genocide titled “Open Wounds”. The song led R-Mean and his team to launch merchandise (specifically t-shirts) to help spread genocide awareness. In this interview with R-Mean; we talk about his childhood, breaking into the entertainment industry as a Hip Hop artirst and as an Armenian artist, his advice for kids and parents who want to become rappers, and I ask him if he think the Armenian Genocide will get the worldwide recognition…

Today Armenia celebrated International Women’s Day, also known as March 8. The Armenian Report team went out to Yerevan to capture the festivities — where we spotted men buying fresh garden Spring flowers for the women in their life. We even spotted an Armenian celebrity, world famous weightlifter Simon Martirosyan. To our surprise, we also saw dogs in costumes. History of International Women’s Day: When women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there. But Soviet Armenia officially began celebrating March 8 since 1921. After Armenia’s Independence in 1991, there were attempts to remove…

How children in Gyumri, Armenia celebrated International Children’s Day during a global pandemic. One kid says he dreams of getting a Playstation, while the other boy asks for a microscope. They also wished Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan a happy birthday. The Armenian Report has hired reporter in Armenia thanks to our monthly donors to help us get stories from the locals in the motherland. Consider becoming a monthly donor — donorbox.org/thearmenianreport ® 2020  The Armenian Report. All Rights Reserved source

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ARMENIA’S FIRST DAUGHTER — Mariam Pashinyan. Mariam is the eldest daughter of Armenia’s new Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Nikol Pashinyan successfully led a peaceful revolution in a corrupt, post soviet country. He woke an entire nation and its diaspora. Nowadays there’s immense interest for Armenia from Armenians and non-Armenians around the world. Whatever is happening in Armenia, we want to know! And what a lot of young Armenians want to know is, who is Mariam Pashinyan? Mariam is 20-years-old and a recent college graduate. She was studying abroad during the Velvet Revolution and returned back to a…