Armenian Alliance

Armenian Alliance is an NGO that supports networking, advocacy, education, and charitable projects for Armenians around the world.

[Armenian Alliance @ArmAlliance]

Armenian Alliance official statement to mark the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
#ArmenianGenocide

[Olivier Decottignies @O_Decottignies]

Հաղթական կամարի մոտ. հայկական դրոշը ֆրանսիական դրոշի կողքին, Փարիզի կենտրոնում և ֆրանսիացիների սրտերում։

[EVN Report @evn_report]

Armenia’s first military parade in a decade offered the clearest public glimpse yet into the country’s rapidly developing defense capabilities — from French howitzers and Indian missile systems to Chinese drones and locally produced weapons. @HovhanNaz
https://t.co/npt1VZ3b75

[Mkhitar Hayrapetyan @Hayrapetyan_M]

RISE Powered by Silicon Mountains 2026, organised by UEICT with support of the Ministry of High-Tech Industry of Armenia 🚀

Exhibition & forum brings together Armenian companies, research centers, engineering teams to showcase latest advances in defense, innovation & science.

[Professor Kopalyan @hyepatriarch]

‼️How America Became a Pillar of Armenia’s Security ‼️

My new article details America's growing investment in Armenia's security architecture:

🔹️for the first time the United States will allow for the sale of U.S.-made defense articles, which includes tangible equipment or hardware designed, developed, or modified for military, missile, satellite, or other controlled purposes. 
🔹️U.S. will support the development of Armenia’s domestic defense industrial capabilities, while initiating cooperation between the American and Armenian defense industries, designed to enhance Armenia's strategic autonomy.  
🔹️U.S. is investing in border security, institutional capacity-building and the development of agencies responsible for safeguarding Armenia’s frontiers
🔹️U.S. will share intelligence and sensitive information with Yerevan to strengthen risk-mitigation and access to actionable intelligence
🔹️the TRIPP Framework Agreement confirms the successful “de-corridorization” of TRIPP by the U.S. and Armenia, thus outright negating all and every misinformation on extra-territoriality, “Zangezur-ization,” “unimpeded” Azerbaijani access, or the abdication of Armenian sovereignty narratives advanced by pro-Russia proxies in Armenia and Diaspora.

https://t.co/XzCMAQbbQ4

[Sossi Tatikyan @STatikyan]

These are the products of Armenian military industry companies.
In order to have peace in the conditions of assymmetrical security challenges, geopolitical contestation and fragmentation of international order, small states should build deterrence against military coercion.

[Moritz Gathmann @moritz_gathmann]

Im Jahr 2003 hab ich ein halbes Jahr in Jerewan in einer armenischen Familie gelebt und das Land und seine Menschen sehr sehr lieb gewonnen. (Seitdem warb ich auch immer für Reisen nach Armenien und fand dagegen Georgien immer überbewertet.) Die Parlamentswahl am kommenden Sonntag ist nun ein guter Anlass, um diese wunderschöne Reisegeschichte meiner Kollegin Helen Bömelburg zu posten, die sich mit Mann und Kindern auf die Spuren ihrer Babysitterin Lilit machte. In Zeiten, in denen man zeitweise das Gefühl hat, dass Länder nur noch nach ihrem geopolitischen Wert gemessen werden, ist der Text eine Lektüre wert. Also mir geht das Herz auf, wenn ich das lese. https://t.co/xFJdvJn8Od

[CIVILNET @CivilNetTV]

Armenians head to the polls on June 7 to vote in national elections that have been replete with accusations of foreign interference. For a country of three million with hundreds of thousands of citizens abroad, one electoral regulation seems likely to play a notable role: Armenian citizens can only cast ballots from within Armenia itself.

Armenia is one of only a handful of countries that solely permit votes to be cast from within the country’s borders. Most countries allow citizens abroad to vote, either through mail-in ballots or polling stations set up internationally. Yerevan, however, barred voting abroad in 2007 following the introduction of dual citizenship. Today, only small numbers of diplomatic personnel and their families are able to vote in Armenian elections from outside of the country.

Other countries barring citizens from casting ballots internationally include Israel, Ireland, Turkey, and Cyprus.

For countries with large numbers of citizens abroad, international voting can prove decisive. Moldova, with a domestic population of 2.4 million and 1.1 million citizens abroad, serves as one high-profile example. In Moldova’s 2024 referendum setting EU accession as a state goal, votes by the EU-based Moldovan diaspora helped deliver a European victory in the tightly contested election. That same year, EU diaspora voters helped re-elect the pro-Western President Maia Sandu, defeating more Russian aligned forces.

Read more on https://t.co/c15YwXERpW

[Edite Medne @LVAmb_Georgia]

Latvia 🇱🇻supports 🇦🇲Armenia! The first direct cargo of the beautiful Armenian roses has arrived from Yerevan to Riga with airBaltic! Armenian people are free to choose their friends and reliable partners!

[Zartonk Media @ZartonkMedia]

Global Fundraising Campaign Begins for Richard G. Hovannisian Library in Yerevan to House His 10,000-Volume Collection 🇦🇲
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A global fundraising campaign has officially launched to support the creation of the Richard G. Hovannisian Library in the heart of Yerevan. Dedicated to honoring and extending the monumental legacy of the late Professor Hovannisian, a titan of modern Armenian history, the library will permanently house the unparalleled collection of more than 10,000 books and volumes he amassed over his lifetime, and it is envisioned as an enduring intellectual sanctuary for the Armenian nation.

The scope of what is being preserved is difficult to overstate. Born to Armenian Genocide survivors in California's San Joaquin Valley in 1932, Hovannisian set out on a life's journey to pioneer the field of Armenian Studies in the United States and across the world. He joined the faculty at UCLA in the early 1960s, developed the university's Armenian history curriculum, and founded and held the AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History, later renamed in his honor. Over more than half a century of teaching he trained generations of scholars and helped found the Society for Armenian Studies, transforming a subject that had little academic footing in the West into a recognized field of serious inquiry.

His written legacy is the foundation on which much of that field now rests. He wrote the four-volume masterpiece "The Republic of Armenia," the definitive history of the short-lived First Republic of 1918 to 1920, a work that secured the place of that fragile state in both Armenian and world history. He preserved the history of the Armenian Genocide through several more books and a comprehensive oral history collection, which now resides at USC's Shoah Foundation, capturing the testimony of survivors before their voices were lost. His series of conferences on the historic Armenian cities and provinces also became books, wherein the lost history, culture, and spirit of Western Armenia are forever preserved. He passed away in Los Angeles in July 2023 at the age of 90.

The Richard G. Hovannisian Library is envisaged as a world-class cultural and intellectual space worthy of that legacy. Work is already well underway on the ground in Yerevan, where specialists and catalogers are meticulously indexing the vast archival collection. By the end of this year, these volumes will be integrated into a beautifully designed facility featuring custom, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. The space will serve as a dynamic center for the study and advancement of Armenian and regional studies, inspiring a new generation of scholars, thinkers, and leaders through a year-round calendar of panels, symposia, and educational programming.

While the Hovannisian family, together with several allied Armenian institutions, has borne the lion's share of the initial project and construction costs, a global campaign has been launched to bring this history-in-the-making across the finish line, funding the final outfitting of the space, ongoing archival work, and future programming. The project is being implemented on the ground in Yerevan by Creative Armenia.

"We hope to build, in my grandfather's name, a library that will not only perpetuate his legacy, but that will allow new generations of Armenians to discover the riches of our past and to be inspired and propelled toward our future," said Garin Hovannisian, Founder of Creative Armenia.

The undertaking speaks to a quiet but consequential truth about national survival. A people whose history has so often been targeted for erasure secures its future in part by safeguarding its past, and a library of this kind is an act of preservation as much as it is an act of scholarship. For a man who spent his life ensuring that the Armenian story would be written down, remembered, and taught, there could be few more fitting tributes than a permanent home in Yerevan where that work continues.

Those wishing to make a tax-deductible contribution to the campaign can do so through the official donation portal at https://t.co/UfOPjCokV6.

[301🇦🇲 @301arm]

This map shows the widespread Armenian population across the Armenian Highlands before the Armenian Genocide of 1915. These once-thriving communities, rooted in their ancestral lands, have since been erased through systematic massacres and deportations that aimed to annihilate an entire people.

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

On Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, we remember the 1.5 million Armenians killed 111 years ago in a horrific genocide.

I was proud to be Speaker when Congress formally recognized the Armenian Genocide. And it was my honor to lead a Congressional delegation to visit the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial and pay respects to the men, women and children who were murdered.

By affirming the history of this tragedy, we work to make sure such horror can never again happen.

[301🇦🇲 @301arm]

Arshile Gorky was born Vostanik Adoyan, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. He was just a child when his world collapsed, forced into exile, witnessing starvation, displacement, and the loss of everything that had once been home. He was still a teenager when his mother died in his arms, a moment that would shape him for the rest of his life.

What followed was not simply a new beginning, but a long and deliberate act of rebuilding. In exile, he reshaped himself, taking on a new name and constructing a new life from what remained.

He became Arshile Gorky, one of the pioneers of abstract expressionism, helping define a new direction in modern art. But this transformation was never a break from the past.

In works like The Artist and His Mother, he returns to what was lost, not as it was, but as it lived on in memory.

Gorky’s life is not only a story of loss, but of what follows it, the ability to rebuild, to create, and to carry memory forward without letting it disappear.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

Today, we join the Armenian community here in Los Angeles and around the world to remember the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

We honor the lives lost, the families torn apart, and the generations who have carried this history forward with strength and dignity. We also recognize the resilience of Armenian Angelenos, whose contributions have helped shape our City’s culture, economy, and civic life in lasting ways.

Los Angeles is home to one of the largest Armenian communities outside of Armenia. Their story is part of our City’s story. From small businesses to the arts, from education to public service, Armenian Angelenos continue to enrich every corner of our City.

As we remember, we also reaffirm our commitment to truth, to justice, and to standing against hate in all its forms. We stand with our Armenian community today and every day.

[Rep. Zoe Lofgren @RepZoeLofgren]

Today, we honor the 1.5 million lives lost to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 perpetrated by the Turkish government of the Ottoman Empire. 111 years later, it’s important to combat disinformation about this atrocity and defend the human dignity of all people.

[Nara @nmatini]

From @ccaf_france Co-President @FranckPapazian’s speech today in #Paris, commemorating the #ArmenianGenocide.

He also spoke about the #EthnicCleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh and the 19 Armenian hostages held in Azerbaijan.

As always, a powerful speech.

[Lianna @lianna_armenian]

✝️🇦🇲 Stand with #Armenia.

Never forgive the #Armenian Genocide.

Never forget #Artsakh.

Never forget the crimes against humanity.

Never forget the crimes against #Christians around the world.

#History #Arménie

[Zartonk Media @ZartonkMedia]

Armenian Genocide orphan survivors in Adana were forced to hold Ottoman flags and pose in front of a portrait of Djemal Pasha, one of the chief perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide, who was responsible for the murder of the parents and families of these children and the destruction of 1.5 million Armenians.

One of the leaders of the Young Turks, Djemal Pasha became notorious for his cruelty and was known as “Djemal the Butcher.” Today, The Turks use this photograph as supposed proof that he did not murder Armenians, but instead saved them by establishing orphanages for Armenian children.

In reality, this image stands as a chilling reminder of the brutality and hypocrisy of the genocide era, with Armenian children who had lost their parents and families forced to honor one of the very men responsible for their suffering.

Djemal Pasha was assassinated on July 21, 1922, by Armenian Revolutionary Federation members Stepan Dzaghigian, Artashes Kevorkian, and Bedros Der Boghosian as part of Operation Nemesis, the Armenian mission to track down and assassinate the surviving chief perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.

[301🇦🇲 @301arm]

111 years since the Armenian Genocide.

Beginning in 1915 and continuing until 1923, the Ottoman Turks carried out a deliberate and systematic campaign to destroy the Armenian people in their historic homeland.

Through deportations, starvation, forced marches, and mass killings, 1.5 million Armenians were murdered.

What was meant to be erased still speaks.

A fragment survived, carried across exile and generations, preserved not by chance, but through refusal. Not just as an object, but as proof that identity endures.

A 1725 Hmayil, passed down through generations—from Cilicia to Aintab, through exile in Lebanon and Egypt, and ultimately to Armenia—survived not only the Armenian Genocide but also the wars of Lebanon. Restored in 2025 at the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, it stands today as a living testament to memory, faith, and continuity.

Read about a relic that survived the Armenian Genocide in the full article by Christ Iskenderian. Full article available at https://t.co/hdr488LY1m.

This is not only remembrance.
It is responsibility.

Memory demands recognition.
Recognition demands justice.
Justice demands reparations.

We do not inherit history to mourn it alone, but to protect it, restore it, and pass it forward.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

En ce 24 avril, la République commémore le génocide des Arméniens de 1915 et s'incline devant la mémoire des victimes.

C'est une occasion de se souvenir, de transmettre et de souligner le lien indissoluble qui unit la France à l'Arménie et les Français aux Arméniens.

[301🇦🇲 @301arm]

04.24.1915

We remember and demand

301 photojournalist: David Ghahramanyan