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“The entire Armenian Nation feels the pride and satisfaction of one of its own receiving one of the highest honors in the world."

Following a citizen’s request, the Commune of Ixelles, in Brussels, took the initiative of organizing an awareness raising campaign to inform its inhabitants about the Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict, hardly covered in the Belgian media, and...

On September 27, 2020, the Armenian World experienced a rude awakening about the national security of our homeland. Since that fateful day, the people of Armenia and Artsakh have had much to overcome. AGBU wishes them resilience and healing in...

This September 21st marks three decades since the Armenian people voted to declare independence as a sovereign nation state, a status not possessed for many centuries since historical Armenia fell under the rule of successive empires except for the...

Marking TUMO’s 10 year anniversary and the inauguration of the new TUMO Gyumri building, the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies today announced a five year, $50 million initiative to make its leading edge educational program available to all...

"I am a better person and community member because of the opportunities that I have taken advantage of through AGBU."

Erin Piñon, a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University in the Department of Art & Archaeology, has been awarded the first AGBU Helen C. Evans Scholarship, which was launched in early 2020 by Ani and Mark Gabrellian to honor the curator and...

Creative Armenia and the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) are excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2022 Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellowships. Filmmakers, musicians, writers, and artists across all creative fields are...

Among the many hard lessons learned by the Armenians in the 2020 Artsakh War was their inability to mount a cohesive and compelling counterforce to the rampant false narratives disseminated in the international media by Azerbaijan and Turkey. By all...

AGBU congratulates Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his team on this week’s formation of a new government of Armenia. This, alone, is a positive achievement, given the complexities of the country’s internal political environment and the serious...