On March 19, 2014 the presentation of 20 books dedicated to life and work of the outstanding traveler, polar explorer, oceanographer, scientist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Fridtjof Nansen took place in YSU Yeghishe Charents Hall on the initiative of YSU Faculty of Journalism and "Fridtjof Nansen" foundation....

The Institute for Armenian Studies of YSU is united under  one roof. After the reconstruction the opening ceremony of a new storey of IAS took place on the 20th of December, 2013. The chief of the stuff of the president of the Republic of Armenia Vigen Sargsyan, RA Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Radik Martirosyan, YSU rector, director of IAS Aram Simonyan, vice-rectors and professors of YSU were present in the opening ceremony....

An article on current state of  NKAR, achievements during 20 years after the war and Armenian people’s love and dedication to their motherland was published in Ukrainian www.segodnya.ua web-site....

On November 22, a conference took place in YSU on the life and literary works of Nizami Gyanjavi. The theme is urgent because Azerbaijan appropriates the cultural properties of other nations and represents these cultural properties to the world as its own. From the Soviet period  the political frames of Azerbaijan introduce Nizami Gyanjavi as Azerbaijani poet.  This fact is used for political and ideological aims....

The magazine «Russian Reporter» published a reportage in November, where the author Shura Burtin represents his interview with Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli and his trip to Baku and village Aylisli. Speaking about the novel «Stone dreams» ...

Armenian pupils of Lebanon will be taught Armenian History with new textbooks. The textbook is going to be assembled in upcoming year. One textbook on History of Armenia will be offered to different schools of the community....

«Armenian «orphan rug» is in White House storage, as unseen as genocide is neglected»,- writes American «Washington Post». The rug was woven by orphans in the 1920s and formally presented to the White House in 1925. The carpet is a richly detailed work that would hold its own even in the largest and most ceremonial rooms.  If you can read a carpet’s cues, the plants and animals depicted on the rug may represent the Garden of Eden....