<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Armenite</title><description>Armenian news, analysis, and commentary that you will find nowhere else.</description><link>https://thearmenite.com/</link><item><title>Recent Appointment Suggests More Diplomatic Ineptitude on the Horizon</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2025/10/nikol-pashinyan-ambassador-united-states-narek-mkrtchyan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2025/10/nikol-pashinyan-ambassador-united-states-narek-mkrtchyan/</guid><description>A critique of Nikol Pashinyan’s seven years of diplomatic failures, humiliating negotiations, and incompetent political appointments.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:07:06 GMT</pubDate><category>Diaspora</category><category>Politics</category><author>Vicken Sonentz-Papazian</author></item><item><title>Why is the ANCA-Western Region Honoring Edward Djerejian?</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2023/11/why-is-the-anca-western-region-honoring-edward-djerejian/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2023/11/why-is-the-anca-western-region-honoring-edward-djerejian/</guid><description>The ANCA-Western Region is honoring a cowardly man who has not only failed Armenians, but who has actively supported Genocide deniers.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 23:21:01 GMT</pubDate><category>Opinion</category><author>Editor</author></item><item><title>Can people who have been baptized in other churches receive Holy Communion in the Armenian Church?</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2022/10/baptized-other-churches-receive-holy-communion-armenian-church/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2022/10/baptized-other-churches-receive-holy-communion-armenian-church/</guid><description>Can members of the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, or Protestant denominations receive Holy Communion in the Armenian Church?</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:23:35 GMT</pubDate><category>Church</category><category>Ecumenism</category><author>Editor</author></item><item><title>Why Armenia Should Be Free by Garo Pasdermadjian (Armen Garo)</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2022/06/why-armenia-should-be-free-by-garo-pasdermadjian-armen-garo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2022/06/why-armenia-should-be-free-by-garo-pasdermadjian-armen-garo/</guid><description>Written in 1918 by Armen Garo, this seminal work about Armenia&apos;s liberation directed at an anglophone audience is presented here in its entirety.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:30:04 GMT</pubDate><category>History</category><category>Library</category><author>Editor</author></item><item><title>Serj Tankian Unleashes Vulgar Tirade on Fellow Armenians</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2022/06/serj-tankian-unleashes-vulgar-tirade-on-fellow-armenians/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2022/06/serj-tankian-unleashes-vulgar-tirade-on-fellow-armenians/</guid><description>Serj Tankian tells a young woman living in Artsakh to &quot;go get f**ked&quot; alongside other vulgar comments after releasing song calling for unity.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:06:35 GMT</pubDate><category>Culture</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Armenia’s Geopolitics and Parallels in the Region: William Bairamian on Meet the Revolution Podcast</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2022/03/armenias-geopolitics-and-parallels-in-the-region-william-bairamian-on-meet-the-revolution-podcast-armenian/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2022/03/armenias-geopolitics-and-parallels-in-the-region-william-bairamian-on-meet-the-revolution-podcast-armenian/</guid><description>Editor-in-chief William Bairamian spoke with the Meet the Revolution podcast to discuss the geopolitics of Armenia and the region, including Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and Georgia.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:05:12 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category><author>Editor</author></item><item><title>The Concept of Nationality</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2022/01/the-concept-of-nationality-hakob-manandyan-beyon-miloyan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2022/01/the-concept-of-nationality-hakob-manandyan-beyon-miloyan/</guid><description>A comprehensive discourse on nationality from an Armenian perspective by Hakob Manandyan writing in 1917 in a Baku-based periodical.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:06:20 GMT</pubDate><category>Library</category><category>Politics</category><author>Beyon Miloyan</author></item><item><title>Facebook Deleting Pictures, Mentions of Monte Melkonian, Restricting Accounts</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/12/facebook-deleting-pictures-of-monte-melkonian-restricting-accounts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/12/facebook-deleting-pictures-of-monte-melkonian-restricting-accounts/</guid><description>The Armenian national hero is being equated with racists, drug dealers, and jihadists and his pictures systematically removed from Facebook.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 20:10:24 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Where is the Money, Armenia Fund?</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/11/where-is-the-money-armenia-fund/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/11/where-is-the-money-armenia-fund/</guid><description>Millions of dollars donated to Armenia Fund were transferred to the Pashinyan government state budget with no accounting. Where is it?</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 11:44:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Ecumenical Declaration of Pope John Paul II and Karekin I (1996)</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/11/ecumenical-declaration-of-pope-john-paul-ii-and-karekin-i-1996/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/11/ecumenical-declaration-of-pope-john-paul-ii-and-karekin-i-1996/</guid><description>An ecumenical declaration by Pope John Paul II of the Catholic Church and Karekin I, Catholicos of All Armenians.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 17:38:43 GMT</pubDate><category>Church</category><category>Ecumenism</category><category>Library</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Artsakh, Bananas, and Sugar</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/09/artsakh-independence-day-bananas-and-sugar/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/09/artsakh-independence-day-bananas-and-sugar/</guid><description>We lost Artsakh but at least now everyone can import bananas and sugar. Right?</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 19:59:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Opinion</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Catholicos Gevorg V’s Message on the Eve of the Battle of Sardarapat</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/07/catholicos-gevorg-v-surenyants-message-on-the-eve-of-the-battle-of-sardarapat-sardarabad/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/07/catholicos-gevorg-v-surenyants-message-on-the-eve-of-the-battle-of-sardarapat-sardarabad/</guid><description>As Armenians prepared for the battle that would decide their fate, the Catholicos refused to abandon Etchmiadzin - and insisted on a fight until the end.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:20:37 GMT</pubDate><category>Church</category><category>Library</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Worship in the Armenian Church (Some Assembly Required)</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/07/worship-armenian-church-some-assembly-required-findikyan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/07/worship-armenian-church-some-assembly-required-findikyan/</guid><description>An insightful read about the challenges of being a Christian - especially an Armenian Christian outside of the homeland - in the modern age.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:57:30 GMT</pubDate><category>Church</category><category>Library</category><author>Editor</author></item><item><title>What Next?</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/06/what-next-post-june-2021-election-armenia-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/06/what-next-post-june-2021-election-armenia-future/</guid><description>There will be no abandoning the homeland, there will be no abandoning the Armenian Nation</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:40:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Society</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Join The Armenite</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/06/join-the-armenite/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/06/join-the-armenite/</guid><description>We are looking to expand our team and we have positions available in different areas. We are an outlet strongly devoted to the Armenian Nation:…</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 23:40:42 GMT</pubDate><category>Notes</category><author>Editor</author></item><item><title>The Story of Foreign Money in Armenia</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/06/foreign-money-in-armenia-ngo-media-funding/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/06/foreign-money-in-armenia-ngo-media-funding/</guid><description>Millions of dollars poured into Armenia over twenty years, creating a vast and powerful network that usurped power in 2018.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2021 21:59:31 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Robert Kocharyan, Dushman Vardan, and Devotion to Nation</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/06/robert-kocharyan-dushman-vardan-and-devotion-to-nation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/06/robert-kocharyan-dushman-vardan-and-devotion-to-nation/</guid><description>Despite the campaign to defame him, Robert Kocharyan has always been ready to serve his nation, even at the risk of his own life.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2021 16:27:00 GMT</pubDate><category>History</category><category>Politics</category><author>Enrico Fumificus</author></item><item><title>Why Do Oppressed Nations Adopt a National Course?</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/06/why-do-oppressed-nations-adopt-a-national-course-hakob-manandyan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/06/why-do-oppressed-nations-adopt-a-national-course-hakob-manandyan/</guid><description>Hakob Manandyan, one of the 20th century&apos;s great Armenologists, considers the question of the nationalism in the Armenian context.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2021 15:20:26 GMT</pubDate><category>Library</category><category>Politics</category><author>Beyon Miloyan</author></item><item><title>Why Is Robert Kocharyan So Hated?</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/05/why-is-robert-kocharyan-so-hated/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/05/why-is-robert-kocharyan-so-hated/</guid><description>The truth about why Armenian national hero Robert Kocharyan is hated by so many people will undoubtedly surprise you.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2021 19:24:00 GMT</pubDate><category>History</category><category>Politics</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Serzh Sargsyan Opens Up</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/04/serzh-sargsyan-opens-up-interview-armnews/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/04/serzh-sargsyan-opens-up-interview-armnews/</guid><description>A summary of Serzh Sargsyan&apos;s interview where he opens for the first time about what happened in 2018, Karen Karapetyan, and the military.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Politics</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>April 23, Three Years After the Fall</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/04/april-23-three-years-after-the-fall/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/04/april-23-three-years-after-the-fall/</guid><description>April 23, 2018 was the day that the mob won and the descent of the Armenian Nation toward its modern-day nadir began.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2021 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>History</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>The Time for Protest is Over</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/04/the-time-for-protest-is-over/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/04/the-time-for-protest-is-over/</guid><description>Protests are a distraction from the important existential issues facing the Armenian Nation. This revelatory year is a good time for them to stop.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 05:25:11 GMT</pubDate><category>Culture</category><category>Society</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Resurrecting Faith and Nation</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/04/resurrecting-faith-and-nation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/04/resurrecting-faith-and-nation/</guid><description>This Easter as Armenians celebrate the Resurrection of Christ, they should also reflect deeply on their present troubles and their source.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2021 20:48:35 GMT</pubDate><category>Church</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Soghomon’s Sacrifice</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/03/soghomons-sacrifice/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/03/soghomons-sacrifice/</guid><description>We were not asked to make the same sacrifice as Soghomon Tehlirian but were we willing to make any sacrifice at all? Are we now?</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:17:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Opinion</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Ceausescu and Crocodile Tears</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/02/ceausescu-and-crocodile-tears/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/02/ceausescu-and-crocodile-tears/</guid><description>Nikol Pashinyan supporters are outraged at the staging of a performance depicting the execution of Nikola Ceausescu, choosing to forget a much darker past of such occurrences.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:55:21 GMT</pubDate><category>Society</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>The Immoral Art of Subtly Supporting Pashinyan</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/02/the-immoral-art-of-subtly-supporting-pashinyan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/02/the-immoral-art-of-subtly-supporting-pashinyan/</guid><description>Saying &quot;no to Nikol, but no to his predecessors, too&quot; is an immoral position that is threatening the future of Armenia.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:03:07 GMT</pubDate><category>Opinion</category><author>Enrico Fumificus</author></item><item><title>The Treaty of Nvarsag: A Document of Human Rights</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/02/the-treaty-of-nvarsag-a-document-of-human-rights-vartan-vahan-mamigonian/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/02/the-treaty-of-nvarsag-a-document-of-human-rights-vartan-vahan-mamigonian/</guid><description>Over 700 years before the Magna Carta, the Treaty of Nvarsag established a Law to regulate the relations between king and noblemen.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 19:23:12 GMT</pubDate><category>History</category><category>Library</category><author>Editor</author></item><item><title>Armenian Bible</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/02/armenian-bible/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/02/armenian-bible/</guid><description>Read the Bible in Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian, Classical Armenian, or in translations approved by the Armenian Church in English.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2021 23:39:55 GMT</pubDate><category>Church</category><category>Library</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Learn Armenian</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/02/learn-armenian/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/02/learn-armenian/</guid><description>Learn Armenian - Eastern, Western, or Classical - for free using these online resources we have compiled, including books and dictionaries.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:15:15 GMT</pubDate><category>Library</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item><item><title>Disposable Diaspora</title><link>https://thearmenite.com/2021/01/disposable-diaspora/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thearmenite.com/2021/01/disposable-diaspora/</guid><description>Armenians love the Diaspora when they need something from it. But as soon as they go off script, they&apos;re attacked - often by other Diasporans.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2021 11:30:52 GMT</pubDate><category>Society</category><author>William Bairamian</author></item></channel></rss>