Where are we going?

Day by day we are trying to develop new features to increase our reader's satisfaction and there are still lots of things to do.This page reveals the ways we passed and the future we are going to. We are open for your suggestions and we are looking forward to hear from you, because we care about your opinions and try hard to help you find the truth.

About Project

This project launched on January 06, 2005. One of the reasons of opening this project was the reality, that majority of the Armenian Internet published media are installed in Armenia where Internet connection is noticeably slow and collecting them on the fast server could increase the audience. The other reason is to get a chance to spread a word about Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh Republic. This project is aimed to accomplish these objectives:

Concentrate all information and news about Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR) in one place.
Help increase popularity of media and information agencies from Armenia and NKR.
Organize public discussions in the forum about political, social and cultural issues.
Publish articles, opinions and other materials provided by organizations and individuals about Armenia and NKR.
Help increase awareness of Armenian Genocide, that took place in 1915-1922 in Ottoman Turkey.

All Information gathered from Internet without human participation and represented exactly as originals.
This project designed, programmed and maintained by me (aka SkyFlyer).

Website News Archive

2007-06-25 New "Virtual Keyboard" for Armenian and Russian languages, placed on news discussion panel.
2007-05-08 "Hayots Ashkhar" news engine added to the website.
2007-05-01 "Chorrord Ishkhanutyun" news engine added to the website.
2007-01-17 We have a new forum based on "Invision Board".
2007-01-12 "ArmeniaNow" news engine added to the website.
2006-09-18 "Novosti-Armenia" news engine added to the website.
2006-04-28 "Zhamanak" news engine added to the website.
2006-03-28 "News Export" page added to the website. Now you can easly add latest news from Armenia to your web project.
2006-02-01 "Yerevan Nights", "Stver Broadcasting" and "HyeVibes" Internet radio stations added to the website.
2005-11-12 "Statistics" page added to the website.
2005-11-10 "Panorama" news engine added to the website.
2005-09-20 "Online Radio" page added to the website.
2005-08-24 "Golos Armeni" news engine added to the website.
2005-08-10 "News Release" news engine added to the website.
2005-07-25 "Armenialiberty" news engine added to the website.
2005-06-27 "Events Calendar" calendar of cultural events in Armenia is available.
2005-04-07 "Yerkir" news engine added to the website.
2005-04-06 "Azat Artsakh" news engine added to the website.
2005-04-05 "A1+" news engine added to the website.
2005-04-04 "Aravot" news engine added to the website.
2005-04-01 Now, all pages on the website are XHTML1.1 and CSS2 compliant.
2005-03-31 "Forex rates history" against Armenian Dram are available.
2005-03-29 "Temperature history" for Armenian major cities are available.
2005-02-15 "Panarmenian" news engine added to the website.
2005-01-22 "Azg" news engine added to the website.
2005-01-12 Code and image optimization for increasing efficiency and decreasing download time.
2005-01-06 Official opening of the armtown.com

Website Wish List

DANIEL SERMACISIAN | URUGUAY | 04.20.2010 11:22
My name is Daniel Sermacisian I from URUGUAY Check up my web site www.tribunaarmenia.com I put from 5 years ago news in armenian colectivity in URUGUAY, ARGENTINA and BRASIL and some news in armenia and the world. In my site I put all events for remember the armenian genocide, in URUGUAY ARGENTINA and BRASIL. MI SITE IS IN SPANISH BUT YOU CANT TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH, CREEK, ITALIAN, PORTUGUESE AND FRENCH, look the flag of each country. I like this site because I can see the opinion of armenians on the diaspora. thanks Daniel Sermacisian www.tribunaarmenia.com

Hi Daniel, Very informative website. Keep up the good work and tanks for kind words regarding this project.
George Patsourakos | UNITED STATES | 03.07.2010 12:11
I wrote an article on my blog yesterday completely backing American recognition of the Armenian genocide. I thought you might want to include it on your website or be able to refer readers to it on your website. My article is titled "COMMENTARY: U.S. Must Recognize Armenian Genocide Despite Denial, Threats by Turkey." You can read it by logging onto my blog at . My e-mail address is patrician125@yahoo.com if you want to get in touch with me. Thank you for your consideration of my article. George Patsourakos

Dear George, armtown.com is a news aggregation service, therefor we don't publish our own articles. Thanks for your article.
Man | GREECE | 10.31.2009 06:13
THANKSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:) Welcome.
Canada | VARTAN | 09.25.2009 23:39
Thank you for the website. I try to keep up with all the news from Motherland. The site is good. However, the design and some pictures remain the same probably since the origination. It would be nace to have a mobile version of the site. I understand it takes resourses to maintain and to develop it and I'm willing to invest some.

Very good suggestion regarding mobile version of the site. If you can help me in any ways, I would be glad to accept it. Just let me know.
Jessica | U.S.A | 03.07.2009 23:06
Thanks that you have this web site. We read and analized what going on in Armenia.Please develop more things if it is possible.God bless Armenia. Ura!

Ura...ura...ura!!! I will try to add some more sources in the future. Currently I have lots of problems with that because of poor programmed websites where Armenian online media currently presented. Thanks a lot dear Jessica for your reply and enjoy your stay!
Hovhannes Karapetyan | USA | 01.29.2009 19:44
Can you update the Armenian sport or football into English? It's only in Armenian, not english. I can't read Armenian very good! Thank you!

Unfortunately I can't translate news from one language to another. If you understand Armenian then it is possible to have Armenian text converter which will rewrite armenian text in English letters (translit). This is actually very good idea :) Thank you!
ara | LIBAN | 04.03.2008 07:53
You guys are doing a good job. Believe me everything is possible, keep thinking.

Thank you!
Patrik | SWEDEN | 12.15.2007 02:09
Dear sir my name is Patrik I live in Sweden. I am sending this email to you regarding a letter which is on your home page that I sent as a personal letter to the editor of the news paper of "Lragir" . I have now understood that they have publicly put it online, which was not my purpose or will. I would their for ask you to please remove my comment which is displayed on your homepage. The specific page is http://www.armtown.com/news/en/lra/20060824/5617/ Yours sincerely, Patrik

Sorry, but I cant change the article for any reason, because I simply don't own them. Next time when you send a letter to the media don't hesitate to mention that it is confidential and can't be published.
Garik | U.S.A | 11.09.2007 21:58
Hi u guys did a very nice jod on this website. Almost all of the news are here. Thats great. We all enjoy this website. Thanks .....

I am glad you liked it.
Tom Marlin | USA | 10.19.2007 11:56
Hi, i would like to say that your site is nice. My question is how i can became member and participate in discussion?

Dear Tom, You don't need to register for participating in discussions. You just put your name (nickname) and discussion and then submit it. That's the all magic.
Daniel Sermacisian | Uruguay | 07.19.2007 07:45
Hello. I from URUGUAY (southamerica). My grandparents came to URUGUAY in 1920. I have a website where I put news from Armenian and Armenians Community from URUGUAY and ARGENTINA. my web site is www.tribunaarmenia.com , is write in SPANISH and ENGLISH. My Father start in 1975 with a month magazine, and I continue this job by internet from april/2005. We transmite every saturday live a radio program from Armenian Community from Argentina or you can listen the program in our web site, we record and put at the web site. There is Armenians in Southamerica. In URUGUAY around 50000 armenians offspring. We want have contact with armenians of anyplace of the wordl. Our email is admin@tribunaarmenia.com Thank for let me contact with armenians. DANIEL SERMACISIAN www.tribunaarmenia.com email: admin@tribunaarmenia.com

Hi Daniel, I didn't know that there is so much Armenians in Uruguay. It is pretty big community and I am sure, it's well organized. I know that Uruguay is the first country which recognized the Armenian Genocide on the government level. I never came across to your website either. Very nice and clean design. If you need any help for getting latest news from Armenia from our website, then let me know and I will help you. Keep up the good work!
Michael Benlian Dir. Arm. Heritage prog. | BOSTON MA USA | 05.05.2007 09:18
I probably should not tell you this, but I can not tell fibbs to my compatriots. Since this information that you supply is very healthy and very rich, I am left with no choice and no options but to relay clips and segments of your news to my audiences on my radio station every sunday at 11:00 am on 91.5 FM from Lowell, greater Boston area in Massachusetts. We can also be heard on the webb site: WWW.WUML.org Click and listen. The listeners response has been tremendous. Thanks to you, to ARMTOWN.COM, without you, our success couldn't have been achieved. So to you I say: Thank You, and may God Bless you, and may God Bless the Independent Republic of Armenia. Getse Hayoutyoune. Our E-mail Address is: firstholocaust@yahoo.com

I am very pleased by your comment. This is the main reason of creating this project. Help world spread Armenian communities and organizations get relatively fresh and reliable information from Armenia. Thank you and I wish you the Best in your hard work.
Bakerdjian Sarkis Aram | sarkisaram@gmail.com | Brussels (Belgium) | 04.30.2007 23:30
Long life friendship between Republic of Armenia and Russian Federation. Thank you for this wonderful site. Sarkis Aram Bakerdjian av.Gen.Med.Derache 130 Brussels Belgium

Long life friendship to all countries. We are all sitting on the same branch of the tree and we don't need to cut it off.
P.S. I have removed your phone number. You don't need to put it online.
Viktor | USA | 02.18.2007 17:14
Thanks for the great idea and elegant implementation. It'd be nice to see tagging capabilities added to the site, for simple filtration of the news by their corresponding tags.

Thanks for the nice idea. I will think about and will do my best to implement this idea in the future.
William M. | U.S.A | 02.12.2007 17:13
Hi Armtown.com, My name is William Y.M. for my class discussion I’m talking about Armenia and history of Armenia. I have one question I could find it in my online research I was hoping maybe you can help me with this question. My question is, where do Armenians come from as far as their descended who are they blood line is it Semitic is it European or (Indio European) is it Arab? I fund your web-side very educational. By helping me with this question I would be able to educate the class more about Armenia and their history. Thank you William

Hi William,
It would be an honor for me to help you. Unfortunately I am not an historian, but I know enough to be able to help you. The best source about Armenian history available online is Wikipedia.
Please read it and if remains unanswered questions, then let me know.
Melkhachigian@sbcglobal.net | United States | 03.16.2006 20:46
I will be in Armenia, arriving in Yerevan July 14. Are there any opera productions at that time? It would be nice to have cultural news (i.e. musicals, dance groups, motion pictures, drama, etc.).

I have added an events calendar to the website which you could find here. I hope you will find in the events calendar what you where looking for. Have a fun in Yerevan and enjoy your trip.
Helen | USA | 03.14.2006 23:59
Congratulations on this great website. I know that it has been available for some time now, but unfortunately until today I was not able to view. To be perfectly honest with you, I wish I had checked it out sooner. I believe this website will unite more and more Armenians from around the world. Keep up the great work!!!One question: do you have any information on medical development in Armenia? Thank you Helen.

My dear wife. This is what I have been doing lately when I was sitting in front of computer. I believe this couldn't succeed without your love and support! I am very lucky for having you in my life. I don’t have latest developments in medical field in Armenia, but I am sure it is growing very fast. Thanks for your posting darling.
Afrikian Armen Richard | USA | 02.02.2006 01:27
The site is wonderful. The political, military, economic and educational news topics keep us informed. Travel information for children with their families and others would help the economy as well as our cultural growth.

Travel is the one of uncovered information about Armenia. I would love to provide targeted information about specific sector of the travel industry to you and other visitors. Please tell me what kind of information you are looking for (if you like, we can discuss this in the forum)?
Jason | USA | 01.11.2006 00:53
What is the e-mail of ArmTown.com? How can I contact the webmaster/owner?

You can contact me by admin@armtown.com Detailed information about the webmaster/owner could be found here.
Stver Broadcasting Inc. | TAMPA FL - USA | 11.10.2005 22:18
Hello.. we would like to inform you of our existance and ask you to please add our website to your radio stations page.. if you like, we can make a special flash player for your radio page that will begin to stream the live feeds of our broadcast to the visiting users.. - Bobby - Stver Broadcasting Inc. - www.stverradio.com

Dear Stver Brodcasting Inc. team, you are welcome to have your own corner on the radio stations page. I will add your radio station in the near future.
Afrikian Armen Richard | USA | 10.30.2005 11:18
What progress and beauty in Armenia. The state is for the people.I was there 1978-1980 and the good work must continue. Build on.Love our culture

I totally agree with you Armen, but please be more specific and discuss here only the wishes and concerns about this project. Thanks.
Nver | USA | 05.20.2005 19:44
Hello, just to let you know that I really enjoy this website (www.armtown.com). I always read news about Armenia in English, but this is a great opportunity to read it also in Armenian and Russian. I would like to encourage you to write some information also about the Educational System in Armenia, Armenian universities, and International and Youth Exchange programs. I mean, at present time, there are so many exchange students studying in different countries and so many foreigners studying in Armenia, and I think it would be a good way to let others also know about all those programs, and maybe they will become interested in those programs and participate for getting new cultural experiences. Maybe putting some information about the university entrance exams in Armenia would also be good. Thanks for making it easier for us to get news from Armenia.

Now you could read it in Armenian and Russian. Dont forget to check all three languages, because now news sources are different for each language. In the future I will try to find some information about the Educational System in Armenia and Youth Exchange programs.
Vahe Heboyan | Athens, GA, USA | 04.10.2005 11:23
Well, I should say this is one of the most comprehensive websites dedicated to the Armenia and Armenians I have ever seen. Keep up the good job.

Thank you Vahe for your nice words. I would try to do my best.
Avagyan Sofya (sofa@freenet.am) | Armenia (NKR) | 04.05.2005 03:43
I study at Law faculty in Arcakh State University .Saw your project and I really apreciate it. I think it's just great idea to gather all the information about Armenia in one website. So I'd like you to open a new page, which would consist some information about Juridical System of Republic of Armenia (Constitutional changes, new Laws, International conrtacts etc.). Anyway, thanks a lot and good luck.

Dear Sofya, for gathering information about the law, you must be at least lawyer otherwise it wouldn''t be complete. I would love to do that if you or somebody else could help me.
Azad | USA | 03.28.2005 17:46
Congratulations in this site. I think its a very nice and it gathers news about armenians in addition to the forum, which brings armenians together to discuss issues. It will be nice to have a place for Armenian businesses to add a link to their website. that way the site will be a source for everyone to find almost anything about armenians, and a search engine for armenians business on line. or on line armenian yellow pages. just a suggestion.Thanks,Azad

Dear Azad, thank you for your great suggestions. There are lots of interesting points in there, but for now I am trying to deliver to visitors quality news, which is pretty hard tusk. In the future, I assure you, that I will bring some of your suggestions into life.

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