Prof. Vahakn Dadrian, Director of Genocide Research at theZoryan Institute, was honoured by Dr. Hranush Hakobyan, Armenia’s Minister of Diaspora, with the bestowing of a gold medal, the Ministry’shighest national award. In a public ceremony on December 20, Minister Hakobyan underscored Dadrian’s immense contribution over more than fiftyyears to the scholarly study of the Armenian Genocide, at the same timeraising awareness of it in international circles as a prime example of the“ultimate crime.”