Creative Commons/ by Lidia Ilona
Whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has released 250,000 diplomatic cables sent by U.S. embassies to Washington, with amazing revelations on the world’s superpower’s diplomatic supergames around the world. Continue reading
Posted in Armenia, Politics, Region
Tagged Azerbaijan, Dmitry Medvedev, Ilham Aliyev, Nagorno-Karabakh, United States, WikiLeaks
For about two months now Yerevan’s Municipality have started a major project on cleaning and painting the buildings along city’s central streets. Continue reading
“Miasin” (“Together”) youth movement held an action – procession today in the streets of Yerevan, carrying various slogans, like “respect the traffic signs”, “take care of your country”, “don’t be indifferent” and the like. Continue reading
Posted in Armenia, Politics, Society
Tagged Armenia, Government, Yerevan, Youth Movements
Armenia -- Opposition activist Mushegh Saghatelian is released from prison, Yerevan, 24Nov2010
Mushegh Saghatelian, a controversial former chief of Armenia’s prisons and a well known opposition activist was granted parole and set free on Wednesday, having spent two and a half years in prison on charges related to 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan, RFE/RL reports. Continue reading
President Serzh Sargsyan signed into law on Wednesday amendments to social legislation, which cuts the amount of maternity benefits for working mothers, causing public discontent and protests at the Presidential office. Continue reading
Posted in Armenia, Legal, Politics, Society
Tagged Armenia, Population, Population growth, Serzh Sargsyan
HENQ, an Armenian youth movement aimed at developing statehood awareness and civic lifestyle, asked me for an interview a couple of months ago. They asked a couple of important questions about Armenia’s independence and statehood. I happily responded. Turns out the HENQ guys went out and asked the same questions to a bunch of famous and not-so-famous people and put together a short 8-minute movie (in Armenian). Continue reading
Posted in Armenia, Politics, Region
Tagged Armenia, Azerbaijan, Karabakh, Nagorno-Karabakh, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
When I first read about the NATO Lisbon Summit, I immediately thought back to the 1996 OSCE Lisbon Summit. From what I remember, there were ongoing negotiations on the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh for quite a while when the summit occurred. In the push for a permanent peace, there was significant pressure placed on the involved parties, both Armenia and Azerbaijan, to agree to a resolution.
Posted in Armenia, Politics, Region
Tagged Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, NATO, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Heads of State and Government of the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, which gathered in Lisbon on 19-20 November, 2010 to chart NATO’s future course, have included a clause in their Lisbon Summit Declaration on the conflicts in South Caucasus, which can be considered a defeat for Armenia’s foreign policy. Continue reading
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Tagged Armenia, Azerbaijan, Karabakh, Lisbon, Nagorno-Karabakh, NATO, North Atlantic Alliance, South Caucasus
Nagorno-Karabakh - Nagorno-Karabakh army in training, archive.
A statement issued by the NK Defense Army said the incident occurred late Friday in a unit deployed on the southern part of a ceasefire line around the region.
“As a result of a firearm-related incident on November 19, four soldiers were killed and four were wounded to various degrees,” the statement said, adding that a criminal investigation had been opened into the
incident, indicating it was an internal matter and not related to fighting with Azerbaijani forces along the ceasefire line. Continue reading
