Azerbaijan has identified a special representative to talk to the Armenians of Karabakh. https://eurasianet.org-Heydar Isayev, Lilit Shahverdyan Mammadov meets with Karabakh Armenians with the mediation of Russian peacekeepers on March 1. (handout) Talks between Azerbaijan...
Azerbaijan has identified a special representative to talk to the Armenians of Karabakh. https://eurasianet.org-Heydar Isayev, Lilit Shahverdyan Mammadov meets with Karabakh Armenians with the mediation of Russian peacekeepers on March 1. (handout) Talks between Azerbaijan and representatives of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh are taking place more frequently and more...
By Edmond Y. Azadian After two years of a devastating war, Azerbaijan’s unrelenting pressure, in terms of border incursions, false negotiations and constant demands for concessions, recently, a turn of events offered a respite, some breathing room to recover and maybe even return to normalcy. In addition, nature’s fury...
By Edmond Y. Azadian Until recently, Armenia faced a threat to its sovereignty from Azerbaijan. After the 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev demanded the opening of the “Zangezur Corridor,” which effectively would bisect Armenia’s territory, thereby compromising its sovereignty. This was Aliyev’s condition for signing...
The EU NEIGHBOURS EAST project in cooperation with the ‘European Media Facility in Armenia’ project, funded by the European Union and led by DW Akademie, is launching a media outreach and capacity-building initiative. The initiative will start with a constructive journalism training course led by a DW Akademie expert...
On January 27, Israel’s international TV station, i24NEWS, aired a half-hour program full of falsehoods to glorify Azerbaijan’s relations with Israel and vilify Armenia, Iran and Russia. This scandalous program had nothing to do with journalism, and everything to do with Azerbaijan’s notorious ‘caviar diplomacy.’ Here are excerpts from...
YEREVAN, JANUARY 31, ARMENPRESS. The Saint Sarkis Armenian Church in the north Dallas suburb of Carrollton, Texas, United States has received the most votes a World-Architects poll for US Building of the Year 2022. “Designed by David Hotson Architect, the church reaches far back in time and thousands of...
By Edmond Y. Azadian Armenia can hardly handle one calamity at a time but a rapid succession of disastrous occurrences is shaking the country to its core. The closure of the Lachin corridor by Azerbaijan with its ensuing humanitarian consequences had left the Armenian nation reeling from Yerevan to...
How Much Longer Must the People of Artsakh Suffer? The Armenians of Artsakh have been suffering direly due to the Azerbaijani blockade since December 12. Weeks have gone by as this humanitarian crisis worsens while nominal international efforts to lift the blockade change nothing. The Artsakh government has implemented...
It has been almost a month since Artsakh’s blockade by Azerbaijan in full view of the Russian peacekeeping forces. Yet, there is a general apathy in the world and even in the world Armenian community — shocking, as the destiny of 120,000 Armenians is on the line. On December...
RAFFI K. HOVANNISIAN , ARMENIA’S FIRST MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS or 26 days, a narrow and winding road that connects Armenia to the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh—also known as Mountainous, or “Nagorniy,” Karabagh—has been blocked by state-sanctioned Azerbaijani activists. Russian peacekeepers charged with maintaining the humanitarian corridor do not intervene....
