Transparency International, the world’s leading anti-corruption watchdog, today released its annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI). According to the organization based in Germany but with a Chapter in Armenia, there is no progress in the fight against corruption here. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s English language site has more.
An international anti-corruption watchdog has ranked Armenia 93rd […]
I’ve just come back from a quick drink with Tom de Waal, Caucasus Editor of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, before he had to shoot off for some reception, and IWPR’s Armenia Country Director, Seda Muradyan. Beforehand, Tom launched the Russian translation of his book on the Karabakh conflict, Black Garden: Armenia and […]
With the Armenian President scheduled to make an official visit to Kazakhstan tomorrow, PanArmenian.net says that it will coincide with the second meeting of the Kazakh-Armenian Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation. However, Artyom at iArarat jokes that all might not be as it seems.
And so the rumor has it, that after meeting Premier George […]
RFE/RL reports that the Defense Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have met on the tense border between their two countries in an attempt to ease tensions. Both countries are in a defacto state of war over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh even if hostilities were not formerly declared. Dozens of conscript soldiers die on […]
Arminfo carries news that the South Caucasus Parliamentary Initiative (SCPI) has proposed to establish an annual Caucasus Day in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. I’m all for the idea given the fact that the three countries have a lot to offer each offer culturally and the need for mutual hatreds to be overcome. However, the idea […]
Via Georgien, news of a report on Nationalism, Conflict and Minorities in the South Caucasus published by Minority Rights Group International.
It is ten years since the former Soviet Union Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia became independent states of the South Caucasus. This report sheds light on a region which is under-reported and […]
RFE/RL quotes Peter Semneby, the European Union’s special representative for the South Caucasus region, as saying that both Armenia and Azerbaijan are stalling for time in continuing efforts to resolve the long-standing conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.
Semneby told the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee that Azerbaijan in particular appears to be hoping that income from […]
For the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union an Azerbaijani airliner has landed at Armenia’s main Zvartnots Airport. In what was no doubt as much symbolic in the context of continuing attempts to resolve the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh than simply travel, the Azal Airlines TU–134 carried the three OSCE […]
As the latest developments in the UN are showing, Azerbaijan is shifting its attention towards forming bigger alliances and burying the essence of the Karabakh problem under the global contradictions around energy security, anti-Russian moods and ducking behind the scandalous image of Mikhail Saakashvili.
Suarassy, Kashatagh Region, Armenian controlled Republic of Azerbaijan / Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Eurasianet 2006
Eurasianet has published my article on the demographic crisis in and around Lachin, the strategic main artery connecting the Republic of Armenia with the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh. The article is part of an ongoing project […]
