Via RFE/RL’s Armenia Liberty, the Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisyan has outlined his position on Turkey’s EU accession ambitions. As RFE/RL’s article points out, this might put Sarkisyan in conflict with some groups in the Diaspora, but his opinions are particularly important given that he will likely take over as President when Kocharian steps down in […]
Opposition Protest the outcome of the 2003 Presidential Election, Matenadaran, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2003
I was pondering calling this post “Out of the Frying Pan,” for a moment, but decided against it even though next year’s parliamentary elections are shaping up to be the most tense in the eight […]
Hayk Newspaper reports, that the Forbs - Armenian service soon to be launched in Armenia, will publish the following list of ten richest people in Armenia in the first issue of the magazine. Hayk draws readers attention to the fact, that 6 of the 10 people in the list are high ranking state officials.
Gagik Tsarukyan […]
Well, we’re used to stupid and illogical things happening here in Armenia, but it has to be said that that this time round we’ve probably outdone ourselves. After the falsified referendum to amend the Constitution last year, Armenia has to adopt a new national anthem by 6 December. Right, that’s today and, right again, no […]
Opposition protest the outcome of the 2003 Presidential Election, Armenian National Assembly, Baghramian Avenue, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2003
Well, as reported in the last 2007 Parliamentary Election Monitor on this blog, there is renewed speculation that Kocharian will seek to retain control over the country as Prime Minister after […]
Lernamerdz, Armavir Region, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Eurasianet 2006
Today marked the 89th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and an assignment from Eurasianet saw me visit the Armenian village of Lernamerdz with Marianna Grigoryan, a journalist from Armenia Now. After writing for IWPR on the village, affectionately known as “Little Cuba,” Marianna has […]
Who defines the priorities in the political life of Armenia? In the situation - where opposition is discredited, voters are influenced by propaganda, blackmail and bribes, election process is forged - what will guarantee the survival of democracy in Armenia?
On October 18, the “Haykakan Zhamanak” newspaper published a report by Hayk Gevorgyan, entitled: “They are deceiving us again”. In this article, we read: “The regular session of the inter-parliamentary commission of the Armenian parliament and the Russian Federation Council was held in Yerevan in recent days and a delegation led by the chairman of […]
On October 12, 2006 – French Parliament passed a bill criminalizing the denial of the fact, that the Ottoman Turkish Empire committed Genocide against Armenians in 1915. On the same date the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is indisputable, that Turkey should acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and bear the full consequences as stated by the International Law after a subsequent action at the International Criminal Court.
RFE/RL carries more on Hakob Hakobian, the Armenian MP recently arrested for hooliganism and armed assault. According to RFE/RL it looks likely that backroom deals will decide the MP’s fate rather than the rule of law. No surprise there, then.
Hakob Hakobian, a controversial parliamentarian who has spent threes days in custody for allegedly provoking a […]
