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 […]
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 […]
Eurasianet has yet another insightful analysis on the situation in Armenia by RFE/RL’s Emil Danielyan. This time the focus is on the energy sector and Armenia’s dependence on Russia. However, there’s a twist. The article doesn’t deal with the import of power from abroad, but rather the way in which Yerevan appears happy in handing […]
By Nessuna
Tonight, the American University of Armenia (AUA) hosted a public lecture entitled “Is Democracy Advancing or Retreating in the World?†by Thomas Carothers. Among other things, Carothers is Vice President for International Politics and Governance at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Carothers also has significant experience in the fields […]
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) has two articles dedicated to the murdered Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya. In the first, Tom de Waal remembers the “defender of ordinary people’s rights.”
Some people who work in conflict zones have walked with death for so long that they seem untouched by it and only more alive. […]
Armenia is in a very interesting part of the world. As most of you know it is in the Southern Caucuses but this is a new designation. As I travel around the country and see the 1000 year old monuments of the silk trail with Armenian and Arabic languages, it brings up a […]
ArmenPress reports that two Armenian citizens have been found murdered near Moscow. The deaths follow a wave of attacks on citizens from the South Caucasus and Central Asia although few details are known so far which could shed light on a possible motive.
MOSCOW, OCTOBER 9, ARMENPRESS: Two Armenian citizens, a man and a woman, were […]
The interview of Mr. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the scandalously infamous leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia, aired on October 8th, during the evening newscast of the Armenian Shant TV, was designed to scare. And it was definitely designed in Kremlin, like we have seen in so many cases in the past. The problem is - […]
Eurasianet covers Georgia’s local elections in the aftermath of the Russian Spy Scandal that has seen Moscow “punish” Tbilisi by closing the border between the two countries and persecute Georgian citizens in the country. Ironically, and to add to the damage that the blockade might cause Armenia, some of those citizens might be ethnic Armenians […]
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) has more on how the recently imposed Russian blockade of Georgia is affecting others as well. In particular, it is starting to affect Armenia, Russia’s traditional ally in the South Caucasus.
“I have a ticket to fly to Moscow tomorrow. Will I be able to fly?” enquires a […]
