Section: 168hours (Armenia)
“Main Hardship to Resist Russian Plans in Nagorno-Karabakh is Still Ahead”
Interview with Eduard Abrahamyan, expert on NATO strategy, intelligence, security and strategy researcher at the Leicester University (United Kingdom), fellow at Policy Forum Armenia, based in Washington, DC. Mr.Abrahamyan, serious developments are ongoing around NK conflict after the unleashed four-day war. As usual Russia initiated active steps...
There is a Big Disguised Russia-USA Accord Regarding Crimea, Donetsk, Artsakh and Other Issues: Vigen Hakobyan
“If before military operations of April 2 it was considered, that everything was decided, and authorities intended to develop their future government coalition, everything seemed peaceful and shaped, configuration was to develop in its direction, after April 2 they underwent certain changes,” Vigen Hakobyan, analyst, political technologist told...
Gas Supply from Azerbaijan to Europe has no Future: FAAE
Symposium devoted to 160th anniversary of gasification of Slovakia was launched in the period of April 26-27 in Bratislava. Slovakia is among the first countries, where gas extraction and use was implemented. The symposium was organized by International Gas Union in partnership with Oil and Gas Association. Participants of the event were Marosh...
Armenian Genocide 1915 Commemorated in Ottawa
On April 24, 2016, the Armenian community of Canada came together in Ottawa to commemorate the 101 st year of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. The commemoration started with speeches at Ottawa’s Parliament Hill near the building of the Canadian Parliament, and continued to the Turkish Embassy, where speakers...
How Realistic is Deploying a Peacekeeping Mission in Karabakh?
After the four-day war unleashed on NK conflict zone, fermentations around the unsettled conflict are still in process. It’s not news for Armenian experts, as at this stage, like in 2008, Russian scenarios of Karabakh issue settlement have been circulated, which in 2008 were named “Medvedev program,” and currently—“Lavrov program” or...
“By Adhering to Russia, We have Lost Other Partner States and Reputation”
Hovhannes Igityan, ANM member, expert on international affairs, is our interviewee today. – Mr. Igityan, what did the four-day war show? What conclusions may be drawn? – Azerbaijan attempts to settle 3 issues: experimentalize reflection of the international community, whether it’s going to be operative to obstacle its programs, secondly,...
The Idea of Parajanov Museum in Armenia Belongs to Himself: Due to Whose efforts and How was it Built?
Sergei Parajanov managed to see the plastered rooms of the museum built for him, although the idea of having a museum in Armenia belonged to him. Museum named after Sargis Parajanyants (Parajanov) has been in Yerevan for 25 years, founded in the period fatal for our country—cold and dark years of revolution, without electricity, parallel to...
The Very Moment the Plane Landed in Armenia—I Felt Myself Like at Home: Our Exclusive Interview with Jamala
Jamala (Susanna Jamaladynova), jazz and opera singer, is the Ukrainian representative in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with the song “1944.” A song, widely discussed on the internet, as it contains special messages for Russia. For the first time Jamala performed when she was 15. She participated in a range of music contests and festivals,...
Notes Taken in the Notebook of one of the Pilots: Defense Ministry Releases Documents of Downed Azerbaijani Helicopter’s Crew
Avetik Muradyan, Chief of aviation department of RA armed forces, general-major, introduced documents of downed Azerbaijani MI-24G helicopter’s crew. Notes have been taken in the notebook of one of the pilots, made on March 31, “Black box is yellow. It’s written: the pilot should fly the helicopter from Kala airport of Baku to...
Solve the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Before It Explodes: Thomas De Waal
For almost three decades, the most dangerous unresolved conflict in wider Europe has lain in the mountains of the South Caucasus, in a small territory known as Nagorno-Karabakh. In the late 1980s, the region confounded the last Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, The New York Times reports. In the early 1990s, the conflict there created more...
