Section: 168hours (Armenia)
Disclosure of Russia’s Armenian Agents to Become a Bomb by the USA in RA Domestic Policy Firmament
Stepan (Styopa) Safaryan, founder and head of the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs (AIISA), politician, former MP and head of “Heritage” party parliamentary faction, submitted a “Draft bill on lustration” in 2012. In line with a series of actions, pursuant the draft bill, submitted by S.Safaryan, after possible cooperation...
F.Mogherini’s Visit to Armenia-Good Opportunity for Armenia’s Ruling Elite
Against the background of reviewing the policy of Eastern Neighborhood, European Union actively buckled down with the Republic of Armenia towards development of new Armenia-EU framework document. Negotiations on trade and investments have been launched on February 15 in Brussels. Armenian delegation comprising of representatives of RA Ministries...
”Russia is more for me than just a country”. Robert Kocharian
Robert Kocharian, president of Armenia (1998-2008) Anna Sous, RFE/RL Date of interview: September 2015 (This interview was conducted in Russian.) Anna Sous: What is your Russia like? What does Russia represent to the second president of independent Armenia and the first president of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic? Robert Kocharian: I had a Russian...
Armenia’s Economy 2015 and EEU Implications
INTRODUCTION Amid political and economic turbulences of recent years Armenia strives to maintain some balanced status enabling its integration possibilities and cooperation with various economic unions. Following this policy and with hope to exclude extra political and economic impacts, Armenia announced on its intention of engagement with the...
General Outline of Discourse on External Security and Threat in Armenian Mass Media towards 2016
“We are all hostages of media intoxication, induced to believe in the war…, and confined to the simulacrum of war as though confined to quarters. We are already all strategic hostages in situ (Latin-in its original place); our site is the screen on which we are virtually bombarded day by day.” This description by Jean Baudrillard, famous...
Downing of the Russian fighter jet by Turkey further complicates the situation in the region and pushes the resolution of the NK conflict to the backburner. Nelli Babayan
Dr. Nelli Babayan is the guest expert at “168 Hours”. She is Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC, where she studies Russia’s relations with the United States and the European Union. She is also an Associate Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany where she has been a senior researcher and lecturer in 2012-2015. Her...
OSCE Monitoring to be Conducted
On November 5, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the eastern direction of the Talish village of the NKR Martakert region. From the positions of the...
€1.9 million grant for street lighting in Yerevan E5P multi-donor fund helps to light up the capital of Armenia
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Ministry of Finance of Armenia and the Municipality of Yerevan city have signed an agreement to allocate a co-financing grant of €1.9 million to support the modernisation of street lighting in the city of Yerevan. The grant is provided by the E5P fund (Eastern Europe Energy...
In less than a year a new framework Armenia-EU agreement should be ready. Eduardo Lorenzo Ochoa
168.am interviewed Mr. Eduardo Lorenzo Ochoa, Director of European Friends of Armenia. – Few days ago analyst of Reuters has authored an article about European neighbourhood policy writing. “The European Union’s dream of building “a ring of friends” from the Caucasus to the Sahara has turned into a nightmare”). Some experts even think that...
Russia’s Eurasian Ambitions, Tools and Ways of Leverage
The 21st century has drastically changed the epoch’s face, and new challenges came forward. Before the 21st century a relative equilibrium had been dominating in geopolitical field: technologically developed countries were powerful by their modern technologies, while countries providing raw material – by their resources. However,...
