Section: Aravot (Armenia)
“This is not a position for us nor a stance”
NA Vice Speaker and Head of Delegation to PACE Hermine Naghdalyan counters the critics – Yesterday, during the debate at the National Assembly’s Foreign Relations Committee, RPA parliamentarian Hamlet Harutyunyan recommended to modify the composition of the Armenian delegation to PACE, referring to the fact that the delegation defeated in...
Why does all of this remind me of the “Soviet”?
I was looking at the old photographs. The parliament in 1990. Withered Communist faces (regardless of age) and youth, mostly original and independent-minded people incurred from an academic and scientific environment. Such figures could be met not only in the parliament but also in various state institutions. They were talking in a completely...
Armenian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum statement on armenia’s Joining the creative Europe Programme
Armenian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum highly appreciates the European Union “Creative Europe” programme which supports the enhancement of cultural and creative sectors both across Europe and the Eastern Partnership countries. The Programme is comprised of two major sub-programmes – Culture and Media. Georgia,...
Arman Navasardyan. “The extremists said, you began shelling the ranks of our “Islamic state””
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Armen Navasardyan, in an interview with the journalist of Aravot.am, referring to the terrorist attack in Paris, noted that the fact that hundreds of thousands of people intruded Europe played a major role and the Europeans approached this issue too carelessly. “What was the excuse to France? The...
“France has become a desired country for sick minds.” Albert Grigoryan
For over 20 years, our compatriot living in Paris, Albert Grigoryan, the chief representative of French ENGIE enterprise in Russia and Ukraine, was shocked by the terrible tragedy of the assassination that took place in Paris. His mother, sister, daughter and niece were in Paris during the terrorism, and, certainly, were in horror. “Insecure...
What is separated in Armenia from the state?
The church or the religious organizations? The main debate on the draft Constitution, of course, is about reproduction and non-reproduction “narrations”. The debate in itself is quite ridiculous, but there is another debate dimension, where the ones saying “No” claim that this draft destroys the Armenian traditional family and the church, while...
PACE does not believe in tears
Our interlocutor is the leading analyst of the Center for Regional Studies, RA President’s Special Envoy (1992-95), Head of the National Security Service of Armenia (1994-95) Davit Shahnazaryan – On November 4, in Paris, the PACE Political Committee accepted the notorious report of the British deputy Robert Walter entitled “Rise of violence...
Ambassador Richard Mills: The U.S. Government’s broad goal in its relationship with Armenia is a democratic, prosperous, secure Armenia at peace with its neighbors
Ambassador Richard Mills Remarks at AmCham Meeting, as prepared Deputy Minister of Economy Sergey Avetisyan, Chief Advisor Hovhannes Azizyan, and representatives the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, AmCham President Tigran Jrbashyan, and Members of the AmCham Board of Directors, Distinguished Guests, I am delighted to be here tonight. The Embassy has...
Mystical settlement discovered in the Lake Sevan. Scuba diver journalist’s research (video, series of photos)
For the past two months, the research team of scuba divers comprised of Artak Elmasakyan, Rafael Mkrtchyan, Armenia’s Public Television journalist Anna Martikyan and Associate of Biological Sciences Ivan Gabrielyan carry out visual research on the bottom of the Lake Sevan. In an interview with Aravot.am, Anna Martikyan said that Sevan...
NATO’s role and importance for the South Caucasus region
Aghasi Yenokyan Director of the Armenian Center for Political and International Studies “Improving Armenia’s Security Policy Debates” Program (NED) The Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs (AIISA) Amid the largest security vacuum, emerged in the whole post-communist area after the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of...
