The September, 2010, report issued by the International Crisis Committee (ICC) entitled “Azerbaijan: Vulnerable Stability” creates the impression that from now on western organizations will utilize all their powers to redirecting Azerbaijan’s domestic ...
In a strange set of circumstances this is the third September in a row that the question, “Will Turkey open the border, or not?” is being widely discussed. Surprisingly, this time around, the Armenian side is placing less significance on the question of ...
Russia is no longer interested in going to war with Georgia. As to the influence of Russian- Turkish rapprochment on the possibilkity on tehresumption of warfare in Karabakh, both nations are extremely interested to see that such hostilities are not resumed.
Even international experts engaged in issues related to the “memory of war” continue to stress that hatred of Turks is ingrained in the national psyche of Armenians and that Armenian-Turkish enmity is a textbook example. While the “right here and now” ...
This situation will surely have consequences for Armenia. If, in the past, we rejected having to choose between the US and Russia, due to our policy of complementarity, today, the urgency of making such a choice is at our doorstep. The problem we face ...
Today, in this new round of fighting, much is different in South Ossetia. While it is correct to say that it wouldn’t take much effort on the part of Russia, which has experienced two wars in Chechnya, to rack up another success in the Caucasus, what ...
Presidential elections in Azerbaijan will take place in the fall of 2008. It was in order to obtain commentary regarding developments that have already transpired and are yet to occur that we had drafted a set of questions for a select group of Armenian and ...
On September 11 at the session of the National Assembly (Parliament) of the RA the Member of Parliament Shirak Torosyan made an announcement to inform that in Javakhetia not far from the village of Gandzak, the birthplace of the Armenian classical poet Vahan Teryan, the Georgian authorities have started the construction of a correctional facility and intend to move 3 - 4 thousand inmates here from other correctional institutions all over the...
Interview with Amalia Kostanyan, Chairwoman, Center for Regional Development/Transparency International Armenia
The "No war, no peace" situation that the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides currently find themselves in can be perceived differently: as an opportunity to reconsider attitudes and bring them closer together, or as a time-out, a lull before the decisive battle. Different meanings are ascribed to the word "battle".
Georgia's former Foreign Minister Irakli Menagharashvili shares his views on the on the recent firing of Foreign Minister Salome Zurabashvili and subsequent events.
A comparative analysis of the images of the enemy and partner propagandized and widely held in Armenia and Azerbaijan
A member of parliament and chairman of the Republican Party of Georgia, David Berdzenishvili was one of the decision-makers during the Georgian revolution, a comrade-in-arms of President Mikhail Saakashvili; they had formed a united block during the November 2003 parliamentary elections. Berdzenishvili's party was created in 1978 and operated underground during the Soviet era.
In 125 B.C., after he learned of the wealth of the surrounding lands, Chinese Emperor Wu-Ti, who reigned from 141/140 - 87/86 BC, decided to export his country's silk by caravan to India and Central Asia. Thus, in ancient times, caravans loaded with valuables from China, India and other Eastern powers reached Western states. The paths of the caravan traffic gradually formed the Great Silk Road.
The old man who collects money for central heating in the Avan-Arindj district came to our door two days ago and joyfully announced, “You’re going to have central heating till March 15, and you only have to pay a little bit!”