2012 is an election year and the authorities have promised democratic elections; something that has never occurred. No one really expects this to happen. Everyone knows that elections give rise to increased incidents of violence and restrictions placed on reporters doing their jobs.
The move by France to include a chapter on the 1915 Armenian Genocide in high school history textbooks has elicited a severe response by Turkey’s European Union Minister Egemen Bagis. Bagis urged the French to re-examine their understanding of their own national motto - liberty, equality and fraternity.
"The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is normally referred to as a "frozen" conflict, and that seems to lead to complacency citizens and the European institutions alike. However, as the war in Georgia clearly demonstrated, frozen does not mean safe.
Ashot Manoukyan, who heads the HAK office in Vanadzor, says that member organizations can back anyone they like even though the HAK central leadership sees no one in the race who shares its political views.
When the evening fog falls on the highway connecting Goris and Stepanakert, visibility diminishes drastically and drivers rely on the road reflectors installed on the shoulders or the luminous lane markings.
Renowned British scholar and 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine Tim Hunt and 2008 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry Martin Chalfie will deliver lectures in Yerevan from November 2-6.
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