OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned the recent killing of journalist Rasim Aliyev in Azerbaijan, following a letter she wrote to the President of Azerbaijan, calling on the authorities to ensure journalists’ safety and reverse the rapidly deteriorating media freedom situation in the country.
In Azerbaijan, a small coterie has done its best, registering businesses in relatives’ names and scattering assets among dozens of offshore companies.
A court in Cologne has forced a regional newspaper’s website to unpublish more than 5,000 pages of leaked internal German military reports about Afghanistan, the Balkans and Uzbekistan.
Landmine Free Artsakh congratulates the HALO Trust for deploying its first team of female de-miners in Artsakh in July. The female
There are currently two brands of whiskey on sale at Yerevan City – Mac Alex and Mac Grant. The two are produced by companies affiliated with Alexanyan.
Armenia’s National Statistical Service reports that in the first half of 2015 Armenia produced 4.35 million liters of vodka (down 2.1% from the same period last year), 6.45 million liters of brandy (down 3.2%), 9.72 million liters of beer (down 14.1%).
Walk down the aisle of any store or supermarket in Armenia and you’ll have a hard time spotting any of the fancy imported mineral waters so common in New York, Paris or London.
Police arrested three people earlier this morning in the Armenian populated community of Tabatzghour (Samtskhe-Javakhk region of Georgia) in the latest flare-up in a long standing battle between local residents and Armenia MP Vardan Ayvazyan regarding fishing rights in the village lake.