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20:27 02/11/2016Avetik Ishkhanyan on points regarding human rights and justice sphere in government program“I am not particularly excited about this program,” Avetik Ishkhanyan, Chairman of Helsinki Committee of Armenia, said in his speech during today’s public discussion entitled “Civil society...
19:18 29/10/2016Bread and potato make up 70% of the food 15% of Armenia’s population take dailyBread and potato make up 70% of the food 15% of Armenia’s population take each day. That causes numerous negative consequences, fatness among other things. Oxfam has assessed food security conditions...
16:41 29/10/2016Women in Aragatsotn, Ararat, and Lori regions reported higher levels of violence committed by a spouseIn Armenia women are more likely to experience a physical violence committed by their spouse/partner than sexual violence, National Statistical Service of Armenia (NSS) says in newly released...
16:13 27/10/2016Denis Dvornikov: Russian diplomacy suffers from lack of empathyRussian publicist, member of the Russian Association of the International Law Denis Dvornikov deems as ‘catastrophic’ the 17 percent decrease of the Armenians’ positive attitude toward Russia as a...
19:05 20/10/2016Information Report on local by-elections in Armenia presented in StrasbourgThe Chamber of Local Authorities of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe debated on October 20, 2016 an Information Report on the assessment of local by-elections...
15:19 12/10/2016Aliyev’s demarche against Nazarbayev may yield to unpredictable consequences for BakuThe tightly state-controlled mass media in Azerbaijan have unleashed a new propaganda campaign these days.
18:55 26/09/2016Azerbaijan: Media report on mass violations during Constitutional ReferendumConstitutional referendum in Azerbaijan was marked by opposition protests and unjustified detentions of activists, website of Institute for War and Peace Reporting writes.
15:55 22/09/2016Main opponent to the Republican Party is the Republican Party itself, political technologist says“Local elections scheduled on October 2 in Gyumri and Vanadzor will shape our approximate judgment about the 2017 parliamentary elections,” political technologist Karen Kocharyan told a press...
17:20 21/09/2016Venice Commission criticizes proposed modifications to Azerbaijani ConstitutionThe preliminary opinion by the Council of Europe's constitutional law experts, (the Venice Commission) criticizing draft modifications to the constitution of Azerbaijan, which will be put to a...
16:33 09/09/2016The Washington Post: It’s time for the United States to act on AzerbaijanSenior director for human rights and democracy at the McCain Institute for International Leadership and a former assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, David J.
15:22 04/08/2016On ‘special means’ used by the policeAs a result of the application of special means by the police in the evening of July 29 in Sari Tagh neighbourhood, a young boy lost his eye, several others received burns and dozens were injured.
14:04 01/08/2016Explainer: Two-week standoff at the seized police station in Yerevan resolvedThe armed attack on the police station in Erebuni district of Yerevan came around a month after the arrest of Jirair Sefilian and six other members of Founding Parliament
18:17 27/07/2016Egor Glumov: A different society after the April WarWhatever is happening now is only an outcome, Director of Hovhannes Tumanyan Museum, Narine Tukhikyan said during “Public figures on the armed attack and current negotiations” discussion organized by...
14:14 23/07/2016Regressive constitutional amendments lead Azerbaijan to totalitarianism, expert saysWell-known Azerbaijani legal expert and lawyer Fuad Agayev believes that if approved, the Project of Referendum Act will have a negative impact on providing rights and freedoms and the principle of...
16:22 20/07/2016Changes in Azerbaijani Constitution Ilham Aliyev proposed strengthen presidential regime, experts sayA constitutional amendment is again on agenda in Azerbaijan. On Monday, President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree to send a Project of Referendum Act on Introducing Amendments to the Constitution of...
15:21 19/07/2016No alternative to negotiations, Boris Navasardyan says“Just demanding the release of Jirair Sefilian, would be understoond as a friendly or military ambition.
11:27 13/07/2016Harut Sassounian: Bundestag’s Turkish member: ‘Young Turks are traitors; Talat & Enver criminals’Cem Ozdemir, co-chair of the Green Party, delivered a passionate speech in the German Parliament (Bundestag) on June 2, 2016, in support of the resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide by Ottoman...
14:32 07/07/2016ISIS present in Caucasus, expert saysOn July 6, the Islamic State released a carefully detailed video describing how the IS is organized and what wilayats and structures it comprises.
13:21 07/07/2016Foreign Policy: Here’s why Erdogan is cozying up to PutinTurkey is trying to mend fences with Russia to contain Iran, fight the Islamic State, and improve its standing in an evolving Middle East, Keith Johnson writes in Foreign Policy.
12:39 06/07/2016International Crisis Group: Nagorno-Karabakh - New Opening, or More Peril?The pattern of military escalation on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border and Line of Contact (LoC) around Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) since at least 2011 meant it should not have been the surprise it was when...