On October 31, another incident occurred between the Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) Alen Simonyan and a journalist covering the work of the NA. This time, the target of Alen Simonyan’s unruly behavior was Vahe Makaryan, a journalist for the Mediahub.am news website, who said that he has covered the work of the National Assembly for more than 10 years, and none of the head of the NA has ever shown such attitude towards any journalist.
168.am’s interview with Wojciech Wojtasiewicz, analyst for the South Caucasus countries, Eastern Europe Programme, The Polish Institute of International Affairs:
For 20 years, since 2004, October 16 has been celebrated as the Armenian Press Day, in memory of the publication of the first Armenian periodical, Azdarar, in Madras on October 16, 1794.
Ruben Vardanyan and Other Armenian Leaders Mark One Year as Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan
I would like to comment on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s shocking statements at the Global Armenian Summit in Yerevan on September 18, 2024.
Independence, just like victory, is awarded to the worthy, to those, who after gaining these values through the struggle and hardship, also know who to maintain it.
It is incomprehensible that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan would forget important details of the document he signed with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, at the end of the 2020 Artsakh War.
15 years ago, Mikheil Saakashvili’s Georgia was widely regarded by geopolitical observers as a textbook example of what you should not do if you were a former Soviet republic. By contrast, Georgia’s southern neighbor, Armenia, under the presidency of geopolitical “chess master” Serzh Sargsyan, exhibited very much the opposite image—that of a small ex-Soviet state successfully balancing between East and West.
Azerbaijan’s official Gazette responded in an editorial: “Our people, army and commander view with disappointment and deep sorrow the attempts to claim and take ownership of our rightful victory. Azerbaijan’s victory is for the entire Turkic world, but Turkey is not its architect. The Architects of the Karabagh victory are Commander-in-Chief Aliyev and the Azerbaijani Army.” The Azerbaijani Gazette described Erdogan’s words as “a heavy moral blow.”
The issue of prisoners is sensitive, humanitarian, and it is very important that specialists from different spheres keep the problem in the center of attention.
