Filmmaker Michael Goorjian’s Amerikatsi, representing Armenia, has been shortlisted in the International Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards. This is the first time that an Armenian film is shortlisted by the Academy. Amerikatsi, an Armenian drama film written, edited, directed by, and starring Michael Goorjian, has been shortlisted alongside 14 other films. Films […]
December 7, the secretary of the “Civil Contract” faction of the National Assembly, Artur Hovhannisyan, addressed several media outlets from the NA pulpit, made baseless expressions, which not only do not befit a member of the National Assembly, but also contain defamation and insult, as well as the offenses provided for by the Criminal Code.
Yesterday, on December 14, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Armenia issued a statement, which coincidentally follows the unsuccessful attempt to illegally detain former Minister of Finance, 68-year-old Gagik Khachatryan, who is currently receiving inpatient medical care. From yesterday’s report, we have already learned that a decision was made to bring new charges against Gagik Khachatryan’s son and nephew, businessmen Artyom and Aram Khachatryan. The criminal proceedings have been sent to the court with an indictment.
The Zovighian Public Office (ZPO) has published an open-source intelligence (OSINT) and geolocation report at the one-year mark of the start of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, known to Armenians as Artsakh. The report was commissioned to explore if Azerbaijan imposed a blockade on the indigenous Artsakhi Armenian population at the Lachin Corridor.
Artsakh Armenians, who are citizens of Armenia, have suffered more than enough. They should not be burdened with such unnecessary bureaucratic nonsense.
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More than 150 global humanitarian, political figures and business leaders have signed a letter calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the Armenian prisoners illegally held in Azerbaijan.
This is the vindictive enemy that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan naively believes he can sign a ‘Peace Treaty’ with. This unnecessary ‘Peace Treaty’ will actually undermine Armenia’s interests. Azerbaijan is already demanding that the rights of “Azeris expelled from Armenia” be included in such a treaty, thus providing the ground for future aggression and occupation by Azerbaijan. The Azeri letter to the UN in fact includes such an alarming provision: “the [Azeri] Community will aspire to include the creation of conditions for the return of Western Azerbaijanis to their homeland as an obligation of Armenia in the peace treaty to be concluded between Azerbaijan and Armenia.”
“The fact that the captured persons are still in Azerbaijan after the 44-day war already speaks of the failure of the government.
—The violence and deprivation of aid in Nagorno-Karabakh during the majority of 2023 forced nearly all Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians to flee under the threat of ethnic cleansing or genocide.