The 107th anniversary of the first ever genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide, is approaching. Over a century has passed since that tragic period, but the international community has not completely condemned the crime so far, has not either given an unbiased legal assessment to the events, leaving the perpetrators unpunished.
In recent years, April has often been described as the month of genocidal mourning for Armenians, Jews and Rwandans. Today we read the stark headlines and watch the horrific images of thousands of Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian armed forces in Moscow’s war of aggression against Kyiv. So many unarmed ordinary citizens targeted in Bucha, Mariupol and other cities. We agonize as to how and why such malevolent acts can occur in the 21st century.
Opposition Protests in Yerevan: Thousands showed up to the opposition protest on Tuesday, outlining the red lines for Pashinyan’s dealings with Aliyev, ahead of the meeting in Brussels. Opposition says this is only the beginning, but have yet to indicate what their next steps will be.
Members of the ruling Civil Contract faction in National Assembly, Artur Hovhannisyan and Lilit Minasyan, have put forward a bill propsoing amendments to the law “On Mass Media”. The measure, if adopted, will enable government institutions to suspend the accreditation of a journalist or journalists.
We, the participants of the rally for the defense of Armenia and Artsakh, regardless of our ideological and political orientations, resolutely reject the agendas imposed by the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem.
On March 26, President of the Artsakh Republic Arayik Harutyunyan signed a decree on temporary restrictions on rights and freedoms in the state of martial law declared in the territory of the Artsakh Republic.
On the 15th death anniversary of the state, political figure, former Prime Minister Andranik Margarian, the Third President of the Republic of Armenia, Chairman of the Republican Party Serzh Sargsyan, accompanied by the members of the RPA, visited today the Komitas Pantheon and paid tribute to the memory of Andranik Margarian.
Coming to power after the break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Lukashenko had ruled Belarus in a highly autocratic fashion for almost three decades, while seeking to navigate his country within Moscow’s sphere of influence. However, the aging leader’s arbitrary rule began to teeter and he faced a major challenge in the election of 2020. When skewed and rigged election results were announced, hundreds of thousands of voters of Belarus peacefully protested their strong objections.
Moreover, the Azerbaijani embassy in Brussels was fiercely fighting against us, referring also to some documents that received Nikol Pashinyan’s consent.
David Shahnazaryan reported this to “Aravot”, adding that according to his reliable information from Brussels, the resolution refers to the destruction of the Armenian cultural and religious heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan
