The key figures of Levon Ter-Petrosyan ensure that 4-5 years ago Armenia’s first president had a phone conversation with a high-ranking official from Russia. Even the closest loyalists of Ter-Petrosyan don’t know who the first president has spoken to. But that is not the important thing.
The Swiss Federal Office of Justice has requested the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to review the case of Doğu Perinçek, earlier determining that the Swiss Courts’ rulings to impose financial and criminal fine for denying the Armenian Genocide was a limitation of the right for free expression.
I think nobody wants war so we have to look at all measures that we can take. We want to send a clear message that we believe that Russia’s actions aren’t acceptable and are out of the bounds of the international law.
According to former foreign affairs minister of Armenia Alexander Arzumanyan, it is the duty of every force and every citizen concerned with the fate of Armenia to do its best for the sovereignty of Nagorno Karabakh to be sustained. Arzumanyan says, “The situation of Armenian authorities is not enviable, as they will face open pressures from Russia, as it was with the case of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.”
Lately fresh breaking news popped out in the media, which didn’t have a big connection with the current geopolitical processes. One of Russia’s most renowned media outlets Itar-Tass is planning to change its name on its 110th anniversary. It is planning to not use Itar anymore, which it had attained after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“If Russia or other state have the wish to become part of Armenia or Artsakh, let them do so. We don’t want to become part of any other state. For us, independence is a sacred value,” told to Gala TV General Manvel Grigoryan. He said that he had lost friends and relatives in the war.
In my opinion, the case of the Crimean population was not determined but the act imposed a neighboring state, not only the existence of the Russian Army has been put into question the freedom of the referendum, but also the fact that the army is openly involved in the latest developments appeared in the so-called self-defense units that protects the border with Ukraine, Crimea.
While the Armenian political parties have focused their attention to the resignation of the government and the president and the authorities are doing their best to pass the new law on pensions seemingly the processes taking place in the world are approaching Armenia. On the surface, Armenia got so isolated from the rest of the world that we think nothing worse can happen to us.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s threat to retaliate against anyone in Syria who dares to damage the tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire, is the latest manifestation of the Turkish government’s utter hypocrisy. Here is a country that has committed genocide against millions of its Christian subjects (Armenians, […]
Yesterday the government of Karabakh released a statement, which says that “The foreign ministry of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh recognizes the referendum of the people of the Crimea on March 16 as another implementation of people’s right for self-determination.