Azerbaijan has recently moved to strike a peace deal with Armenia after violently recapturing the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023. But continued fighting between the two countries might be more likely than peace, and other transnational threats continue to lurk beneath the surface. For one, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev retains visions of territorial expansion through a creeping invasion of Armenia’s southern border. And the tentacles of Azerbaijan’s business dealings should raise alarms throughout the international financial system.
In the exercise of my professional duties as an attorney, I find it necessary to comment on certain legal aspects of the current criminal case, guided solely by the principles of legality and fairness in judicial proceedings.
168.am, in collaboration with the Global Campus of Human Rights (GCHR), has launched a new interview series addressing pressing human rights issues.
And finally, which is no less important, I am grateful to the international Christian solidarity organization to organize a fixed support to the Artsakh issue and to organize this important meeting.
Through exploiting Artsakh’s commercial, institutional, and natural resources, and assets, vis a vis these new campaigns, Azerbaijan continues to misappropriate Armenian (and world cultural heritage sites), artifacts, and tangible, as well as intangible cultural treasures and traditions. The erasure of an entire people is now being whitewashed, commodified, and rebranded under the guise of tourism, academia, and business ventures.
Federal Judge Robert Huie had no choice but to dismiss Baghirzade’s lawsuit, stating: “Anything short of dismissal in these circumstances would disserve the interests of justice.”
Pashinyan’s recent comments on the Genocide are, at a minimum, condemnable and unacceptable. For an Armenian leader to distort or downplay the greatest tragedy in our history is a betrayal of the highest order. It should send a chill through every Armenian who has carried the weight of memory for generations.
On April 8, 2025, an exhibition entitled “Western Azerbaijan: In Our Cultural Memory”, organized by the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Poland in Warsaw, became yet another manifestation of Azerbaijan’s ongoing campaign of falsification and propaganda. This initiative reflects Azerbaijan’s territorial claims toward the Republic of Armenia and its attempts to appropriate the centuries-old spiritual and cultural heritage of the Armenian people.
hrough his family, Ruben Vardanyan sent the seven axioms he came to over a lifetime have, in many ways, become the values that define our community.
In the current phase of the Armenia-Azerbaijan talks, Baku is demanding that Yerevan adopt a new constitution that removes any language which could be interpreted as a claim to Nagorno-Karabakh. The appropriate response from any self-respecting Armenian government should be clear and firm: “That is none of your business.”
