“I disagree with opinions circulating in Armenia, that Moscow instigated it. Yes, Moscow sold armaments, demand for which was available. Moscow kept the balance between the sides. It’s also clear, if there is demand for weaponry, without maintenance of that influence, armaments would have been available and used on this conflict zone. “
Samantha Power, The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, reflected to “Aurora” Awards Ceremony launched in Yerevan on April 24 on her Twitter microblog.
In an article published recently in Izvestia the paper claims that alleged sources in the Russian Embassy in Yerevan and in Armenian diplomatic circles say the U.S. is directly sponsoring pro-opposition parties, particularly to advance an anti-Russian narrative in Armenia. We have just one thing to say to that: нет.
Last month, the game Shadowmatic received the Best Technical Achievement Award and the People’s Choice Award during the 12th IMGA. We met Masha Grigoryan from Triada Studios, who describes the game as a “challenging, captivating and mind bending puzzler, designed to please one’s brains.” Simple and plain things can seem unexpectedly different and mind blowing if you try to look at them from a different angle!
“As Turks deny this, they’ll have problems. It’s not important for me Obama will say about my people. This question (Genocide) refers only to 2 nations (Armenians and Turks). We, Armenians, have come to say that we have concurred the suffering and are ready to move forward and prosper. I have no need to prove anyone that my ancestors had been killed by Turks. My grandfather survived with his brother and sister. What about Turkey – the denial doesn’t let them move forward and prosper,” Ruben Vardanyan said.
It’s “unreasonable” for Armenia to return to peace talks with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory without security guarantees because “the situation is entirely different now,” he said. “On the one hand we’d be talking somewhere while, on the other, military officials would be engaging in war here to try to settle the conflict,” he said.
When the word ‘genocide’ wasn’t introduced into the lexicon, everybody perfectly knew features of the word. Cruelty lies on its ground, and not self-defense, not even the war, but targeted extermination of a whole nation. It happened to the Armenian people 101 years ago, and after that we again and again see it’s repetition in different programs: Germany, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda.
Young people beaten by police. A person’s head cut off. Murders. And not just any killings—brutal massacres, including the deaths of her seven children. She’s seen it all. She has feared for her own life as she became the subject of government harassment and death threats, forcing her to flee her country with nothing but a pair of trousers.
George Clooney has described his own family’s flight from famine as he urged the world to remember that refugees are “people, just like you and me”, during a humanitarian conference in Armenia.
“The Clooney family fled a famine in Ireland to come to the United States where their very survival required a room, a meal, a helping hand. We call them refugees, but they’re just people, like you and me.”
