Numerous civilians reported that villages, towns and the capital of Stepanakert are targeted. This extremely worrying news was also officially reported by the Human Rights Defender and the Defense Army of Artsakh.
The Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immune and Biological Products at the Russian Academy of Sciences received the Russian health ministry’s permit for clinical tests of its anti-coronavirus vaccine, TASS reports citing the ministry’s press service.
The Board of Trustees of the St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church of San Francisco announced on Thursday that around 4 a.m. the building adjacent to the church was set ablaze by arsonists, Asbarez reported.
On 8 September, a member of the Armenian National Assembly brought forward a legislative proposal on insult and defamation that aims to increase fines for publishing insults and defamatory comments in the media and social networks. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) join their affiliate, the Union of Journalists of Armenia (UJA), in urging the parliament not to take up the proposal.
There are crucial moments in history that define the world’s future. For Poland and Europe, one of such moments in the 20th century was the day of August 15, 1920.
In November 1944, Raphael Lemkin – Polish lawyer of Jewish origin – published a book in which the word “genocide” appeared for the very first time. A neologism composed of the Greek prefix genos (race or tribe) and the Latin suffix cidium (to kill). Finally, the “crime without a name”, as Winston Churchill had referred to the Nazi extermination policy, had been named.
The following open letter was signed by 103 foreign-policy experts, whose names and affiliations appear below.
The Commission on Artsakh, Security and Foreign Relations of the “Vernatun” sociopolitical club calls on the Armenian authorities to work with the U.S. authorities through all possible channels, using all the political, expert and lobbying potential of both Armenia and the Diaspora and to reach the exclusion of such resolution from being put to a vote in the Senate.”
I am looking for an elusive mountain path in the steep dangerous peaks of Karabagh. I am not sure there is a way through, but I will continue to try. Others have attempted to do so before me. So many have failed or turned back.
The end result of the statements by the heads of Turkey and Azerbaijan about their readiness to implement the adjusted military plans for a joint war has made it imperative for the authorities of the Republic of Armenia to speak about the threat of recurrence of the Genocide hanging over the Armenian people. The relevance of the “Never Again” principle for the Armenian people is due to the genocidal attacks on the Armenian population of Azerbaijan during the Perestroika in the USSR, which were in response to peaceful political rallies of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians for the right to self-determination and secession from the Azerbaijani SSR in accordance with the USSR legislation and international law. We are talking about the pogroms in Sumgait and Kirovabad in 1988 and in Baku in 1990, as well as war crimes committed against the civilian population of Armenia during the April war of 2016.
