The Need for Foreign Lobbying Reform
By Peter Sahagian Lobbying has existed in American politics since the beginning of Congress. It is a legal right of any group or individual to hire experts and lawyers to reach out to our democratically […]
By Peter Sahagian Lobbying has existed in American politics since the beginning of Congress. It is a legal right of any group or individual to hire experts and lawyers to reach out to our democratically […]
Sometimes we lose before we win. Failure is often the price of trying. Of striving. Ultimately, of achieving. Looking back on setbacks in our own work, we can point to May 1, 1997, a discouraging […]
An armed group called “Sasna Tser” (Daredevils of Sassoon) recently seized the Erebuni police station in Yerevan, taking several policemen hostage and calling for the resignation of Armenian President Sarkisian and the release of prisoner […]
By Aram Ghoogasian The 20th century, violent as it was, saw the rise of nonviolence as a prominent strategy. Consequently, it also changed the public perception of violent uprisings. Erebuni, a district in the Armenian […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly On May 20, Jirair Sefilian—a veteran of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh) liberation movement and a vocal opponent of Armenian President Serge Sarkisian’s administration—was arrested and accused of planning an armed rebellion […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly The hallowed turf of Old Trafford was nicknamed “The Theatre of Dreams” by Sir Bobby Charlton, one of Manchester United’s storied attacking midfielders from days gone by. Charlton could be […]
Remember in 1973 when the Soviets, under Leonid Brezhnev, and the Americans, during Richard Nixon’s presidency, signed a tax treaty? That’s OK. Neither do I. That was decades ago. A different time. A very different […]
By Movses Ter-Oganesyan The following is a response to Robert Fisk’s article, “Echoes of Stalinism Abound in the Very Modern Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict,” published in The Independent on Sat., April 9. Through his decades of work, […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly As the two of us hiked up the mountain to Arakelots Monastery in Mush under the scorching midday sun, we noticed a few tortoises along the way, but paid little […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly The ink is often found on my third finger as a testament to my deep affinity for pens. Maybe it’s because of my father’s fascination with old pens—Parkers, Waterman, Conklin, […]
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