YEREVAN—The Armenian capital played host to two festivals of a very different nature last weekend. On Saryan Street, visitors in the tens of thousands attended the third annual “Yerevan Wine Days,” while in the natural […]
YEREVAN—Police cordoned off streets across the city’s downtown on the morning of Saturday, April 27 in preparation for a day-long block party. The celebration was meant to commemorate the first anniversary of the peaceful Velvet […]
Pres. Donald Trump issued last week his third April 24 statement “on Armenian Remembrance Day.” And for three years in a row he did not muster the courage to use the correct term—genocide—to describe the […]
Last week, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made his first appearance at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg, France. Pashinyan gave an impressive speech to the representatives of 47 European […]
The most noteworthy Armenian foreign policy development of the week was supposed to be the first negotiating session between Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev over the Artsakh conflict. But since […]
VIENNA, Austria—Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev have refreshed negotiations in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict after their highly anticipated, first official one-on-one meeting last week. The two leaders met for two hours […]
YEREVAN—The Armenian government has approved the creation of a new National Day called “Citizen’s Day” to be held on the last Saturday in the month of April. The new holiday is meant to celebrate the […]
For those who missed it, Friday brought some remarkable news. In Artsakh, President Bako Sahakyan and Armenia’s National Security Director Artur Vanetsyan held a joint press conference, following a visit to the southern border where […]
In this week’s issue, we published the English translation of a recent opinion piece, authored by former advisor to Armenia’s Prime Minister, Igor Zargaryan, who has recently formed a new political party, National Agenda. In […]
Years ago when I was still working, I attended a management course about strategic business planning. Since some of Armenia’s major challenges include economic recovery and revival, job creation and attracting investments, I followed Prime […]
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