Fifteen years ago today, on the 20th anniversary of Armenia’s re-independence, I sat down as a young man fresh out…
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YEREVAN — A dispute inside Armenia’s parliament over the political value of the Armenian diaspora has escalated into a broader…
Read More »Courts interpreting international human rights instruments, including the European Convention on Human Rights (to which the Republic of Armenia is…
Read More »YEREVAN — Azerbaijan is no longer concealing that it regards Armenia’s Constitution as another item on its list of postwar…
Read More »YEREVAN — On Monday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to intervene in a widening dispute…
Read More »The catastrophic 44-day war of 2020 and the subsequent 10-month blockade of Artsakh, culminating in the forced displacement and ethnic…
Read More »Two weeks ago, I argued that Israel’s June 28 Cabinet decision recognizing the Armenian Genocide was not what it was…
Read More »While successive Armenian governments have exhibited democratic shortcomings since independence in 1991, the current situation is far worse than at…
Read More »“Assalamu alaykum.” Nobody had ever approached me in Yerevan and greeted me that way before. Quite instinctively, I responded, “Wa…
Read More »Finally, some good news from Armenia. In a positive development, the European Commission signed the first-of-their-kind “Letters of Intent” with…
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