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Top Three Armenian Church Leaders Boycott Turkish Show in Akhtamar
By Times.am at 8 September, 2010, 1:01 pm
By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier
The Turkish scheme of luring Armenian Church leaders to participate in a religious show at Holy Cross (Sourp Khach) Church on Akhtamar Island, Lake Van, backfired last week.
The heads of three Hierarchical Sees of the Armenian Church — in Armenia, Lebanon, and Jerusalem — will neither attend nor [...]
Grigol Vashadze danced under Azerbaijan’s music
By Times.am at 8 September, 2010, 12:16 pm
“The increase of the number of Russian military bases in the South Caucasus poses a great threat to Georgia, Azerbaijan and more to Armenia’s independence,” Georgia’s Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze told APA’s Georgia bureau.
Commenting on the extension of the term of deployment of the Russian military base in Gyumri, Armenia, Grigol Vashadze said reinforcement of [...]
Russian political analyst about Nagorno Karabakh issue and other regional questions
By Times.am at 7 September, 2010, 12:46 pm
In connection with the recent visits of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to Armenia and Azerbaijan political analyst Viktor Nadein-Rayevsky, a senior fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of World Economy and International Relations assessed geopolitical situation in the region and gave his opinion on the ambitions of other regional powers – Turkey and [...]
Read More >>USA withdraws from Iraq
By Times.am at 1 September, 2010, 5:08 pm
In order to return to the New Middle East
By Levon MELIK-SHAHNAZARYAN
The last US combat brigade crossed the Iraqi border with Kuwait. More than 115,000 American soldiers left Iraq. Less than 50,000 troops of the renamed into “the brigade of aid and support” remained in the country. According to the withdrawal plan they will [...]
Congress Should Investigate State Dept. For Holding Back Aid to Artsakh
By Times.am at 1 September, 2010, 11:53 am
By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier
The State Department has acted negligently and possibly in contempt of Congress by withholding assistance that it had expressly allocated to Nagorno Karabagh (Artsakh) during the past 12 years.
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) revealed last week that the State Department only spent about half of the amount allocated [...]
The industry of hatred propaganda
By Times.am at 31 August, 2010, 5:00 pm
By Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan, Times.am
One of the main components of negotiating process failures on regulating Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is mutual distrust between Armenian states and Azerbaijan. Here, it is worth to emphasize above-mentioned distrust often transforms into blatant hatred. These distrust and people’s hate become an insurmountable obstacle for the reasonable way out from the prevailed situation: [...]
On Turkish-Azerbaijani activation in the US analytical structures
By Times.am at 31 August, 2010, 9:23 am
By Haykaram Nahapetyan, Noravank Foundation
A significant role in elaboration of the state policy of the United States, shaping of the analytical and information fields is allotted to the analytical organizations – think tanks.
The following analytical structures work in Washington: Carnegie endowment foundation, Brookings institute, Heritage foundation, John Hopkins university-SAIS, CSIS-Center for Strategic and International studies, [...]
Russia And Security In The South Caucasus
By Times.am at 27 August, 2010, 1:35 am
BY AMANDA Paul, Today’s Zaman
The recent military agreement signed between Turkey and Azerbaijan, which came a few days after Russia and Armenia signed an agreement to prolong the Russian military presence in Armenia until 2044, has led to some speculation that Turkey is pushing to secure greater clout in the region.
While Turkey has been [...]
Complaint against Azerbaijan in European Court Could Have Grave Consequences
By Times.am at 25 August, 2010, 2:32 pm
By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier
In recent years, Armenian-Americans have filed several lawsuits in U.S. courts against insurance companies, banks, and the Republic of Turkey, seeking compensation for losses stemming from the Genocide of 1915.
For the first time, on September 15, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will hold a hearing on a complaint [...]
It’s time for Yerevan to be prepared for a new role
By Times.am at 25 August, 2010, 2:32 am
By Hrant MELIK-SHAHNAZARYAN
Summer of 2010 turned out pretty hot for the entire South Caucasus. It was the beginning of the formation of new alliances with far-reaching political goals. No sooner had the ink dried up on the renewed Russian-Armenian Protocol on the presence of Russian military bases on Armenian territory, in Baku began to talk [...]
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