Just yesterday former Armenian foreign minister Alexander Arzumanian, who was jailed for months and was only last week finally released along with 25 fellow oppositionists, gave a press conference. During his statement to the press he accessed what has been transpiring since the presidential elections held in February 2008 and, more specifically, the infamous events [...]
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According to a new report published by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), Armenia is the 48th most happy country out of 143 countries polled, referring to how Armenians use their natural resources to make their lives better. Lagging behind were Georgia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan ranking at 72, 83, and 85, respectively. (Incidentally, China and India [...] On Friday July 3 a seemingly bizarre event took place–a delegation of Azeri officials, including Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Russia and intellectual parliamentarians, made a visit to Yerevan and then to Nagorno-Karabagh. The group was received by both Armenian President Serge Sarkisian and Nagorno-Karabagh President Bako Sahakian. The ambassador even visited his late father’s home in Shushi. [...] In June 2008 Silva Harotonian (or Harutunian), an Iranian citizen, was arrested on the grounds of attempting to overthrow the Iranian government by staging a “soft revolution,” in other words the types of non-violent government change that happened in places like the Ukraine and Georgia. At the time of her arrest she had been working in [...] |
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