My interview with Heritage leader Raffi Hovannisian was published on the Armenian Weekly web site yesterday. I recorded the interview while he was on his hunger strike in Yerevan’s Liberty Square on Saturday.
Here’s an excerpt from one of his responses:
Raffi Hovannisian at Liberty Square, March 17, 2011. Karen Minasyan photo.
If we postpone to the [...]
The Armenian Weekly just published an opinion piece that I wrote in which I discuss whether “revolution” is bound to happen in Armenia, given the opposition’s alleged encouragement by the events unravelling now in Libya and Egypt not too long ago. Here’s some excerpts:
A convincing, compassionate leader is needed in the opposition camp, a person [...]
The police released Ani Gevorgian along with her brother Sarkis on Thursday afternoon on the grounds that they don’t leave Yerevan until a “final decision on the case” has been made. Apparently they are still potentially looking at jail time–up to five years.
Video taken by the police apparently shows Ani knocking off the hat of [...]
I just read a report on RFE/RL that twelve protesters and three journalists were arrested in Liberty Square, which is where the Opera House is situated. The square only reopened a week ago after the area was dug up to build a parking garage, the construction of which took nearly two years.
Activists started protesting there [...]
Today Nikol Pashinian, editor of the daily newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak and the firebrand spokesman for the opposition movement in Armenia, who went underground after the turbulent events of March 1, 2008 but came out of hiding last summer, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for his role in “organizing mass riots.”
The decision to [...]
I’m just catching up with some headlines printed on Hetq Online that stood out.
First and foremost are statements made by the president of Nagorno-Karabagh (Artsakh), Bako Sahakyan. He was in Moscow where he made an appearance in a telethon held there to collect money for reconstructing/rebuilding Shushi. President Sahakyan said that “the development of Shushi [...]
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