Author: Nayirouhi Minassian

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan had a meeting with Tanja Fajon, Vice-President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia. During the meeting, the interlocutors touched upon the issues of bilateral cooperation between Armenia and Slovenia, ongoing programs, expressing willingness to take steps to activate bilateral political dialogue. Referring to the damages in Slovenia resulting from the floods – the worst natural disaster since the country gained independence, Minister Mirzoyan expressed Armenia’s solidarity with the people of Slovenia and expressed readiness to provide support…

A demonstration, with Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) national flags and banners, took place Tuesday outside the Russian embassy in Armenia. Also, these protesters chanted “No to terrorism,” “Artsakh,” and “Freedom to abducted Armenians.” “[University students from Artsakh] Alen, Levon, Vahe were abducted near the Hakari bridge by Azerbaijanis in the presence of Russian peacekeepers. Under their [i.e. the Russian peacekeepers] responsibility, those boys were heading for [Armenia’s capital] Yerevan. Now our demand is very clear: the boys should have come to Yerevan under your responsibility, but now they are not in Yerevan, they are not in Artsakh, they are in [Azerbaijan’s] Baku,…

The strain between rivals Azerbaijan and Armenia over a key transit route in the disputed Karabakh region is worrying, according to Bujar Osmani, chairperson-in-office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Following separate telephone talks with Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Thursday, Osmani expressed concerns about the Lachin corridor’s effect on the civilian population. Despite peace talks between Baku and Yerevan, tensions between the neighboring countries have escalated in recent months over the Lachin corridor, the only road linking Armenia to Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region, which divides the ex-Soviet republics. OSCE said Osmani…

On an overcast morning this past spring, Gegham Muradyan searches for signs of water trickling through the dry soils of Armenia’s Ararat Valley. In an opening between two stone houses in the village of Dalar, some 15 miles southwest of Yerevan, the nation’s capital, he finds a single pipe protruding from knots of weeds. A hydrometeorologist at Armenia’s Ministry of Environment, Muradyan holds a measuring cup beneath the water flowing from the pipe and notes the time it takes to fill. He does a quick calculation, then records the well discharge rate — an indicator of underground water pressure —…

Asia-Pacific markets were largely down as investors brace for the U.S. Federal Reserve’s rate decision on Wednesday. The Fed is expected to approve what would be the 11th interest rate increase since March 2022. Markets are pricing in an absolute certainty that the Fed will approve a quarter percentage point hike that will take its benchmark borrowing rate to a target range of 5.25%-5.5%. That would push the upper boundary of the federal funds rate to its highest level since January 2001. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 climbed 0.78% and closed at 7,396.8, its highest point since Feburary 2023. Australia’s inflation rate on an…

Hundreds of thousands of Russians who fled their homeland following the country’s invasion of Ukraine have resettled in neighboring countries — and are boosting their economies. The exodus of Russians started after many highly educated professionals — such as academics, finance, and tech workers — left Russia in the early days of the war, Insider’s Jason Lalljee reported in March 2022. About six months later, there was another wave of departures after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial military mobilization for the Ukraine war on September 21. By October, about 700,000 Russians had left the country, Reuters reported, citing Russian media — but the Kremlin rejected those numbers,…

The development of a nation occurs with its progressive thinking. To move towards destruction, it is enough to be on the wrong path. For hundreds of years, Armenia’s attempts to prove itself as a progressive and intelligent nation have always failed. And the reason is neither very simple nor based on a rational subject – the reason is simply that everything is based on a lie… From the founders of the claims of “great Armenia” to today’s fans of the so-called republic, Armenia is going through a long historical path full of lies. However, as the genius Mark Twain said,…

We have made desperate efforts to keep Artsakh [(Nagorno-Karabakh)]. Gevorg Papoyan, an MP of the ruling faction of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, told this to reporters at the NA Friday, addressing the question that if Armenia’s positions were really not that strong in the peace talks with Azerbaijan and in terms of military relations, then why PM Nikol Pashinyan had stated “Artsakh is Armenia, and that’s it!” “We have considerably increased the military budget [of Armenia], tried to make a breakthrough in diplomacy because we realized that the army [of Armenia] is not ready for war, [the country’s]…

Wearing peaked black headdresses and long robes, a procession of Armenian priests is led along the stone streets of Jerusalem’s Old City by two suited men in felt tarboosh hats with ceremonial walking sticks. Quietly, apart from the tapping of the sticks, they file into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for prayers. Nowadays, Jerusalem is at the core of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. But Armenians have been here since the 4th Century, when their country was the first to adopt Christianity as a national religion. They have a share in the Old City’s holiest Christian sites and…

“Armenian government must guarantee the protection of our rights and our reintegration,” said Chairman of the Western Azerbaijan Community Aziz Alakbarli during his speech at the event “World Refugee Day and the refugee issue in Azerbaijan” dedicated to the World Refugee Day, News.az reports. “Despite our constant dialogue efforts, the Armenian side avoids this process and the avoidance hinders the progress of the process,” added the Chairman of the Community. Aziz Alakbarli appealed to the international community once again: “At the same time, the implementation of our goal based on human rights depends on the political and practical support of the international…