Author: Simon Torossian

The Azerbaijanis have crossed the line of contact of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)-Azerbaijani troops and established control over one of the important junctions of the front line; this is another gross violation of the trilateral document of November 9, 2020. Tigran Abrahamyan, secretary of opposition “With Honor” Faction of the National Assembly of Armenia and a security expert, wrote about this on Facebook. He added as follows, in particular: “As a result of Azerbaijan’s advance, the Stepanakert-Lisagor dirt road connecting Stepanakert with 4 villages of Shushi [region] is closed for security reasons. “According to the Artsakh Info Center, Artsakh authorities have…

The centre has recently teamed up with the Aberdeen Astronomical Society to give visitors the chance to look up at the stars and learn more about the skies above. People in the north-east are to be given the exciting opportunity to sky the skies above in an evening of astronomy themed activities at Aberdeen Science Centre later this month. Teaming up with the Aberdeen Astronomical Society, the sky at night event will offer visitors the chance to experience Aberdeen Science Centre after dark while learning from Aberdeen’s very own astronomic experts. Astronomers from the society will walk participants through how they became involved in the…

There are some discussions about the resignation of Ruben Vardanyan, the so-called “state minister” of the separatist-terrorist regime in the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic under the control of the Russian “peacekeeping” military contingent. Artur Harutyunyan, head of the ruling “Free Motherland-CDU” faction in the illegal “parliament” in Khankendi, told the local press about this. According to him, there are currently discussions about Vardanyan’s resignation and the results will be known soon. The interesting point is that until yesterday, Vardanyan, who was stuck between Armenia and Russia, decided to be offside from the game. According to the head of the…

Armenia’s aggression against Azerbaijan in the late 1980s and early 1990s displaced nearly one million Azerbaijanis from their homes / Courtesy The Azerbaijani government filed on Monday its Memorial in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to present huge compilations of evidence documenting decades-long injustice committed by Armenia against Azerbaijanis by displacing, killing, and harming them in a state-sponsored ethnic cleansing campaign. The document explains that the conscious and deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing based on national identity and origin aimed to create an ethnically pure Armenian settlement on Azerbaijan’s territory through destruction, looting, and exploitation of Azerbaijani districts. The…

YEREVAN. – Speaker of the Republic of Armenia National Assembly (RA NA), Alen Simonyan, addressed, with an official letter on the Lachin corridor crisis, to the heads of parliaments of more than 30 countries and the Presidents of the International Parliamentary Organizations, the NA informs Armenian News-NEWS.am. In the document, particularly attention is drawn to the issue of the blockade of the only road connecting the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) to Armenia, the Lachin corridor, for more than a month now. The letter says that the blocking of the Lachin corridor being under control of the Russian peacekeeping forces is a gross…

It took three months, but Hetq finally identified which company exported 353kg of gold, worth US$20.2 million, to Turkey in the first half of 2022. This $20.2 million, in fact, accounts for practically all goods that Armenia exported to Turkey during the period. The data is sourced from Armenia’s National Statistical Service. Prior to this, Armenia has never exported any gold to Turkey. This fact alone motivated Hetq to study the issue. The exporter, Kentron LLC, a branch of Golden Heritage LLC registered in Artsakh, claims the gold’s final destination wasn’t Turkey, but to a Turkish company’s branch in the…