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South-Caucasus: an artificial and unnecessary construct
Wikipedia defines South Caucasus (also referred to as Transcaucasia or Transcaucasus) as the southern portion of the Caucasus region between Europe and Asia, extending from the Greater Caucasus to the...
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Democracy Degrading in Armenia in 2006 According to The Freedom House
“Freedom House” international human rights organization released its annual “Nations in Transit” report this week. The title of the report is somewhat misleading however, as the figures and data are...
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U.S. Concerned About Armenia’s Ties With Iran
“Iran is planning massive investments into the economies of Georgia and Armenia. We’re talkingof 1 billion dollars for Tbilissi and a analogous offer to Yerevan. For your consideration: the total...
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Attention Armenian Bloggers: BlogCamp CIS and the Baltics 2007
BlogCamp CIS and the Baltics 2007 is the first (BarCamp) in the post-Soviet space that we are aware of. We aim to gather 300 bloggers, new media professionals, and other types of geeks for a week-end...
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EU: Neighborhood Policy Focuses On Economics, Not Membership
The EU/Armenia action plan document, accessible from this ENP page, states, that by joining the ENP “Armenia is invited to enter into intensified political, security, economic and cultural relations...
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Stop Destruction of Christian Cemeteries in Azerbaijan
Following the destruction of Armenian cemetery in Jugha Azerbaijan have turned to the destruction of Molokan (Russian) cemetery. On September 4, 2007 Katya Karagadayeva was the first to report the...
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Politics of The Armenian Nuclear Power Plant
The Republic of Armenia identifies the need to implement reforms focused on individual branches of industry and sets the following priorities: - to pursue greater energy independence through a...
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ICG: Nagorno-Karabakh: Risking War
The International Crises Group have published a report on Nagorno-Karabakh, where they warn Azerbaijan and Armenia to “halt their dangerous arms race and restrain their belligerent rhetoric and instead...
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Armenian Bloggers Protest Against "Week of Azerbaijan" in Armenia
A group of Armenian Bloggers, including: Uzogh, Pigh, Aerial_vortex and Akunamatata_ser carried out an incredible public campaign yesterday, protesting against the implementation of the “Week of...
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ENP report positive for Armenia, despite concerns over March 2008 developments
The progress report on implementation of the European Neighborhood Policy Action Plan by Armenia has been released. The document has a generally positive assessement of Armenia’s performance. The memo...
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Armenia: Picking up the Pieces – New Crisis Group briefing
International Crisis Group have released a new policy briefing, which is available as a pdf document here. Below, I’m posting, without further comments, the media release sent out on this occasion:...
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Gagik Tsarukyan to open world-class casino in Armenia
One of the richest Armenian businessman Gagik Tsarukyan’s Multi Group Company, in partnership with Russian Storm International has constructed the most impressive gaming facility in the region – the...
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Comprehensive news from regions on YouTube
A1plus have started posting comprehensive video news digests from the developments in the regions of Armenia on their YouTube Channel. Below is the 9 minute piece for last week. Very interesting news,...
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Armenian PM: It is in Armenia’s interests to introduce CIS regional currency
Speaking on MIR TV, the Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said Armenia is interested in using the Russian rouble for transactions with CIS countries. According to Regnum news agency report,...
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7 thousand km ring-road to connect Baku-Yerevan-Istanbul
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoghlu has proposed to start parliamentary discussions on the “peace road” project which would connect the Caucasus to Europe, spanning vast 7 thousand kilometers,...
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Sargsyan Leaves Room For Diplomacy, Earns U.S., French Praise
Armenia is suspending the ratification of the normalization protocols signed with Turkey in October 2009, until a time when Turkey is ready to “reengage in the normalization process,” president Serzh...
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