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There were plenty of Azeri commentators and officials who criticized Armenian President Serge Sarkisian’s speech at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly last week, but I did not come across any Armenian commentators or government leaders who attacked Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s ugly speech on Sept. 20.
Read more “Aliyev Lies Before the Whole World at UN General Assembly”
Recently there were two serious scandals one of which was related to the issue of the territories of Artsakh and the other issue is related to the adoption of a concept on developing the Russian language in Armenia.
WASHINGTON—The full U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee adopted a series of provisions as part of its Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18) foreign aid bill on Sept. 7, specifically calling for continued aid to Artsakh and increased assistance to Armenia ($20.7 million), and also imposing weapon and travel sanctions on Turkey and Azerbaijan. Those provisions were supported by the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
Read more “Senate Panel Adopts Measures Supporting Artsakh and Armenia, Sanctioning Ankara and Baku”
BUDAPEST, Hungary (A.W.)—Investigations led by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have revealed that that several bank transfers—in excess of $7 million—were made to a Budapest bank account around the time the Hungarian government extradited Azerbaijani ax-murderer Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan.
Read more “Azerbaijani Laundromat May Have Helped Secure Ax-Murderer Ramil Safarov’s Extradition”
A new documentary will be screened in many theaters across the United States and will be available on demand on Oct. 7. Unlike other documentaries on the topic, this one is different and more relevant to today’s non-Armenian viewer. The documentary, titled “Architects of Denial” and subtitled “Genocide Denied Is Genocide Continued,” links the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 to contemporary massacres of Armenians by Azerbaijanis in various cities of Azerbaijan, and threats to kill Armenians living in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabagh (Artsakh).
Read more “New Documentary Links Armenian Genocide to Recent Azerbaijani Massacres of Armenians”
Armenian-Americans knew they had scored a major victory for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide when Texas became the 46th state to recognize it. What Armenian-Americans did not realize is that the recognition by Texas had a devastating impact on the Turkish community’s lobbying efforts in the state.
Read more “Turkish Activist Admits Major Blow When Texas Recognized Armenian Genocide”
Last month, I wrote about Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva’s revelations that Azerbaijan’s state-run Silk Way Airlines had shipped 350 planeloads of heavy weapons and ammunition to terrorist groups in Syria and many other countries in the last three years, under diplomatic cover.
On Aug. 24, Dilyana tweeted: “I just got fired for telling the truth about weapons supplies for terrorists in Syria on diplomatic flights.”
Read more “Azerbaijan Forces Bulgaria to Fire Reporter Who Exposed Arms Shipments to Terrorists”
TEL AVIV (A.W.)—The Israeli Ministry of Defense has frozen some Aeronautics Defense Systems licenses, preventing the firm from exporting its military drones to Azerbaijan.
Read more “Israel Freezes Drone-Maker’s License Amid Complaints That It Attacked Armenian Positions”
WASHINGTON—A grand jury in the U.S. capital issued indictments against 19 people, including 15 members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail, for their brutal attack against peaceful protesters gathered in front of the Turkish Ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C., on May 16, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
Read more “Nineteen People Indicted for Turkish Attack on Peaceful Protesters in Washington”
YEREVAN. – “We won the war against Azerbaijan because we are like yogis. Yogis do not differ from ordinary people (…), but he has such powerful internal energy, he can control himself, do things that ordinary people can’t do.
Read more “We won the war against Azerbaijan because we are like yogis”