Lilit AVAGYAN

The famous international organizations (even those which have lost their credit along the time) deem it necessary to publish their opinion about the human rights situation every year. The US State Department’s report on March 11 on the Human Rights situation in 2009 was the latest report in the international community. It covered the human …

It means fatherland, which disappears in front of your eyes. This movie of the Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica is about his fatherland – Yugoslavia. This country turned into underground weapon factory since April 6, 1941. The Second World War drives into abyss a whole nation. None of them succeeds to come out of the underground …

In its foreign policy Armenia has always prioritized relations with Russia. Recently among the priorities has become the normalization of relations with Turkey. It seems that Turkey doesn’t rush to benefit from this desire. Georgia is also following this process with interest. This neighboring country of Armenia has numerously showed that Armenia doesn’t lead the …

– On Monday the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia met in Sochi to discuss the issue of Karabakh. As usual the presidents have agreed to continue the negotiations. It is more than 16 years that the parties are negotiating to resolve the conflict but the conflict is still pending. Do you think there is …

Implacability, vengeance and evil are serious political tools in Armenia. And this bad example is best assimilated by the most assimilated group of the society – the children. To say that the government of the country is so because they didn’t get to own a bike in their childhood would sound very romantic. At any …

On January 10 the by-election for the vacant mandate in the National Assembly had a quite different sensitivity compared to the previous elections. A young man was nominated, who is in prison with a senseless accusation; has three children, who theoretically had an opportunity to be free if had won the race. It means that …

The elections in the 10th precinct of Yerevan came to show that the expectations claiming that 2010 would be a better year were not justified. However, after our conversation with painter Arevshat Avagyan and architect Levon Igityan it turned out that not everyone was disappointed about the process of elections. L.A. – Mr. Avagyan, did …

– The president of Azerbaijan is periodically making military statements. In parallel with that, islamic movements are activating as well. Do such military statements and activation of the role of Islam in heir society have a serious role? – I think no. Or maybe not yet. Generally islam has a potential of uniting societies. In …

– On December 2 the foreign ministers of the OSCE c-chair countries made statement following the meeting of the Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers and said that “the growing frequency of the Armenian and Azeri presidents has significantly supported to the activation of dialogue between the parties.” In other words, this statement may be interpreted …

While the Turkish parliament does not want to ratify the protocols, and one cannot find any new details about the process wither, there should be a new topic of discussions in the society. The ritual of granting a title of honorable member of the academy of sciences and medal after Mantashov, the speech of the …